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Authors: Richard Erdoes

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A Puff of His Pipe (Micmac) Anna Mae Aquash, interviewed by the authors, New York, 1974.
Part Thirteen: Skeleton Man
While the Gods Snored (Hopi) Retold from various early sources, including Alexander M. Stephen, “Hopi Tales,”
Journal of American Folklore
42, 1929.
How Masaaw Slept with a Beautiful Maiden (Hopi) From Ekkehart Malotki and Michael Lomatuway‘ma,
Stories of Maasaw, a Hopi God,
American Tribal Religions 10 (Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press), 1987.
Scared to Death (Hopi) Malotki and Lomatuway‘ma,
Stories of Maasaw, a Hopi God.
Part Fourteen: Raven Lights the World
Hungry for Clams (Hoh and Quileute) From the notes of Alfonso Ortiz.
Give It Back! Give It Back! (Haida) From the notes of Alfonso Ortiz.
Raven Steals the Moon (Haida) From the notes of Alfonso Ortiz.
Yehl, the Lazy One (Haida) Retold from various sources.
Raven and His Slave (Tsimshian) Retold from Franz Boas,
Tsimshian Mythology,
Bureau of American Ethnology Annual Report 31 (Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institute), 1916.
A Lousy Fisherman (Haida) Abbreviated and retold from various early sources.
Raven Lights the World (Tlingit) From late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century sources.
INDEX OF TALES
Adventures of a Meatball, The
Anything but Piñon Pitch!
Beginning of the World, The
Better Luck Next Time
Brother, Sharpen My Leg!
Cheater Cheated, The
Choosing Mates
Coyote and Bobcat Have Their Faces Done
Coyote and Eagle Visit the Land of the Dead
Coyote and Fox Dress Up
Coyote and the Girls
Coyote Gets Stuck
Coyote-Giving
Coyote Keeps His Dead Wife’s Genitals
Coyote Kills Terrible Monster
Coyote’s Amorous Adventures
Coyote Sells a Burro That Defecates Money
Coyote, Skunk, and the Beavers
Coyote Sleeps with His Own Daughters
Coyote Steals Fire
Coyote Steals the Summer
Coyote Steals the Sun
Coyote Taunts the Grizzly Bear
Coyote the Credulous
Don’t Believe What People Tell You
Don’t Be Too Curious
Fat, Grease, and Berries
Forbidden Fruit
Give It Back! Give It Back!
Glooskap Grants Four Wishes
Glooskap Turns Men into Rattlesnakes
Hair Loss
Hairy Legs
He Has Been Saying Bad Things About You
He Sure Was a Good Shot
How Locust Tricked Coyote
How Masaaw Slept with a Beautiful Maiden
How People Were Made
How the Lord of Men and Beasts Strove with the Mighty Wasis and Was Shamefully Defeated
Hungry for Clams
Iktomi and the Buffalo Calf
Iktomi and the Man-Eating Monster
Iktomi and the Wild Ducks
Iktomi, Flint Boy, and the Grizzly
Iktomi Takes Back a Gift
Iktomi Trying to Outrace Beaver
Ikto’s Grandchild Defeats Siyoko
Little Rabbit Fights the Sun
Long Black Stranger, The
Long Ears Outsmarts Coyote
Lousy Fisherman, A
Magic Leggings
Monster Skunk Farting Everyone to Death
Nanabozho and the Fish Chief
Napi Races Coyote for a Meal
New Way to Travel, A
Ni‘hancan and the Race for Wives
Ni‘hancan and Whirlwind Woman
Oh, It’s You!
Old Man Coyote and the Buffalo
Old Man Coyote Meets Coyote Woman
Only Man Around, The
Origin of the Moon and the Sun
Possible Bag, The
Puff of His Pipe, A
Putting a Saddle on Coyote’s Back
Questions, Questions
Rabbit Escapes from the Box
Rabbit and Possum on the Prowl
Raven and His Slave
Raven Lights the World
Raven Steals the Moon
Satisfying Meal, A
Scared to Death
Seven Devils Mountains, The
Seven Toes
She Refused to Have Him
Sitconski and the Buffalo Skull
Something Fishy Going On
Spider Cries “Wolf,” The
Spiders Give Birth to the People, The
Strong Heart, A
Sun and Moon in a Box
Talking Penis, The
Tar Baby
Tit for Tat
Too Many Women
Too Smart for His Own Good
Toothed Vagina, The
Tricking the Trickster
Trouble with Rose Hips, The
Two Rascals and Their Wives
Veeho Has His Back Scraped
Wesakaychak, the Windigo, and the Ermine
When the People Were Wild
Where Do Babies Come From?
While the Gods Snored
Whiskey Jack Wants to Fly
Who Is Looking Me in the Face?
Why the Possum’s Tail Is Bare
Why We Have to Work So Hard Making Maple Sugar
Why Women Have Their Moon-Time
Winkte Way, The
Winyan-shan
Upside Down
Yehl, the Lazy One
1
In Arapaho the word for
whirlwind
is the same as for
caterpillar.

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