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Voices of the winds: native American legends
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Part one: From the Northwest --
Creation of the first indians / Chelan --
Coyote and Multnomah Falls / Wasco --
When the animals and birds were created / Makah --
Raven's great adventure / Alaska --
Yellowstone Valley and the Great Flood / Yellowstone --
Coyote and the monsters of the Bitterroot Valley / Flathead or Salish --
Warm Wind Brothers vs. The Cold Wind Brothers / Moses Band of Columbia River Indians --
Coyote's adventures in Idaho / Flathead --
Origin of Camas Roots / Okanagon --
Coyote's Salmon / Sanpoil --
Pah-To, the White Eagle / Wasco --
Bridge of Gods / Wasco --
Raven and his grandmother / Aleuts --
White-Faced Bear / Aleuts --
Two Inquisitive Men / Aleuts --
Girl who searched for her lover / Aleuts --
Girl who married the moon / Aleuts --
Part two: From the Southwest --
Flood on Superstition Mountain --
Pima --
How the Hopi Indians reached their world / Hopi --
How the Great Chiefs made the moon and the sun / Hopi --
First journey through Grand Canyon / Hopi --
Origin of the Clans / Hopi --
Wind God / Hopi --
At the rainbow's end / Navaho --
Legend of the night chant / Navaho --
Spider Rock / Navaho --
Song of the horses / Navaho --
Story of the Two Brother-Cousins / Navaho --
Creation / Apache --
Origin of fire / Jicarilla-Apache --
Origin of the animals / Jicarilla-Apache --
An Apache Medicine Dance / Jicarilla-Apache --
Legend of the Big Bird / Chipewyan --
Lengend of the White Bear / Chipewyan --
Hummingbird / Zuni --
Four flutes / Zuni --
Yellow hand / Papago --
Why the North Star stands still / Paiute --
A California creation myth / Yokut --
Why Mount Shasta erupted / Shasta --
Land of the Ghost Dance / Shasta --
A San Joaquin Valley tale / Mariposa --
Queen of Death Valley / Shoshone --
Story of creation / Dieguenos --
Fly at the council / Dieguenos --
Impiety of Frog / Dieguenos --
Fiesta Tu-chai-pai / Dieguenos --
Origin of Yosemite / Yosemite (Miwok) --
Origin of Tu-tok-a-nu-la / Yosemite (Miwok) --
How half dome was formed / Yosemite (Miwok) --
Bridal Veil Fall / Yosemite (Miwok) --
Leaping Frog Rocks / Yosemite (Miwok) --
Legend of the geysers / Ashochimi (Pomo-Wappo) --
Before this land / Luiseno --
Tales of Lake Tahoe / Washo --
Legend of the First Pearl Fish Hook / Hawaii --
Hula School / Hawaii --
Part three: From the Great Plains --
Origin of the Buffalo / Cheyenne --
How the buffalo hunt began / Cheyenne --
Eagle War feathers / Cheyenne --
Enough is enough / Cheyenne --
Falling-star / Northern Cheyenne --
Buffalo and Eagle Wing / Unknown --
Sun Dance / Hidatsa --
Corn Ceremony / Hidatsa --
An address to Mother Corn / Arikara --
Buffalo Dance / Mandan --
Sun Dance Mountain / Dakota-Sioux --
Origin of the Prairie Rose / Dakota-Sioux --
Hermit, or the Gift of Corn / Dakota-Sioux --
Legend of Standing Rock / Dakota-Sioux --
Mysterious butte / Dakota-Sioux --
Origin of the Sioux Peace Pipe / Dakota-Sioux --
Legend of the Thunder God / Dakota-Sioux --
A Teton ghost story / Dakota-Sioux --
How Medicine Man resurrected Buffalo / Arapaho --
Buffalo Rock / Blackfeet --
Origin of the Sweat Lodge / Piegan --
Wise Man of Chief Mountain / Blackfeet --
Puma and the Bear / Ute --
Porcupine hunts Buffalo / Ute --
Coyote vs. Duck / Ute --
Two Fawns and a Rabbit / Ute --
Two Grandsons / Ute --
Origin of Summer and Winter / Acoma --
Part four: From the Central Region --
Arch Rock on Mackinac Island / Ottawa --
Great Serpent and the Great Flood / Chippewa-Ojibwa --
Foresaken Brother / Chippewa --
Father of Indian Corn / Chippewa-Ojibwa --
Legend of the White Plume / Iowa --
Boy stolen by Thunderbird / Winnebago --
Holy Song (Medicine Song) / Winnebago --
Some adventures of "The little hare" / Winnebago --
Making the sacred bundle / Pawnee --
Legend of the Piasa / Illini --
Two brothers who became stars / Wichita --
Part five: From the Southeast --
Origin of Earth / Tuskegee --
In the beginning / Yuchi --
First fire / Cherokee --
Origin of Game and of Corn / Cherokee --
Ball game of the Birds and the Animals / Cherokee --
Origin of Medicine / Cherokee --
Hero with the Horned Snakes / Cherokee --
Green Corn Festival / Shawnee --
Walnut-Cracker / Creek --
How Rabbit fooled Alligator / Creek --
Celestial Canoe / Alabama --
Milky Way / Seminole --
Men visit the sky / Seminole --
Adoption of the human race / Natchez --
Part six: From the Northeast --
First People and the first corn / Penobscot-Passamaquoddy --
Origin of the Thunderbird / Passamaquoddy --
Flying canoe / Passamaquoddy --
Loyal sweetheart / Passamaquoddy --
Origin of the Medicine Man / Passamaquoddy --
Giant and the Four Wind Brothers / Penobscot --
Origin of Indian Summer / Penobscot --
Water famine / Penobscot --
Legend of the Bear family / Penobscot --
Strange origin of corn / Abnaki --
Wa-ba-ba-nal, the Northern Lights / Wabanaki --
Indians at Niagara Falls / Seneca --
Sacrifice at Niagara Falls / Seneca --
Three brothers who followed the sun / Seneca --
Seek your father / Seneca --
A Mashpee ghost story / Wampanoag --
Rabbit and Otter, the bungling host / Micmac --
Origin of the Iroquois Nations / Iroquois --
De-ka-nah-wi-da and Hiawatha / Iroquois.
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9780760748008
9780816027491
9780816020676
9780816027491
9780816020676
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