Acknowledgements (p.xi)

As it was (p.xii-xvi)

Glossary (p.358-359)

Bibliography (p.360-364)

Index (p.365-368)

Creation of the first Indians / Chelan (p.4-7)

Coyote and Multnomah Falls / Wasco (p.8-11)

When the animals and birds were created / Makah (p.12-14)

Raven's great adventure / Alaska (p.14-`6)

Yellowstone Valley and the Great Flood / Yellowstone (p.16-19)

Coyote and the monsters of the Bitterroot Valley / Flathead or Salish (p.20-23)

Creation of the Red and White races / Flathead or Salish (p.24-25)

Warm Wind Brothers vs. The Cold Wind Brothers / Moses Band of Columbia River Indians (p.26-28)

Coyote's adventures in Idaho / Flathead (p.29-31)

Origin of Camas Roots / Okanagon (p.32-33)

Coyote's Salmon / Sanpoil (p.34-37)

Woodpecker and the theft of fire / Sanpoil (p.38-40)

Pah-To, the White Eagle / Wasco (p.41-42)

The Bridge of the Gods / Wasco (p.43-46)

Raven and his grandmother / Aleuts (p.47-50)

White-Faced Bear / Aleuts (p.51-54)

Two Inquisitive Men / Aleuts (p.54-56)

Girl who searched for her lover / Aleuts (p.56-59)

Girl who married the moon / Aleuts (p.59-61)

Flood on Superstition Mountain / Pima (p.64-66)

How the Hopi Indians reached their world / Hopi (p.66-72)

How the Great Chiefs made the moon and the sun / Hopi (p.72-75)

First journey through Grand Canyon / Hopi (p.76-79)

Origin of the Clans / Hopi (p.80-82)

The Wind God / Hopi (p.82-84)

At the rainbow's end / Navaho (p.85-89)

Legend of the night chant / Navaho (p.89-94)

Spider Rock / Navaho (p.94-96)

Song of the horses / Navaho (p.96-98)

The Story of the Two Brother-Cousins / Navaho (p.99-100)

Creation / Apache (p.101-104)

Origin of fire / Jicarilla-Apache (p.105-106)

Origin of the animals / Jicarilla-Apache (p.107-109)

An Apache Medicine Dance / Jicarilla-Apache (p.109-114)

Legend of the Big Bird / Chipewyan (p.114-116)

Legend of the White Bear / Chipewyan (p.116-118)

Hummingbird / Zuñi (p.118-122)

Four flutes / Zuñi (p.123-125)

Yellow hand / Papago (p.125-130)

Why the North Star stands still / Paiute (p.130-133)

A California creation myth / Yokut (p.133-136)

Why Mount Shasta erupted / Shasta (p.137-140)

Land of the Ghost Dance / Shasta (p.140-141)

A San Joaquin Valley tale / Mariposa (p.141-143)

The Queen of Death Valley / Shoshone (p.143-145)

The Story of creation / Diegueños (p.145-147)

The Fly at the council / Diegueños (p.147-148)

Impiety of Frog / Diegueños (p.148-149)

Fiesta Tu-chai-pai / Diegueños (p.149-150)

The Origin of Yosemite / Yosemite (Miwok) (p.150-152)

Origin of Tu-tok-a-nu-la / Yosemite (Miwok) (p.152-154)

How Half Dome was formed / Yosemite (Miwok) (p.154-156)

Bridal Veil Fall / Yosemite (Miwok) (p.156-158)

Leaping Frog Rocks / Yosemite (Miwok) (p.158-161)

Legend of the geysers / Ashochimi (Pomo-Wappo) (p.161-164)

Before this land / Luiseño (p.164-166)

Tales of Lake Tahoe / Washo (p.166-167)

Legend of the First Pearl Fish Hook / Hawaii (p.168-172)

Hula School / Hawaii (p.172-179)

Origin of the Buffalo / Cheyenne (p.182-184)

How the buffalo hunt began / Cheyenne (p.184-185)

Eagle War feathers / Cheyenne (p.185-186)

Enough is enough / Cheyenne (p.187)

Falling-star / Northern Cheyenne (p.188-192)

Buffalo and Eagle Wing / Unknown (p.192-195)

Sun Dance / Hidatsa (p.195-198)

Corn Ceremony / Hidatsa (p.199-203)

An address to Mother Corn / Arikara (p.203-204)

Buffalo Dance / Mandan (p.205-206)

Sun Dance Mountain / Dakota-Sioux (p.206-207)

Origin of the Prairie Rose / Dakota-Sioux (p.208-209)

Hermit, or the Gift of Corn / Dakota-Sioux (p.209-212)

Legend of Standing Rock / Dakota-Sioux (p.212-213)

The Mysterious butte / Dakota-Sioux (p.214-215)

Origin of the Sioux Peace Pipe / Dakota-Sioux (p.216-218)

Legend of the Thunder God / Dakota-Sioux (p.218-219)

A Teton ghost story / Dakota-Sioux (p.219-221)

How Medicine Man resurrected Buffalo / Arapaho (p.221-222)

Buffalo Rock / Blackfeet (p.223-224)

Wise Man of Chief Mountain / Blackfeet (p.224-227)

Origin of the Sweat Lodge / Piegan (p.228-230)

Puma and the Bear / Ute (p.230-232)

Porcupine hunts Buffalo / Ute (p.232-234)

Coyote vs. Duck / Ute (p.234-236)

Two Fawns and a Rabbit / Ute (p.236-237)

Two Grandsons / Ute (p.238-240)

Origin of Summer and Winter / Acoma (p.241-243)

Arch Rock on Mackinac Island / Ottawa (p.246)

Great Serpent and the Great Flood / Chippewa-Ojibwa (p.247-250)

Foresaken Brother / Chippewa (p.250-253)

Father of Indian Corn / Chippewa-Ojibwa (p.253-257)

Legend of the White Plume / Iowa (p.257-261)

Boy stolen by Thunderbird / Winnebago (p.261-263)

Holy Song (Medicine Song) / Winnebago (p.263-265)

Some adventures of "The little hare" / Winnebago (p.265-269)

Making the sacred bundle / Pawnee (p.269-272)

Legend of the Piasa / Illini (p.272-274)

Two brothers who became stars / Wichita (p.275-281)

The Origin of Earth / Tuskegee (p.284)

In the beginning / Yuchi (p.285-287)

First fire / Cherokee (p.287-288)

Origin of Game and of Corn / Cherokee (p.288-294)

Ball game of the Birds and the Animals / Cherokee (p.294-296)

The Origin of Medicine / Cherokee (p.297-298)

Hero with the Horned Snakes / Cherokee (p.298-299)

Green Corn Festival / Shawnee (p.299-300)

Walnut-Cracker / Creek (p.301-302)

How Rabbit fooled Alligator / Creek (p.302-304)

Celestial Canoe / Alabama (p.304-306)

Milky Way / Seminole (p.307-308)

Men visit the sky / Seminole (p.308-309)

Adoption of the human race / Natchez (p.310-311)

First People and the first corn / Penobscot-Passamaquoddy (p.314-316)

Origin of the Thunderbird / Passamaquoddy (p.317-318)

Flying canoe / Passamaquoddy (p.318-320)

The Loyal sweetheart / Passamaquoddy (p.320-322)

Origin of the Medicine Man / Passamaquoddy (p.322-324)

Giant and the Four Wind Brothers / Penobscot (p.325-327)

Origin of Indian Summer / Penobscot (p.327-328)

Water famine / Penobscot (p.328-329)

Legend of the Bear family / Penobscot (p.329-330)

Strange origin of corn / Abnaki (p.330-331)

Wa-ba-ba-nal, the Northern Lights / Wabanaki (p.332-334)

Indians at Niagara Falls / Seneca (p.335-336)

The Sacrifice at Niagara Falls / Seneca (p.336-337)

Three brothers who followed the sun / Seneca (p.338--342)

Seek your father / Seneca (p.342-343)

A Mashpee ghost story / Wampanoag (p.343-345)

Rabbit and Otter, the bungling host / Micmac (p.345-348)

Origin of the Iroquois Nations / Iroquois (p.349-351)

De-ka-nah-wi-da and Hiawatha / Iroquois (p.351-357)