CONTENTS.

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Introduction[5]
1.The Wolf and Lucky-Man Create Land[11]
2.The Spiders Give Birth to People[12]
3.The Origin of the Arikara[12]
4.The Origin of the Arikara[18]
5.The Origin of the Arikara[23]
6.The Origin of the Arikara[26]
7.The Origin of the Arikara[31]
8.The Origin of the Awaho-Bundle People[32]
9.Mother-Corn’s Visit to the Arikara[35]
10.Mother-Corn’s Visit to the Arikara[36]
11.How the People Escaped the Buffalo[37]
12.Why the Buffalo No Longer Eat People[39]
13.Why the Buffalo No Longer Eat People[40]
14.The Girl Who Married a Star[45]
15.The Girl Who Married a Star[56]
16.No-Tongue and the Sun and the Moon[61]
17.How Burnt-Hands Became a Chief[65]
18.How Burnt-Hands Became a Chief[69]
19.How Burnt-Hands Became a Chief[70]
20.The Two Boys and the Water-Serpent[72]
21.The Boy Who Befriended the Thunderbirds, and the Serpent[73]
22.The Boy Who Turned Into a Snake[79]
23.The Boy Who Received the Mouse Power[80]
24.The Boy and the Young Hawks[83]
25.The End of the Elk Power[84]
26.The Elk Rescues a Woman from the Bear[88]
27.The Boy and the Elk[90]
28.The Coyote, the Girl, and the Magic Windpipe[91]
29.The Buffalo-Wife and the Javelin Game[94]
30.The Origin of the Wolf Dance[101]
31.The Medicine Dance of the Beaver, Turtle, and Witch-Woman[105]
32.The Village-Boy and the Wolf Power[106]
33.The Rabbit-Boy[109]
34.The Man and the Water-Dogs[114]
35.The Five Turtles and the Buffalo Dance[115]
36.The Notched Stick and the Old Woman of the Island[117]
37.The Man Who Married a Coyote[117]
38.The Man Who Turned Into a Stone[119]
39.The Woman Who Turned Into a Stone[120]
40.The Power of the Bloody Scalped-Man[121]
41.The Boy Who Carried a Scalped-Man Into Camp[123]
42.The Girl Who Was Blest by the Buffalo and Corn[124]
43.The Fight Between the Arikara and the Snakes[125]
44.The Fight Between the Arikara and the Bears[126]
45.The Wife Who Married an Elk[127]
46.The Four Girls and the Mountain-Lion[129]
47.The Deeds of Young-Eagle[129]
48.The Girl Who Became a Whirlwind[134]
49.Coyote and the Mice Sun Dance[137]
50.The Coyote Becomes a Buffalo[138]
51.The Coyote and the Artichoke[139]
52.The Coyote Rides the Bear[139]
53.The Coyote Rides the Buffalo[140]
54.The Coyote and the Buffalo Run a Race[141]
55.The Coyote and the Dancing Corn[142]
56.The Coyote and the Turtle Run a Race[143]
57.The Coyote and the Stone run a Race[143]
58.The Coyote and the Rolling Stone[144]
59.The Coyote and the Rolling Stone[147]
60.How the Scalped-Man Lost His Wife[148]
61.The Generous Scalped-Man and His Betrayer[149]
62.The Scalped-Man[150]
63.The Dead Man’s Country[152]
64.The Coyote Who Spoke to the Eagle Hunters[153]
65.The Girl and the Elk[153]
66.How the Rabbit Saved a Warrior[154]
67.The Woman Whose Breasts Were Cut Off[155]
68.The Water-Dogs[156]
69.Two-Wolves, the Prophet[157]
70.How the Medicine-Robe Saved the Arikara[159]
71.The Medicine Bear Shield[162]
72.The Crucified Enemy[165]
73.How a Sioux Woman’s Scalp Was Sacrificed[166]
74.The Warrior Who Fought the Sioux[167]
75.The Capture of the Enemy’s Bows[167]
76.The Woman Who Befriended the Warriors[168]
77.The Attack Upon the Eagle Hunters[170]
78.The Attack Upon the Eagle Hunters[170]
79.The Mourning Lover[171]
80.Contest Between the Bear and the Bull Societies[172]
81.How White-Bear Came to Belong to the Bear Society[174]
82.The Tale of a Member of the Bear Society[175]
Abstracts[179]