The Myths of the North American Indians

by Lewis Spence

COYOTE PEOPLE, THE GREAT. A Zuñi clan, [95-96]

CRANIAL DEFORMATION. Practised among the Muskhogeans, [27]; among the Choctaws, [27]; among the Chinooks, [322]

CREATION-MYTHS, [106-109], [350-353]

CREEKS. A tribe of the Muskhogean stock, [27]; and earth-mounds, [21]; and the eagle, no; and the owl, [111]; Esaugetuh Emissee, the chief deity of, [122]; the Pushkita, a festival of, [133-134]; the priests of, [136]

CREES. A tribe of the Algonquian stock, [25]; legend of origin of their Young Dog Dance, [190-193]; how they caught eagles, [190-191]

CROWS. A tribe of the Siouan stock; in a Blackfoot legend, [193-196]

D

DAKOTA. An ethnic division of the American Indians, same as Sioux, which see

DAY OF THE COUNCIL OF THE FETISHES. A Zuñi fetish festival, [96]

DAY-AND-NIGHT MYTH. A Blackfoot, [205-208]