The Myths of the North American Indians

by Lewis Spence

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PAHE-WATHAHUNI (The Devouring Hill). The story of the Rabbit and, [302-303]

PAIUTES. A tribe of the Yunian stock; houses of, [47]

PALMER, CAPTAIN G. Work by, quoted, [3-4]

PAMOLA. An evil spirit, in Algonquian myth; conquered by Glooskap, [145]

PAWNEES. A confederacy of tribes of the Caddoan stock, [28], [304]; and the tribal fetish of the Cheyenne, [91]; and thunder, [112]; Atius Tiráwa, the chief deity of, [122]; and the Young Dog Dance, [190]; subdued by the Iroquois, [227]; strong religious sense of, [304]; myths and legends of, [304-311]; story of the origin of their Sacred Bundle, [304-308]

PAYNE, E. J. On resemblance of customs of American and Asiatic tribes, [10-11]

PEACE QUEEN. A maiden appointed by the Five Nations to be arbiter of quarrels; the legend of Genetaska the, [262-265]; the office abolished, [265]

PEBBLE-RATTLER. Haida wind-deity; in the story of Master-carpenter and South-east, [318]

PEQUOTS. A tribe of the Algonquian stock; feud between the whites and, [30]