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CONTENTS

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[Introduction] 5
[Texts with free and interlinear translations:]
[Moldy-forehead (Skidegate dialect)]7
[Îłdī′nī (Masset dialect)]15
[Stories accompanied by texts:]
[How Shining-heavens caused himself to be born]26
[How Master-carpenter began making a canoe to war with Southeast]32
[Canoe people who wear headdresses]36
[Tcꜝîñ qā′-idjît]44
[The girl who fed a raven]48
[Sounding-gambling-sticks]52
[Tcꜝaawu′nkꜝa]58
[Story of the Food-giving-town people]70
[Story of Those-born-at-Skedans]86
[Story told to accompany bear songs]94
[Fight at the town of Da′x̣ua]100
[War between the West Coast Haida and the Tlingit]104
[Myths in English:]
[Raven traveling]110
[A-slender-one-who-was-given-away]151
[The one abandoned for eating the flipper of a hair seal]173
[Sacred-one-standing-and-moving, Stone-ribs, and Upward]190
[Supernatural-being-who-went-naked]210
[He-who-was-born-from-his-mother’s-side]227
[He-who-travels-behind-us (or Qonā′ts)]235
[He-who-got-supernatural-power-from-his-little-finger]238
[Łᴀguadjî′na, or Łg̣añā′ʻogaña]252
[He who hunted birds in his father’s village]264
[The story of him whose sister brought him food from the land otters]269
[How something pulled a row of eagles into the water]271
[The story about him who destroyed his nine nephews]277
[The story of one who saw an eagle town]281
[The one they abandoned because he was the first to spear sea lions]282
[The man who married a killer-whale woman]286
[He who was abandoned by his uncles]288
[The story of those who were abandoned at Stasqa′os]290
[He who married the daughter of the devilfish chief]292
[Those who were fasting to become shamans]294
[Big-tail]296
[The story of him through whom Łᴀ′gua spoke]305
[Cloud-watcher]308
[Story of the shaman, G̣ᴀ′ndox’s-father][[4]]311
[Djila′qons]316
[Story of the House-point families]318
[How the Seaward-sqoā′ładas obtained the names of their gambling sticks]322
[How one of the Stasa′os-lā′nas became wealthy]325
[Stories of the Pitch people]327
[How a red feather pulled up some people in the town of Gunwa]330
[How one was helped by a little wolf]333
[Gunanasî′mgît]336
[Story of the two towns that stood on opposite sides of Nass river]341
[Slaughter-lover]348
[The woman at Nass who fled from her husband]352
[The rejected lover]354
[He who gathered food for an eagle]356
[Qō′łkꜝē]358
[Two children’s stories]362
[A raid on the Tlingit]364
[War between the West Coast and Ninstints Haida and the Gîtî′sda]371
[Raid by the Ninstints Haida on those of the West Coast]373
[Fight between the Kaigani and West Coast Haida]375
[Wars between the Stikine and Sitka Tlingit]377
[Fights between the Town-of-Tcꜝā′ał-gîtî′ns and the Middle-gîtî′ns]380
[Fights between the Tsimshian and Haida and among the northern Haida]384
[War between the Eggs-of-Skî′tg̣ao and the Inlet-rear-town people]391
[Wars with the Niska and Tsimshian and conflicts between Haida families]393
[Fight between Those-born-at-Qā′gials and Those-born-at-Skedans]401
[War between the Pebble-town people and the Slaves]404
[War between the people of Kloo and the people of Ninstints]408
[A fight between the Xā′gi-town people and Sand-town people]413
[Wars between the people of Ninstints and the people of Skidegate]415
[Wars between the peoples of Skidegate and Kloo]418
[Wars between the towns of Kloo and Kitkatla and between the Kloo families]425
[War between the people of Kloo and the Tsimshian]429
[War between the people of Kloo and the Bellabella]434
[War between the people of Kloo and the Gîtî′sda]444

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ILLUSTRATIONS

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Fig. 1. [Diagram of bear deadfall] 69
2. [Plan of large salmon trap] 188
3. [Drying frame for fish; horizontal and vertical plans] 189
4. [Traditional device used in the capture of the wā′sg̣o] 207
5. [Diagram of marten deadfall] 262

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HAIDA TEXTS AND MYTHS

Skidegate Dialect