Department of History,

University of Washington.


CONTENTS


[ Preface ]


[ The Beginning of Newness ]

[ The Men of the Early Times ]

[ Creation and Longevity ]

[ Old Mole's Creation ]

[ The Creation of the World ]

[ Spider's Creation ]

[ The Gods and the Six Regions ]

[ How Old Man Above Created the World ]

[ The Search for the Middle and the Hardening of the World ]

[ Origin of Light ]

[ Pokoh, the Old Man ]

[ Thunder and Lightning ]

[ Creation of Man ]

[ The First Man And Woman ]

[ Old Man Above and the Grizzlies ]

[ The Creation of Man-Kind and the Flood ]

[ The Birds and the Flood ]

[ Legend of the Flood ]

[ The Great Flood ]

[ The Flood and the Theft of Fire ]

[ Legend of the Flood in Sacramento Valley ]

[ The Fable of the Animals ]

[ Coyote and Sun ]

[ The Course of the Sun ]

[ The Foxes and the Sun ]

[ The Theft of Fire ]

[ The Theft of Fire ]

[ The Earth-Hardening After the Flood ]

[ The Origins of the Totems and of Names ]

[ Traditions of Wanderings ]

[ The Migration of the Water People ]

[ Coyote and the Mesquite Beans ]

[ Origin of the Sierra Nevadas and Coast Range ]

[ Yosemite Valley ]

[ Legend of Tu-Tok-A-Nu'-La (El Capitan) ]

[ Legend of Tis-Se'-Yak (South Dome and North Dome) ]

[ Historic Tradition of the Upper Tuolumne ]

[ California Big Trees ]

[ The Children of Cloud ]

[ The Cloud People ]

[ Rain Song ]

[ Rain Song ]

[ Rain Song ]

[ The Corn Maidens ]

[ The Search for the Corn Maidens ]

[ Hasjelti and Hostjoghon ]

[ The Song-Hunter ]

[ Sand Painting of the Song-Hunter ]

[ The Guiding Duck and the Lake of Death ]

[ The Boy Who Became A God ]

[ Origin of Clear Lake ]

[ The Great Fire ]

[ Origin of the Raven and the Macaw ]

[ Coyote and the Hare ]

[ Coyote and the Quails ]

[ Coyote and the Fawns ]

[ How the Bluebird Got its Color ]

[ Coyote's Eyes ]

[ Coyote and the Tortillas ]

[ Coyote as a Hunter ]

[ How the Rattlesnake Learned to Bite ]

[ Coyote and the Rattlesnake ]

[ Origin of the Saguaro and Palo Verde Cacti ]

[ The Thirsty Quails ]

[ The Boy and the Beast ]

[ Why the Apaches are Fierce ]

[ Speech on the Warpath ]

[ The Spirit Land ]

[ Song of the Ghost Dance ]


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The Beginning of Newness