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• ISBN: 096295392X
• ISBN: 9780962953927
• Physical Description: 435 pages, [26] pages of plates : illustrations ; 22 cm
• Publisher: Issaquah, WA : Great Eagle Pub., ©1992.

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Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Continued 2 : Charley Qualchan's fight with a silvertip -- Indian hunter stories -- Sam-a-lee-sack -- That Tahmahnawis Bear -- White coyote's fight with a grizzly bear -- A Grizzly Tahmahnawis -- The Singing Twee'-tas -- The Young grizzly bear warrior -- Wah'-i-ti and the grizley -- Fight between a grizzly and a wolverine -- Stories About Hunting the Black Bear : Hunting Story -- a bad bear -- Sam-s-lee-sack and the black bear -- Hunting stories -- A Peaceable bear trapping -- Twash-an-nee Cusho's fighting methods -- Indian aversion to killing bear -- Stories of the Hunt For Deer : Phantom buck of the Yakimas -- Strange actions of a wounded deer -- The Eagle as a slayer of deer -- A Noted table-rock hunting ground.

Hunting Exploits After Mountain Goat : An Adventure on goat rocks -- Hunter stories -- Comba of two mountain sheep -- Stories of the Supernatural Met on the Hunt : The Ghost voice of the Tieton Canyon -- Laux-woptus and the Cach-chi -- The Ghost Indians of the Wenas -- Accounts oof a Young Indian's Hunting Adventures : A Thrilling adventure on the glaciers of Mount Adams -- Statement of Abraham Lincoln of his experience when he fell into the crevasse of the Mount Adam's glacier -- An Indian boy's first deer -- Caught in a snowslide -- Indian boy lost in the mountains -- An Indian boy's encounter with a mad bull -- Other Tales Told on the Hunt : Timber wolves in the Cascade Mountains.

How coyote was cheated by pig -- Notes to the Narratives : Indes of Motifs : Comparative Notes to Other Plateau : List of Informants : Glossary of Yakima Terms : Selected List of Readings About the Yakima Nation.

Locus and Culure : Missionaries among the Yakimas -- White settlers, conflicts -- Intent of the work -- Organization of the work -- The Traditional Tales of the Yakimas : Tales of the Orgins of Man, Animals and Plants, Phenomena : Isti-plah' -- Frogs and grizzly bear contend over the division of light and darkness -- How coyote moved Mount Adams and Mount Rainer -- Legend of Wahx'-soom Mountain -- Pah'-to annd the white eagle -- How beaver stole the fur -- Legends of the As-soom' Trail : the five laws -- Second story of the five laws -- Legends of the As-soom' Trail -- A coyote story -- how the dog became domesticated -- Why the ratlesnake crawls -- How eel lost his bones -- How ant came by his small waist.

How deer stole rabbit's coat -- The Huckleberry and the chokeberry -- Legendary Tales of Fabulous Creatures and Evil Monsters : Stick-shower Indians -- An Indian's experience with the stick showers -- The Ste-ye-hah' -- The Te-chum' mah -- Tah-tah Kle'-ah -- Enum-klah' The Thunderbird -- the Pach-an-a-ho' -- How the mountain broke -- Wisdom of the Wah'k-puch -- Legend of the I-yah'-houce, or I-yah-horce -- Man-devouring monster of the Naches -- The Rock-Buffalo -- More Legends of Places and Landmarks : The Story of Whe-a'mish or Chi'-nach -- The Wrong of Whe-a'mish -- A Legend of Enum-klah'pah -- Lakes on Pah'-To and Taho'ma -- The story of the lake at Kh-nute' -- Coyote destroys the evil girl of Top'-tut.

Top'-tut of old -- Top'-tut -- The sliding place of coyote -- Chipmunk's burial ground -- Tho'-wit-tet -- The Puh-tuh num -- The Schop- tash "painted" rocks of the Naches -- Legend of Tuch-ish -- Coyote As Trickster : How coyote was tricked by fish hawk -- How coyote was tricked by Too-noon-y' -- Coyote and fox -- How coyote was tricked by Ots-sp-yi -- How coyote and wood tick took the sweat -- How coyote and fox flew to the upper world -- how coyote tricked grizzley bear -- coyote, his son, and the salmon -- Coyote and eagle -- Coyote marries his daughter to mountain goat -- What became of coyote -- Story of coyote -- Tales of Wonder and Adventures : A Story about two girls a long time ago.

Spirit costume of the Ste-ye-hah' mah -- How gray squirrel drove the buffalo -- Raccoon and grizley bear -- Bear woman of the Nespelems -- Eagle and skunk -- Owl and the Tah-tah Kle'-ah -- Tales of the Marvelous -- Coyote goes to the land of the dead -- How rabbit killed Tah-tah Kle'-ah -- How rabbit stole the favorite wife of thunder -- How coyote was changed into an eagle -- The grizzly bear mother and her two children -- Tales Comparable with European Marchen : Coyote and crow -- The King and the theif -- How coyote tricked the people-devouring Tah-tah Kle'-ah -- Yakima tradition of a flood -- Hunting Tales of the Yakimas : Stories of Hunting Exploits Against Grizzly Bear : Almcotty's combat with a grizzly.

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