Record details

• ISBN: 0394540603 :
• ISBN: 9780394540603
• Physical Description: xix, 343 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Publisher: New York : Pantheon Books, c1990.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [335]-343).

Formatted Contents Note:

The embarrassment of the cranberry partners -- Eviksheen the grass-user -- The girl who watched in the nighttime -- Uteritsoq, the obstinate one -- The Chuginadak woman -- The boy who became an arctic tern -- The little old lady who lived alone -- Qasiagssaq, the great liar -- Witiko father and son bested by a conjuror -- Alder-block -- The crow story -- Stingy reindeer owners -- Fourteen with one stroke -- How the earth was made and how wood-chips became walrus -- The first snowshoes -- Gambling story -- Story while pointing at a constellation: a dogrib conversation -- Why owls die with wings outspread -- When musk oxen spoke like humans -- Why the path between fish- camps is always worn down and no one walks it any more -- What is the earth? -- How the narwhal got its tusk -- Ayas'e and the origin of bats -- The loon and the raven -- The giant skunk and his offspring -- A Yukaghir tale of the origin of the Chukchee -- Which animals are on the moon -- Why rattlesnakes don't cross the river -- The first white men -- Smart beaver cycle -- Kuloscap tales -- The wenebojo myth -- The bear goes on his long, solitary journey -- Bluejay's revenge -- The wolverine loses his shoes -- Skunk's tears -- The duck whose grandmother was out of her wits -- The helldiver and the spirit of winter -- The stubbornness of bluejays -- Coyote and Fox -- The owl woman -- Crow and camp robber -- Why brown bears are hostile towards men -- The wolverine grudge -- The whale, the sea scorpion, the stone, and the eagle -- Carried off by the moon -- Story of a female Shaman -- How the false Shaman was flung by walrus -- Things seen by the Shaman Karawe -- The curing-fox windigo -- Kinigseq -- How a bagpipe drew hunters from the outskirts -- Song of spider goddess -- Disire for light -- Aksikukuk and Kukrukuk -- Encounter with the Shaman from Padlei -- The birth of Tchakapesh -- The thrashing spirit with a bearded seal for a whip -- The mother of sea beasts -- Brushmen -- Ayaje's wives with forearms like awls -- Three sisters and the demon -- The giant rat -- The ghost -- The giants -- The woman who ate men -- The wrong-chill windigo -- Ipiup Inua, the spirit of the precipice -- Inugpasugssuk the giant -- The four cannibals -- Kivioq, whose kayak was full of ghosts -- The ten-legged polar bear -- The monster fish in the lake -- The attainable border of the birds -- The dream that came back -- The hunter and the goats -- Agdlumaloqaq, who hunted at the blowholes in a far, foreign land -- The moose among the Chandalar river people -- The woman who put a bucket over a caribou's head -- The day Auks netted hid-well -- Lake-dwarves -- The mammoth hunters -- Why wolly mammoths decided to flee underground -- Sometimes a seal hunt goes like this -- Raven didn't stick around -- Kivioq, who left his home because his wife was unfaithful -- The Windigo almost prevents a marriage -- The star husbands -- The girl who married the bear -- How Whiskey-Jack man got married -- The woman and the octopus -- The marriage of Mink -- The wolf's bride -- The girl who married a whale -- The man who married a fox -- Go away.

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