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• ISBN: 0890132119 (pbk.)
• ISBN: 9780890132111 (pbk.)
• ISBN: 0890132100
• ISBN: 9780890132104
• Physical Description: 120 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.
• Publisher: Santa Fe, NM : Museum of New Mexico Press, �1990.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (page 119) and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

The Animal people hold a medicine chant / Chinook -- Beaver and porcupine / Tlingit -- Blood clot / Southern Ute -- Coyote kills a giant / Flathead -- Crawfish, buzzard and the creation of the earth / Alabama -- Coushatta -- Earth namer and the creation / Maidu -- The First dawn / Wintu -- The Flood / Navajo -- Fox gets back her fur / Acoma -- The Great monster and the great flood / Kutenai -- The Great spirit and the grizzlies / Modoc -- Hare slits his nose while visiting / Winnebago -- How the alligator's nose was broken / Seminole -- How the seasons came / Assiniboin -- How squirrels came to make many holes / Kodiak -- Legend of the roadrunner / Pima -- The Linnet and the eagle / Chippewa -- The Long winter / Slavey -- Nihancan's feast of beaver / Arapaho -- Origin of death and the seasons / Carrier -- Origin of fire / Jicarilla -- The Origin of fire / Karok -- The Owl and the raven / Baffin Island -- The Partridge's wife / Passamaquoddy -- The Race of the turtle and the beaver / Seneca -- Raven lights the world / Haida -- Redheaded woodpecker and the thunderbirds / Nootka -- The Seven stars / Cheyenne -- Spider comes to earth / Nunivak -- Spider's revenge / Atsina -- Gros Ventre -- When the ravens could speak / Southeast Greenland -- White bear and black bear / Chipewyan -- The Wisdom of rabbit / Creek -- Woverine the thief / Kaska -- The Wolves and the dogs / Hitchiti -- The Wren / Pend D'Oreille.

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Indians of North America > Folklore.
Animals > Folklore.
Tales > North America.