Introduction
Editor’s Note
Mythological Map of Oregon
PART ONE, Northeastern Oregon
Coyote and the Swallowing Monster (Nez Perce)
Smohalla’s Ghost Dance Cosmogony (Wanapum)
Dream Prophecy Song (Nez Perce)
How the Cayuse Got Fire (Cayuse)
Cottontail Boy and Snowshoe Rabbit (Nez Perce)
Cottontail Boy Steals Thunderer’s Wife (Nez Perce)
Coyote Becomes a Buffalo (Nez Perce)
Turtle Outsims White Bull (Nez Perce)
Coyote and Fox Marry Husbands (nez Perce)
The Umatilla Birdman (Umatilla)
How Fish-Hawk Raided the Sioux (Cayuse)
Laptissa’n and the Seven-headed Monster (Nez Perce)
Cry-Because-He-Had-no-Wife (Nez Perce)
Red WIllow (Nez Perce)
Morning Song (Nez Perce)
How Enga-Gwacu Jim Met the Great Father (Bannock)
Coyote and the Shadow People (Nez Perce)
Chief Joseph Speaks in Washington, D.C. (Nez Perce)
PART TWO, the Columbia
Coyote at the Mouth of the Columbia (Wishram)
Coyote Frees the Fish (Wishram)
Coyote and the Mouthless Man (Wishram)
Coyote and the First Pregnancy (Wishram)
Coyote’s Carlessness (Wasco-Warm Springs)
Tsagigla’lal (Wishram)
Chief Mark Considers Monogamy, Warm Srpings Agency 1871
A Wasco Woman Deceives Her Husband (Wasco)
The Deserted Boy (Wishram)
Little Raccoon and His Grandmother (Wasco-Warm Springs)
Wren Kills Elk (Lower Chinook)
The Elk, the Hunter, and the Greedy Father (Wasco)
The Big-footed Man and His Son (Wasco)
Wishram Canoe Song
The Battle of the Winds (Warm Springs)
The Sun box (War Prings)
The Wishram Calendar
The Girl on the Ice (Wasco)
The Boy Who Went to Live with the Seals (Wasco)
A Boy and His Sitster Escape an At’at’a’hlia (Wasco)
Arrow-Point Maker and Tobacco-Hunter (Wasco)
Two Brothers Become Sun and Moon (Wasco)
Coyote and Eagle Go to the Land of the Dead (Wishram)
Wishram Song for Gathering Bones for Burial
The “Stick” Indians (Warm Springs)
PART THREE, The Willamette Valley
Coyote Builds Willamette Falls & the Magic Fish Trap (Clackamas Chinook)
The Skookum’s Tongue (Clackamas Chinook)
The Skookum and the Wonderful Boy (Clackamas Chinook)
Badger and Coyote Were Neighbors (Clackamas Chinook)
Seal and Her Younger Brother Lived There (Clackamas Chinook)
She Deceived Herself with Milt (Clackamas Chinook)
A Girls’ Game (Clackamas Chinook)
The Kalapuya Way (Santiam Kalapuya)
The Four Creations (Atfalati Kalapuya)
Kalapuya Ceremonial Song
Amhuluk, the Monster of Wapato Lake (Santiam Kalapuya)
Ptchiza’ and the Seven-headed Snake (mary’s River Kalapuya)
Coyote’s Swallowing Match with Grizzly Bear (Molale)
The Indians Hear a Treaty Speech in 1855 (Santiam Kalapuya)
Jo Hutchins Speech 1869 (Santiam Kalapuya)
PART FOUR, The Coast
South Wind Marries Ocean’s Daughter (Nehalem Tillamook)
The Exploits of South Wind (Nehalem Tillamook)
Coyote in the Cedar Tree (Chinook)
Coyote Invents the Fishing Rituals (Chinook)
How Coyote Kills the Giantess and Herded the Salmon (Chinook)
The Man Who Lived with Thunderer (Tillamook)
Thunderstorm Exorcism (Alsea)
How the Coos People Discovered Fire (Coos)
The Chetco (Chinook)
Wild Woman At Children (Nehalem Tillamook)
The Woman Who married a Merman (Coos)
Coyote and the Two Frog-Women (Alsea)
The Magical Hazel Twig (Alsea)
Xi’lgo and the Brother and Sister Who Married Each Other (Tillamook)
The White Wife of Mouse (Coos)
The Girl Who Married a Ghost (Chinook)
How a Chinook Man Went to the Land of the Dead and Came Back (Chinook)
The Journey across the Ocean (Tillamook)
The Revenge against the Sky People (Coos)
The First SHip Comes to Clatsop County (Chinook)
PART FIVE, Southwestern Oregon
Creation of the Klamath Country (Kalmath)
Modoc Prayers
The Rainmaker (Modoc)
The WIldcat Brothers (Modoc)
Frost and Thunder (Modoc)
Thunder and Eagle Boy (Modoc)
Chief Allen David of the Klamaths & Captain Jack of the Modocs 1869
The Klamath Calendar
The Crater Lake Myth (Klamath)
The Story of Swa-ya (Klamath)
Little Porcupine and Coyote (Klamath)
Coyote in Love with a Star (Klamath)
Chiloquin the Hero (Klamath)
Two Klamath Monsters (Klamath)
Grizzly Bear and Black Bear (Takelma)
The Theft of Fire (Shatsa)
Genesis (Joshua-Tututni)
PART SIX, The Great Basin Northern Paiute
The Tracks of the Creator
How the Animals Found Their Places
The Purging of Malheur Cave
The Creation of the Indians
Vagina Dentata
Coyote and His Daughter
Coyote Learns to Hunt
Coyote and Wolf Go Hunting
Coyote the Eye-Juggler
The Theft of Pine Nuts
Numuzo’ho Plays Ball
Numuzo’ho in the Mortar
Coyote and Bear
Coyote Shoots the Night
Cottontail Shoots the Sun
Humming Bird’s Space Flight
The Thunder Badger
How to Control the Weather
White Men are Snakes
The True Beginning of the Earth
Notes
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