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Myths and Tales of the White Mountain Apache
Greenville Goodwin

 
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CONTENTS
front matter
Preface v
Phonetic Transliteration System xv
Contents xvii
1. *The Earth is set up 1
Variant 2
2. *He goes to his father: Slaying of Monsters 3
3. Obtaining bow and arrows 12
4. *He goes to his father: Obtaining bow and arrows: *Vulva Woman: Slaying of Monsters: How Gila Monster got his name: Turtle saves his comrade: *Naaye’nezghane wins his wife back: Naaye’nezghane obtains horses 16
*Variant (Vulva Woman) 38
5. They kill girls asleep
6. *The emergence 49
7. *The flood: Turkey makes the corn: How Coyote showed the way to make a living 50
8. Turkey makes the corn: Coyote plants cooked corn 61
9. *Lost with Turkey 63
10. Turkey teaches farming 69
11. How the squash plant was obtained 71
12. *He who became an antelope 77
13. *He fell down on Bear 79
14. *The Talking Horse 83
15. *He releases the deer 86
16. *She who became a deer 88
17. *A Gaan becomes Raven Old Man's son-in-law 93
18. *The Gaan people move away 100
19. *A Gaan becomes Raven Old Man's son-in-law; *The Gaan disappear from Tseegots’uk 107
20. *The maiden from whom they disappeared into the water: Inside Elk's belly 116
21. The man who became a Gaan 119
22. *Making a chief: Sun and Thunder: Sun and Darkness 121
23. *Road Runner Youth makes Mulbery Man 123
24. The man who pursued Mountain Sheep 130
25. *Wolf and Mountain Lion hunt together: *White-tailed Deer and Mescal talk together: *Sack and Pot talk together 131
Variant 1: (*Wolf and Mountain Lion hunt together) 132
Variant 2: (When everything talked: *White-tailed Deer and Mescal talk together) 132
26. Grasshopper loses his leg: How Gila Monster got his name 133
27. *Captured 134
Variant 136
28. *The old woman and baby who were abandoned 138
29. The abandoned children 141
30. Her brother becomes her husband 142
31. *He brings back a mountain 145
32. Origin of curing ceremonies 145
33. *Coyote steals Abert Squirrel's fire 147
34. *The winning of dawn 148
Variant 149
35. *Coyote steals Sun's tobacco 151
36. *Coyote's daughter (becomes) his wife 152
37. *Coyote kills his children 154
38. *The berdache Coyote story 156
39. *The Jack Rabbit girls toss their eyes up 161
40. *Coyote hunts with Bobcat 163
41. *Badger carries darkness: *Coyote and Bobcat scratch each other 164
42. Coyote and Bobcat trick each other: *Coyote carries off Beares [sic: Beaver] 166
43. *Coyote trots along 168
44. *Coyote races with Frog 171
45. Coyote and Bear cripple and cure each other 172
46. *Coyote reads the letter as he sits 173
47. How deer horns became hard 173
48. Coyote brings in Big Owl's cap: How deer horns became hard: The Bear Woman: Coyote determines death 174
49. *Big Owl chops off his penis 178
50. *Two hills in line 179
51. Big Owl hunts "Rats": *People turn themselves to Ground Heat: *Big Owl eats his own children: *Big Owl and Turkey meet each other 181
52. *Coyote steals wheat: *Coyote's faeces under his hat 190
Variant (*Gray Fox steals wheat) 197
53. *Coyote herds sheep for a white man 200
54. The two thieves 201
55. The good and the bad brothers 203
56. The Magic Ring 209
57. Magic Flight 215

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