List of Illustrations Foreword Alan R. Velie Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Algonquian Language Family Cheyenne Cheyenne Stories and Storytelling Oral Traditions Gordon Yellowman The Bear and the Coyote Translated by Joyce Twins Cheyenne Story--Dogs Used to Carry Burdens in Days before Horses Birdie Burns, Cheyenne Recorded and transcribed by Julia A. Jordan Cheyenne Story--Man Who Prophesied Coming of Horses and White Men Long Ago Birdie Burns, Cheyenne Recorded and transcribed by Julia A. Jordan How Stories Were Told at Night by an Old Lady Birdie Burns, Cheyenne Recorded and transcribed by Julia A. Jordan Birdie''s Grandmother''s Story of How Corn and Buffalo Were Given to the Cheyennes Birdie Burns, Cheyenne Recorded and transcribed by Julia A. Jordan Absentee Shawnee Shawnee Poems Narrated by Pauline Wahpepah Introduced by Gus Palmer Jr. Kickapoo The Motorcyclists Mosiah Bluecloud Lenape The Lenape Story of the Origin of the Woman Dance Lillie Hoag Whitehorn Transcribed by Bruce Pearson and James Rementer Translated by Nora Thompson Dean Introduced by James Rementer Miami Myaamia "Story of Fox and Wolf" Narrated by Kiisikohkwa (Elizabeth Valley) to Albert Gatschet Introduced by David J.
Costa Potawatomi Pondese: Old Man Winter and Why We Have Spring Today Translated and introduced by Justin Neely 2. Athabaskan Language Family Plains Apache Coyote and Rock Monster: A Plains Apache Tale Narrated by Alonzo Chalepah Sr. Transcribed by Harry Hoijer Reanalyzed and introduced by Sean O''Neill 3. Caddoan Language Family Caddo The Wolf and the Wren Narrated by Sadie Bedoka Weller Transcribed by Wallace Chafe Pawnee The Old Woman and Her Grandson Blessed by a Voice Narrated by Dollie Moore, Pitahawirata Pawnee Translated and introduced by Douglas R. Parks Interlinear files by Joshua A. Richards He Goes Over and the Burning Log: A Wolf Story Narrated by Harry Mad Bear, Skiri Pawnee Introduced and translated by Douglas R. Parks Interlinear files by Joshua A. Richards A Pawnee Story Narrated, translated, and introduced by Adrian Spottedhorsechief Arikara The Race between the Horse and the Buffalo: An Arikara Narrative Alfred Morsette (Paatú Kananuuninó, ''Not Afraid of the Enemy'') Transcribed and introduced by Douglas R.
Parks Kitsai Coyote Frees Buffalo Narrated by Kai Kai, Kitsai Recorded by Alexander Lesser Translated and introduced by Joshua A. Richards Wichita Awa:hárikic: Hassí:ri:ha:stírih Narrated and translated by Bertha Provost Translated and introduced by David S. Rood 4. Iroquoian Language Family Cherokee Diary Translated and introduced by Durbin Feeling I Shot It, You Shot It Transcribed and translated by Durbin Feeling Seneca-Cayuga Minnie Thompson Stories Narrated by Minnie Thompson Recorded and transcribed by J. W. Tyner Wyandotte History of the Wyandotte Indians Donna Elliott Vowel interviewed by J. W. Tyner 5.
Kiowa-Tanoan Language Family Kiowa Já?:mátàunhè?:jègà (Star Girls Story) Narrated, transcribed, and translated by Parker P. McKenzie Retranslated and introduced by Gus pàntha?i:dê Palmer 6. Siouan Language Family Ponca A Ponca Ghost Story Narrated by Francis La Flesche Originally transcribed and translated by James Owen Dorsey Reanalyzed and introduced by Sean O''Neill Otoe-Missouria Introduction to Otoe-Missouria Sky Campbell The Rabbit and the Grasshoppers: An Otoe Story Collected by Rev. James Owen Dorsey The Rabbit and the Mountain: An Otoe Myth Narrated by Joseph La Flesche Collected by Rev. James Owen Dorsey Ponca Omaha Ponca Omaha Letters Dictated and Taken by James Owen Dorsey Introduced by Vida Woodhull Stabler To the Cincinnati Commercial, from several Omahas Part 1, written by Dúba-Mo?thi? Part 2, written by Káxe-Tho?ba Part 3, written by Ó?p?o?-to?ga Part 3, written by Ó?p?o?-to?ga Part 3, written by Ó?p?o?-to?ga Part 6, written by Káxe-Tho?ba Kaw Two Accounts of a Battle between the Kaws and Cheyennes Narrated by Zhóhi? Má?yi? and Pahá?le Gáxli Collected by Rev. James Owen Dorsey Retranscribed, retranslated, and introduced by Justin T. McBride Ioway The Sister and Brother Translated and introduced by Lance Foster, THPO Iowa Tribe of Kansas and Nebraska Quapaw Introduction to Quapaw Billy Proctor The Rabbit and the Black Bears: A Dhegiha Myth Narrated by Alphonsus Valliere Recorded by James Owen Dorsey Transcribed by Billy C. Proctor 7.
Uto-Aztecan Language Family Comanche Blind Fox and Two Girls Narrated by Mow-wat Translated by Juanita Pahdopony Introduced by Brian Daffron The Boy Who Turned Into a Snake Narrated by Dorothy Martinez Translated by Juanita Pahdopony Introduced by Brian Daffron 8. Language Isolate Introduction to Language Isolates Gus Palmer Jr. Tonkawa The Young Man Who Became a Shaman: A Tonkawa Myth Story Transcribed, translated, and introduced by Don Patterson Text prepared by Miranda Allen Myers Contributors Index.