Contents

Phonetic Key	VIII
Introduction	1
Myths Recorded in English at Sitka	3
1. Raven	3
2. The Big Clam	21
3. English Version of the Story of the Four Brothers	22
4. Origin of the Killer Whale	25
5. KAka'	28
6. The Land-otter Sister	29
7. The Land-otter Son	30
8. The Wolf-chief's Son	33
9. Wolverine-man	36
10. The Halibut People	38
11. Stories of the Monster Devilfish and the Cry-baby	40
12. The Woman who was Killed by a Clam	41
13. Root-stump	41
14. The Protracted Winter	43
15. Beaver and Porcupine	43
16. The Poor Man who Caught Wonderful Things	45
17. The Finding of the Blue Paint, and How a Certain Creek Received its Name	46
18. Various Adventures near Cross Sound	47
19. Kâts!	49
20. The Unsuccessful Hunters	50
21. Origin of Iceberg House	52
22. The Woman Taken Away by the Frog People	63
23. How the Frogs Honored the Dead	54
24. The Brant Wives	65
25. Story of the Puffin	57
26. Story of the Wain-house People	58
27. The Alsek River People	64
28. The Youthful Warrior	69
29. The First War in the World	72
30. How Protestant Christianity was First Heard Of at Sitka	79
Myths Recorded in English at Wrangell	80
31. Raven	80
32. Kakê'q!^utê	154
33. Origin of the GonaqAdê't	165
34. A Story of the GonaqAdê't	170
35. Origin of the L!ê'nAxxî'dAq	173
36. The Thunders	175
37. Origin of the Screech Owl	176
38. Little Felon	177
39. Origin of the Fern Root and the Ground Hog	180
40. The Halibut that Divided the Queen Charlotte Islands	180
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41. The Image that Came to Life	181
42. Djîyî'n	182
43. The Self-burning Fire	186
44. The Giant of Tâ'sna	187
45. The Woman who Married a Land Otter	187
46. The Land-otters' Captive	188
47. The Man Fed from the Sky	189
48. The Salmon Sack	192
49. Roots	192
50. The Mucus Child	194
51. The Salmon Chief	196
52. The Jealous Uncle	198
53. The Man who Married the Eagle	203
54. The Brant Wife	206
55. The Duck Helper	208
56. The Boy who Shot the Star	209
57. The Boy and the Giant	212
58. The Boy with Arrows on his Head	214
59. GAmnâ'tck!î	215
60. The Hîn-tayî'cî	217
61. The East and North Winds	219
62. The Big Beaver	219
63. Beaver and Porcupine	220
64. The Man who Entertained the Bears	220
65. Mountain Dweller	222
66. How the Sitka KîksA'dî Obtained the Frog	224
67. Qâq!Atcgû'k	225
68. The Beaver of Killisnoo	227
66. Story of the Grizzly-bear Crest of the Te'qoedî	228
70. Story of the Eagle Crest of the NexA'dî	229
71. Story of the Killer-whale Crest of the DAqL!awe'dî	230
72. Story of the Nanyaâ'yî Crests	231
73. Story of the Frog Crest of the KîksA'dî of Wrangell	232
74. Story of the Kâ'gwAntân Crests	233
75. Migration of the GânAxA'dî to Tongass	233
76. The Woman who Married the Frog	236
77. The Girl who Married the L!AL!	237
78. The Woman who Married a Tree	238
79. The Girl who Married the Fire Spirit	239
80. Orphan	240
81. The Dead Basket-maker	240
82. The Crying-for Medicine	241
83. The Runaway Wife	242
94. The Rejected Lover	243
85. The Faithless Wife	245
86. The Woman who Married the Dead Man	247
87. The Returned from Spirit Land	249
88. The Sky Country	250
Texts	252
89. The Origin of Copper	252
90. The Man who was Abandoned	262
91. The Shaman who Went into the Fire, and the Heron's Son	267
92. Mountain Dweller	280
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93. Kâhâ's!î, the Strong Man	289
94. The L!ê'nAxxî'dAq	292
95. Origin of the Frog Crest among the KîksA'dî	294
96. How the KîksA'dî Came to Sitka	295
97. The Four Brothers	297
98. The KîksA'dî Woman who was Turned into an Owl	299
99. Moldy-end	301
100. Moldy-end (Wrangell version)	311
101. Qâq!Atcgû'k	321
102. The Sea-lion Hunt	324
103. The War in the Spruce Canoe	325
104. Story of the Kâ'gwAntân	326
105. Story of the Kâ'ck!e qoan	347
106. Origin of a Low-caste Name	369
The Tobacco Feast	372
Speeches Delivered at a Feast when a Pole was Erected for the Dead	374
Words of Songs Taken in connection with Graphophone Records	390
Abstracts of Myths	416
Myths recorded in English at Sitka	416
Myths recorded in English at Wrangell	429

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