Index

The Dawn of the World: Page Index

Contents

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Illustrations

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Preface

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Introduction

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Note

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Stories of the First People--People Who Lived Before Real People Were Created

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How Wit'-tab-bah the Robin Got His Red Breast

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How Ah-ha'-le Stole the Sun For the Valley People

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How Ah-ha'-le Stole The Morning

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How Tol'-le-loo got the Fire for the Mountain People

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Why the Lizard Man did not Restore Dead People to Life

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The Coyote and the Lizard

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How the People Got Five Fingers; How they Obtained Fire; and How They Broke up into Tribes

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The Birth of Wek'-wek and the Creation of Man

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Ke'-lok and his Han-na'-boo

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The Creation of Man

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How they got the Fire

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How Kah'-kool the Raven Became a Great Hunter

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How Kah'-kah-loo The Ravens Became People

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The Bear and the Fawns

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The Bear and the Fawns

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How the Children of He-le'-jah Became People

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The Greed of His'-sik the Skunk

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Nek'-na-ka'-tah The Rock Maiden

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The Jealousy of Wek'-wek and the Death of Lo'-wut

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The Defeat of O-la'-nah the Coyote-Man

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How Sah'-te Set The World On Fire

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How Cha'-ka the Tule-wren Shot out the Sun

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How Wek'-wek Was Saved From the Flood

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Why the Bodega Bay Indians can not Stand Cold

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Yel'-lo-kin And Oo-wel'-lin, The Man-eating Giants

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O-wel'-lin the Rock Giant

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Tim-me-la'-le the Thunder

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Wek'-wek's Search for his Father

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Wek-wek's Search for his Sister

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Wek'-wek's Visit to the Underworld People

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Tah'-low The Thunder And Tah'-kip' The Lightning

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He'-koo-lās The Sun-Woman

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How O'-ye The Coyote-Man Discovered His Wife

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Bears Resemble People and Like to Dance

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How He-le'-jah the Cougar Hunts Deer

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The First Teeth go to Soo-wah-tah, the Gopher

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Soo-koo'-me The Great Horned Owl

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The Meadowlark, a Gossip and Troublemaker

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Where the Ducks and Geese go to Breed

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Po'-ko-moo The Poison Spider

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Ghosts Follow the Pathway of the Wind

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Three Birds Scream to Frighten the Ghosts

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A Hole in the Nose Saves Turning into a Fish

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What Good and Bad Ghosts Turn into

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Ghosts Hunt for a Big Animal in the Ocean

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Wah-tib'-sah the Sign of Death

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Thunder

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The Earthquake

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The Echo

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How Witches Kill People

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Ho-hā'-pe the River Mermaid

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Che-ha-lum'-che The Rock Giant Of Calaveras County

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Loo'-poo-oi'-yes The Rock Giant of Tamalpais

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Kā'-lum-me the Rock Giant of Wennok Valley

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Scientific Names of the Animals

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Scientific Names of the Trees and other Plants

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Bibliography of California Mythology

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