Page 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
page 29Stories of the First People--People Who Lived Before Real People Were Created
page 31How 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
page 115The 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
page 209How He-le'-jah the Cougar Hunts Deer
page 210The First Teeth go to Soo-wah-tah, the Gopher
page 211Soo-koo'-me The Great Horned Owl
page 212The Meadowlark, a Gossip and Troublemaker
page 213Where the Ducks and Geese go to Breed
page 214Po'-ko-moo The Poison Spider
page 215Ghosts Follow the Pathway of the Wind
page 217Three Birds Scream to Frighten the Ghosts
page 218A Hole in the Nose Saves Turning into a Fish
page 219What Good and Bad Ghosts Turn into
page 220Ghosts Hunt for a Big Animal in the Ocean
page 221Wah-tib'-sah the Sign of Death
page 222Thunder
page 223The Earthquake
page 224The Echo
page 225How 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
page 235Kā'-lum-me the Rock Giant of Wennok Valley
page 236Scientific Names of the Animals
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Scientific Names of the Trees and other Plants
page 241Bibliography of California Mythology
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