Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents vii
3. Preface xi
4. Abbreviations xv
5. PART I. The Sinawav cycle 1
6. Text 1. He who created the people 5
7. Text 2. He who created the people 11
8. Text 3. The origin of the people 17
9. Text 4. The stealing of the fire 27
10. Text 5. Sinawav and the seven sisters 31
11. Text 6. How Sinawav named the trees and bushes 45
12. Text 7. Sinawav the copycat 51
13. Text 8. Sinawav the copycat 59
14. Text 9. How Sinawav got his yellow eyes 69
15. Text 10. Coyote deprives himself of his eyes 79
16. Text 11. Porcupine, buffalo-cow and Sinawav 89
17. Text 12. Porcupine tricks Coyote 107
18. Text 13. Sinawav racing the birds and betting 121
19. Text 14. Sinawav burning his own house 131
20. PART II. The Coyote cycle 137
21. Text 15. Hungry Coyote races Skunk for prairie-dogs 139
22. Text 16. Hungry Coyote races Skunk for the prairie-dogs 149
23. Text 17. Hungry Coyote, Rabbit, and the white-man’s chicken 157
24. Text 18. Coyote and the rock children 163
25. Text 19. Coyote cooks She-Bear’s children 167
26. Text 20. Coyote, Wolf and Horned-Toad 173
27. Text 21. How Coyote and Bobcat got their shapes 177
28. PART III. Anger, vengeance and other pitfalls 187
29. Text 22. Rabbit getting mad 189
30. Text 23. How angry Rabbit got his brown spots 199
31. Text 24. How the Pinyon Jays got their curse-name 205
32. Text 25. Bear runs away with Mountain-Lion’s wife 211
33. PART IV. The ceremonial cycle 215
34. Text 26. The origin of the Beardance 221
35. Text 27. How the Beardance used to be 231
36. Text 28. The origin of the Sundance 241
37. Text 29. The last war party 271
38. Text 30. News broadcast (KIUP-FM) 293
39. Text 31. Speech at the Ute language committee 301
40. Text 32. Cloud family lore 311
41. Text 33. Speech at the Tri-Ute language meeting 317
42. Bibliography 333