Popular Hopi kachina dolls and awesome totem poles are but two of the aspects of the sophisticated, seldom-examined network of mythologies explored in this fascinating volume.

Preface

ix

Introduction

1

(32)

Functions of Myth

2

(1)

Types of Myth

3

(1)

Geography and Climate of North America

4

(2)

The First Native Americans

6

(2)

Major Culture Areas of Native America

8

(18)

Arctic

8

(2)

Subarctic

10

(2)

Northwest Coast

12

(1)

California

13

(2)

Great Basin

15

(1)

Plateau

16

(2)

The Plains

18

(3)

Southwest

21

(1)

Southeast

22

(2)

Northeast

24

(2)

Emerging Patterns

26

(1)

Sources of Native American Mythology

26

(3)

The Importance of Native American Mythology

29

(2)

Notes

31

(2)

Time

33

(10)

Linear Time

33

(1)

Cyclical Aspects of Time

34

(2)

Sacred Space

36

(1)

A Mythological Chronology

37

(1)

Mythic Time

38

(2)

In the Time of Transformers and Animal People

40

(1)

Myths and Historical Time

41

(2)

Deities, Themes, and Concepts

43

(186)

Adlivun

43

(1)

Afterlife

43

(3)

Alarana and Her Brother

46

(1)

Angakok

47

(2)

Ani Hyuntikwalaski

49

(1)

Aurora Borealis

50

(1)

Bean Woman

51

(1)

Bear

52

(2)

Blind Boy

54

(1)

Blood Clot

55

(1)

Bluejay

56

(2)

Buffalo Wife

58

(2)

Butterfly

60

(3)

Cannibal Dwarfs

63

(2)

Cannibal Woman

65

(2)

Cannibalism

67

(3)

Corn

70

(6)

Coyote

76

(7)

Culture Hero(es)

83

(4)

Deer Hunter and White Corn Maiden

87

(1)

Dog Husband

88

(1)

Earth Diver

89

(2)

Earth Mother

91

(1)

Emergence

92

(3)

First Creator and Lone Man

95

(2)

Flood(s)

97

(2)

Fox

99

(2)

Gamblers and Gambling

101

(3)

Ghosts

104

(3)

The Girl Who Married a Bear

107

(1)

Glooskap

108

(2)

Great Bear Constellation

110

(2)

Hot Wind and Cold Wind

112

(1)

How Bluebird Got Its Color

113

(1)

Kanati and Selu

114

(4)

Kivioq

118

(1)

Kokopelli

119

(4)

Kumokums

123

(1)

Land Otters

124

(1)

Loon Woman

125

(2)

Manabozho

127

(6)

The Mice's Sun Dance

133

(1)

Mountain Lion

133

(1)

Mouse Woman

134

(1)

Nalusa Falaya and Kashehotapolo

135

(1)

Naughty Grandchildren

136

(1)

Nihansan

137

(1)

Old Man

138

(4)

Otters and Coyote

142

(1)

Owl

143

(3)

People Brought in a Basket

146

(2)

Potlatch, Origin of

148

(1)

Prairie Dog

149

(1)

Qumu?uc

150

(1)

Rabbit

150

(4)

Raccoon

154

(1)

Rainbow(s)

155

(1)

Raven

156

(4)

Roadrunner

160

(1)

Salmon

161

(3)

Salt Woman

164

(3)

Sapiya

167

(1)

Seasons, Origin of

168

(2)

Sedna

170

(1)

Shaman

171

(2)

Skeleton House

173

(2)

Skinkuts

175

(2)

Spider

177

(4)

Spider Woman

181

(1)

Stars and Constellations

182

(4)

Strong Man Who Holds Up the Earth

186

(3)

Sweet Medicine

189

(2)

Tcaawunkl

191

(2)

Thunderbirds

193

(4)

Thunderers

197

(2)

Tirawa

199

(2)

Tobacco

201

(2)

Transformation, Human-Animal

203

(5)

Transformer

208

(2)

Trickster

210

(2)

Turtle

212

(3)

Tutokanula, Legend of

215

(1)

Whirlwind Woman

216

(1)

White Buffalo Woman

217

(3)

Why Stories

220

(2)

Wind

222

(1)

Windigo

223

(1)

Wisaka

224

(1)

Woman Who Fell from the Sky

225

(2)

Woodworm

227

(2)

Annotated Print and Nonprint Resources

229

(28)

Books and Articles

229

(14)

Nonprint Resources

243

(14)

DVDs

243

(2)

Videos

245

(7)

Websites

252

(5)

Reference List

257

(14)

Glossary

271

(8)

Index

279

(18)

About the Editors

297

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