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Pima - Coyote's Eyes
Acoma - Creation of Summer and Winter (ver 1)
Acoma - Creation of Summer and Winter (ver 2)
Acoma - Creation of Summer and Winter (ver. 3)
Acoma - Emerging into the Upper World
Acoma - Fetishes
Acoma / Laguna - Creation of Summer and Winter
Apache - Apache Creation Story
Apache - Coyote and the Creation
Apache - Coyote fights a lump of pitch
Apache - Coyote Gets Rich Off The White Men
Apache - Coyote Proves Himself A Cannibal
Apache - Creation a Apache Tale
Apache - Creation Apache 2
Apache - Creation Story Apache
Apache - Culture Heroes and Owl
Apache - Death of the Great Elk TSÄS
Apache - Fox and Mountain Lion
Apache - Fox And Rabbit
Apache - Geronimo's Song
Apache - How the Buffalo Were Released on Earth
Apache - Humming Bird Lore
Apache - Hunting Elk
Apache - Leader of the Birds
Apache - Legend of the Apache Tear
Apache - Legend of the Apache Tear 2
Apache - Lost With Turkey
Apache - Magic At A Medicine Ceremony
Apache - Making The Tipi
Apache - Methods Of Cooking Corn
Apache - Origin of the Animals
Apache - The Origin of Fire
Apache - Why the Bat Hangs Upside Down
Apache / Chiricahua - Why the Bat has Short Legs
Apache / Jicarilla - How Mole Won The Race
Apache / Jicarilla - Lewis Woodpecker Describes Himself
Apache / Jicarilla - The Jicarilla genesis
Apache / White Mountain - Gray Fox Steals Wheat
Apache / White Mountain - He Fell Down On Bear
Apache / White Mountain - He Goes To His Father
Apache / White Mountain - He Goes To His Father Slaying Of Monsters
Apache / White Mountain - He Releases the Deer
Apache / White Mountain - He Who Became As Antelope
Apache / White Mountain - Her Brother Becomes Her Husband
Apache / White Mountain - How Deer Horns Became Hard
Apache / White Mountain - Magic Flight
Apache / White Mountain - Making a Chief: Sun and Thunder: Sun and Darkness
Apache / Yavapai - Creation Story Apache
Arikara - Creation Story Arikara
Aztec - Creation Story Aztec
Aztec - Earth Goddess
Aztec - Huitzilopochtii
Aztec - Hymn of the High Priest of Xipe Totec
Aztec - Hymn to Cihuacoatl
Chiricahua Apache - A Girl Is Lost
Chiricahua Apache - A Prayer Addressed to the Mountain Spirits
Chiricahua Apache - A Visit to the Mountain Spirits
Chiricahua Apache - Coyote and Beetle
Chiricahua Apache - Coyote and the Money Tree
Chiricahua Apache - Coyote and the Rock Rabbit
Chiricahua Apache - Coyote and the Rolling Rock
Chiricahua Apache - Coyote Dances With the Prairie Dogs
Chiricahua Apache - Coyote Holds Up the Sky
Chiricahua Apache - Coyote Hunts Geese
Chiricahua Apache - Coyote Marries his Own Daughter
Chiricahua Apache - Coyote Misses Real Rabbit
Chiricahua Apache - Coyote Obtains Fire
Choctaw - Creation Choctaw 2
Cochiti
Cochiti - A Boy Of White House Marries A Girl Of The Village Of The Stone Lions
Cochiti - A Contest For Wives
Cochiti - Antelope Hunting
Cochiti - Arrow Boy Recovers His Wife
Cochiti - Arrow Boy Triumphs Over His Mockers
Cochiti - Arrow Boy's Son
Cochiti - Arrow Boy, Child Of The Witch Man
Cochiti - Arrow Youth
Cochiti - Arrow Youth 2
Cochiti - Bat Boy
Cochiti - Betting Eyes
Cochiti - Bird And Toad Play Hide And Seek
Cochiti - Bloody Hand-Print Katcina
Cochiti - Buffalo Hunting Of The Plains
Cochiti - Bungling Host
Cochiti - Butterfly Pursuit
Cochiti - Cactus Lover
Cochiti - Cochiti Tribe
Cochiti - Contest For Wives
Cochiti - Corncob Boy
Cochiti - Corncob Boy Intercedes For His People
Cochiti - Corncob Boy Marries Deer Planter's Daughters
Cochiti - Corncob Boy Triumphs Over His Mockers
Cochiti - Coyote And Beaver Exchange Wives
Cochiti - Coyote Brings Her Children To Play With The Quails
Cochiti - Coyote Fails As Initiate
Cochiti - Coyote Has A Ball On Her Toe
Cochiti - Coyote Imitates Crow
Cochiti - Coyote Interrupts The Corn Dance
Cochiti - Coyote Sings For The Prairie Dogs
Cochiti - Coyote spills the Stars
Cochiti - Crane And Geese
Cochiti - Crow And Hawk
Cochiti - Crow's Song
Cochiti - Cuisi'nyinawa
Cochiti - Deer and Coyote
Cochiti - Duck Sings For Her Children
Cochiti - Fox And Coyote
Cochiti - Ganadyani
Cochiti - Geese Go Shell Gathering
Cochiti - Geese Talk The Santa Ana Language
Cochiti - Ginini (Halfwit)
Cochiti - Half Rooster
Cochiti - Heluta and Nyenyega Contest for a Wife
Cochiti - Heluta Plants the Deer
Cochiti - Horned Toad Sings In Black Boy's Stomach
Cochiti - How The People Came Up From Frijoles
Cochiti - How They Came Down From The Mesa
Cochiti - Hummingbird Has Food
Cochiti - Kotcimanyako Scatters The Stars
Cochiti - Lion And Grizzly Bear
Cochiti - Locust Boy
Cochiti - Montezuma
Comanche - Medicine Men Battle
Hopi - A Bet Between The Cooyoko And The Fox[1]
Hopi - A Hopi Raid On A Navaho Dance
Hopi - A Journey to the Skeleton House (Ver.1)
Hopi - A Journey To The Skeleton House (Ver.2)
Hopi - A Journey To The Skeleton House (Ver.3)
Hopi - A Katcina Race Contest Between The Wálpi And The Oraíbi
Hopi - A Raid On The Hopi Villages
Hopi - Bálölöokongwuu And The Coyote
Hopi - Big Head And Goat Horn
Hopi - Blue Corn Maiden and the Coming of Winter
Hopi - Boy and the Sun
Hopi - Chórzhvûk'iqölö And The Eagles
Hopi - Chief Dan Evehema of the Hopi Sends A Message to Mankind
Hopi - Clay Old Woman & Clay Old Man
Hopi - Coming Of The Hopi From The Under-World
Hopi - Coyote and the Stars
Hopi - Creation Hopi
Hopi - Creation Story
Hopi - Daughter of Somebody-or-Other
Hopi - Dr. Fewkes And Masauwu
Hopi - Emergence to the Fifth World
Hopi - First Journey Through Grand Canyon
Hopi - Grandmother Mole and the Sacred Bundle
Hopi - Grandmother Spider and the Moon
Hopi - Haliksai! - This Is How It Was
Hopi - How A Family Quarrel Led To The Founding Of Oraibi
Hopi - How An Oraíbi Chief Punished His People
Hopi - How Ball-Head (Tatciqtö) Wedded An Oraíbi Maiden
Hopi - How Bees Learned to Fly and Peaches Became Sweet
Hopi - How Beetles Produced Rain
Hopi - How Grandmother Spider Named the Clans
Hopi - How Hiyónatitiwa Defeated The Plan Of His Enemies
Hopi - How Hotevilla And Bakabi Were Founded
Hopi - How Pö'okong Killed The Bear
Hopi - How Some Hopis Resisted Sending Their Children To School And The Trouble That Resulted
Hopi - How The Antelope Maiden Was Reconciled
Hopi - How The Beetles Produced Pain
Hopi - How The Children Of Pivánhonk'api Obtained Permission To Catch Birds
Hopi - How The Circle (Póngo) Katcina And His Wife Became Stars
Hopi - How The Coyote Was Deceived By The Wren
Hopi - How The Coyotes Had A Katcina Dance
Hopi - How The Crow Clan Arrived And Settled At Mishongnovi
Hopi - How The Crow Clan Became Also The Kachina Clan
Hopi - How the Great Chiefs Made the Moon and the Sun
Hopi - How the Hopi Indians Reached Their World
Hopi - How The Hopi Marked The Boundary Line Between Their Country And That Of The Navajo
Hopi - How The Hopi Selected Shung-Opovi For Their Home
Hopi - How The Mocking Bird Gave The People Many Languages
Hopi - How The Pö'okongs Destroyed Cóoyoko And His Wife
Hopi - How The People Came Out Of The Underworld
Hopi - How The Spaniards Came To Shung-Opovi, How They Built A Mission, And How The Hopi Destroyed The Mission
Hopi - How The Yellow Corn-Ear Maiden Became A Bull Snake And Revenged Herself
Hopi - Journey To The Skeleton House
Hopi - Kavúshkavuwnöm And Shovíviounöm
Hopi - Kokopelli - Trickster
Hopi - Kokopilau, the Hump-Backed Flute Player
Hopi - Korosta Katzina Song
Hopi - Kuskurza, the Third World - The End of the Third World
Hopi - Lâ'vövölvipiki And Nö'nvövölpiki
Hopi - Legend of the Snake Order of the Moquis
Hopi - Little Brother Fieldmouse
Hopi - Little Hawk Month
Hopi - Másauwuu And The Háno Hunters
Hopi - Másauwuu Marries A Maiden
Hopi - Masauwu
Hopi - Message from Hopi Elders
Hopi - Origin of the Clans
Hopi - Piki Bread
Hopi - Prophecies
Hopi - The Aholi and Other Walpi Katcinas
Hopi - The Children And The Hummingbird
Hopi - The Kokoshori Katcina and the Shongopavi Maiden
Hopi - Yaponcha - The Wind God
Hupa - Litcūwdiñ yadeLtse--At Sand-place They Lived
Isleta - A Pueblo Bluebeard
Isleta - A Pueblo Fairy Tale and the Way it was Told
Isleta - Doctor Field-Mouse
Isleta / Pueblo - Grandma-Spider
Isleta / Pueblo - Honest Big-Ears
Jicarilla Apache - Flicker Describes Himself
Jicarilla Apache - Coyote Secures Fire (Second Version.)
Jicarilla Apache - Death of the Great Elk
Jicarilla Apache - A Captive Woman Attempts To Make Peace
Jicarilla Apache - A Deer Hunt
Jicarilla Apache - A Duel Between Scouts
Jicarilla Apache - A Successful Hunt
Jicarilla Apache - A Ute Is Saved By His War-Medicine
Jicarilla Apache - An Apache Medicine Dance
Jicarilla Apache - An Expedition To The Adobe Walls With Kit Carson
Jicarilla Apache - An Unsuccessful Expedition Led By Maxwell
Jicarilla Apache - Antelopes Take Arrows From Coyote (ver.1)
Jicarilla Apache - Antelopes Take Arrows From Coyote (ver.2)
Jicarilla Apache - Ceremony For Buffalo
Jicarilla Apache - Corn Mother
Jicarilla Apache - Coyote And Beaver Play Tricks On Each Other
Jicarilla Apache - Coyote And Porcupine Contend For A Buffalo
Jicarilla Apache - Coyote And The Mexicans
Jicarilla Apache - Coyote Apes His Hosts
Jicarilla Apache - Coyote Deceives A Woman
Jicarilla Apache - Coyote Insults The Rock
Jicarilla Apache - Coyote Is Disobeyed By Turkey
Jicarilla Apache - Coyote Is Revenged On Wildcat
Jicarilla Apache - Coyote Is Shot With A Pine Tree
Jicarilla Apache - Coyote Kills His Own Child Instead Of The Turkeys
Jicarilla Apache - Coyote Kills The Prairie Dogs
Jicarilla Apache - Coyote Loses His Eyes
Jicarilla Apache - Coyote Marries Under False Pretences
Jicarilla Apache - Coyote Proves Himself A Cannibal
Jicarilla Apache - Coyote Secures Fire
Jicarilla Apache - Coyote Steals A Man's Wife
Jicarilla Apache - Coyote Takes Arrows From Owl
Jicarilla Apache - Coyote Tries To Make His Children Spotted
Jicarilla Apache - Deer Hunting In The Mescalero Country
Jicarilla Apache - Fight With The Enemy On The Arkansas River
Jicarilla Apache - Fox and Deer
Jicarilla Apache - Fox and Kingfisher
Jicarilla Apache - Fox and Mountain Lion
Jicarilla Apache - Fox and Porcupine
Jicarilla Apache - Fox and Rabbit
Jicarilla Apache - Fox and Wildcat
Jicarilla Apache - Frog Wins From Antelope In A Footrace
Mayan - How the King of Birds was Chosen
Mayan - How the Mockingbird Became the Best Singer
Mayan - Humming Bird Lore
Mescalero Apache - Dahteste - (pronounced ta-DOT-say)
Mescalero Apache - Coyote and Beaver
Mescalero Apache - Coyote and Blue Bunting
Mescalero Apache - Coyote and Owl
Mescalero Apache - Coyote and the Creation
Mescalero Apache - Coyote and Turtle
Mescalero Apache - Dahteste
Navaho - Game Story
Navaho - Game Story
Navaho - Legend of the Night Chant
Navaho - Little Dawn Boy and the Rainbow Trail
Navajo - A White Bead Woman Story
Navajo - At The Rainbow's End
Navajo - Big Long Man's Corn Patch
Navajo - Blessingway
Navajo - Changing Woman
Navajo - Coyote and Porcupine and the Elk
Navajo - Coyote and the Badger
Navajo - Coyote and the Beaver People
Navajo - Coyote and the Cornfield
Navajo - Coyote and the Cottontail
Navajo - Coyote and the Doe
Navajo - Coyote and the Giant
Navajo - Coyote and the Horned Toad
Navajo - Coyote and the Lizards
Navajo - Coyote and the Porcupine
Navajo - Coyote and the Skunk
Navajo - Coyote and the Wildcat
Navajo - Coyote God
Navajo - Coyote Helps Create Man
Navajo - Coyote Kills a Giant
Navajo - Coyote Loses His Eyes
Navajo - Creation of First Man and First Woman
Navajo - Creation Story Navajo
Navajo - Four Worlds: The Dine Story of Creation
Navajo - Game Story
Navajo - Glacier Song of the Horses
Navajo - Hasjelti and Hostjoghon
Navajo - Healing Prayer
Navajo - Humming Bird Lore
Navajo - Hunting Song
Navajo - Little White Beetle
Navajo - Loyalty of Turquoise
Navajo - Monster Slayer and Yé'iitsoh
Navajo/Dine - Spider Rock
Papago - Montezuma and the Great Flood
Pima - A Tale Of Elder Brother
Pima - Bluebird and the Coyote
Pima - Chuhwuht - The Song Of The World
Pima - Coyote
Pima - Coyote and the Mesquite Beans
Pima - Coyote and the Quails
Pima - Coyote and the Tortillas
Pima - Coyote the Proud
Pima - Coyote's Eyes
Pima - Ee-Ee-Toy's Resurrection And Speech To Juhwerta Mahkai
Pima - Grandfather Gray Owl
Pima - He's Appointed to Study the Stars
Pima - Heres a Legend From The Pima Indains
Pima - How the Bluebird Got Its Color
Pima - How the Rattlesnake Learned to Bite
Pima - Humming Bird Lore
Pimas - How Nooee Killed Ee-Ee-Toy
Pueblo - Coyote's Sad Song to the Moon
Pueblo - Doctor Field-Mouse
Pueblo - Humming Bird Lore
Pueblo - The Girl Who Married a Bear
Pueblos - Coyote's Sad Song to the Moon
Pueblos - Coyote's Sad Song to the Moon
Sia - Coyote and the Fawns
Sia - Coyote and the Hare
Sia - Coyote and the Rattlesnake
Sia - Coyote as a Hunter
Sia - Men and women try living apart
Tewa - A Fish Story
Tewa - Apache Chief Punishes His Wife
Tewa - Coyote's Rabbit Chase
Tewa - Creation Story
Tewa - Deer Hunter and White Corn Maiden
Tewa - How to Scare a Bear
Tohono O'odham - A Coyote's Tales
Tohono O'odham - The Creation Story
Tohono O'odham - The Tale about How Juanita Came to the Desert Museum
Tohono O'odham - The Tale of What Juanita Ate in the Wild
Tohono O’odham - Butterflies
Tohono O’odham - How the Butterflies Came to Be
White Mountain Apache - A ga-n Becomes Raven Old Man's Son-in-law
White Mountain Apache - A ga-n Becomes Raven Old Man's Son-In-Law: The ga-n Disappear From Tse-gots'uk
White Mountain Apache - Badger Carries Darkness: Coyote and Bobcat Scratch Each Other
White Mountain Apache - Big Owl Chops off His Manhood
White Mountain Apache - Big Owl Hunts "Rats": People Turn Themselves To Ground Heat: Big Owl Eats His Own Children: Big Owl and Turkey Meet Each Other
White Mountain Apache - Captured
White Mountain Apache - Coyote and Bear Cripple and Cure Each Other
White Mountain Apache - Coyote And Bobcat Trick Each Other: Coyote Carries Off Beaver
White Mountain Apache - Coyote Brings In Big Owl's Cap: How Deer Horns Became Hard: The Bear Woman: Coyote Determines Death
White Mountain Apache - Coyote fights a lump of pitch
White Mountain Apache - Coyote Gets Rich Off The White Men
White Mountain Apache - Coyote Herds Sheep For A White Man
White Mountain Apache - Coyote Hunts with Bobcat
White Mountain Apache - Coyote Kills His Children
White Mountain Apache - Coyote Races With Frog
White Mountain Apache - Coyote Reads the Letter As He Sits
White Mountain Apache - Coyote Steals Abert Squirrel's Fire
White Mountain Apache - Coyote Steals Sun's Tobacco
White Mountain Apache - Coyote Steals Sun's Tobacco
White Mountain Apache - Coyote Steals Wheat: Coyote's Faeses Under His Hat
White Mountain Apache - Coyote Trots Along
White Mountain Apache - Coyote's Daughter (Becomes) His Wife
White Mountain Apache - Ga-n Becomes Raven Old Man's Son-In-Law: The ga-n Disappear From Tse-gots'uk
White Mountain Apache - Grasshopper loses His Leg: How Gila Monster Got His Name
Yaqui - Bobok
Yaqui - Cho'oko Baso
Yaqui - Coyote and Rabbit
Yaqui - Coyote and the Friendly Dogs
Yaqui - Coyote Woman
Yaqui - Duck Hunter
Yaqui - Father Frog
Yaqui - Five Friends of Takochai
Yaqui - Grasshopper and Cricket
Yaqui - Heron and Fox
Yaqui - In Rabbit's House
Yaqui - Jesucristo and San Pedro
Yaqui - Kaiman
Yaqui - Maisoka and Hima'awikia
Yaqui - Malinero'okai
Yuma - Brief Notes
Zuñi - How The Twins Of War And Chance, Áhaiyúta And Mátsailéma, Fared With The Unborn-Made Men Of The Underworld
Zuni - Átahsaia, The Cannibal Demon
Zuni - A Zuni Legend of Spider Tower
Zuni - Coyote and Eagle Steal the Sun and Moon
Zuni - Coyote Steals the Sun and Moon
Zuni - Creation A Zuñi Tale
Zuni - Creation and the Origin of Corn
Zuni - Creation The Origin of Death by Dying
Zuni - Eagle Boy
Zuni - How Áhaiyúta And Mátsailéma Stole The Thunder-Stone And The Lightning-Shaft
Zuni - How The Corn-Pests Were Ensnared
Zuni - How The Coyote Danced With The Blackbirds
Zuni - How The Coyote Joined The Dance Of The Burrowing-Owls
Zuni - How The Coyotes Tried To Steal The Children Of The Sacred Dance
Zuni - How the Duck Hearing Agreed to Guide K'yäk'lu
Zuni - How the Gods of the Kâ'kâ Counselled the Duck
Zuni - How The Gopher Raced With The Runners Of K'iákime
Zuni - How the Kâ'yemäshi Bore K'yäk'lu to the Council of the Gods
Zuni - How the Rainbow Worm Bore K'yäk'lu to the Plain of Kâ''hluëlane
Zuni - How The Rattlesnakes Came To Be What They Are
Zuni - How The Summer Birds Came
Zuni - How The Turtle Out Hunting Duped The Coyote
Zuni - How The Twins Of War And Chance, Áhaiyúta And Mátsailéma, Fared With The Unborn-Made Men Of The Underworld
Zuni - Humming Bird Lore
Zuni - Jack-Rabbit And Cottontail
Zuni - The Hummingbird
Zuni - The Origin of Death by Dying
Zuni - Who Is The Strongest
Zuni – Cinderella
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