Northern tales : traditional stories of Eskimo and Indian peoples

9780394540603
0394540603

xix, 343 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm

Includes bibliographical references (pages 335-343)

The embarrassment of the cranberry partners
Eviksheen the grass-user
The girl who watched in the nighttime
Uteritsoq, the obstinate one
The Chuginadak woman
The boy who became an arctic tern
The little old lady who lived alone
Qasiagssaq, the great liar
Witiko father and son bested by a conjuror
Alder-block
The crow story
Stingy reindeer owners
Fourteen with one stroke
How the earth was made and how wood-chips became walrus
The first snowshoes
Gambling story
Story while pointing at a constellation: a dogrib conversation
Why owls die with wings outspread
When musk oxen spoke like humans
Why the path between fish- camps is always worn down and no one walks it any more
What is the earth?
How the narwhal got its tusk
Ayas'e and the origin of bats
The loon and the raven
The giant skunk and his offspring
A Yukaghir tale of the origin of the Chukchee
Which animals are on the moon
Why rattlesnakes don't cross the river
The first white men
Smart beaver cycle
Kuloscap tales
The wenebojo myth
The bear goes on his long, solitary journey
Bluejay's revenge
The wolverine loses his shoes
Skunk's tears
The duck whose grandmother was out of her wits
The helldiver and the spirit of winter
The stubbornness of bluejays
Coyote and Fox
The owl woman
Crow and camp robber
Why brown bears are hostile towards men
The wolverine grudge
The whale, the sea scorpion, the stone, and the eagle
Carried off by the moon
Story of a female Shaman
How the false Shaman was flung by walrus
Things seen by the Shaman Karawe
The curing-fox windigo
Kinigseq
How a bagpipe drew hunters from the outskirts
Song of spider goddess
Desire for light
Aksikukuk and Kukrukuk
Encounter with the Shaman from Padlei
The birth of Tchakapesh
The thrashing spirit with a bearded seal for a whip
The mother of sea beasts
Brushmen
Ayaje's wives with forearms like awls
Three sisters and the demon
The giant rat
The ghost
The giants
The woman who ate men
The wrong-chill windigo
Ipiup Inua, the spirit of the precipice
Inugpasugssuk the giant
The four cannibals
Kivioq, whose kayak was full of ghosts
The ten-legged polar bear
The monster fish in the lake
The attainable border of the birds
The dream that came back
The hunter and the goats
Agdlumaloqaq, who hunted at the blowholes in a far, foreign land
The moose among the Chandalar river people
The woman who put a bucket over a caribou's head
The day Auks netted hid-well
Lake-dwarves
The mammoth hunters
Why wolly mammoths decided to flee underground
Sometimes a seal hunt goes like this
Raven didn't stick around
Kivioq, who left his home because his wife was unfaithful
The Windigo almost prevents a marriage
The star husbands
The girl who married the bear
How Whiskey-Jack man got married
The woman and the octopus
The marriage of Mink
The wolf's bride
The girl who married a whale
The man who married a fox
Go away

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Norman, Howard A., compiler, editor