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| Introduction | |
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| Key to Symbols | |
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| Spider Woman Saves Ko-chin-ni-na-ko Keresan, Southwest | |
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| Spider Woman's Web Athabaskan, Alaska | |
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| Qi-yo Ke-pe, the Great Healer Keresan, Southwest | |
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| The Woman Whose Heart Became Ice Micmac, Northeast | |
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| Sedna, Mistress of the Underworld Inuit, Alaska | |
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| The Worm That Devoured Women Cherokee, Southeast | |
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| White Star Woman and Great Star Man Pawnee, Great Plains | |
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| Ataensie, the Woman Who Fell from the Sky Iroquois, Northeast | |
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| The Origin of Corn Abenaki, Northeast | |
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| First Woman and the People Navajo, Southwest | |
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| White Buffalo Woman: Lakota (Sioux), Great Plains | |
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| The Buffalo Wife: Piegan (Blackfeet), Great Plains | |
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| Sweet Corn Woman's Tale: Tewa, Southwest | |
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| The Women Warriors: Tewa, Southwest | |
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| Coyote Marries His Daughter: Ute, Great Basin | |
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| The Abandoned Children: White Clay People (Gros Ventre), Great Plains | |
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| The Two Sisters and Their Aunt: Miwok, California | |
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| The Woman Who Kept Secrets: Hopi, Southwest | |
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| The Quilt of Men's Eyes: Seneca, Northeast | |
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| The Kidnapped Wife and the Dream Helper: Piegan (Blackfeet), Great Plains | |
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| The Woman Who Built the First Medicine Lodge: Piegan (Blackfeet), Great Plains | |
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| The Dream of Double Woman: Lakota (Sioux), Great Plains | |
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| The Woman Who Married the Sea: Samish (Coast Salish), Northwest Coast | |
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| The Beginning of Wisdom and Law: Yakima, Plateau | |
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| Dancing for Nomtaimet: Wintu, California | |
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| Afterword | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| For Further Reading | |
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| Index | |
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| About the Author | |
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| About the Covers | |