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| Foreword | |
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| Preface | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The Storytellers | |
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| Storytellers of the Past | |
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| Storytellers of the Present | |
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| The Genres of Choctaw Storytelling | |
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| Native Terms | |
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| Commentary and Contextualization | |
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| Patterns and Performance | |
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| A Note on the Texts | |
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| Creation Stories and Myths | |
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| The Choctaw Creation Legend | |
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| Nane Chaha | |
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| Men and Grasshoppers | |
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| Creation of the Tribes | |
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| Origin of the Crawfish Band | |
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| The Creation of the Choctaw | |
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| The Migration Legend | |
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| Migration | |
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| A Short Story of the Creation of the First Man | |
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| Tradition of the Flood | |
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| The Flood | |
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| Lightning and Thunder | |
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| The Origin of Corn | |
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| Corn-Finding Myth | |
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| Wild Geese and the Origin of Corn | |
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| The Geese, the Ducks, and Water | |
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| The Life of Dogs | |
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| How the Snakes Acquired Their Poison | |
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| The Owl | |
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| Tashka and Walo | |
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| The Hunter of the Sun | |
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| Yallofalaiya | |
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| Nameless Choctaw | |
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| The Hunter and the Alligator | |
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| Supernatural Legends and Encounters | |
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| The Girl and the Devil | |
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| The Eagle Story | |
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| Skate'ne | |
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| Hoklonote'she | |
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| A Story of Kashikanchak | |
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| Kashikanchak | |
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| The Spectre and the Hunter | |
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| The Hunter Who Became a Deer | |
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| The Man Who Became a Snake | |
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| Half-Horse, Half-Man | |
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| Kashehotapalo | |
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| Na Losa Falaya | |
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| Manlike Creature | |
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| Okwa Nahollo-White People of the Water | |
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| Big Pond | |
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| The Water Choctaw | |
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| Pas Falaya | |
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| Nishkin Chafa-One-Eye | |
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| Headless Man | |
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| The Inhuman Na Losa Chitto | |
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| The Demon Na Losa Chitto | |
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| A Big Hog | |
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| Big Black Hairy Monster | |
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| The Black Stump | |
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| The Choctaw Robin Goodfellow | |
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| The Floating Light | |
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| Lights | |
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| Kowi Anukasha | |
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| Medicine Woman | |
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| The Little Man | |
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| Pile of Rocks | |
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| A Witch | |
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| Choctaw Doctors | |
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| Shape-Changer | |
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| The Baseball Game | |
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| Dancing Lights | |
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| Hashok Okwa Hui'ga-Dew Drop (Will-o-the-wisp) | |
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| The Blue Light | |
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| Disappearing Lights | |
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| The Ghost | |
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| Spirit of the Dead | |
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| Two Brothers | |
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| Historical Legends | |
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| White Men Bring Alcohol | |
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| Fighting the Muskogees | |
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| Crossing the Line | |
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| Death of Pushmataha | |
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| Removal | |
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| Sneaking Back from Oklahoma | |
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| Land Swindling | |
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| Grandfather's Land | |
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| Burning Sticks | |
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| Prophecy | |
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| Changing Landscape and Intermarriage | |
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| Planes, Roads, and Culture | |
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| Intermarriage, Roads, and Changing Seasons | |
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| Changing World | |
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| Electricity, Plumbing, and Social Dancing | |
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| Cars, Roads, and Changing Values | |
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| A Great Illness | |
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| The Third Removal | |
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| War | |
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| Extinction | |
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| End of the World | |
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| Land Getting Old | |
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| Jokes and Tall Stories | |
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| The Car | |
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| Running Water | |
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| Whatyousay | |
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| Time to Kill Hogs | |
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| The Horse's Egg | |
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| The Funeral | |
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| The White Cat | |
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| The Man and the Turkey | |
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| The Dog Who Spoke Choctaw | |
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| The Trip to Arkansas | |
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| Tall Stories | |
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| The Lucky Shot | |
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| Help from Above | |
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| Animal Stories | |
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| The Ball Game | |
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| Race between the Hummingbird and the Crane | |
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| The Hummingbird | |
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| The Dove Story | |
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| How the Biskantak Got Water for the Birds | |
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| Why the Buzzard Has More Offspring Than the Owl | |
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| Why the Guinea Hen Is Speckled | |
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| Boatmaker | |
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| The Hunters and the Bears | |
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| Rabbit and the Bears | |
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| How the Bear Lost His Tail | |
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| How the Rabbit Got a Short Tail | |
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| How the Bullfrog Lost His Horns | |
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| How the Alligator Got His Back | |
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| Rabbit and Turtle Race | |
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| Race between the Turkey and the Terrapin | |
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| Turtle and Turkey | |
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| Why Terrapins Never Get Fat | |
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| Turtle, Turkey, and the Ants | |
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| Why There Are Seams in the Terrapin's Shell | |
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| Why the Turtle's Shell Is Sewed Up | |
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| How the Terrapin Lost the Ability to Climb Trees | |
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| Raccoon and 'Possum | |
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| Possum and Coon | |
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| The Panther and the Opossum | |
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| Possum and the Fox | |
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| Why the Rabbit's Skin Is Loose | |
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| Bear and Rabbit | |
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| How the Rabbit Fooled the Turkeys | |
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| Rabbit and Fox Farm Together | |
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| Rabbit Rides Wolf | |
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| Rabbit Gains a Wife | |
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| How Rabbit Made the Animals Angry | |
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| Rabbit and the Garden | |
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| Stories in Choctaw | |
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| The Choctaw Creation Legend | |
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| Lightning and Thunder | |
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| Corn-Finding Myth | |
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| A Story of Kashikanchak | |
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| Kashikanchak | |
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| The Man Who Became a Snake | |
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| The Big Pond | |
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| Pas Falaya | |
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| The Inhuman Na Losa Chitto | |
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| The Black Stump | |
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| Cars, Roads, and Changing Values | |
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| The Funeral | |
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| The Dog Who Spoke Choctaw | |
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| Help from Above | |
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| The Dove Story | |
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| How the Biskantak Got Water for the Birds | |
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| Annotations to the Stories | |
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| Notes | |
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| Sources Cited | |
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| Index | |