| Acknowledgments | p. vii |
| Introduction | p. xiii |
| Alaska, Yukon, and the Subarctic | p. 1 |
| Two Stories from Tikigaq [Inupiaq] | p. 3 |
| Mary Kokrak: Five Brothers and Their Younger Sister [Yupik] | p. 15 |
| Two Tellings of the Story of Uterneq: "The Woman Who Returned from the Dead" [Yupik] | p. 37 |
| The Boy Who Went to Live with the Seals [Yupik] | p. 57 |
| "The Moon's Sister" and "Song of the Atkan Aleuts" [Aleut] | p. 75 |
| The One Who Kicked His Grandmother's Head Along [Koyukon] | p. 82 |
| "Raven" and "Fog Woman" [Dena'ina] | p. 92 |
| Six Selections from Peter Kalifornsky's A Dena'ina Legacy [Dena'ina] | p. 110 |
| The Girl Who Married the Bear [Tagish/Tlingit] | p. 124 |
| How the World Began [Tagish/Tlingit] | p. 138 |
| "Glacier Bay History" told by Amy Marvin and "Speech for the Removal of Grief" delivered by Jessie Dalton [Tlingit] | p. 151 |
| Dunne-za Stories [Dunne-za] | p. 176 |
| Mistacayawasis, Big Belly Child [Rock Cree] | p. 190 |
| Wolverine: An Innu Trickster [Innu] | p. 208 |
| The North Pacific Coast | p. 223 |
| John Sky's "One They Gave Away" [Haida] | p. 225 |
| Night Hunter and Day Hunter [Kwakiutl] | p. 250 |
| The Sun's Myth [Kathlamet Chinook] | p. 273 |
| Coyote, Master of Death, True to Life [Kalapuya] | p. 286 |
| Seal and Her Younger Brother Lived There [Clackamas Chinook] | p. 307 |
| Great Basin and Plateau | p. 311 |
| Hilda Austin's Telling of "[characters not reproducible]: A Traditional Nlekepmx Legend" [Thompson River Salish] | p. 313 |
| Blue Jay and His Brother-in-Law Wolf [Colville] | p. 332 |
| Fish Hawk's Raid Against the Sioux [Cayuse/Nez Perce] | p. 346 |
| Poetry Songs of the Shoshone Ghost Dance [Wind River Shoshone] | p. 357 |
| The Plains | p. 375 |
| Three Skiri Pawnee Stories [Skiri Pawnee] | p. 377 |
| Two Roads to Leadership: Grandmother's Boy and Last-Born Brother [Lakota] | p. 403 |
| Wilderness Mentors [Lakota] | p. 423 |
| Wakinyan and Wakinyan Wicaktepi [Lakota] | p. 432 |
| The Eastern Woodlands | p. 441 |
| Nanabush Stories from the Ojibwe [Ojibwe] | p. 443 |
| Two Tuscarora Legends [Tuscarora] | p. 464 |
| The Iroquoian Thanksgiving Address [Cayuga] | p. 476 |
| Tales of the Delaware Trickster [Delaware] | p. 489 |
| The Indian Devil, Mischief-Maker [Passamaquoddy] | p. 503 |
| The Southwest and Southeast | p. 519 |
| Running the Deer [Yaqui] | p. 521 |
| Pima Oriole Songs [Pima] | p. 541 |
| Ethnopoetic Retranslation of a Zuni Ritual Song Sequence [Zuni] | p. 564 |
| Because He Made Marks on Paper, the Soldiers Came [Zuni] | p. 580 |
| Coyote, Skunk, and the Priaire Dogs [Navajo] | p. 590 |
| Ma'ii Jooldloshi Hane': Stories About Coyote, the One Who Trots [Navajo] | p. 601 |
| Singing up the Mountain [Navajo] | p. 614 |
| Enemy Slayer's Horse Song [Navajo] | p. 624 |
| Joseph Hoffman's "The Birth of He Triumphs Over Evils": A Western Apache Origin Story [Western Apache] | p. 636 |
| The Boy Who Went in Search of His Father [Hopi] | p. 657 |
| Two Hopi Songpoems [Hopi] | p. 679 |
| The Farewell Song [Havasupai] | p. 690 |
| Two Koasati Traditional Narratives [Koasati] | p. 704 |
| California | p. 715 |
| Two Stories from the Yana [Northern and Central Yana] | p. 717 |
| Silver-Gray Fox Creates Another World [Atsugewi] | p. 737 |
| Two Maidu Myths [Maidu] | p. 749 |
| Myth, Music, and Magic: Nettie Reuben's Karuk Love Medicine [Karuk] | p. 764 |
| Suggested Reading | p. 773 |
| Contributors | p. 785 |
| Index | p. 793 |
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