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| Preface and Acknowledgments | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Deg Hit'an | |
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| Deg Hit'an Gixudhoy / The People's Stories | |
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| Taxghozr / Polar Bear | |
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| Nil'oqay Ni'idaxin / The Man and Wife | |
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| Koyukon | |
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| Doz K'ikaal Yee Nogheelt'uyhdlee / The One Who Used to Put His Nephew into a Fishtail | |
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| Dotson' Sa Ninin" atltseen / Great Raven Who Shaped the World | |
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| K'etl'enbaalots'ek | |
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| Dekeltlaal De'ot Etldleeyee / The Woodpecker Who Starved His Wife | |
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| Elts'eeyh Denaa / Wind Man | |
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| Gwich'in | |
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| Shaaghan / The Old Woman | |
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| K'aiiheenjik | |
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| from "Gwichyaa Zheh Gwats'a' Tr'ahaajil" / We Go to Fort Yukon | |
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| Jalgiitsik, Tl'yahdik Haa / Chalkyitsik and Tl'yahdik | |
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| Northern Tutchone | |
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| Gyo Cho Chu / Living at Big Salmon, 1930s and 1940s | |
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| K'enlu Man / Northern Lake, 1944 | |
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| K'enlu Man / Northern Lake, 1956 | |
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| Kaska | |
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| Gedeni Ges Gagah Nede / The Girl Who Lived with Salmon | |
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| Dzohdie' Guh Cho Dzehhin / Dzohdie' Kills the Giant Worm | |
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| Tagish | |
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| Getting Married | |
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| The Stolen Woman | |
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| Southern Tutchone | |
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| Our Shagoon, Our Family History | |
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| How First This Yukon Came to Be: Crow and Beaverman | |
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| Naakw: Devilfish, or Octopus, Helper | |
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| [To Build a Fire] | |
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| The First Time They Knew K'och'en, White Man | |
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| Upper Tanana | |
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| Stsoo Shyaan Oonign': Ch'aldzeek Shyii Dineh Gaay Na'ithadn / My Old Grandmother: The Little Man Standing in the Moon | |
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| Dlign Mba' Hehk'aayh Ts'a' / When the Tree Squirrels Cut Fish | |
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| Ch'oot'uudn Ch'aachin' Shyiit Eedah / When Horsefly Was Living in a Stump | |
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| Taatsaan' Dzanh eh Oonign' / Raven and Muskrat Story | |
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| Tanacross | |
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| The Child Who Was Stolen by a Brush Indian | |
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| How Dentalium Necklaces Came to the Country | |
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| Lower Tanana | |
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| from "Stand for What Is Right" | |
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| I Learned the Indian Way | |
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| Strong People | |
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| from "Old Ways" | |
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| I Belong to My Mother's Side | |
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| Try to Make Things | |
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| from "Set Your Mind" | |
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| Never Get Scared | |
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| from "Out on Our Own" | |
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| Love Woods Life | |
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| I Don't Go Around | |
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| Upper Kuskokwim | |
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| Dotron' Minagha' Sritonedak Di / Raven Lost His Eyes | |
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| Dotron' Suje Gona' No'iltsenh / Raven Fixes Marten's Arm | |
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| Jezra / Camp Robbers | |
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| Ch'itsets'ina' / The Skull | |
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| Dena'ina | |
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| Unhshcheyakda Sukt'a / My Great-Great-Grandfather's Story | |
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| Qadanalchen K'elik'a / Qadanalchen's Song | |
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| Talin Ch'iltant Qatsinitsexen / The One Who Dreamed at Polly Creek | |
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| K'elen Il Ch'qghe'uyi Ch'u K'ech'eltani / Beliefs in Things a Person Can See and in Things a Person Cannot See | |
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| Qezdaghnen Ggagga / The Kustatan Bear | |
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| Qezdaghnen Ggagga Beghun / The Other Half of the Kustatan Bear Story | |
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| Ch'enlahi Sukdu / The Gambling Story | |
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| Ggugguyni Sukt'a / Raven Story | |
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| Ggugguyni Ch'u Nut'aq'i / Raven and the Geese | |
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| Kil Ch'u Dujemi / The Man and the Loon | |
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| Ahtna | |
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| Lazeni 'Iinn Nataelde Ghadghaande / When Russians Were Killed at "Roasted Salmon Place" (Batzulnetas) | |
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| Cet'aenn Nal'aen'de / When the Tailed Ones Were Seen | |
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| Dae' Ts'atk'aats / How We Were Trained | |
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| Demba / Two Checker Players | |
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| Xay Tnaey / Spruce Root Man | |
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| Eyak | |
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| Lake-Dwarves | |
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| Giant Rat | |
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| Maagudetl'elahdexunhyuu / Around-the-Lake People [1933] | |
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| Luundiyahsluw / The Big Mouse [1933] | |
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| [The Girl and the Dog] [1933] | |
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| Two Sisters | |
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| Source Acknowledgments | |
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| Index | |
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| Illustrations | |
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| Figure | |
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| Spectrum of Narrative Content | |
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| Maps | |
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| Native Peoples and Languages of Alaska | |
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| Yukon Native Peoples and Languages | |