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