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In the Beginning of the Nisqually World
Long, long ago, some of the Puget Sound Indians used to say, people on the earth became so numerouse that they ate all the fish and game. Then they began to eat each other. Soon they became worse...
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When the Animals and Birds Were Created
The Indians who live on the farthest point of the northwest corner of Washington State used to tell stories, not about one Changer, but about the Two-Men-Who-Changed-Things. So did their close relativ...
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Southeast Legends of Native America
Rabbit is the trickster figure in the folklore of the Choctaw and other Muskogean tribes.
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The Origin of Earth
Before the beginning, water was everywhere. But no people, animals, or earth were visible. There were birds, however, who held a council to decide if it might be best to have all land or all water.
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Basin Legends of Native America
Isa/Wolf: Creator and culture hero of the Paiute tribe. Like other figures from the Paiute mythic age, Wolf is usually represented as a man, but sometimes takes on the literal form of a wolf.
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Legend of the Wolf
Many years ago along the eastern shores of Tslaa-wat Inlet (now known as .Indian Arm.) a terrible plague came into the villages and destroyed the people. One woman and her tiny i...