| Description |
vii, [4], 225 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
The spirits in nature -- Mount Shasta and the grizzly bears (Modoc) -- Mount Shasta and the great flood (Shasta) -- The peaks of Central Oregon (Warm Springs) -- Mount Jefferson and the great flood -- The chief's face on Mount Hood -- A Mount Adams story (Yakima) -- White Eagle: The law on Mount Adams (Yakima) -- The Bridge of the Gods (Klickitat) -- The river spirit and the mountain demons (Wishram) -- The origin of Puget Sound and the Cascade Range -- Indian names for Mount Rainier -- Mount Rainier and the Olympic Mountains -- Mount Rainier and the great flood (Skokomish?) -- The lake on Mount Rainier (Puyallup) -- The miser on Mount Rainier (Nisqually) -- The origin of Mount Si and the forests (Snoqualmie) -- Kulshan and his two wives (Lummi) -- Mount Baker and the great flood (Squamish) -- The origin of Sisters Peak (Skagit) -- Other traditions of the great flood (Several tribes) -- The Valley of Peace in the Olympics -- The Seven Devils Mountains (Nez Perce) -- Spirits and animals in the lakes -- The origin of Crater Lake (Klamath) -- The war between Lao and Skell: A legend of Crater Lake -- Crater Lake and the two hunters (Klamath) -- another Crater Lake legend (Klamath) -- The Elk Spirit of Lost Lake (Wasco) -- The demons in Spirit Lake (several tribes) -- Kwatee and the monster in Lake Quinault (Quillayute) -- The origin of Lake Crescent (Quillayote) -- Nahkeeta: a story of Lake Sutherland (Klallam?) -- Mason Lake and the crying loon (Nisqually) -- The lake on Vashon Island -- The lake and the elk-child (Klickitat) -- The monster and Lake Chelan (Chelan) -- The lakes of the Grand Coulee -- Spokane Lake of long ago (Spokane) -- Chief Joseph's story of Wallowa Lake (Nez Perce) -- The animal people of long ago -- Creation of the animal people (Okanogan) -- How coyote got his special power (Lake) -- Why rivers flow but one way (Snohomish, Quinault) -- How coyote made the Columbia River (Colville) -- Coyote and the monster of the Columbia (Klickitat) -- Why coyote changed the course of the Columbia River (Sanpoil) -- How coyote helped the people (several tribes) -- The origin of Willamette Falls (Kalapuya) -- Pillar Rock -- The cave monster of the Willamette Valley (Kalapuya?) -- A legend of Multnomah Falls -- Horsetail Falls and Beacon Rock -- Latourell Falls and the Pillars of Hercules -- Why the Columbia sparkles (Wasco) -- The ever-watchful eye (Wishram) -- The painted rocks at Naches Gap (Yakima) -- The origin of the Petrified Forest (Colville) -- Legends of Steamboat Rock (Colville) -- The hee-hee stone (Okanogan) -- The origin of the Spokane River (Spokane) -- The origin of Palouse Falls (Palouse) -- Beaver and the Grande Ronde River (Nez Perce) -- Destruction Island and Tatoosh Island (Makah) -- How Kwatee made the rivers and rocks (Quillayute) -- How Kwatee changed the world (Queets) -- A potlatch on the Oregon coast (Coquille) -- Why and when the tales were told -- The creation of the Klamath world (Klamath) -- In the beginning of the Modoc world (Modoc) -- The origin of the Chinook Indians (Chinook) -- In the beginning of the Nisqually world (Nisqually) -- The beginning of the Skagit world (Skagit) -- The beginning and the end of the Okanogan world (Okanogan) -- Creation of the Yakima world (Yakima) -- The story of the changer (Puyallup) -- The Changer comes to the Lummi (Lummi) -- Pushing up the sky (Snohomish) -- How raven helped the ancient people -- How the people got the sun (Quillayute) -- The Big Dipper and the Milky Way (Wasco) -- The Seven Sisters of the sky (Nez Perce) -- Two canoes in the sky -- the origin of Cassiopeia's chair (Quillayute) -- The earth people visit the sky people (Queets) -- The Northern Lights and creatures of the sky (Makah) -- Thunderbird and whale (Quillayute) -- Thunder and lightning (Nisqually) -- Thunder's spirit power (Skagit) -- Thunder and his son-in-law (Quinault) -- The battle with snow (Chehalis) -- the chinook wind (Yakima) -- How coyote made the Indian tribes (Columbia River tribes) -- Guardian spirits -- The Hazelnut, a guardian spirit (Yakima) -- The origin of guardian spirits and of sweat lodge (Sanpoil) -- The origin of the Root Festival (Yakima) -- The origin of the potlatch (Quillayute) -- Coyote and crow (Yakima) -- How coyote brought fire to the people (several tribes) -- How beaver stole the fire (Sanpoil) -- Coyote and eagle visit the land of the dead -- Memaloose Island, the Island of the Dead (Wishram) -- The mortal who married a merman (Coos) -- The maiden of Deception Pass (Samish) -- The maiden sacrificed to winter (Chinook) -- Legend of the White Deer (Umpqua) -- The coming of the white people (Wasco) -- The first ship (Chinook). |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography (pages 213-218). |
| Subject |
Indians of North America -- Folklore.
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| Local Subject |
Indigenous peoples -- North America -- Folklore.
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Indigenous peoples -- Northwest, Pacific.
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Legends -- Northwest, Pacific.
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Indians of North America -- Northwest, Pacific.
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| Added Author |
Inverarity, Robert Bruce, 1909-1999, illustrator.
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