Includes bibliographical references (page [161]) and index.

Origins -- The Hopi creation of the world -- Raven befriends the human race -- The first fire -- How the Child-of-the-Rain-God rid the world of monsters and released the birds of summer -- How hunting and farming came to the Cherokee -- The origin and history of the Jemez people -- How the snakes acquired their poison -- Heroes, heroines, villains, and fools -- Destroyer-of-Dangerous-Things : an Apache Hercules -- Blood Clot Boy -- Chicken Girl marries Sun Old Man : a Tewa Pueblo Cinderella -- The deserted children -- Montezuma and the Salt Woman -- Raven -- Coyote and wolf go to war with the bushes -- How Coyote joined the dance of the burrowing owls -- Manabozho's adventures -- Society and conflict -- The punishment of the stingy -- Kasiagsak, the great liar -- The bad wife -- The youth who joined the deer -- The first war in the world -- The medicine pipe -- Little Warrior's counsel -- The tricky medicine man -- The supernatural -- How Glooskap made a magician of a young man, who aided another to win a wife -- Tijaiha the sorceror -- Witch men from Acoma -- The raven mocker -- The skin-shifting Old Woman -- The Man-Eater and his younger brother -- A journey to the land of the skeletons.