Introduction ? Editor?s note ? Mythological map of Oregon ? NORTHEASTERN OREGON : Coyote and the Swallowing Monster (Nez Perce) ; Smohalla?s ghost dance cosmogony (Wanapum) ; Dream prophecy song (Nez Perce) ; How the Cayuse got fire (Cayuse) ; Cottontail boy and snowshoe rabbit (Nez Perce) ; Cottontail boy steals thunderers wife (Nez Perce) ; Coyote becomes a buffalo (Nez Perce) ; Turtle outswims white bull (Nez Perce) ; Coyote and fox marry husbands (Nez Perce) ; Umatilla birdman (Umatilla) ; How fish-hawk raided the Sioux (Cayuse) ; Laptissa?n and the seven-headed monster (Nez Perce) ; Cry-because-he-had-no-wife (Nez Perce) ; Red willow (Nez Perce) ; Morning song (Nez Perce) ; How-Enga-Gwacu Jim met the great father (Bannock) ; Coyote and the shadow people (Nez Perce) ; Chief Joseph speaks in Washington, D. C. (Nez Perce).
SOUTHWESTERN OREGON : Creation of the Klamath Country (Klamath) ; Modoc prayers ; Rainmaker (Modoc) ; Wildcat brothers (Modoc) ; Frost and thunder (Modoc) ; Thunder and eagle boy (Modoc) ; Chief Allen David of the Klamaths and Captain Jack of the Modocs, 1869 ; Klamath calendar ; Crater Lake myth (Klamath) ; Story of Swa-ya (Klamath) ; Little porcupine and coyote (Klamath) ; Coyote in love with a star (Klamath) ; Chiloquin the hero (Klamath) ; Two Klamath monsters (Klamath) ; Grizzly bear and black bear (Takelma) ; Theft of fire (Shasta) ; Genesis (Joshua-Tututni).
THE COAST : South wind marries ocean?s daughter (Nehalem Tillamook) ; Exploits of south wind (Nehalem Tillamook) ; Coyote in the cedar tree (Chinook) ; Coyote invents the fishing rituals (Chinook) ; How coyote killed the giantess and herded the salmon (Chinook) ; Man who lived with thunderer (Tillamook) ; Thunderstorm exorcism (Alsea) ; How the Coos people discovered fire (Coos) ; The Chetco (Chinook) ; Wild woman ate children (Nehalem Tillamook) ; Woman who married a merman (Coos) ; Coyote and the two frog women (Alsea) ; Magical hazel twig (Alsea) ; Xi?lgo and the brother and sister who married each other (Tillamook) ; White wife of mouse (Coos) ; Girl who married a ghost (Chinook) ; How a Chinook man went to the land of the dead and came back (Chinook) ; Journey across the ocean (Tillamook) ; Revenge against the sky people (Coos) ; First ship comes to Clatsop Country (Chinook).
THE COLUMBIA : Coyote at the mouth of the Columbia (Wishram) ; Coyote frees the fish (Wishram) ; Coyote and the mouthless man (Wishram) ; Coyote and the first pregnancy (Wishram) ; Coyote?s carelessness (Wasco-Warm Springs) ; Tsagigla?lal (Wishram) ; Chief Mark considers monogamy, Warm Springs Agency, 1871 ; Wasco woman deceives her husband (Wasco) ; Deserted boy (Wishram) ; Little raccoon and his grandmother (Wasco-Warm Springs) ; Wren kills elk (Lower Chinook) ; Elk, hunter, and the greedy father (Wasco) ; Big-footed man and his son (Wasco) ; Wishram canoe song ; Battle of the winds (Warm Springs) ; Sun Box (Warm Springs) ; Wishram calendar ; Girl on the ice (Wasco) ; Boy who went to live with the seals (Wasco) ; Boy and his sister escape an At?at?a?hlia (Wasco) ; Arrow-point maker and tobacco-hunter (Wasco) ; Two brothers become sun and moon (Wasco) ; Coyote and eagle go to the land of the dead (Wishram) ; Wishram song for gathering bones for burial ; "Stick" Indians (Warm Springs).
THE GREAT BASIN : Tracks of the creator ; How the animals found their places ; Purging of Malheur Cave ; Creation of the Indians ; Vagina dentata ; Coyote and his daughter ; Coyote learns to hunt ; Coyote and wolf go hunting ; Coyote the eye-juggler ; Theft of pine nuts ; Numuzo?ho plays ball ; Numuzo?ho in the mortar ; Coyote and bear ; Coyote shoots the night ; Cottontail shoots the sun ; Humming Bird?s space flight ; Thunder badger ; How to control the weather ; Hunter?s first kill ; White men are snakes ; True beginning of earth.
THE WILLAMETTE VALLEY : Coyote builds Willamette Falls and the magic fish trap (Clackamas Chinook) ; Skookum?s tongue (Clackamas Chinook) ; Skookum and the wonderful boy (Clackamas Chinook) ; Badger and coyote were neighbors (Clackamas Chinook) ; Seal and her younger brother lived there (Clackamas Chinook) ; She deceived herself with Milt (Clackamas Chinook) ; Girls? game (Clackamas Chinook) ; Kalapuya way (Santiam Kalapuya) ; Four creations (Arfalati Kalapuya) ; Kalapuya ceremonial song ; Amhuluk, the monster of Wapato Lake (Santiam Kalapuya) ; Ptchiza? and the seven headed snake (Mary?s River Kalapuya) ; Coyote?s swallowing match with grizzly bear (Molale) ; Indians hear a treaty speech in 1855 (Santiam Kalapuya) ; Jo Hutchins? speech, 1869 (Santiam Kalapuya).
