logy and the Publications of
the United States Geographical and Geological Survey: contributions to
North American Ethnology. Of the various ethnologists whose work has
been used, those of especial importance are Alice C. Fletcher, whose
wonderful work among the Omaha and Pawnee Indians is deserving of the
most careful study, J. Owen Dorsey, James Mooney, and S. R. Riggs.

No claim whatever is made for original work. Indeed, original work of
any kind in a compilation such as this would impair the authenticity
of the myths, and therefore destroy the value of this work. Nor has
any effort been made towards "style." The only style worth having in
telling an Indian legend is that of the Indian himself.

K. B. J.

_Seattle, Washington._

TABLE OF CONTENTS

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The Creation _Osage_ 19
How the World was Made _Cherokee_ 22
The Flood and the Rainbow _Lenni-Lenapi (Delaware)_ 26
The First Fire _Cherokee_ 28
The Ancestors of People _Osage_ 31
Origin of Strawberries _Cherokee_ 32
Sacred Legend _Omaha_ 34
The Legend of the Peace Pipes _Omaha_ 38
A Tradition of the Calumet _Lenni-Lenapi (Delaware)_ 41
The Sacred Pole _Omaha_ 43
Ikto and the Thunders _Teton_ 46
The Thunder Bird _Comanche_ 47
The Thunder Bird _Assiniboin_ 48
Song to the Thunder Gods _Omaha_ 49
Songs of the Buffalo Hunt _Sioux_ 50
Origin of the Buffalo _Teton_ 53
The Buffalo Being _Teton_ 55
The Youth and the Underground People _Omaha_ 57
The Buffalo and the Grizzly Bear _Omaha_ 68
My First Buffalo Hunt _Omaha_ 71
Bird Omens _Sioux_ 73
The Bird Chief _Omaha_ 74
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