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Introduction v
The Man of Ashes 1
Pomatare, the Flying Beaver 47
The Alarm of the Great Sentinel. A Tradition of the Delawares 61
The Mother of the World. A Tradition of the Dog-Ribs 73
The Fall of the Lenape 87
The Marriage of the Snail and the Beaver 103
The Choice of a God 117
The Resurrection of the Bison 143
The Wahconda's Son 147
The Idols. A Tradition of the Ricaras 173
Discovery of the Upper World. A Tradition of the Minnatarees 201
Love and War 213
Legends of the Happy Hunting-Grounds.
I. Akkeewaisee, the Aged 225
II. The Delaware Heaven 233
III. The Hunting-Grounds of the Blackfoots 245
IV. The Stone Canoe 255
V. The Little White Dove 269
VI. The Teton's Paradise 279