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Introduction 5
Texts with free and interlinear translations:
Moldy-forehead (Skidegate dialect) 7
Îłdī′nī (Masset dialect) 15
Stories accompanied by texts:
How Shining-heavens caused himself to be born 26
How Master-carpenter began making a canoe to war with
Southeast 32
Canoe people who wear headdresses 36
Tcꜝîñ qā′-idjît 44
The girl who fed a raven 48
Sounding-gambling-sticks 52
Tcꜝaawu′nkꜝa 58
Story of the Food-giving-town people 70
Story of Those-born-at-Skedans 86
Story told to accompany bear songs 94
Fight at the town of Da′x̣ua 100
War between the West Coast Haida and the Tlingit 104
Myths in English:
Raven traveling 110
A-slender-one-who-was-given-away 151
The one abandoned for eating the flipper of a hair seal 173
Sacred-one-standing-and-moving, Stone-ribs, and Upward 190
Supernatural-being-who-went-naked 210
He-who-was-born-from-his-mother’s-side 227
He-who-travels-behind-us (or Qonā′ts) 235
He-who-got-supernatural-power-from-his-little-finger 238
Łᴀguadjî′na, or Łg̣añā′ʻogaña 252
He who hunted birds in his father’s village 264
The story of him whose sister brought him food from the
land otters 269
How something pulled a row of eagles into the water 271
The story about him who destroyed his nine nephews 277
The story of one who saw an eagle town 281
The one they abandoned because he was the first to spear
sea lions 282
The man who married a killer-whale woman 286
He who was abandoned by his uncles 288
The story of those who were abandoned at Stasqa′os 290
He who married the daughter of the devilfish chief 292
Those who were fasting to become shamans 294
Big-tail 296
The story of him through whom Łᴀ′gua spoke 305
Cloud-watcher 308
Story of the shaman, G̣ᴀ′ndox’s-father 311
Djila′qons 316
Story of the House-point families 318
How the Seaward-sqoā′ładas obtained the names of their
gambling sticks 322
How one of the Stasa′os-lā′nas became wealthy 325
Stories of the Pitch people 327
How a red feather pulled up some people in the town of Gunwa 330
How one was helped by a little wolf 333
Gunanasî′mgît 336
Story of the two towns that stood on opposite sides of
Nass river 341
Slaughter-lover 348
The woman at Nass who fled from her husband 352
The rejected lover 354
He who gathered food for an eagle 356
Qō′łkꜝē 358
Two children’s stories 362
A raid on the Tlingit 364
War between the West Coast and Ninstints Haida and the
Gîtî′sda 371
Raid by the Ninstints Haida on those of the West Coast 373
Fight between the Kaigani and West Coast Haida 375
Wars between the Stikine and Sitka Tlingit 377
Fights between the Town-of-Tcꜝā′ał-gîtî′ns and the
Middle-gîtî′ns 380
Fights between the Tsimshian and Haida and among the
northern Haida 384
War between the Eggs-of-Skî′tg̣ao and the Inlet-rear-town
people 391
Wars with the Niska and Tsimshian and conflicts between
Haida families 393
Fight between Those-born-at-Qā′gials and
Those-born-at-Skedans 401
War between the Pebble-town people and the Slaves 404
War between the people of Kloo and the people of Ninstints 408
A fight between the Xā′gi-town people and Sand-town people 413
Wars between the people of Ninstints and the people of
Skidegate 415
Wars between the peoples of Skidegate and Kloo 418
Wars between the towns of Kloo and Kitkatla and between
the Kloo families 425
War between the people of Kloo and the Tsimshian 429
War between the people of Kloo and the Bellabella 434
War between the people of Kloo and the Gîtî′sda 444