SURVIVING THROUGH THE DAYS

  [dedication]
  [song]
  CONTENTS
 expand sectionILLUSTRATIONS
  TABLES
  Acknowledgments
  Pronunciation Guide
  [Song]
 expand sectionGeneral Introduction
 expand sectionMaking Texts, Reading Translations

 collapse section1. SELECTIONS
 CREATION SONGS
 1. Kwaw Labors to Form a World
 NORTHWESTERN CALIFORNIA
 SONG
 expand section2. Test-ch'as (The Tidal Wave)
 expand section3. “The Young Man from Serper” and  Other Stories
 expand section4. Coyote and Old Woman Bullhead
 expand section5. The Devil Who Died Laughing
 expand section6. “The Boy Who Grew Up at Ta'k'imi l ding”  and Other Stories
 expand section7. The Bear Girl
 NORTH-CENTRAL CALIFORNIA
 SPELL SAID BY A GIRL DESIROUS  OF GETTING A HUSBAND
 expand section8. How My Father Found the Deer
 expand section9. Naponoha (Cocoon Man)
 expand section10. A Story of Lizard
 expand section11. A Selection of Wintu Songs
 expand section12. Loon Woman
 expand section13. Four Songs from Grace McKibbin
 expand section14. Four Songs from Grace McKibbin
 expand section15. Mad Bat
 collapse section16. Creation
 expand sectionINTRODUCTION BY HERBERT W. LUTHIN
 expand sectionADDITIONAL NOTES
 NOTE
 FURTHER READING
 expand sectionCREATION
 DESTRUCTION OF THE FIRST WORLD
 SECOND DESTRUCTION OF THE WORLD—BY FIRE
 THIRD CREATION
 THE DESTRUCTION OF THE WORLD—  BY SNOW AND ICE
 FOURTH RE-CREATION OF THE WORLD
 FOURTH AND LAST DESTRUCTION  OF THE WORLD—BY A WHIRLWIND
 FIFTH AND LAST CREATION OF THE WORLD
 expand section17. The Trials of Young Hawk
 expand section18. The Woman Who Loved a Snake
 expand section19. The Dead People's Home
 SOUTH-CENTRAL CALIFORNIA
 SONG
 expand section20. Two Stories from the Central Valley
 expand section21. The Contest between Men and Women
 expand section22. The Dog Girl
 SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
 SONG
 expand section23. The Creation
 expand section24. A Harvest of Songs from Villiana Calac Hyde
 expand section25. From “The Life of Hawk Feather”
 expand section26. In the Desert with Hipahipa
 expand section27. An Account of Origins

 collapse section2. ESSAYS ON NATIVE CALIFORNIA LANGUAGES AND ORAL LITERATURES
 WHEN I HAVE DONNED MY CREST OF STARS
 expand section28. A Brief History of Collection
 WOMEN'S BRUSH DANCE SONG
 expand section29. Notes on Native California Oral Literatures
 [Song]
 expand section30. Notes on Native California Languages

  MAPS
 expand sectionBibliography
  Acknowledgments  of Permissions
  INDEX

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