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The Origin of Corn
- Origin: Jicarilla Apaches
An Apache who was an inveterate gambler had a small tame turkey, which followed its master about everywhere. One day the Turkey told him that the people were tired of supporting him, as he gambled until he lost everything that they gave him.
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- Category: Apache
The Flight from the Fourth to the Fifth World
Beneath this world there were four other worlds. The people who live here now once lived in each of those other worlds. In each one of them they did wrong,
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- Category: Hopi
In the Beginning
When the world was new, the ancient people and the ancient creatures did not live on the top of the earth. They lived under it. All was darkness, all was blackness, above the earth as well as below it.
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- Category: Hopi
How the Hopi Indians Reached Their World
When the world was new, the ancient people and the ancient creatures did not live on the top of the earth. They lived under it. All was darkness, all was blackness, above the earth as well as below it.
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The Snake Myth
At Tokóonavi, north of the Grand Canyon, lived people who were then not yet Snake
people. They lived close to the bank of the river.
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- Category: Hopi
Spider Rock
Spider Rock stands with awesome dignity and beauty over 800 feet high in Arizona's colourful Canyon de Chelly National Park (pronounced da Shay).
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- Category: Dene (Navajo)
At the Rainbow's end
Mr Stephen Powers claims that there is no such word in the Miwok language as Yosemite. The valley has always been known to them, and is to this day, when speaking among themselves, as A-wa'-ni.
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- Category: Dene (Navajo)
Coyote kills a Giant
Coyote was walking one day when he met Old Woman. She greeted him and asked where he was headed.
"Just roaming around," said Coyote.
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The First World
The First World, Ni'hodilqil, was black as black wool. It had four corners, and over these appeared four clouds.
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- Category: Dene (Navajo)
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