First Nations

• About this book

Unangan Suite

• Islands
• Wind
• Peoples
• Games
• Kayak
• Sea Lion
• Observing
• Contests
• Silence

Fishing Rights Suite

• Peoples
• Seahunting
• Family
• Whaling
• Fishing
• Change
• Sharing
• Treaties
• Fish Wars
• Justice

Water Rights Suite

• Rivers and Lakes
• Yurok
• Hupa
• Karuk
• Shasta
• Modoc
• Klamath
• Rivers Ran Free
• Dams
• Water Rights

California Suite

1. Growing Up

• Cradle
• Children
• Orchestra
• Grandfather
• Learning to Hunt
• Good People
• Growing Up
• Menstruation

2. Conflicts of Love

• Love
• Romantic Love
• Men and Women

3. Order in the World

• Knowledge
• Wealth and Status
• Property
• Proper Laws
• Garden
• Important Persons
• Building
• Messenger
• Feast Oration
• Big Games
• Settling a Dispute
• Warfare
• Great Horned Owl

4. Aging and Dying

• Character
• Old Gambler’s Song
• Grandfather’s Prayer
• Keening
• Death Song
• Burial Oration
• Summons to a Mourning Ceremony

5. All Things Are Living

• Pleiades Pursued
• Moon
• Siblings Sun and Moon
• Generosity and Greed
• Stick Husband
• Rattlesnake Husband
• The Couple and the Owls
• All our Relatives
• Strings

6. Powers

• My Mountain
• The Long Snake
• A Doctor’s Powers
• Poison Doctor
• An Assault
• Doctors
• The Doctor and the Clown
• The Great and Wise Jakalunus

7. Dreaming

• Dream Dance
• The Lodge of Silver Fox
• Healing Breath
• Shaping a Dream
• Making People

8. Coyote

• Promises
• Disbelief
• Hubris
• Gaslighting
• Thievery

The Ketoowah

• The Ketoowah of the Cherokee