Ute Texts -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- In memory of -- Table of contents -- Preface -- Abbreviations of Ute grammatical terms -- The sinawav cycle -- 2. He who created the people -- He who created the people -- The origin of the people -- The stealing of the fire -- Si Nawav and the seven sisters -- How sinawav named the trees and bushes -- Sinawav the copycat -- Sinawav the copycat -- How Sinawav got his yellow eyes -- Coyote deprives himself of his eyes -- Porcupine, buffalo-cow and sinawav -- Porcupine tricks coyote -- Sinawav racing the birds and betting -- Sinawav burning his own house -- Hungry Coyote races skunk for prairie-dogs -- Hungry coyote races skunk for the prairie-dogs -- Hungry coyote, rabbit, and the white-man's chicken -- Coyote and the rock children -- Coyote cooks the she-bear's children -- Coyote, wolf and horned-toad -- How coyote and bobcat got their shapes -- PART III. Anger, vengeance and other pitfalls -- Rabbit getting mad -- How angry rabbit got his brown spots -- How the Pinyon Jays got their curse-name -- Bear running away with mountain-lion's wife -- PART IV. The ceremonial cycle -- The origin of the bear-dance -- Introduction -- How the beardance used to be -- The origin of the sundance -- The last war party -- News broadcast (KIUP-FM) -- Speech at the Ute language committee -- Cloud family lore -- Speech at the tri-Ute language meeting -- Bibliography.