Front Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: History and Culture -- Part One: Sacred Teachings -- 1.1 Allegorical Story of Tribal Organization -- 1.2 Origin Story of the Wolf Clan (Pah-nee-wah-with-tah) -- 1.3 Origin Story of the Black Bear Clan (Bacon Rind) -- 1.4 Creation of the House of Mystery (Charles Wah-hre-she) -- 1.5 Earth Names and Sky Names (Charles Wah-hre-she) -- 1.6 Origin Story of the Sho'-ka (Saucy Calf) -- 1.7 The Tattooing Custom (Charles Wah-hre-she) -- 1.8 Haircut of the Gentle Sky Clan (Shun-kah-mo-lah) -- 1.9 Finding of the Four Colors (Hlu-ah-wah-tah) -- 1.10 What to Dream Of (Saucy Calf) -- 1.11 Instructions to the Mother (Charles Wah-hre-she) -- 1.12 Instructions to the Wife of a Priest (Saucy Calf) -- 1.13 Instructions in the Painting of the Sacred Robes (Hlu-ah-wah-tah) -- 1.14 Counting the O'don (Shun-kah-mo-lah) -- Part Two: Folk Stories -- 2.1 Tradition of the Omaha Departure from the Osage (Pah-nee-wah-with-tah) -- 2.2 Making the Buffalo Come (Charles Wah-hre-she) -- 2.3 Deer-Hunting Stories -- 2.4 The Vision of a War Leader (Charles Wah-hre-she) -- 2.5 Death of an Old Warrior -- 2.6 Origin of the Hair Bundle (Me-ke-wah-ti-an-kah) -- 2.7 Origin of the Whistle Bundle -- 2.8 Origin of the Mourning Dance (Black Dog) -- 2.9 The Lost Warrior (Saucy Calf) -- 2.10 Captive of the Pawnee -- 2.11 The Boy Driven from Home -- 2.12 The Woman War Leader (Tho'-xi Zhin-ga) -- 2.13 The Youngest Wife -- 2.14 The Unfaithful Wife (Pah-nee-wah-with-tah) -- 2.15 Mourning Dance for Yellow Ears (Saucy Calf) -- 2.16 The Two Young Men Who Mourned Their Living Father (Andrew Jackson) -- 2.17 The Wa-kon'-da-gi, or Medicine Men -- 2.18 Strange Medicine Man -- 2.19 The Death of Village Maker -- 2.20 Big Bear and Runs-to-meet-men.

2.21 The Cruel Medicine Man and the Orphan -- 2.22 Wah-ti-an-kah (Bacon Rind) -- 2.23 Dreamers (Shun-kah-mo-lah) -- 2.24 The Woman Dreamer -- 2.25 Spirit Woman (Hlu-ah-wah-tah) -- 2.26 The Flute Ghost Story (Ben Wheeler) -- 2.27 The Young Warrior and His Dead Wife -- 2.28 Return of the Dead (Charles Wah-hre-she) -- 2.29 The Little People (Tho'-xi Zhin-ga) -- 2.30 The Demon Animal (Ben Wheeler) -- Part Three: Animal Stories -- 3.1 The Squirrel Maidens -- 3.2 The Hawk and the Horned Owl (Tho'-xi Zhin-ga) -- 3.3 The Four Coyotes and the Persimmons (Tho'-xi Zhin-ga) -- 3.4 The Coyote and the Woodpecker -- 3.5 The Coyote and the Fawn -- Notes -- References -- Index -- Back Cover.