"A Perigee book."

Introduction. -- Key to symbols. -- Spider woman saves Ko-chin-ni-na-ko: Keresan, Southwest. -- Spider woman's web: Athabaskan, Alaska. -- Qi-yo Ke-pe, the great healer : Keresan, Southwest. -- The woman whose heart became ice: Micmac, Northeast. -- Sedna, mistress of the underworld: Inuit, Alaska. -- The worm that devoured women: Cherokee, Southeast. -- White star women and great star man: Pawnee, Great Plains. -- Ataensie, the woman who fell from the sky : Iroquois, Northeast. -- The origin of corn: Abenaki, Northeast. -- First woman and the people: Navajo, Southwest. -- White buffalo women : Lakota (Sioux), Great Plains. -- The buffalo wife: Piegan (Blackfeet), Great Plains. -- Sweet corn woman's tale : Tewa, Southwest. -- The women warriors : Tewa, Southwest. -- Coyote marries his daughter : Ute, Great Basin. -- The abandoned children : White Clay People (Gros Ventre), Great Plains. -- The two sisters and their aunt : Miwok, California. -- The woman who kept secrets : Hopi, Southwest. -- The quilt of men's eyes : Seneca, Northeast. -- The kidnapped wife and the dream helper : Piegan (Blackfeet), Great Plains. -- The women who built the first medicine lodge : Piegan (Blackfeet), Great Plains. -- The dream of double woman : Lakota (Sioux), Great Plains. -- The woman who married the sea : Samish (Coast Salish), Northwest Coast. -- The beginning of wisdom and law : Yakima, Plateau. -- Dancing for nomtaimet : Wintu, California.