Gros Ventre Myths and Tales

Introduction' .......
Myths and Tales
1. The Making of the Earth .
2. Origin Myth
3. Tebiaanta", the Two Women, the Bald Eagle,
4. Nix'a^t obtains Summer and the Buffalo
5. Nix'a^t is taught to call Buffalo
6. Nix 'ant and the Mouse ....
7. Nix 'a^t and the Mice's Sun-dance .
8. Nix VH eats Fat
9. Nix Vt eats Hiitceni ....
10. Nix'a'H and the liird with the Large Arrow
11. Nix 'a^t toses his Eyes ....
12. Nix 'a"t kills his Wife ....
13. Nix 'a^t and the Bear-Women .
14. Nix'a^t and the Dancing Ducks
15. Nix 'a"t's Adventures ....
(a) With the Mice's Sun-dance
(5) With the Women who loused him
(c) With his Daughters ....
(d) With the AVoman who crossed the River
(e) With the Sleeping Woman
(/) With the Buffalo he called anil the Rabbit
16. One-eyed Owl and his Daughter
17. The Man who went to War with his Mother-in-
18. The Kit-fox and the Ghost
19. Found-in-the-Grass . . .• .
20. Clotted-Blood
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