Luthin. A California Indian Reader

Today's free book is Surviving through the Days: Translations of Native California Stories and Songs. A California Indian Reader edited by Herbert W. Luthin (2002); it is available online as part of the University of California Press ebook initiative: link. For the table of contents, check at the bottom of this post below the image.

Table of Contents

Kwaw Labors to Form a World
Test-ch'as (The Tidal Wave)
“The Young Man from Serper” and Other Stories
Coyote and Old Woman Bullhead
The Devil Who Died Laughing
“The Boy Who Grew Up at Ta'k'imi l ding” and Other Stories
The Bear Girl
How My Father Found the Deer
Naponoha (Cocoon Man)
A Story of Lizard
A Selection of Wintu Songs
Loon Woman
Four Songs from Grace McKibbin
Four Songs from Grace McKibbin
Mad Bat
Creation
The Trials of Young Hawk
The Woman Who Loved a Snake
The Dead People's Home
Two Stories from the Central Valley
The Contest between Men and Women
The Dog Girl
The Creation
A Harvest of Songs from Villiana Calac Hyde
From “The Life of Hawk Feather”
In the Desert with Hipahipa
An Account of Origins
A Brief History of Collection
Notes on Native California Oral Literatures
Notes on Native California Languages