Jacobs. Northwest Sahaptin texts

Today's free book is Northwest Sahaptin texts by Melville Jacobs (1934). For the table of contents, check at the bottom of this post below the image.

The book is available at Hathi Trust (I have not checked for other online sources).



Table of Contents

Klikitat Myths 
1. The animals argue about the length of day and night
2. The hunter obtains a deer hunting power
3. The girl carried off and made pregnant by elk
4. The animals determine who will be elk
5. Timber Rabbit secures gambling power and avenges himself 
6. Flea. He is a cannibal 
7. The deer are made to be dangerous beings no longer 
8. Mountain goat and buffalo contend. Mountain goats steal prairie goat garments 
9. Wolf kills cannibal bumble bees 
10. Mountain Goats give mountain footwear to Deer 
11. Eagle travels with mischievous weasel 
12. Wild Cat kills his lewd grandmother, is pursued by Grizzly woman, almost rescued by Mice, then killed 
13. Ugly Wild Cat trickily marries the chief's daughter, becomes handsome, saves starving people 
14. The Dogs make warmer weather 
15. The Dogs make warmer weather (second version) 
16. His daughter makes Sun forego human food 
17. Moon transformer teaches domestic crafts and kills dangerous beings 
18. Skunk loses his musk sac 
19. Flying squirrel. He devours persons camping overnight 
20. Bear woman kills Grizzly woman's daughter 
21. Wolves kill the fish. Chinook salmon is avenger 
22. Coyote tricks and eats his brother, Deer 
23. Coyote prays for food; he visits the land of the dead 
24. Coyote kills his deer power, Tick, and his own wife
25. Coyote kills his deer power, Tick, and his own wife (second version); Cloud tells news about him; he tries to shoot the moon 
26. Coyote cuts foods out of a child 
27. Coyote cuts foods out of a child (second version) 
28. Coyote and Eagle part. Coyote kills the swallowing monster and a Soft Basket Person, is speared by the one armed man, kills two dangerous dogs; he secures a powerful cane and knife 
29. Coyote devises fishing methods; he chops trees 
30. Wild Cat plays tricks on Coyote 
31. Grizzly goes mad. Coyote adopts Eagle, tricks him and takes his wives, releases salmon, is duped by and dupes Wolves 
32. Coyote is duped by and dupes Wolves (second version) 
33. Coyote defeats Wood Rat 
34. Coyote kills dangerous dogs (second version); he and Fox lose a race to a girl 
35. Skunk pretends dying and with Coyote tricks and kills animals 
36. Coyote tosses up his eyes 

Cowlitz and upper Cowlitz Myths
1. Coyote pretends to doctor a girl 
2. Coyote tricks Eagle and takes his wives; he releases salmon 
3. Rock and Boil 
4. Coon fools Coyote. Coyote deceives and eats Coon, fights feces, is sealed in rock, tosses up his eyes, retrieves them 
5. Coyote kills the Drumstick cannibal 
6. In races Coyote loses, Fox wins 
7. Cougar decapitates stick swallower, skull pursues. Wild Cat steals fire, Cougar fights avengers. He cuts Mink from a fish; Mink makes rain, gets food from wells; they escape Grizzly's father 
8. The burning of the Soft Basket People 
9. Hwilpi'us kills his sons, one survives to kill him 
10. Vulva outraces Penis 

Cowlitz and Upper Cowlitz Myths
1. "The person who sucks in." Coyote's adventures with the River Swallower, Intestines entangler, Bark binder, air sucker, rock batterer, and buffaloes 
2. Cougar decapitates stick swallower, skull pursues. Wild Cat steals fire, Cougar fights avengers. He cuts Mink from a fish, Mink gets food from wells; they escape grizzly's father 
3. Coyote loses his milt daughters. They steal Moon baby; Moon becomes transformer 
4. Cloud takes Cougar's wife; Wild Cat and Cougar boy pursue, kill Cloud and his sisters, revive Cougar, who returns with his wife. His daughter becomes Little Cloud 
5. Animals and birds ascend by arrow chain to sky; there Beaver steals the fire 
6. Coyote pretends to die, returns to cohabit with his daughters 
7. Coyote traps but releases the north west wind 
8. Gluttonous Spear Boy pursues his sister, is sent home by River Man, escapes the pecking woman 
9. Blue Jay's canoe is carried away, he lands on slippery ice, survives the cold and smoky house, the hot sweathouse, defeats the girl plunger, is shot, wins at pole climbing, passes beneath the rock shutter 
10. Grizzly woman kills Bear woman; Bear's daughters kill Grizzly's; Grizzly pursues; Bake-on-hot-rocks kills Bear girls; youngest Bear girl is lost with Testicle Ear Pendant people, is taken by Chinook Salmon man, he is killed by her husband and Meadow Lark 
11. Old man Raven carries a person to a far away land to find his wife 

Cowlitz Myths
1. Naha'ntci. His grandson and Coyote's sons steal the rainbow
2. In races Coyote loses, Fox wins
3. Flying squirrel. He devours overnight campers
4. Flea. He is a cannibal
5. Owl carries away and marries a girl

Upper Cowlitz Myths
1. Skunk pretends dying and with Coyote tricks and kills animals 
2. Coon kills Grizzly swallower, whips his lewd grandmother, the Ducks scold her 
3. Mink boy has a dead girl resuscitated, then turns into a dangerous being 
4. Grizzly woman and Bear woman soil their sister-in-law, are killed by Grizzly's husband, whose sister is killed by Urine Boy. Grizzly man marries Urine Boy's sister 
5. Coyote kills the Soft Basket Woman-with-vagina-dentata 
6. Coyote goes to the land of the dead to be with his children 
7. Coyote tricks Eagle and takes his wives, releases salmon, is duped by and dupes Wolves 
8. Skunk cohabits with Eagle's wife, pursues Eagle, loses his sac, slaughters insulters, is fooled by Frost 
9. Coyote borrows Break Wind's anus, tosses up his eyes, retrieves them, assaults old women, deceives a girl seeking power 

Two Kittitas Myths
1. Adventures of mischievous transformer Coyote 
2. Coon boy kills Grizzly swallower, he and his grandmother kill food swallower 

Part II. Tales and Miscellaneous Texts
A Cowlitz Story
Cowlitz Ethnologic Notes
Upper Cowlitz Geographic Notes
Upper Cowlitz Myth and Geographic Text

Tales of European Origin
1. The grateful dead boy and the monster's bride 
2. The grateful dead boy and the extraordinary companions 
3. The tests of the prospective son-in-law 
Reminiscences of Kittitas Life. Mrs. Dan Secena