Jones. Fox Texts

Today's free book is Fox Texts by William Jones (1907). 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

I. Historical Tales 
1. When the Red-Earths were besieged
2. White-Robe
3. They that sulked on account of the Bear-Foot
4. The Sale of the Land in Kansas
5. Why the Red-Earths went away to Iowa
II. Miscellaneous Myths and Traditions 
1. The Woman and the Dog
2. The Youth that married Many Wives
3. An Ojibwa Maiden offered a Prayer to the Bull-Frogs, asking that an Ugly-Looking Man should die
4. They that chase after the Bear
5. The People-of-a-Far-off-Country
6. The Little-Creatures-of-Caprice ensnare the Sun
7. The Ten that were Brothers together
8. An Old Woman falls in Love with her Son-in-Law, and for that Reason drowns her Daughter
9. An Opossum becomes disliked because of his Pretty Tail
10. The Grizzly and the Skunk
11. The Raccoon and the Wolf
12. A Raccoon plays Dead in order that he may thus obtain Crawfishes to eat
III. Parables 
1. The Youth that was frozen to Death
2. The Reason why a Young Married Woman ceased from her Evil Conduct
3. The Woman that was slain by her Husband
4. The Wife that was slain with a Club by her Brother
5. The Youth that forsook a Manitou Woman
6. Two Maidens who played the Harlot with Each Other
7. The Woman that ill-treated her Step-Children
8. Why an Old Man slew his Grandson
9. The Wife that was wooed by a Bear
10. When Apaiyas went to War
11. How the Prisoners of War came to return Home
12. A Thunderer comes to the Home of a Man and Wife
IV. Stories of Fasting, Visions, and Dreams 
1. One that had fasted overlong became a Fish
2. One that had fasted overlong
3. A Youth that was fasting was killed by the Sioux
4. The Two Youths that married the Daughters of Mesosw
5. The Reason why Men of the Feathered Name always come off Unsuccessful in War
6. Painter's Dream
7. He that dreamed of an Ill Omen
8. The Cause of her Dream
9. The Killing of Blue-Chief
V. Stories of the Culture-Hero 
1. Wisa'ka Visits the Beaver
2. Wisa'ka goes to visit his Younger Brother the Beaver
3. Wisa'ka goes to visit the Skunk
4. Wisa'ka visits his Younger Brother the Skunk
5. Wisa'ka goes to visit the Duck
6. Wisa'ka goes to visit his Little Brother the Duck
7. Wisa'ka goes to visit the Kingfisher
8. The Woodpecker feeds Wlsa'ka
9. When Wisa'ka ate the Artichoke
10. Wisa'ka catches Ducks by the Neck (and) strangles Them
11. Wisa'ka rolls Himself Downhill in order that he may catch
the Turkeys 
12. Wisa'ka and the Wolves 
13. Wisa'ka is vanquished in a Contest with a Trader
14. The Turtle is loaned Medicine by Wisa'ka to win a Foot-Race
15. The Turtle brings Ruin upon Himself 
16. The Red-Earths went to where Wisa'ka was 
17. The Story of Wl\isa'ka' 
VI. Prayers  
1. When a Boy burns an Offering of Tobacco to a Snake
2. When Boys burn Tobacco as an Offering to the Thunderers
3. She cooks Food for the Ghosts 
4. The Words spoken to the Dead