Today's free book is Myths and Tales of the Jicarilla Apache Indians by Morris Edward Opler (1938). 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. Origin Myth; Exploits of the Culture Heroes; Tales Concerning Events Referred to in the Origin Myth
A. The Origin of the Jicarilla Apache and their Customs
1. The Creation of Earth, Sky, Animals and Man
2. The Creation and Loss of the Sun and Moon
3. The Emergence
4. The Origin of the Bear Dance
5. The Birth Ceremony is Given; Death and the Monsters Come; the People Scatter
6. The Birth of Killer-of-Enemies and Child-of-the-Water
7. The Journey to the Sun
8. The Adventure at Owl's Home
9. The Slaying of the Monsters
10. Events Immediately Following the Slaying of the Monsters
11. The First Ceremonial Race
12. The First Puberty Ceremony
13. The Creation of the White Man
14. Killer-of-Enemies at Picuris
15. Killer-of-Enemies at Taos and his Departure
16. The Departure of the Hactcin and Prophecies
Concerning the End of the Present World
B. The Flood before the Emergence
C. Bear Dance Stories
1. The Girl Who Turned to Bear
2. Bear Dance Story
D. The People Who Went to the North
E. When Tanager and Robin Were Chiefs
F. The Contest between Killer-of-Enemies and OneW ho-Wins
G. The First Priests
II. The Origin of the Hactcin Ceremony
1. Introduction
2. The Origin of the Hactcin Ceremony
III. Myths Relating to Agriculture and Rain
A. The Man Who Floated down the River in a Log or the Origin of Agriculture
B. The Quarrel between Cyclone and Thunder and the Ceremony for Rain
IV. The Origin of Games and Artifacts
A. The Story of Hoop and Pole
B. The Origin of the Stave Games
C. The Moccasin Game for Day or Night
D. The Origin of Clay Pots and Pipes
E. The Plow
V. Myths Connected with Hunting Ritual and Encounters with Supernatural Animals
A. The Man Who Lived with the Buffaloes
B. The Woman Who Changed to a Deer
C. How the Animals Were Taken away from Raven
D. Prairie-Dog and Rain
E. The Man Saved by the Prairie-Dogs
VI. The Coyote Cycle; Stories of Animals and Birds
Introduction
A. The Coyote Cycle
1. Coyote in the Underworld; the Origin of the Monsters; the First Emergence
2. The Race around the World
3. Coyote Obtains Fire
4. Coyote Dances with the Prairie-Dogs
5. Coyote Visits Kingfisher
6. Coyote Visits Buffalo
7. Coyote Visits Elk
8. Coyote Visits Flicker
9. Coyote as Eye Juggler
10. Coyote Loses the Power to Obtain Food
11. Coyote is Fooled by Lizard and Visits his Sister
12. Coyote Marries his own Daughter
13. Coyote and Porcupine
14. Coyote Burns his Children
15. Coyote Steals another Man's Wife
16. Coyote Plays Tricks on Owl; the Vomit Exchange
17. Coyote Loses his Bow and Arrows to the Antelope
18. Coyote and Turkey
19. Coyote and Geese
20. Coyote and Duck's Children
21. Coyote Steals Tobacco from Crow
22. Coyote and Grama-Grass
23. Coyote Visits the Red Ants
24. Coyote and Mosquito
25. Coyote and Sandhill Crane
26. Rabbit Scares Coyote Away
27. Coyote Chases the Rocks
28. Rabbit Escapes
29. Rabbit Fools Coyote
30. Coyote and Beetle
31. Coyote and the Bees
32. Coyote Eats Grasshopper
33. Coyote and White Wood Worm
34. Coyote and Water Dragon
35. Coyote Imitates Wildcat
36. Coyote and Wildcat
37. Coyote and Mountain-Sheep
38. Coyote Deceives Squirrel
39. Coyote Names the Members of his Family
40. Coyote Pretends to Go Hunting
41. Coyote and the Pitch Baby
42. Coyote and Beaver
43. Coyote and his Mother-in-law
44. Coyote Makes an Old Couple Fight
45. Coyote Shows how he Can Lie
46. Coyote Hides in Gopher's Mouth
47. Coyote Marries the Chief's Daughter
48. Coyote Comes to life Four Times
49. Coyote Loses his Fur
50. Coyote Visits the Navaho
51. Wolf Fools Coyote
52. Coyote and Rolling Rock
53. Coyote and the Bear Children
54. Coyote and the Talking Tree
55. Coyote Steals Skunk's Clothes
56. Coyote and the Quiver of Bearskin
57. Coyote Kills Deer with his Ceremony
58. Coyote and the Expanding Meat
59. Coyote and Yellow Jacket
60. Coyote and Dog Argue
61. Coyote Kills his Wife and Carries her Body
62. Coyote Dives after the Moon's Image
63. Coyote Gets Drunk
64. Coyote and the Badly-treated Dog
65. Coyote Imitates Mountain-Lion
66. Coyote and Killer-of-Enemies
B. Coyote and the Two Running Rocks
C. Coyote and Bear
D. Antelope Stories
1. The Race between Antelope and Whitetailed Deer
2. The Race between Antelope and Frog
3. Antelope and Horned Toad
E. The Story of Phoebe
F. The Fight between Turkey and Eagle
VII. Stories of Foolish People, Unfaithfulness, and Perversion
A. The Traveling People
1. Origin of the Group
2. The Traveling People Wish for Food
3. The Traveling People Hunt Buffalo
4. Horses Are Obtained
5. The Race between the Runner and the Man on Horseback
6. The Lice
7. Rations
8. Blasting
9. The Mexicans Come
10. A Foolish Man Escapes from Bear
11. The Foolish Woman Kills her Baby
12. The Buffalo
13. The Snake
14. Grinding the Corn
15. The Mother Who Abused her Son
16. The Old Man Who Was always Behind in Traveling
17. The Old Man Fooled by a Girl
18. The Woman Who Abused herself with Cactus
B. The Woman Who Disliked the Man with the Fine Suit of Clothes
C. The Foolish Woman Who Played Sick
D. The Girl Who Had Intercourse with Dogs
VIII. Monstrous Enemy Stories
A. The Spotted Enemies
B. The Origin of the Kiowa Apache
IX. Stories of the Winning of Wives
A. Dirty Boy
B. How a Poor Boy Won his Wives
C. The Four-leafed Clover
X. Miscellaneous.
A. Muscular Tremor and Involuntary Noise
B. H orse Story
C. The Child that Cried
D. Hen and Chickens
