{"collection":"Native American","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/nam/nw/kt/index.htm","path":"nam/nw/kt/index.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/nam/nw/kt/index.htm","text":"Sacred Texts\u00a0\n Native American\u00a0\n Northwest\u00a0\n \n \n \n \n \n | | \n \n | KWAKIUTL TALES by Franz Boas [1910] | \n \n \n \n \n This is a collection of myths and folklore from the Kwakiutl Native Americans\n of British Columbia, Canada.\n They originally resided on the northern end of Vancouver Island\n and the adjacent coast.\n The texts were collected and translated by Franz Boas, who\n was one of the founders of modern anthropology and linguistics.\n These stories are much more satisfying for the Western\n reader than many unfiltered Native American texts,\n with rich characterizations,\n earthy humor, spooky supernatural settings,\n and, for once, actual beginnings, middles and ends.\n It is obvious that the Kwakuitl were accomplished story tellers.\n \n \n \n Title Page\n Preface\n 1. Q!\u00e2'n\u00eaq\u00ea?laku and Xat\u00ea'tsEn\n 2. SE'nl\u00ea?\n Ham\u00e2'lak*aua?\u00ea\n 4. Scab\n 5. L!\u00e2'lam\u00een\n 6. Kun\u00f4'sila\n 7. M\u00e2'dEm\n 8. The Singing Skull\n 9. Mountain-Goat Hunter\n 10. W\u00ee'wag*\u00easaw\u00ea?\n 11. The Dz\u00f4'noq!wa\n 12. The Mink Legend\n Mink marries Kelp\n Mink Marries Frog-Woman\n Mink marries Diorite-Woman\n Mink wants to marry Sawbill-Duck-Woman\n Mink is deserted by his Wife\n Mink pretends to die\n Mink pretends to die (Another Version)\n Mink and the salmon\n Mink roasts the Salmon\n Mink plays with Seal\n Mink imitates his Hosts\n Mink goes to make War with his Friend Land-Otter\n 13. The Deer and his Son.\n 14. Great-Inventor\n X*\u00e2'nElku\n \n \n 16. The Q!\u00e2'n\u00eaqi?laxu Legend\n Q!\u00e2'n\u00eaqi?laxu and his Brother Only-One\n Q!\u00e2'n\u00eaqi?laxu, and Ts!\u00e2'ts!\u00f4\n Q!\u00e2'n\u00eaqi?laxu kills the Whales\n Q!\u00e2'n\u00eaqi?laxu makes a House for Only-One\n Q!\u00e2'n\u00eaqi?laxu begins his wanderings\n Q!\u00e2'n\u00eaqi?laxu marries the Daughter of Gw\u00e2'?n\u00e2l\u00e2lis\n Q!\u00e2'n\u00eaqi?laxu meets Shaman\n Q!\u00e2'n\u00eaqi?laxu revives the Ancestors of the Koskimo\n Origin of the Deer\n Origin of the Mink\n Origin of the Raccoon\n Origin of the Mallard Ducks\n Q!\u00e2'n\u00eaqi?laxu gives Man and Woman their Present Form\n Transformation of the Man with many Mouths\n Q!\u00e2'n\u00eaqi?laxu meets Oldest-One-in-the-World\n Q!\u00e2'n\u00eaqi?laxu meets \u00d4'?m\u00e2l\n Origin of the Perch\n \n \n 17. MEskwa' (Greedy-One)\n The Birth of Greedy-One\n Greedy-One steals Crabapples\n Greedy-One catches the Salmon\n Greedy-One kills Bear, Cormorant, and Gum\n \n \n 18. \u00d4'?m\u00e2l.\n 18. \u00d4'?m\u00e2l\n \u00d4'?m\u00e2l marries the Daughter of the Killer-Whale\n \u00d4'?m\u00e2l gets the Soil\n \u00d4'?m\u00e2l obtains the Water\n \u00d4'?m\u00e2l makes War on Southeast Wind\n \u00d4'?m\u00e2l obtains the Tides\n \u00d4'?m\u00e2l Paints the Birds\n \u00d4'?m\u00e2l obtains Daylight\n \u00d4'?m\u00e2l gambles with Gull\n \u00d4'?m\u00e2l imitates his Hosts\n \u00d4'?m\u00e2l kills the Thunder-Birds\n \n \u00a0\n 19. H\u00e2'daga (Raven-Sound-in-House).\n 20. N\u00f4masE'nx\u00ealis (Oldest-One-in-the-World)\n \u00d4'?me\u00e4l (Chief-of-the-Ancients)\n 22. D\u00e2'p!ab\u00ea (Leader)\n 23. Q!\u00e2'g*i?wa (Centre, the Chief of the Ghosts)\n 24. Q!\u00f4mg*ust\u00e2Els (Wealth-coming-up)\n 25. A?m\u00e2'xwax*sag*\u00eela (Potlatch-Giver)\n 26. H\u00e2'dah\u00f4\n 27. L\u00e2'gel\u00eaqEla (Surpassing)\n 28. The Descendants of Surpassing\n 29. N\u00f4'aqaua (Wisest-One)\n 30. The Brothers\n 31. Yax*st!al\n 32. Q!\u00f4'mg*ila\n 33. The Blind Man who recovered his Eyesight\n 34. Song-Dance\n 35. Dz\u00e2'wadalal\u00ees\n 36. G*\u00e2'yusd\u00e4?sElas\n 37. ?n\u00e2'lak!ulEm\n 38. Xw\u00e2'xwas\n 39. ?nEm\u00f4'gwis\n 40. Gray-Face (\u00d4'xsEm) and Twin (Y\u00eekw\u00ee'l)\n 41. The Boy who disappeared Underground\n 42. K*\u00ea'l\u00f4s\n 43. L!\u00e2'lam\u00een\n 44. M\u00e2'l\u00ealeqala\n 45. N\u00f4'mas\n 46. G\u00e2'sag*ila\n 47. Q!\u00ea'x*Lala\n 48. W\u00e2'wal\u00ea\n 49. Additions to the Myth of Kw\u00eakwax\u00e2'w\u00ea?\n 50. Additions to the Myth of the Mink\n 51. Addition to the Myth of Q!\u00e2'n\u00eaq\u00ea?laku\n 52. Note regarding the Origin of the Sun","title":"Kwakiutl Tales Index","type":"page"}