| INTRODUCTION | 3 |
| CULTURAL SETTING | 5 |
| YAQUI STORY TELLING | 15 |
| THE NARRATORS | 21 |
| THE STORIES | |
| Yomumuli and the Little Surem People | 25 |
| The Ku Bird | 28 |
| The Wise Deer | 30 |
| Tasi'o Sewa | 31 |
| Yuku | 32 |
| When Badger Named the Sun | 34 |
| Mochomo | 35 |
| The Wax Monkey | 37 |
| The False Beggar | 39 |
| The Stick That Sang | 42 |
| The Two Bears | 45 |
| The Walking Stone | 49 |
| Sun and Moon | 52 |
| Five Friends of Takochai | 53 |
| The Man Who Became a Buzzard | 59 |
| The Snake People | 62 |
| Omteme | 65 |
| Juan Sin Miedo | 67 |
| The Boy Who Became a King | 69 |
| Kaiman | 78 |
| The Big Bird | 81 |
| The Wars Against the Mexicans | 88 |
| War Between the Yaquis and the Pimas | 91 |
| Peace at Pitahaya | 93 |
| Malinero'okai | 95 |
| The First Deer Hunter | 100 |
| The Death of Kutam Tawi | 103 |
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| The Flood and the Prophets | 106 |
| San Pedro and Cristo | 110 |
| Jesucristo and San Pedro | 111 |
| Pedro de Ordimales | 113 |
| San Pedro and the Devil | 114 |
| Father Frog | 116 |
| Two Little Lambs | 117 |
| Maisoka and Hima'awikia | 119 |
| The Cricket and the Lion | 120 |
| Grasshopper and Cricket | 123 |
| Turtle and Coyote | 124 |
| Coyote and Rabbit | 126 |
| Heron and Fox | 128 |
| The Cat and the Monkey | 129 |
| In Rabbit's House | 131 |
| Coyote and the Friendly Dogs | 132 |
| The Black Horse | 133 |
| Duck Hunter | 134 |
| Tesak Pascola's Watermelons | 135 |
| The Calabazas Funeral | 137 |
| Suawaka | 138 |
| Topol the Clever | 141 |
| Why the Animals Remain Animals | 143 |
| Coyote Woman | 144 |
| The First Fiesta | 145 |
| Bobok | 148 |
| The Five Mended Brothers | 151 |
| The First Fire | 158 |
| The Spirit Fox | 160 |
| The Yaqui Doctor | 163 |
| The Twins | 166 |
| The Snake of the Hill of Nohme | 171 |
| Tukawiru | 172 |
| Cho'oko Baso | 176 |
| REFERENCES | 177 |