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Contents

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

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