Spider Woman's Web

Introduction Key to Symbols One: Spider Woman Saves Ko-chin-ni-na-ko Keresan, Southwest Connections Two: Spider Woman's Web Athabaskan, Alaska Connections Three: Qi-yo Ke-pe, The Great Healer Keresan, Southwest Connections Four: The Woman Whose Heart Became Ice Micmac, Northeast Connections Five: Sedna, Mistress of the Underworld Inuit, Alaska Connections Six: The Worm That Devoured Women Cherokee, Southeast Connections Seven: White Star Woman and Great Star Man Pawnee, Great Plains Connections Eight: Ataensie, The Woman Who Fell from the Sky Iroquois, Northeast Connections Nine: The Origin of Corn Abenaki, Northeast Connections Ten: First Woman and the People Navajo, Southwest Connections Eleven: White Buffalo Woman Lakota (Sioux), Great Plains Connections Twelve: The Buffalo Wife Piegan (Blackfeet), Great Plains Connections Thirteen: Sweet Corn Woman's Tale Tewa, Southwest Connections Fourteen: The Women Warriors Tewa, Southwest Connections Fifteen: Coyote Marries His Daughter Ute, Great Basin Connections Sixteen: The Abandoned Children White Clay People (Gros Ventre), Great Plains Connections Seventeen: The Two Sisters and Their Aunt Miwok, California Connections Eighteen: The Woman Who Kept Secrets Hopi, Southwest Connections Nineteen: The Quilt of Men's Eyes Seneca, Northeast Connections Twenty: The Kidnapped Wife and the Dream Helper Piegan (Blackfeet), Great Plains Connections Twenty-One: The Woman Who Built the First Medicine Lodge Piegan (Blackfeet), Great Plains Twenty-Two: The Dream of Double Woman Lakota (Sioux), Great Plains Connections Twenty-Three: The Woman Who Married the Sea Samish (Coast Salish), Northwest Coast Connections Twenty-Four: The Beginning of Wisdom and Law Yakima, Plateau Connections Twenty-Five: Dancing for Nomtaimet Wintu, California Connections Afterword Acknowledgments For Further Reading Index About the Author About the Covers