Introduction: literary gambling sticks / Gerald Vizenor -- Editor's note / Ronald Spatz -- I·ya·qdalahgayu·,dałiʹqʹlagadaʹa·łinu·-Lament for Eyak (with facing translation in Eyak) / Anna Nelson Harry -- Lake-dwarves / Anna Nelson Harry -- Giant rat / Anna Nelson Harry -- ₋Kul ₋Kʹaluudaay-Moldy Collar Tip ( with facing translation in Haida) / Victor Haldane -- Fish story: Karta Bay / Victor Haldane -- Shag and the Raven / Victor Haldane -- Story of the double fin killer whale / Victor Haldane -- Beaver and Ground Hog were pals / Jessie Neal Natkong -- Haida hunters and legend of the two fin killer whale / George Hamilton -- Yʹeil ₋ka lʹa₋xʹ kʹeet yaanaayʹi ₋xʹʹeida₋x sh kalnʹeek ₋keixwnʹeich kawshixʹit-Raven, Seagull and Crane (with facing translation in Tlingit) / Willie Marks -- Speech for the removal of grief / David Kadashan -- Speech for the removal of grief / Jessie Dalton -- Speech for the removal of grief / Austin Hammond -- Nda ckshun Tckaimsom dis Laggabula-When Tckaimson and Laggabula gambled (with facing translation in Tsimshian) / William Beynon -- Tsetsaut history: the forgotten tribe of southern southeast Alaska / Reginald Dangeli -- Saĝim tayaĝuu uluuqidâx-The man of Saĝîx dried meat (with facing translation in Unangan/Aleut) / Isidor Solovyov -- Atkan historical traditions / Cedor L. Snigaroff -- Puglaʹallria (with facing translation in Alutiiq/Sugcestun) / Ignatius Kosbruk -- Ivan Durak steals a ring / Dick Kamluck, Sr. -- A bear story / Walter Meganarck, Sr. -- Qulireq-Tale (with facing translation in Yupʹik) / Leo Moses -- The crow and the mink / Mary Worm -- The first whales / Kirt Bell -- Ivaghulluk Ilagaata-Prayer song asking for a whale (with facing translation in St. Lawrence Island Yupik) / Lincoln Blassi -- Kivalliñġmi pilg̣uruaq aġnaq-The Kivalina war heroine (with facing translation in Iñupiaq / Clinton Swan -- Shamanic flights / Frank Ellanna -- The boy who found the lost / Laura Norton -- Kʹeła sukdu-The mouse story (with facing translation in Denaʹina Athabaskan / Peter Kalifornsky -- The gambling story / Peter Kalifornsky -- Raven and the half-human / Peter Kalinfornsky -- The boy who talked to the dog / Peter Kalifornsky -- About shamans and the men with gashaq / Peter Kalifornsky -- The old Denaʹina beliefs / Peter Kalifornsky -- The Susitna story / Shem Pete -- Raven and the mallard girl / John Fredson -- Wolverine and the wolves / John Fredson -- Ggaadookk / Sally Pilot -- Saginaw Bay: I keep going back / Robert H. Davis -- Egg boat / Nora Marks Dauenhauer -- Grandmother Eliza / Nora Marks Dauenhauer -- Museum / Nora Marks Dauenhauer -- Why subsistence is a matter of cultural survival: a Yupʹik point of view / John Active -- Asraaq, the girl who became a she-bear / Sister Goodwin -- When the owl disappeared / Sister Goodwin -- Sacrifice: a dream / a vision / Sister Goodwin -- Nomadic Iñupiat for Kappaisruk / Sister Goodwin -- Piksinñaq / Sister Goodwin -- Shagoon 1,2,3,4 / Andrew Hope III -- Diyeikee / Andrew Hope III -- Native identity: what kind of native are you? / Eleanor Hadden -- Night without dawn / Glen Simpson -- Tahltan country / Glen Simpson -- Traveling in the land of the native art historians / Glen Simpson -- Front Street / Glen Simpson -- Seed potatoes and foxgloves / Julie Coburn -- Raven speaks to Haidas / Julie Coburn -- There is no such thing as an Aleut / Barbara Svarnʹy Carlson -- O dark sister / Mary TallMountain -- Seahorse music / Mary TallMountain -- Nuliajuk, a sequence / Mary TallMountain -- Super cockroach tale / Tim Afcan, Sr. -- Salmon in the pond / Randall Johnson -- Magic maker / Buell Anakak -- What hope can do / Mary Jane Nielsen -- Candle Lite / June McGlashan -- It is very quiet / June McGlashan -- Mood music / Jeane Breinig -- A house I remember / George Westdahl -- Gaslight / Fred Bigjim -- Ballet in Bethel / Fred Bigjim -- Untitled / Andrew Evan -- Cannery children / Mary Jane Peterson -- Willow was her name / Dixie Alexander -- The anti-depression Uliimaaq / Susie Silook -- Uncle good intentions / Susie Silook -- Adventure in Chinatown 1958 / Susie Silook -- Wolves / Anna Smith -- Watsʹix Shaayhʹ mountains / Anna Smith -- Naatasse Hʹeen / Anna Smith -- River woman (from Spirit of Woman) / Diane L₋xʹeisʹ Benson -- What she wanted / Diane L₋xʹeisʹ Benson -- Now they wannaBE us / Diane L₋xʹeisʹ Benson -- Translation issues / Marie Meade -- Considerations about the oral tradition and writing / William Schneider -- Oral and written narrative / Patricia H. Partnow -- Genres across cultures / Patricia H. Partnow -- Political perspective and literary framework for the text commentaries / Jeane Breinig -- Cultural and historical text commentaries / Jeane Breinig, Patricia H. Partnow -- A talk with Peter Kalifornsky: the stories are for us to learn something from / Katherine McNamara.