PREFACE Some of the tales contained in this book have already been published in the San Francisco Chrorr ick, Los Angeles Times, Samst, Popalar Edixcator, ChzGdrcns World, and Good Hozlsekee i g. The stories from Lower California, as related by Tecla, were told to me by Mrs. Jules Sirnoneau of Monterey, California, who is an Indian from Mazatlan. The sources of those chapters contain ing stories of Alta California are as follows old Deer and Old Grizzly, Albert Samuel Gatschet in The Uni2cd Statgx Gcographzcal and GmGogical Survey of the Rocky Mountai Region Contm-h tium to North Anzericaw Ethnology, 11, Part I, I 18 Why the. Coyote is so Cunning, Stephen Powers,35 How the Animals secured Fire, 38 Coyotes Ride on a Star, 39 How the Animals secured Light, 182 Why the Bat is Blind, 343 dLThe C reation of Man, 3 j 8 The Creation of the WorId, 273, and J. Otven Dorsey in The Amam an Arzthropologist, 11, 38 the Story of the Pleiades, Alexander S. Taylor in The Cdz vr-Plia Farmer, c Indianology of California, January 18, 1861. The Oregon country represented by Klayukats tales is meant to include the vast un bounded territory known by that name previous to 1848. The material for the stories was garnered from the following books How the Animals got their Colors, Franz Boas, Blcrea of Amtncan Etlrrzology Kntlrlanrrt MS, Bul kfin 26, 39 t t Why there is only One Southwest Wind, 67 The Robin and the Salmon Berry, r I 8 Why the Owl eats only Small Creatures, TAe Pacz c North west Ortgo7t artd Wns Eingtun, 2 vols., com piled and published by the Northwest Pacific His tory Company, Portland, Oregon, 1889, 11, 66 dt The Subjugation of the Thunderbird, 67 How the Animals secured Salmon, 68 Why the Tickis now Small, 69 The Frog in the Moon, 70 4t Why the Sun travels regularly, 70 Why the Mosquito hates Smoke, 74 Why the Snakes change their Skins, 76 h th y e De ad do not come back, 80 While the essentials of the stories have been retained, the n k t i v e s have been elaborated and modified. The setting of three Indians from different tribes on the same Californian ranch is historically true. Indian servants from Mexico and Lower California accompanied the pioneers northward the California Indians who were taught trades at the Missions of ten drifted into the service of the families and the records of San Carlos Mission show that on November I 4, I 79 r, seventeen natives of Paerta de San Loreazo de N tka cn el Estrechos de Sas jaan de Fm were baptized into the Holy Catholic Church at that Mission, I am indebted to Miss Harriet Hawley of New York for criticism both of the spirit and the tech nique of these stories, and to my sister, Mabel G. Chandler, for assistance in correction. XATHERINE CHANDLER PAGE THE F ROG AND THE COYOTE . . . . . . . . 3 THE C REATION O F THE WORLD . . 7 How THE ANIMALS SE CURED LIGHT . . . . 14 WHY T HE MOSQUITO HATES SMOKE . . . . . . s 8 WHY T HE SNAKES C HANGE THEIR SKINS . . . 43 WHY THERE IS ONLY ONE SOUTHWE W ST IN D . . 47 THE FOX AND THE COYOTE . . . . . . . . . 5 6 THE FROG IN THE MOON . . . . . . . . . 59 How THE ANIMALS G OT THEIR COLORS . . . . 63 xii CONTENTS THE R OBIX A ND TIIE SALMO B N E RRY . . . . . A 8 G 5 E How THE ANIMALS S ECURED SALMON . . . . . 95 WHY THE TICK I S KDW SMALL . . . . . ...