The Walking People : Table of Contents
IThe First Principal Telling 1
The Land of So Long No One Remembers How Long 4
The Day of Rocks Like Rain 17
The Great Dryness and How the People Learned a New Way 26
How the People Walked North and Learned to Live with Dryness 33
How the People Crossed the Grassland and How They Found Walk by Waters 36
How the People Learned the Way of Many Wisdoms 41
Water’s Edge 56
II The Second Principal Telling 79
The Crossing 81
A Forest of Mountains 118
They Walk Beyond 163
The Southern Path 208
Two Strong Brothers 215
Circles on the Earth 233
The Way West 242
The Water Walking People 272
Ancient Songs 312
Beginning Song 314
Who Are the Human Beings 331
How We Came to Value Age 343
They Dwell in Round Houses 371
Ocean Again 378
Growing Woman 399
The Way East . . . Sad Partings 417
III Three Mountain Tellings 433
Sees Beyond: How Vision Is One Thing and Understanding Another 435
Fly Like Eagle: The Telling of One Who Could Not Walk 451
Sheltered Valley 474
IV Grass Ocean 495
Dark Ocean 501
Squash Sister 504
Squash Blossom 507
Two Ways 509
Small Fruit 512
Ocean Coming Like a Great Wall 517
Squash Blossom’s Children 526
Ocean Crossing 528
V First People’s Child: Many paths to Learning 535
VI We Call the River Beautiful 549
The Telling of Red Squirrel and Grey 556
The Telling of Grey Squirrel 572
The Telling of Red Squirrel 589
The Sun People 604
Meeting 616
Their Way 623
Their Song 632
Further Learnings 643
Great Earth Snake 660
And We Leave Them 666
VII The Eastern Ocean 671
The Stone Hill People 681
The Western Way 695
Understanding 705
We Search 713
VIII Beautiful Lake 717
Many Learnings 728
A Different Way 789
IX Addenda 805
A. Annotations 806
B. Evolution of Conceptualization 812
C. Evolution of Process: Governance 816
D. Notes 818
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