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Title: Umotina Story #1
Identifier(s): audio:9974; APSdigrec_4164; Recording Number: 01; Program Number: 02
Description: Umotina mythological story told in Umotina. Same story previously told in Portuguese. (See Related Recordings.) Description of recording session available in the Aryon D. Rodrigues correspondence file in the Floyd Lounsbury papers.; Program runs fast.
Source: Floyd Glenn Lounsbury papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.95); http://amphilsoc.org/mole/view?docId=ead/Mss.Ms.Coll.95-ead.xml
Subject: Umotina language; Umotina Indians; Creation--Mythology
Date: 1950

Title: Creator story
Identifier(s): audio:5346; APSdigrec_3019; Recording Number: 16; Program Number: 07
Description: Cocopa transcription and English translation found in the James M. Crawford papers (MS Coll. 66). Published version in James M. Crawford's "Cocopa Texts" (University of California Press, 1983). This program is a copy made to sound tape reel by the collector of APSdigrec_2976. See Related Recording.
Source: Crawford, James M. Recordings of Native American languages, 1956-1973. (Mss.Rec.184);
Subject: Cocopa mythology; Creation--Mythology; Cocopa language
Date: 1963-06-28

Title: Creator story
Identifier(s): audio:5295; APSdigrec_2976; Recording Number: 10; Program Number: 02
Description: Cocopa transcription and English translation found in the James M. Crawford papers (MS Coll. 66). Published version in James M. Crawford's "Cocopa Texts" (University of California Press, 1983).
Source: Crawford, James M. Recordings of Native American languages, 1956-1973. (Mss.Rec.184);
Subject: Cocopa mythology; Creation--Mythology; Cocopa language
Date: 1963-06-28

Title: The creation of the world
Identifier(s): audio:5161; APSdigrec_2921; Recording Number: 02; Program Number: 08
Source: Crawford, James M. Recordings of Native American languages, 1956-1973. (Mss.Rec.184);
Subject: Alabama language; Alabama Indians--Folklore; Creation--Mythology
Date: 1973

Title: The Book of the Indians
Identifier(s): audio:3158; APSdigrec_4405; Recording Number: 01; Program Number: 08
Source: Epstein, Richard. Ten Stories in Jamul Diegueno, 1995. (Mss.Rec.264); http://www.amphilsoc.org/collections/view?docId=ead/Mss.Rec.264-ead.xml
Subject: Kumiai language; Kumiai mythology; Creation--Mythology
Date: 1995

Title: Umotina Story #1 (Portuguese)
Identifier(s): audio:9973; APSdigrec_4163; Recording Number: 01; Program Number: 01
Description: Umotina mythological story told in Portuguese. Same story subsequently told in Umotina. (See Related Recordings.) Description of recording session available in the Aryon D. Rodrigues correspondence file in the Floyd Lounsbury papers.; Program runs fast.
Source: Floyd Glenn Lounsbury papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.95); http://amphilsoc.org/mole/view?docId=ead/Mss.Ms.Coll.95-ead.xml
Subject: Umotina language; Umotina Indians; Creation--Mythology
Date: 1950

Title: Rocks
Identifier(s): audio:3161; APSdigrec_4408; Recording Number: 01; Program Number: 11
Source: Epstein, Richard. Ten Stories in Jamul Diegueno, 1995. (Mss.Rec.264); http://www.amphilsoc.org/collections/view?docId=ead/Mss.Rec.264-ead.xml
Subject: Kumiai language; Kumiai mythology; Creation--Mythology
Date: 1995

Title: Umotina Story #1: Portuguese translation
Identifier(s): audio:9960; APSdigrec_4175; Recording Number: 01; Program Number: 01
Description: Translation into Portuguese of previously recorded Umotina story played back in portions from original wire recording. (See Related Recordings.) Description of recording session available in the Aryon D. Rodrigues correspondence file in the Floyd Lounsbury papers.; Program runs fast.
Source: Floyd Glenn Lounsbury papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.95); http://amphilsoc.org/mole/view?docId=ead/Mss.Ms.Coll.95-ead.xml
Subject: Umotina language; Umotina Indians; Creation--Mythology
Date: 1950

Title: When the World Began [2 of 2]; Some Sentences Continued and Concluded; The Neighbors' Fight [beginning]
Identifier(s): audio:5815; APSdigrec_0053; Recording Number: 06; Program Number: 01
Source: Swadesh, Morris. Stories in Chitimacha, [1931]. (Mss.Rec.7);
Subject: Chitimacha language; Chitimacha Indians--Folklore; Creation--Mythology
Date: 1934

Title: Old Coyote, Fox, and the creation of islands [2 of 2]
Identifier(s): audio:15385; APSdigrec_6032; 03; 03
Description: Story told in English only.
Subject: Okanagan Indians--Folklore; Coyote (Legendary character)--Legends; Creation--Mythology
Date: 1980-11

Title: The Thunder's Dog, and the Origin of the Milky Way (English)
Identifier(s): audio:19463; APSdigrec_6868; Recording Number: 22; Program Number: 01
Description: Recorded on SoundScriber disc.
Source: Harris, Zellig S. Cherokee materials, 1941-1946. (Subcollection I2.4 of American Council of Learned Societies) (Mss.497.3.B63c); http://www.amphilsoc.org/mole/view?docId=ead/Mss.497.3.B63c-ead.xml
Subject: Cherokee Indians--Folklore; Creation--Mythology; Milky Way--Folklore
Date: 1945-08-24

Title: Old Coyote, Fox, and the creation of islands [1 of 2]
Identifier(s): audio:15382; APSdigrec_6031; 03; 02
Description: Story told in English only.
Subject: Okanagan Indians--Folklore; Coyote (Legendary character)--Legends; Creation--Mythology
Date: 1980-11

Title: The Thunder's Dog, and the Origin of the Milky Way (Cherokee)
Identifier(s): audio:19464; APSdigrec_6869; Recording Number: 22; Program Number: 02
Description: Recorded on SoundScriber disc.
Source: Harris, Zellig S. Cherokee materials, 1941-1946. (Subcollection I2.4 of American Council of Learned Societies) (Mss.497.3.B63c); http://www.amphilsoc.org/mole/view?docId=ead/Mss.497.3.B63c-ead.xml
Subject: Cherokee Indians--Folklore; Creation--Mythology; Milky Way--Folklore
Date: 1945-08-24

Title: Creation of the world and the various people in the world, followed by Coyote and the name-giving episode
Identifier(s): audio:15391; APSdigrec_6034; 04; 01
Description: Story told in English only. "Creation of the world, of the various people in the world, concluding with the twins, the white man and the Indian. Then Harry returns to the Coyote and the name-giving episode."
Subject: Okanagan Indians--Folklore; Coyote (Legendary character)--Legends; Creation--Mythology
Date: 1980-11

Title: Story about dogs and going to heaven, given in English, with additional discussion
Identifier(s): audio:6525; APSdigrec_3210; Recording Number: 12A; Program Number: 04
Description: Story about the importance of being good to dogs and their role in deciding who gets in to heaven, followed by discussion and brief story of Grandmother's creation of the world.
Source: Norcross, Amoena. Shawnee language recordings, 1994. (Mss.Rec.236);
Subject: Dogs--Folklore; Shawnee Indians--Religion; Future life; Creation--Mythology
Date: 1994

Title: Hidatsa Creation Myth
Identifier(s): audio:4932; APSdigrec_0787; Recording Number: 17; Program Number: 02
Description: Copied by collector from his original tapes. This is the collector's original tape 47, program 1.The Hidatsa language is identified as such in the recording's accompanying documentation, but on the recording itself it is referred to by one of its alternate names, "Gros Ventre." This Gros Ventre is not to be confused with the Arapahoan language of the same name.
Source: Bowers, Alfred W. Mandan-Hidatsa ethnohistory and linguistics, Fort Berthold Reservation, 1967-1969. (Mss.Rec.81);
Subject: Anthropological linguistics; Hidatsa Indians--Folklore; Hidatsa mythology; Creation--Mythology
Date: 1969

Title: A First Creator story
Identifier(s): audio:4019; APSdigrec_1845; Recording Number: 05; Program Number: 07
Description: In Hidatsa only. This program was originally recorded on the collector's original tape 75, channel 2.
Source: Bowers, Alfred W. Mandan-Hidatsa cultural change and language studies, 1967-1972. (Mss.Rec.84);
Subject: Hidatsa language; Hidatsa Indians--Folklore; Hidatsa mythology; Creation--Mythology
Date: 1971

Title: Old Coyote, the Big Chief, the Flood, and the creation of the world
Identifier(s): audio:15388; APSdigrec_6033; 03; 04
Description: Story told in English only.
Subject: Okanagan Indians--Folklore; Coyote (Legendary character)--Legends; Creation--Mythology; Floods--Folklore
Date: 1980-11

Title: Red Man in Michigan: The Story of Corn
Identifier(s): audio:13323; APSdigrec_5077; 01; 01; 03
Description: Part of a series, "Red Man in Michigan," broadcast on WUOM radio in Ann Arbor, Michigan. These programs use extensive clips from field recordings made by Gertrude Prokosch Kurath.
Subject: Radio programs; Indians of North America--Michigan; Creation--Mythology; Corn--Folklore
Date: 1960

Title: How SArani gai made the world [2 of 3]
Identifier(s): audio:6810; APSdigrec_1647; Recording Number: 06; Program Number: 02
Description: Primarily in English, with occasional Ahtna.
Source: De Laguna, Frederica. Materials recorded at Copper Center, Alaska, 1960. (Mss.Rec.41);
Subject: Ahtena language; Raven (Legendary character)--Legends; Creation--Mythology; Ahtena Indians--Folklore
Date: 1960-08-11