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Yurok stories in English

This list is very incomplete. For full references see the Bibliography.

I. Published in Kroeber's The languages of the coast north of S.F. (1911)

1. "Woxpekumeu" (p. 424)
2. "Pulekuqwerek" (p. 425)
3. "Buzzard" (pp. 425-26)

II. Published in J. Sapir's "Yurok tales" (1928)

1. "Wohpekumeu" (pp. 253-254)
2. "Coyote and the acorns" (pp. 254-255)
3. "How Coyote got his tail" (pp. 255-256)
4. "Coyote goes fishing" (p. 256)
5. "Coyote and the sun" (p. 256)
6. "Coyote and Cottontail Rabbit" (pp. 257-258)
7. "The woman who killed men" (p. 258)
8. "How the birds got their feathers" (pp. 258-259)
9. "Bear and the birds" (p. 259)
10. "Brown Bear and Black Bear" (pp. 259-260)
11. "Deer's acorns: (p. 261)

III. Published in Spott & Kroeber's Yurok narratives (1942)

1. "Tipsy's marriage" (pp. 143-44)
2. "Spott's marriage" (pp. 144-48)
3. "Between two families" (pp. 148-49)
4. "Spott's slaves" (pp. 149-52)
5. "The Osegen slave at Espeu" (pp. 152-53)
6. "The doctor who could not achieve her power" (pp. 153-57)
7. "Hegwono: Confession to a doctor" (pp. 157-58)
8. "A doctor acquires power" (pp. 158-64)
9. "Doctors treating one another" (p. 164)
10. "Great doctors" (pp. 164-171)
11. "The First-Salmon Rite at Welkwäu" (pp. 171-179)
12. "Visit to a Wiyot dance" (pp. 179-180)
13. "Tolowa dances I have seen" (pp. 180-82)
14. "Sea Lion flipper rights" (pp. 182-91)
15. "Sea Lion flipper rights" (second version) (pp. 191-99)
16. "Fight with the Kerometsä" (pp. 200-202)
17. "The war with Hupa" (pp. 202-209)
18. "The Wiyot obsidian dowry" (pp. 210-211)
19. "The obsidian paid to Hupa" (pp. 211-214)
20. "Kegesamui: Return from death" (pp. 214-17)
21. "Ten boats" (pp. 217-219)
22. "The doctor from Repôkw" (pp. 219-223)
23. "The inland whale" (pp. 224-227)
24. "Brave from the thunders" (pp. 227-32)
25. "Wohpekumeu's origin" (pp. 232-33)
26. "Mankind sprung from a bitch" (pp. 233-35)
27. "The old dog" (pp. 235-238)
28. "Married at Rummai" (pp. 238-239)
29. "Owl and basket weft" (p. 239)
30. "Sikkili" (pp. 239-240)
31. "Grizzly Bear and Seal Rock" (pp. 240-41)
32. "Sea Otter, Sea Lion and Seal" (pp. 241-42)
33. "Danger from Pulekuk" (pp. 242-44)
34. "The white deerskin dance and Welkwäu" (pp. 244-49)
35. "The shell's boat dance into the ocean" (pp. 249-50)
36. "Upriver-ocean girl" (pp. 250-52)

IV. Published in Robins' The Yurok language (1958)

1. "The mourning dove" (pp. 155-57)
2. "The story of the Klamath River song" (pp. 158-61)
3. "Wohpekumew and the salmon" (pp. 162-63)
4. "The owl" (pp. 162-63)
5. "The fox and the coon" (pp. 164-65)
6. "The toad and the mouse" (pp. 164-65)
7. "The young man from Serper" (pp. 164-71)
8. Florence Shaughnessy: "The first salmon rite at Wehlkwew" (pp. 171-83)

V. Published in Kroeber's Yurok myths (1976)

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VI. Published in E. Sapir's "Yurok texts" (2001, ed. by Berman)

1. Mary Marshall: "Coyote and crane"
2. Mary Marshall: "Coyote tries to kill the sun".