How a mountain was made : stories / Greg Sarris.

"These stories first appeared in the Federated Indians of Graton Rancheria's tribal newsletter."

The pretty woman and the necklace -- Crow and Buzzard have a hunting competition -- Mole finds two wives -- Centipede calls for a foot race -- Lizard and Mockingbird kidnap Rock's daughters -- Waterbug walks away with copeland creek -- Rattlesnake wins Hummingbird's heart -- Coyote creates a costume fit for a chief -- Skunk unleashes the night -- Bat brothers banish warm wind -- Ant uncovers a plot -- Rain finds a home in the sky -- Old Man Crow asks his twin daughters to gossip -- Coyote throws his sons into the sky -- Coyote creates people -- The pretty woman latches her necklace.

"It is said that Coyote was sitting atop Sonoma Mountain when he decided to create the world and people, and many of the songs that Coast Miwok and Southern Pomo people have sung since the beginning of time are gifts from the mountain. The stories go on and on because the mountain itself has so many things--rocks and animals; birds and grasses, fish, frogs, springs and creek, trees--and many of the stories connect with other stories, just as the animals and plants and all other things on Sonoma Mountain connect with one another. In this book of stories from the award-winning author of Grand Avenue, Greg Sarris retells sixteen creation stories from his ancestral homeland."--Provided by publisher.