Coyote Dance


Coyote Stories/Poems

Stories

A Coyote's Tales (Tohono O'odham - Papago)
Antelopes Take Arrows from Coyote 1 (Apache)
Antelopes Take Arrows from Coyote 2 (Apache)
Bluebird and the Coyote (Pima)
Coyote and Beaver (Apache)
Coyote and Beaver Play Tricks On Each Other (Apache)
Coyote and Beetle (Apache)
Coyote and Bobcat Scratch Each Other (Apache)
Coyote Gets Rich Off The White Men
(Apache)
Coyote Proves Himself A Cannibal
(Apache)
Coyote and His Mother-in-Law (Apache)
Coyote and Multnomah Falls (Wasco)
Coyote and Porcupine Contend For a Buffalo (Apache)
Coyote and the Another One (Chippewa)
Coyote and The Expanding Meat (Apache)
Coyote and the Hen (Mayan)
Coyote and the Mexicans (Apache)
Coyote and the Monsters of the Bitterroot Valley (Flathead/Salish)
Coyote and The Pitch Baby (Apache)
Coyote and the Rolling Rock (Blackfeet/Salish)
Coyote and The Two Running Rocks (Apache)
Coyote and Yellow Jacket (Apache)
Coyote Apes His Hosts (Apache)
Coyote As Eye-Juggler (Apache)
Coyote Burns His Children (Apache)
Coyote Challenges Never-Grows-Larger
Coyote Chases The Rocks (Apache)
Coyote Comes to Life Four Times (Apache)
Coyote Dances with the Prairie Dogs (Apache)
Coyote Deceives a Woman (Apache)
Coyote in The Underworld (Apache)
Coyote Insults the Rock (Apache)
Coyote is Disobeyed by Turkey (Apache)
Coyote is Revenged on Wildcat (Apache)
Coyote is Shot With a Pine Tree (Apache)
Coyote Kills a Giant (Dine/Navajo)
Coyote Kills Deer with His Ceremony (Apache)
Coyote Kills His Own Child Instead of the Turkeys (Apache)
Coyote Kills His Wife and Carries Her Body (Apache)
Coyote Kills the Prairie Dogs (Apache)
Coyote Loses His Bow and Arrows to Antelope (Apache)
Coyote Loses His Eyes (Apache)
Coyote Loses The Power to Obtain Food (Apache)
Coyote Marries His Own Daughter (Apache)
Coyote Marries Under False Pretenses (Apache)
Coyote Obtains Fire (Apache)
Coyote Plays Tricks on OwlThe Vomit Exchange
Coyote Steals a Man's Wife (Apache)
Coyote Steals Another Man's Wife (Apache)
Coyote Takes Arrows From Owl (Apache)
Coyote Tries to Make His Children Spotted (Apache)
Coyote Visits Buffalo (Apache)
Coyote Visits The Red Ants
Coyote vs. Duck (Apache)
Coyote's Adventures in Idaho (Flathead/Salish)
Coyote's Salmon (Sanpoil)
Desert Tortoise and Coyote (Yaqui)
Fire Race (Karuk)
Old Man Coyote makes the world
Rabbit and the Coyote (Mayan)
Rabbit Fools Coyote (Apache)
Rabbit Scares Coyote Away (Apache)
Skunk Outwits Coyote
The Meeting (Dog's Tails)
Why Coyote Stopped Imitating His Friends (Caddo)
Why Mount Shasta Erupted (Shasta)

Coyote's Home Page

Poems

Coyote Gulch
Coyote Morning


Other Coyote Pages

Mourning Dove: Coyote Stories
Coyote: Wildlife Information
Little Wolf
Alabama Coyote Photo


Coyote Morning

Old men
and old coyote dogs
boil their dreams in the sun
served steaming within a bowl
filled with shadows
rolling sticks onto the ground
and making wild songs
while they smack their lips
and spit out the dust
blown in by the winds
nameless
and place-less
but hard to ignore.


Coyote Gulch

Coyote runs along the river
trees
offer their roots to the rhythm
which is deeper
quieter
moving with the sun
my memories are a 4-legged
song.


Coyote and the Stars

Coyote is just being coyote when he sees the Creator placing the stars in the sky from a bag in a very orderly manner. Coyote asks if he can help and the Creator lets coyote place stars in the sky reminding him to be sure and put the stars up in an orderly manner. Coyote does it correctly, but, as is his nature, coyote becomes impatient and throws the whole bag of stars into the sky distributing the stars helter skelter. The Creator scolds him for his carelessness and for the mess he made. Coyote leaves with his tail between his legs. Soon, however, Coyote goes back to being a coyote, only after that he howls at night when he sees the mess he made with the stars.


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Compiled by: Glenn Welker




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