Table of Contents:
  • Winter: Sleepy time / Frank Lapena
  • from "Coyote's journey" / Karuk
  • Coyote and the moons / Shasta
  • The Wolf makes the snow cold / Maidu
  • from "Coyote and his sister" / Yana
  • The burial / Stephen Meadows
  • New Year's Day / Janice Gould
  • Winter beginning, winter ending / Sylvia Ross
  • Petroglyph / Deborah Miranda
  • Winter comes / Georgiana Valoyce-Sanchez
  • Ascui (when the ice cracks) / Darryl Wilson
  • Frost / Greg Sarris.
  • Spring: Songs of spring / Frank Lapena
  • from "Four dream cult songs" / Wintu
  • The lazy man and the Tamciye / Atsugewi
  • Spring dance / Nomlaki
  • Picking yucca flowers / Dorothy Ramon
  • Conception / Shaunna Oteka McCovey
  • Iris / Greg Sarris
  • In the mountains / Stephen Meadows
  • Water / Deborah Miranda
  • Kweme Psukitok, Spring Maiden / Darryl Wilson
  • Flower maiden / Amal.
  • Summer: The sound of insects and heat / Frank Lapena
  • Rattlesnake ceremony song / Yokuts
  • from "The Quail legend" / Francisco Patencio
  • Why people did not kill Tarantulas / Dorothy Ramon
  • In praise of August / Deborah Miranda
  • Summer 1945 / Georgiana Valoyce-Sanchez
  • In the water over stones / Stephen Meadows
  • Fireworks / Shaunna Oteka McCovey
  • Haiku/Senryu / Roberta Cordero
  • Osprey / Greg Sarris.
  • Fall: Gathering and feast time / Frank Lapena
  • from Ishi's Tale of Lizard / Ishi, translated by Leanne Hinton
  • The Acorn / Lucy Thompson
  • Coyote and Raccoon / Shasta
  • Puimeminmak, the Deer Maker / Wintu
  • Faith / Deborah Miranda
  • Guns and roses / Sylvia Ross
  • The eye of the flute / Georgiana Valoyce-Sanchez
  • U.C. Mascot, 1959 / Janice Gould
  • Embolus / Shaunna Oteka McCovey
  • Splashes of red, Autumn 1867, Tawutlamit Wusci / Darryl Wilson
  • Alejandro / Stephen Meadows.