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Tables of Contents for Always Coming Home
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
A First Note
xi
 
The Quail Song
1
2
Towards an Archaeology of the Future
3
4
Stone Telling, Part One
7
36
The Serpentine Codex
43
3
Chart of the Nine Houses
46
4
Where It Is
50
3
Pandora Worries about What She is Doing: The Pattern
53
1
Some Stories Told Aloud
54
15
Some Stories Told Aloud One Evening
54
3
Shahugoten
57
3
The Keeper
60
3
Dried Mice
63
1
Dira
64
5
Poems, First Section
69
14
How to Die in the Valley
83
12
Pandora Sitting by the Creek
95
1
Four Romantic Tales
96
16
The Miller
97
1
Lost
98
5
The Brave Man
103
4
At the Springs of Orlu
107
5
Poems, Second Section
112
9
Four Histories
121
26
Old Women Hating
121
8
A War with the Pig People
129
5
The Town of Chumo
134
2
The Trouble with the Cotton People
136
11
Pandora Worrying About What She is Doing: She Addresses the Reader with Agitation
147
2
Time and The City
149
24
The City
149
5
A Hole in the Air
154
3
Big Man and Little Man
157
3
Beginnings
160
3
Time in the Valley
163
10
Stone Telling, Part Two
173
29
Dramatic Works
202
37
A Note on the Valley Stage
202
1
The Wedding Night at Chukulmas
203
10
The Shouting Man, the Red Woman, and the Bears
213
5
Tabetupah
218
3
The Plumed Water
221
5
Chandi
226
13
Pandora, Worrying About What She is Doing, Finds a Way into the Valley Through the Scrub Oak
239
3
Dancing the Moon
242
9
Poems, Third Section
251
12
Eight Life Stories
263
42
The Train
265
1
She Listens
266
1
Junco
267
4
The Bright Void of the Wind
271
2
White Tree
273
2
The Third Child's Story
275
5
The Dog at the Door
280
2
The Visionary: The Life Story of Flicker of the Serpentine of Telina-na
282
23
Some Brief Valley Texts
305
9
Pandora Converses with the Archivist of the Library of the Madrone Lodge at Wakwaha-Na
314
4
Dangerous People
318
21
A Note about the Novel
318
1
Chapter Two
319
20
Pandora Gently to the Gentle Reader
339
1
Stone Telling, Part Three
340
47
Messages Concerning the Condor
377
4
About a Meeting Concerning the Warriors
381
6
Poems, Fourth Section
387
22
From the People of the Houses of Earth in the Valley...
404
5
The Back of the Book
Long Names of Houses
409
5
Some of the Other People of the Valley
414
10
Animals of the Obsidian
414
6
Animals of the Blue Clay
420
4
Kinfolk
424
6
Lodges, Societies, Arts
430
4
What they Wore in the Valley
434
3
What they Ate
437
7
Kesh Musical Instruments
444
6
Maps
450
4
The World Dance
454
8
The Sun Dance
462
7
About the Train
469
2
Some Notes on Medical Practices
471
7
A Treatise on Practices
478
2
Playing
480
3
Some Generative Metaphors
483
3
Three Poems by Pandora
486
2
Living on the Coast, Energy, and Dancing
488
5
Love
493
1
Written Kesh
494
5
Alphabet and Pronunciation
496
3
The Modes of Earth and Sky
499
1
A Note and a Chart Concerning Narrative Modes
500
2
Spoken and Written Literature
502
4
Pandora no Longer Worrying
506
3
Glossary
509
16
Kesh Numbers
509
16
Stammersong
525