***OKA-001*** THE SPIRIT CHIEF NAMES THE ANIMAL PEOPLE OK05100010 HAH-AH' EEL-ME'WHEM, THE GREAT SPIRIT CHIEF, CALLED THE ANIMAL OK05100020 PEOPLE TOGETHER. THEY CAME FROM ALL PARTS OF THE WORLD. THEN THE OK05100030 SPIRIT CHIEF TOLD THEM THERE WAS TO BE A CHANGE, THAT A NEW KIND OF OK05100040 PEOPLE WAS COMING TO LIVE ON THE EARTH. OK05100050 "ALL OF YOU CHIP-CHAP-TIQULK -- ANIMAL PEOPLE -- MUST HAVE OK05100060 NAMES," THE SPIRIT CHIEF SAID. "SOME OF YOU HAVE NAMES NOW, SOME OK05100070 OF YOU HAVEN'T. BUT TOMORROW ALL WILL HAVE NAMES THAT SHALL OK05100080 BE KEPT BY YOU AND YOUR DESCENDANTS FOREVER. IN THE MORNING, AS OK05100090 THE FIRST LIGHT OF DAY SHOWS IN THE SKY, COME TO MY LODGE AND CHOOSE OK05100100 YOUR NAMES. THE FIRST TO COME MAY CHOOSE ANY NAME THAT HE OR SHE OK05100110 WANTS. THE NEXT PERSON MAY TAKE ANY OTHER NAME. THAT IS THE WAY OK05100120 IT WILL GO UNTIL ALL THE NAMES ARE TAKEN. AND TO EACH PERSON I WILL OK05100130 GIVE WORK TO DO." OK05100140 THAT TALK MADE THE ANIMAL PEOPLE VERY EXCITED. EACH WANTED OK05100150 A PROUD NAME AND THE POWER TO RULE SOME TRIBE OR SOME PART OF THE OK05100160 WORLD, AND EVERYONE DETERMINED TO GET UP EARLY AND HURRY TO THE OK05100170 SPIRIT CHIEF'S LODGE. OK05100180 SIN-KA LIP' -- COYOTE -- BOASTED THAT NO ONE WOULD BE AHEAD OK05100190 OF HIM. HE WALKED AMONG THE PEOPLE AND TOLD THEM THAT, THAT HE OK05100200 WOULD BE THE FIRST. COYOTE DID NOT LIKE HIS NAME; HE WANTED OK05100210 ANOTHER. NOBODY RESPECTED HIS NAME, IMITATOR, BUT IT FITTED HIM. HE OK05100220 WAS CALLED SIN-KA-LIP' BECAUSE HE LIKED TO IMITATE PEOPLE. HE OK05100230 THOUGHT THAT HE COULD DO ANYTHING THAT OTHER PERSONS DID, AND HE OK05100240 PRETENDED TO KNOW EVERYTHING. HE WOULD ASK A QUESTION, AND WHEN THE OK05100250 ANSWER WAS GIVEN HE WOULD SAY: OK05100260 "I KNEW THAT BEFORE. I DID NOT HAVE TO BE TOLD." OK05100270 SUCH SMART TALK DID NOT MAKE FRIENDS FOR COYOTE. NOR DID HE OK05100280 MAKE FRIENDS BY THE FOOLISH THINGS HE DID AND THE RUDE TRICKS HE OK05100290 PLAYED ON PEOPLE. OK05100300 "I SHALL HAVE MY CHOICE OF THE THREE BIGGEST NAMES," HE BOASTED. OK05100310 "THOSE NAMES ARE: KEE-LAU-NAW, THE MOUNTAIN PERSON -- GRIZZLY BEAR, OK05100320 WHO WILL RULE THE FOUR-FOOTED PEOPLE; MILKA-NOUPS -- EAGLE, WHO WILL OK05100330 RULE THE BIRDS, AND EN-TEE-TEE-UEH, THE GOOD SWIMMER -- SALMON. OK05100340 SALMON WILL BE THE CHIEF OF ALL THE FISH THAT THE NEW PEOPLE USE OK05100350 FOR FOOD." OK05100360 COYOTE'S TWIN BROTHER, FOX, WHO AT THE NEXT SUN TOOK THE NAME OK05100370 WHY-AY'-LOOH -- SOFT FUR, LAUGHED. "DO NOT BE SO SURE, SIN-KA-LIP'," OK05100380 SAID FOX. "MAYBE YOU WILL HAVE TO KEEP THE NAME YOU HAVE. PEOPLE OK05100390 DESPISE THAT NAME. NO ONE WANTS IT." OK05100400 "I AM TIRED OF THAT NAME," COYOTE SAID IN AN ANGRY VOICE. "LET OK05100410 SOMEONE ELSE CARRY IT. LET SOME OLD PERSON TAKE IT -- SOMEONE WHO OK05100420 CANNOT WIN IN WAR. I AM GOING TO BE A GREAT WARRIOR. MY SMART OK05100430 BROTHER, I WILL MAKE YOU BEG OF ME WHEN I AM CALLED GRIZZLY BEAR, OK05100440 EAGLE, OR SALMON." OK05100450 "YOUR STRONG WORDS MEAN NOTHING," SCOFFED FOX. "BETTER GO TO OK05100460 YOUR SEWHOOL-LUH (TEPEE) AND GET SOME SLEEP, OR YOU WILL NOT WAKE OK05100470 UP IN TIME TO CHOOSE ANY NAME." OK05100480 COYOTE STALKED OFF TO HIS TEPEE. HE TOLD HIMSELF THAT HE WOULD OK05100490 NOT SLEEP ANY THAT NIGHT. HE WOULD OK05100491 STAY WIDE AWAKE. HE ENTERED THE LODGE, AND HIS THREE SONS CALLED OK05100500 AS IF WITH ONE VOICE: OK05100510 "LE-EE'-OO]" ("FATHER]") OK05100520 THEY WERE HUNGRY, BUT COYOTE HAD BROUGHT THEM NOTHING TO EAT. OK05100530 THEIR MOTHER, WHO AFTER THE NAMING DAY WAS KNOWN AS PUL'-LAQU-WHU-- OK05100540 MOLE, THE MOUND DIGGER -- SAT ON HER FOOT AT ONE SIDE OF THE OK05100550 DOORWAY. MOLE WAS A GOOD WOMAN, ALWAYS LOYAL TO HER HUSBAND IN SPITE OK05100560 OF HIS MEAN WAYS, HIS MISCHIEF-MAKING, AND HIS FOOLISHNESS. SHE OK05100570 NEVER WAS JEALOUS, NEVER TALKED BACK, NEVER REPLIED TO HIS WORDS OK05100580 OF ABUSE. SHE LOOKED UP AND SAID: OK05100590 "HAVE YOU NO FOOD FOR THE CHILDREN? THEY ARE STARVING. I CAN OK05100600 FIND NO ROOTS TO DIG." OK05100610 "EH-HA]" COYOTE GRUNTED. "I AM NO COMMON PERSON TO BE OK05100620 ADDRESSED IN THAT MANNER. I AM GOING TO BE A GREAT CHIEF TOMORROW. OK05100630 DID YOU KNOW THAT? I WILL HAVE A NEW NAME. I WILL BE GRIZZLY BEAR. OK05100640 THEN I CAN DEVOUR MY ENEMIES WITH EASE. AND I SHALL NEED YOU NO OK05100650 LONGER. YOU ARE GROWING TOO OLD AND HOMELY TO BE THE WIFE OF A GREAT OK05100660 WARRIOR AND CHIEF." OK05100670 MOLE SAID NOTHING. SHE TURNED TO HER CORNER OF THE LODGE AND OK05100680 COLLECTED A FEW OLD BONES, WHICH SHE PUT INTO A KLEK'-CHIN OK05100690 (COOKING-BASKET). WITH TWO STICKS SHE LIFTED HOT STONES FROM THE OK05100700 FIRE AND DROPPED THEM INTO THE BASKET. SOON THE WATER BOILED, AND OK05100710 THERE WAS WEAK SOUP FOR THE HUNGRY CHILDREN. OK05100720 "GATHER PLENTY OF WOOD FOR THE FIRE," COYOTE ORDERED. "I AM OK05100730 GOING TO SIT UP ALL NIGHT." OK05100740 MOLE OBEYED. THEN SHE AND THE CHILDREN WENT TO BED. OK05100750 COYOTE SAT WATCHING THE FIRE. HALF OF THE NIGHT PASSED. HE GOT OK05100760 SLEEPY. HIS EYES GREW HEAVY. SO HE PICKED UP TWO LITTLE STICKS AND OK05100770 BRACED HIS EYELIDS APART. "NOW I CAN STAY AWAKE," HE THOUGHT, BUT OK05100780 BEFORE LONG HE WAS FAST ASLEEP, ALTHOUGH HIS EYES WERE WIDE OPEN. OK05100790 THE SUN WAS HIGH IN THE SKY WHEN COYOTE AWOKE. BUT FOR MOLE HE OK05100800 WOULD NOT HAVE WAKENED THEN. MOLE CALLED HIM. SHE CALLED HIM AFTER OK05100810 SHE RETURNED WITH HER NAME FROM THE SPIRIT CHIEF'S LODGE. MOLE LOVED OK05100820 HER HUSBAND. SHE DID NOT WANT HIM TO HAVE A BIG NAME AND BE A OK05100830 POWERFUL CHIEF. FOR THEN, SHE FEARED, HE WOULD LEAVE HER. THAT WAS OK05100840 WHY SHE DID NOT AROUSE HIM AT DAYBREAK. OF THIS SHE SAID NOTHING. OK05100850 ONLY HALF-AWAKE AND THINKING IT WAS EARLY MORNING, COYOTE OK05100860 JUMPED AT THE SOUND OF MOLE'S VOICE AND RAN TO THE LODGE OF THE OK05100870 SPIRIT CHIEF. NONE OF THE OTHER CHIP-CHAP-TIQULK WERE THERE. COYOTE OK05100880 LAUGHED. BLINKING HIS SLEEPY EYES, HE WALKED INTO THE LODGE. "I AM OK05100890 GOING TO BE KEE-LAU-NAW," HE ANNOUNCED IN A STRONG VOICE. "THAT SHALL OK05100900 BE MY NAME." OK05100910 "THE NAME GRIZZLY BEAR WAS TAKEN AT DAWN," THE SPIRIT CHIEF OK05100920 ANSWERED. OK05100930 "THEN I SHALL BE MILKA-NOUPS," SAID COYOTE, AND HIS VOICE WAS OK05100940 NOT SO LOUD. OK05100950 "EAGLE FLEW AWAY AT SUNUP," THE OTHER REPLIED. OK05100960 "WELL, I SHALL BE CALLED EN-TEE-TEE-UEH," COYOTE SAID IN A OK05100970 VOICE THAT WAS NOT LOUD AT ALL. OK05100980 "THE NAME SALMON ALSO HAS BEEN TAKEN," EXPLAINED THE SPIRIT OK05100990 CHIEF. "ALL THE NAMES EXCEPT YOUR OWN HAVE BEEN TAKEN. NO ONE WISHED OK05101000 TO STEAL YOUR NAME." OK05101010 POOR COYOTE'S KNEES GREW WEAK. HE SANK DOWN BESIDE THE FIRE THAT OK05101020 BLAZED IN THE GREAT TEPEE, AND THE HEART OF HAH-AH' EEL-ME'-WHEM OK05101030 WAS TOUCHED. OK05101040 "SIN-KA-LIP'," SAID THAT PERSON, "YOU MUST KEEP YOUR NAME. IT IS OK05101050 A GOOD NAME FOR YOU. YOU SLEPT LONG BECAUSE I WANTED YOU TO BE THE OK05101060 LAST ONE HERE. I HAVE IMPORTANT WORK FOR YOU, MUCH FOR YOU TO DO OK05101070 BEFORE THE NEW PEOPLE COME. YOU ARE TO BE CHIEF OF ALL THE TRIBES. OK05101080 "MANY BAD CREATURES INHABIT THE EARTH. THEY BOTHER AND KILL OK05101090 PEOPLE, AND THE TRIBES CANNOT INCREASE AS I WISH. THESE EN-ALT-NA OK05101100 SKIL-TEN -- PEOPLE-DEVOURING MONSTERS -- CANNOT KEEP ON LIKE THAT. OK05101110 THEY MUST BE STOPPED. IT IS FOR YOU TO CONQUER THEM. FOR DOING THAT, OK05101120 FOR ALL THE GOOD THINGS YOU DO, YOU WILL BE HONORED AND PRAISED BY OK05101130 THE PEOPLE THAT ARE HERE NOW AND THAT COME AFTERWARD. BUT, FOR THE OK05101140 FOOLISH AND MEAN THINGS YOU DO, YOU WILL BE LAUGHED AT AND DESPISED. OK05101150 THAT YOU CANNOT HELP. IT IS YOUR WAY. OK05101160 "TO MAKE YOUR WORK EASIER, I GIVE YOU SQUAS-TENK'. IT IS YOUR OK05101170 OWN SPECIAL MAGIC POWER. NO ONE ELSE EVER SHALL HAVE IT. WHEN YOU OK05101180 ARE IN DANGER, WHENEVER YOU NEED HELP, CALL TO YOUR POWER. IT WILL OK05101190 DO MUCH FOR YOU, AND WITH IT YOU CAN CHANGE YOURSELF INTO ANY FORM, OK05101200 INTO ANYTHING YOU WISH. OK05101210 "TO YOUR TWIN BROTHER, WHY-AY'LOOH, AND TO OTHERS I HAVE GIVEN OK05101220 SHOO'MESH. IT IS STRONG POWER. WITH THAT POWER FOX CAN RESTORE OK05101230 YOUR LIFE SHOULD YOU BE KILLED. YOUR BONES MAY BE SCATTERED BUT, IF OK05101240 THERE IS ONE HAIR OF YOUR BODY LEFT, FOX CAN MAKE YOU LIVE AGAIN. OK05101250 OTHERS OF THE PEOPLE CAN DO THE SAME WITH THEIR SHOO'-MESH. NOW, GO, OK05101260 SIN-KA-LIP'] DO WELL THE WORK LAID FOR YOUR TRAIL]" OK05101270 WELL, COYOTE WAS A CHIEF AFTER ALL, AND HE FELT GOOD AGAIN. OK05101280 AFTER THAT DAY HIS EYES WERE DIFFERENT. THEY GREW SLANT FROM BEING OK05101290 PROPPED OPEN THAT NIGHT WHILE HE SAT BY HIS FIRE. THE NEW PEOPLE, OK05101300 THE INDIANS, GOT THEIR SLIGHTLY SLANT EYES FROM COYOTE. OK05101310 AFTER COYOTE HAD GONE, THE SPIRIT CHIEF THOUGHT IT WOULD BE OK05101320 NICE FOR THE ANIMAL PEOPLE AND THE COMING NEW PEOPLE TO HAVE THE OK05101330 BENEFIT OF THE SPIRITUAL SWEAT-HOUSE. BUT ALL OF THE ANIMAL PEOPLE OK05101340 HAD NAMES, AND THERE WAS NO ONE TO TAKE THE NAME OF SWEAT-HOUSE -- OK05101350 QUIL'-STEN, THE WARMER. SO THE WIFE OF THE SPIRIT CHIEF TOOK THE OK05101360 NAME. SHE WANTED THE PEOPLE TO HAVE THE SWEAT-HOUSE, FOR SHE PITIED OK05101370 THEM. SHE WANTED THEM TO HAVE A PLACE TO GO TO PURIFY THEMSELVES, A OK05101380 PLACE WHERE THEY COULD PRAY FOR STRENGTH AND GOOD LUCK AND STRONG OK05101390 MEDICINE-POWER, AND WHERE THEY COULD FIGHT SICKNESS AND GET RELIEF OK05101400 FROM THEIR TROUBLES. OK05101410 THE RIBS, THE FRAME POLES, OF THE SWEAT-HOUSE REPRESENT THE OK05101420 WIFE OF HAH-AH'EEL-ME'-WHEM. AS SHE IS A SPIRIT, SHE CANNOT BE SEEN, OK05101430 BUT SHE ALWAYS IS NEAR. SONGS TO HER ARE SUNG BY THE PRESENT OK05101440 GENERATION. SHE HEARS THEM. SHE HEARS WHAT HER PEOPLE SAY, AND IN OK05101450 HER HEART THERE IS LOVE AND PITY. OK05101460 ***OKA-002*** FOX AND COYOTE AND WHALE OK05200010 FOX HAD A BEAUTIFUL WIFE. HE WAS VERY MUCH IN LOVE WITH HER, OK05200020 BUT SHE HAD STOPPED CARING FOR HIM. FOX WAS A GREAT HUNTER, AND OK05200030 EVERY DAY HE BROUGHT HOME FOOD AND FINE SKINS FOR HIS WIFE TO MAKE OK05200040 INTO ROBES AND CLOTHING. HE DID NOT KNOW THAT WHILE HE WAS AWAY OK05200050 HUNTING, HIE WIFE WOULD SIT BESIDE THE SWAH-NETK'-QHU AND SING LOVE OK05200060 SONGS TO THE WATER. PAINTING HER FACE WITH BRIGHT COLORS, SHE WOULD OK05200070 POUR OUT HER LOVE THOUGHTS IN SONG. OK05200080 COYOTE CAME TO VISIT HIS TWIN BROTHER, AND HE SOON NOTICED THE OK05200090 STRANGE ACTIONS OF HIS SISTER-IN-LAW. HE SPOKE TO FOX. "WHY-AY'LOOH," OK05200100 HE SAID, "I THINK YOUR WIFE IS IN LOVE WITH SOMEBODY ELSE." BUT FOX OK05200110 COULD NOT BELIEVE SHE LOVED ANYONE BUT HIM. HE WAS BLINDED BY HIS OK05200120 LOVE FOR HER. THEN, ONE SUN, HE AND COYOTE RETURNED FROM A HUNT AND OK05200130 SHE WAS NOT IN THE LODGE. SO FOX STARTED TO LOOK FOR HER. HE WALKED OK05200140 DOWN TOWARD THE RIVER AND THERE HE SAW HIS WIFE. SHE WAS SITTING ON OK05200150 THE RIVER BANK, SINGING A LOVE SONG. SHE DID NOT SEE FOX. HE WATCHED OK05200160 HER. OK05200170 AS FOX WATCHED, THE WATER BEGAN TO RISE. SLOWLY IT ROSE, OK05200180 HIGHER AND HIGHER, AND SOON, OUT IN THE MIDDLE OF THE RIVER, APPEARED OK05200190 A BIG MONSTER OF THE FISH-KIND. THE MONSTER WAS EN-HAH-ET'-QHU, THE OK05200200 SPIRIT OF THE WATER -- WHALE. IT SWAM TO THE SHORE. AS IT TOUCHED OK05200210 DRY LAND, IT CHANGED INTO A TALL HANDSOME MAN WITH LONG BRAIDED HAIR. OK05200220 THIS MONSTER-MAN MADE LOVE TO THE WIFE OF FOX. OK05200230 SAD AT HEART, FOX TURNED AWAY. HE WENT TO HIS LODGE. HE SAID OK05200240 NOTHING, BUT HE WONDERED HOW HE COULD WIN BACK HIS WIFE'S LOVE. OK05200250 HE WORRIED ABOUT HER AS THE SUNS PASSED. SHE GREW PALE AND THIN. OK05200260 NOTHING THAT FOX COULD DO PLEASED HER. HER THOUGHTS ALWAYS WERE WITH OK05200270 THE MAN WHO WAS NOT A MAN BUT A MONSTER. ONE DAY WHEN FOX AND COYOTE OK05200280 CAME HOME FROM HUNTING, SHE WAS GONE, AND THE FIRE IN THE LODGE WAS OK05200290 COLD. FOX CALLED AND CALLED. HE GOT NO ANSWER. HIS HEART WAS HEAVY. OK05200300 A FEW SUNS LATER FOX LOOKED UP THE RIVER AND SAW AN ODD-SHAPED OK05200310 CANOE COMING. IT WAS ONLY HALF OF A CANOE . TWO WATER MAIDENS WERE OK05200320 STANDING IN IT, ROCKING IT FROM SIDE TO SIDE. THEY WERE SINGING: OK05200330 WE COME FOR FOOD, OK05200340 FOOD FOR THE CHIEF'S STOLEN WIFE. OK05200350 THE WATER-FOOD DOES NOT SUIT HER. OK05200360 THAT IS WHY WE COME] WE COME] OK05200370 AS THE WATER MAIDENS APPROACHED, FOX AND COYOTE HID IN THE OK05200380 TEPEE. THE MAIDENS BEACHED THE HALF-CANOE AND ENTERED THE LODGE. OK05200390 THEY BEGAN TO PICK UP DRIED MEAT TO TAKE TO THE STOLEN WIFE. OK05200400 COYOTE AND FOX SPRANG FROM THEIR HIDING PLACES AND CAUGHT THE OK05200410 MAIDENS, AND FOX ASKED ABOUT HIS WIFE -- WHERE SHE WAS AND HOW TO OK05200420 GET TO HER. THE MAIDENS WERE SILENT. THEN THE BROTHERS THREATENED OK05200430 TO KILL THEM UNLESS THEY ANSWERED, AND THE MAIDENS SAID: OK05200440 "TO FIND THE PERSON WHO STOLE HER, YOU MUST GO OVER THE BIG OK05200450 FALLS AND UNDER THE WATER. HIS LODGE IS UNDER THE FALLS, UNDER OK05200460 THE WATER -- A DANGEROUS TRIP FOR LAND PEOPLE. EVERY TRAIL IS OK05200470 WATCHED. EVEN IF YOU GET THERE, THE MIGHTY WHALE CHIEF WILL KILL YOU. OK05200480 HE IS BAD." OK05200490 THE WATER MAIDENS HAD TOLD ALL THEY KNEW, SO FOX BROKE THEIR OK05200500 NECKS. HE AND COYOTE DRESSED IN THE MAIDENS' ROBES AND STARTED DOWN OK05200510 THE RIVER IN THE HALF-CANOE. STANDING ON THE SIDES OF THE STRANGE OK05200520 CRAFT, THEY ROCKED IT AS THEY HAD SEEN THE MAIDENS DO, AND RODE IT OK05200530 DOWN THE RIVER AND OVER THE ROARING FALLS. "LET ME DO ALL THE OK05200540 TALKING," FOX WARNED COYOTE. "I KNOW BETTER WHAT TO SAY." DOWN OK05200550 THROUGH THE POURING, FLASHING WATERS THEY SHOT WITH THE HALF-CANOE. OK05200560 THE THUNDER OF THE FALLS HURT THEIR EARS. AND THEN, SUDDENLY, THEY OK05200570 WERE LANDING AT A GREAT ENCAMPMENT OF WATER PEOPLE, A STRANGE KIND OK05200580 OF PEOPLE TO THEM. ALL OF THE PEOPLE WERE STRANGE EXCEPT OK05200590 GOU-KOUH-ANA -- MOUSE. SHE WAS THERE. SHE KNEW THEM AND THEY KNEW OK05200600 HER. FOX JUMPED ASHORE, COYOTE, FOLLOWING, TRIPPED AND TOUCHED THE OK05200610 WATER, AND MOUSE, THE SLY ONE, LAUGHED. "HA-HA]" SAID MOUSE, "COYOTE OK05200620 NEARLY FELL INTO THE WATER." OK05200630 "DO NOT SPEAK," FOX WHISPERED TO MOUSE. "SAY NOTHING. I WILL OK05200640 PAY YOU WELL." OK05200650 BUT SOME OF THE WATER PEOPLE HAD HEARD. "WHAT, GOU-KOUH-ANA, OK05200660 DID YOU SAY?" THEY INQUIRED. OK05200670 "NOTHING," MOUSE ANSWERED. "NOTHING OF IMPORTANCE. I WAS JUST OK05200680 JOKING." OK05200690 "YES, YOU DID SAY SOMETHING," SAID A WATER PERSON. "YOU SAID OK05200700 THAT COYOTE NEARLY FELL INTO THE WATER. YOU CANNOT FOOL ME." OK05200710 MOUSE INSISTED THAT SHE HAD NOT SAID THAT, AND THE OTHER WATER OK05200720 PEOPLE BELIEVED HER. THEY KNEW SHE WAS A FICKLE PERSON AND GIDDY, OK05200730 AND THEY DID NOT THINK MUCH OF HER BECAUSE SHE WENT EVERYWHERE TO OK05200740 STEAL. SHE WENT EVERYWHERE, AND THAT IS WHY SHE UNDERSTOOD ALL THE OK05200750 DIFFERENT LANGUAGES. OK05200760 CARRYING PACKS OF FRIED MEAT AND BERRIES THEY HAD BROUGHT WITH OK05200770 THEM, COYOTE AND FOX MADE THEIR WAY TO THE LODGE OF WHALE, THE CHIEF. OK05200780 HE AND THE STOLEN WIFE SAT SIDE BY SIDE IN THE LODGE. THE WIFE WAS OK05200790 GLAD TO GET THE MEAT AND BERRIES, HER KIND OF FOOD. OK05200800 FOX AND COYOTE KEPT THEIR ROBES OVER THEIR FACES UNTIL EVERYONE OK05200810 ELSE WAS ASLEEP. THEN, WHEN EVERYTHING WAS QUIET, FOX SLIPPED UP TO OK05200820 WHALE AND CUT OFF THE MONSTER'S HEAD WITH A FLINT KNIFE. AT THE OK05200830 SAME TIME COYOTE PICKED UP THE STOLEN WIFE AND RAN FOR THE BROKEN OK05200840 CANOE. THE NOISE THEY MADE AWOKE THE CAMP, AND THE PEOPLE RUSHED OK05200850 OUT OF THEIR LODGES TO SEE COYOTE CARRYING OFF FOX'S WIFE AND FOX OK05200860 CLOSE BEHIND, CARRYING THE HEAD OF THEIR CHIEF. THE PEOPLE CHASED OK05200870 THEM, BUT THE THREE GOT INTO THE BROKEN CANOE, AND FOX QUICKLY PUT OK05200880 COYOTE AND WOMAN INTO HIS SHOO'-MESH PIPE. THEN FOX PUSHED THE OK05200890 HALF-CANOE INTO THE WATER AND IT SHOT UP TO THE RIVER'S SURFACE OK05200900 BELOW THE FALLS. THERE FOX LANDED. HE TOOK COYOTE AND HIS OK05200910 TWICE-STOLEN WIFE OUT OF THE MEDICINE-PIPE, AND THE HEAD OF THE OK05200920 WHALE MONSTER HE THREW TOWARD THE SETTING SUN. OK05200930 "IN THE BIG SALT WATER (OCEAN) SHALL WHALE MONSTER STAY," SAID OK05200940 FOX. "NO LONGER SHALL HE LIVE IN THE SMALLER WATERS, IN THE RIVERS, OK05200950 WHERE HE CAN MAKE LOVE TO THE WIVES OF MEN, WHERE HE CAN LURE WIVES OK05200960 FROM THEIR HUSBANDS." OK05200970 AS FOX AND HIS WIFE AND BROTHER WALKED UP THE BANK TO THEIR OK05200980 TEPEE, THE HEADLESS BODY OF WHALE MONSTER TURNED OVER AND OVER IN THE OK05200990 DEPTHS OF THE RIVER, MAKING THE BIG FALLS OF THE SWAH-NETK'-QHU MORE OK05201000 FEARFUL AND THUNDEROUS, THE WAY THEY ARE TODAY, SPILLING WITH SUCH OK05201010 FORCE OVER THE GREAT ROCKS. OK05201020 THE WIFE OF FOX BECAME CONTENTED AND HAPPY AGAIN, GLAD TO BE OK05201030 BACK IN HER HUSBAND'S LODGE. BUT SINCE THAT DAY WHALE MONSTER OK05201040 WAS VANQUISHED THE LAND PEOPLE AND THE WATER PEOPLE HAVE NOT LOVED OK05201050 EACH OTHER. FOX MADE IT SO. OK05201060 ***OKA-003*** COYOTE FIGHTS SOME MONSTERS OK05300010 COYOTE WAS FAR FROM HIS HOME BY THE SWAH-NEKT'-QHU. FOR MANY OK05300020 SUNS HE HAD BEEN TRAVELING TOWARD THE SUNRISE. HE HAD CROSSED THE OK05300030 ROCKY MOUNTAINS AND WAS IN THE GREAT PLAINS COUNTRY. SIN-ZA-CAW-HA-- OK05300040 HORSE -- LIVED THERE. HORSE WAS A DANGEROUS MONSTER, AND HE WAS MUCH OK05300050 BIGGER THAN IS ANY HORSE TODAY. OK05300060 AS SOON AS HE SAW COYOTE, HORSE TOOK AFTER HIM. THEY RAN AND OK05300070 RAN OVER THE BARE PLAINS. EVERY TIME THAT COYOTE LOOKED BACK, HORSE OK05300080 WAS CLOSER. COYOTE BECAME SCARED. "SQUAS-TENK']" HE CRIED. "DO OK05300090 SOMETHING FOR ME]" OK05300100 HIS POWER HEARD. IT MADE THREE TREES. THEY GREW OUT OF THE OK05300110 GROUND STRAIGHT AHEAD OF HIM. AND JUST IN TIME, FOR HORSE WAS ABOUT OK05300120 TO CATCH HIM. OK05300130 INTO THE FIRST TREE JUMPED COYOTE. HE LAUGHED, FOR HE THOUGHT HE OK05300140 WAS SAFE. BUT HIS LAUGH WAS SHORT; HORSE BEGAN TO CUT DOWN THE TREE OK05300150 WITH HIS STRONG TEETH AND GREAT HOOFS. HORSE MADE THE SPLINTERS FLY. OK05300160 SOON THE TREE CREAKED, AND THEN IT CRACKED AND GROANED, AND THEN -- OK05300170 SHEE-WHA-A-AM] -- IT CRASHED TO THE PLAIN, AND COYOTE WENT SAILING OK05300180 THROUGH THE AIR. HE HIT THE GROUND HARD, AND HORSE THOUGHT HE HAD OK05300190 HIM, BUT COYOTE STAGGERED TO HIS FEET AND GOT INTO THE SECOND TREE. OK05300200 THEN HORSE CUT DOWN THAT TREE, AND COYOTE HAD ANOTHER BAD FALL. OK05300210 HORSE ALMOST CAUGHT HIM. BUT COYOTE SKIPPED AND DODGED AND FINALLY OK05300220 GOT INTO THE THIRD TREE. "NOW WHAT CAN I DO?" HE WONDERED. HE WAS OK05300230 IN A BAD FIX. HORSE BEGAN TO CHOP THIS LAST TREE OUT FROM UNDER HIM. OK05300240 "OH, SIN-ZA-CAW-HA, WAIT]" COYOTE SHOUTED. "I AM NOT READY TO OK05300250 DIE. BEFORE YOU KILL ME, LET ME SMOKE MY PIPE -- MY PIPE I LIKE SO OK05300260 WELL." OK05300270 "YOU MAY HAVE ONE SMOKE, SIN-KA-LIP'. THAT IS ALL. AFTER THAT OK05300280 I SHALL KILL YOU." OK05300290 PUFFING ON HIS PIPE, COYOTE SPOKE TO HIS MEDICINE. IT GAVE HIM OK05300300 A WHIP. COYOTE JUMPED ON HIS ENEMY'S BROAD BACK, AND STRUCK FIERCELY OK05300310 WITH THE WHIP. HORSE WAS TAKEN BY SURPRISE. HE BAWLED AND BUCKED; HE OK05300320 WHIRLED AROUND AND AROUND; HE STOOD ON HIS HIND FEET AND ON HIS OK05300330 FRONT FEET; HE THREW HIMSELF; HE ROLLED -- TRIED ALL HIS TRICKS. OK05300340 COYOTE STAYED WITH HIM, AND HE KEPT SMACKING HORSE WITH THE OK05300350 MEDICINE-WHIP. HE WHIPPED HORSE UNTIL THE MONSTER'S HEAD WAS OK05300360 BATTERED AND HIS EYES WERE SWOLLEN SHUT. AFTER AWHILE HORSE COULD OK05300370 NOT BUCK AND FIGHT ANY MORE. HE WAS TIRED OUT. HE BEGGED FOR MERCY. OK05300380 COYOTE HOPPED OFF HIS BACK AND LOOKED AT HIM. HORSE WAS CHANGED. OK05300390 HE WAS NOT BIG AND DANGEROUS NOW. HE WAS SMALLER, MUCH SMALLER. OK05300400 COYOTE HAD BEATEN HIM DOWN. OK05300410 "FROM THIS SUN YOU ARE FOR PEOPLE TO RIDE," COYOTE SAID. "ONLY OK05300420 WHEN FIRST RIDDEN WILL YOU BUCK AND BE MEAN. EVEN OLD MEN WILL BE OK05300430 ABLE TO SIT ON YOU. AND OLD WOMEN WILL USE YOU FOR CARRYING THEIR OK05300440 CAMP THINGS. ON YOU THEY WILL PUT THEIR HEAVY PACKS OF ROOTS AND OK05300450 BERRIES AND MEAT." OK05300460 HE LEFT THE HORSE STANDING THERE, AND WENT ON. HIS WAY LED PAST OK05300470 A CAVE. IT WAS THE HOME OF KIKA-WAUPA -- DOG -- WHO WAS A BIG AND OK05300480 FEROCIOUS MONSTER. DOG RUSHED OUT OF THE CAVE. COYOTE RAN. COYOTE OK05300490 STUMBLED, FALLING INTO A MOLE HOLE, AND THAT MADE HIM THINK OF HIS OK05300500 FAITHFUL WIFE, MOLE. MAKING HIMSELF SMALL, HE CRAWLED INTO THE HOLE, OK05300510 AND THERE WAS MOLE HERSELF. OK05300520 "MAKE YOUR UNDERGROUND TRAILS," COYOTE SAID. "MAKE MANY OF OK05300530 YOUR TUNNELS. HURRY]" OK05300540 MOLE SET TO WORK. SHE DUG FAST, FOR DOG WAS DIGGING TO GET AT OK05300550 HER HUSBAND. SHE DUG MANY TUNNELS, AS COYOTE HAD ORDERED. OK05300560 DOG SOON UNCOVERED COYOTE, WHO THEN RESUMED HIS USUAL FORM, OK05300570 AND SAID: OK05300580 "WAIT, KIKA-WAUPA] DO NOT KILL ME YET. LET ME SMOKE MY PIPE OK05300590 FIRST." OK05300600 DOG DID NOT OBJECT TO THAT, AND COYOTE SMOKED. AS HE SUCKED OK05300610 ON HIS PIPE, COYOTE SPOKE TO HIS SQUAS-TENK'. IT GAVE HIM AN ARMFUL OK05300620 OF STONES. HITTING DOG WITH A STONE, HE RAN. DOG HOWLED WITH PAIN OK05300630 AND RAGE, AND SET OUT AFTER HIM. DOG STUMBLED OVER ONE OF MOLE'S OK05300640 MOUNDED TUNNELS AND FELL, AND COYOTE HIT HIM WITH ANOTHER STONE. DOG OK05300650 DID NOT KNOW THAT MOLE HAD BEEN BUSY CHANGING THE GROUND THERE, AND OK05300660 EVERY TIME HE CAME TO A TUNNEL HE STUMBLED AND FELL, AND EACH TIME OK05300670 HE WENT DOWN COYOTE HIT HIM WITH A STONE. THAT WAS THE WAY IT WENT, OK05300680 AND IN A LITTLE WHILE DOG WAS SO TIRED AND BRUISED THAT HE COULD NOT OK05300690 TAKE ANOTHER STEP. THEN COYOTE FINISHED HIM, AND OUT OF THE OK05300700 MONSTER'S BODY RAN A SMALL DOG, ITS TAIL BETWEEN ITS LEGS. OK05300710 "YOU SHALL BE THE MOST FAITHFUL ANIMAL THE NEW PEOPLE WILL OK05300720 HAVE," SAID COYOTE TO THE LITTLE DOG. "EVEN OLD MEN AND OLD WOMEN OK05300730 WILL OWN YOU. YOU WILL BOTH FEAR AND LIKE YOUR OWNERS. NEVER MUST OK05300740 YOU ATTACK A STRANGER UNLESS THE STRANGER TREATS YOU BADLY." OK05300750 COYOTE LEFT THE LITTLE DOG. PRESENTLY HE CAME TO A BIG CHE-YEEP OK05300760 (TREE), WHICH HE STARTED TO PASS AROUND. THE TREE BENT AND CAUGHT OK05300770 HIM WITH ITS BRANCHES. HE WRIGGLED AND SQUIRMED, BUT HE COULD NOT OK05300780 GET LOOSE, SO HE WHISPERED TO HIS MEDICINE. AT ONCE A GREAT STRENGTH OK05300790 CAME TO COYOTE. WITH A MIGHTY WRENCH, HE TORE THE TREE APART; TORE OK05300800 IT INTO TWO FORKS, LIKE UNFINISHED CANOES, AND HE WAS FREE. LOOKING OK05300810 AROUND, HE NOTICED ON THE GROUND THE BLEACHED BONES OF TRAVELERS OK05300820 WHOM TREE MONSTER HAD EATEN, AND HE SAID: OK05300830 "AFTER THIS SUN YOU CANNOT HURT ANYONE. NO ONE WILL FEAR YOU. OK05300840 YOU WILL PROVIDE WOOD FOR THE NEW PEOPLE. BECAUSE YOUR LIMBS ARE OK05300850 PITCHY AND SO EASY TO BURN, ALL TREES THAT ARE FORKED WILL BE THE OK05300860 KIND THAT THE OLD WOMEN WILL GO TO FOR FIREWOOD. THAT WOOD WILL BE OK05300870 EASY FOR THEM TO GATHER." OK05300880 FROM THAT PLACE COYOTE'S TRAIL TOOK HIM INTO A DEEP INSIS-K-CHIN OK05300890 (CANYON). AS HE WALKED DEEPER AND DEEPER INTO IT, HE FELT HIMSELF OK05300900 BEING SWALLOWED. SCARED, HE TRIED TO TURN BACK. HE COULD NOT MOVE. OK05300910 HE BEGGED NOT TO BE EATEN. THE SOUND OF HIS VOICE MADE CANYON MONSTER OK05300920 HESITATE, AND COYOTE SPOKE TO HIS SQUAS-TENK'. IT PLACED A LONG OK05300930 TREE ON HIS SHOULDERS. COYOTE SWUNG THE TREE ACROSS THE MOUTH OF OK05300940 CANYON MONSTER. THEN HE LAUGHED -- THE MONSTER COULD NOT HURT HIM OK05300950 NOW. OK05300960 "YOU NO LONGER ARE A PERSON-EATING MONSTER," COYOTE SAID. "THE OK05300970 NEW PEOPLE WILL NOT BE AFRAID OF YOU. WHEN THEY ARE TOO LAZY TO WALK OK05300980 DOWN YOUR THROAT, THEY WILL WALK ON TREES THROWN ACROSS YOUR MOUTH." OK05300990 COYOTE WALKED AWAY FROM THERE AND CAME TO A COULEE. HE STARTED OK05301000 INTO IT. SOMETHING BUMPED AND PRICKED HIS BACK. HE COULD NOT SEE OK05301010 ANYTHING BEHIND HIM AND HE RAN. BUT THE STRANGE JABBING AND BUMPING OK05301020 DID NOT STOP, SO HE STOOD STILL AND SPOKE TO HIS POWER. IT GAVE HIM OK05301030 A FLINT KNIFE. HE SLASHED BACK OVER HIS SHOULDER. THE KNIFE STRUCK OK05301040 SOMETHING SOLID, AND THERE WAS A LOUD GROAN AND A HEAVY THUD. THEN OK05301050 COYOTE SAW WHAT HAD BEEN BOTHERING HIM. ON THE GROUND WAS OK05301060 STE-EEL'-TZA -- ELK. THAT MONSTER WAS DEAD. ITS POWER TO STAY OK05301070 INVISIBLE WAS GONE. COYOTE MADE A SMALL ELK FROM ELK MONSTER'S BODY. OK05301080 "NO MORE SHALL YOU ABUSE PEOPLE ON THE TRAILS," HE SAID. "YOU OK05301090 WILL FEAR THE NEW PEOPLE, AND THEY WILL USE YOUR FLESH FOR FOOD AND OK05301100 YOUR SKIN FOR ROBES." OK05301110 COYOTE WENT ON. HE SAW A CRADLEBOARD PROPPED AGAINST A TREE. OK05301120 FASTENED IN THE CRADLE WAS A BABY. NO ONE ELSE WAS IN SIGHT, AND OK05301130 COYOTE WONDERED WHERE THE MOTHER HAD GONE. HOPING HE MIGHT BE PAID OK05301140 FOR SHOWING ATTENTION TO THE LITTLE ONE, COYOTE ROCKED IT AND SANG. OK05301150 HE WANTED THE MOTHER TO HEAR AND COME. LOUDER AND LOUDER HE SANG, OK05301160 BUT NOBODY CAME, AND THE BABY BEGAN TO CRY. THINKING IT MUST BE OK05301170 HUNGRY, COYOTE POKED ONE OF HIS FINGERS INTO ITS MOUTH. "DO NOT OK05301180 CRY," HE SAID. "HERE IS TAH-TAT]" OK05301190 THEN COYOTE HAD A SURPRISE. THE BABY WAS SWALLOWING HIS HAND] HE OK05301200 JERKED HIS HAND AWAY; THE FLESH WAS STRIPPED OFF CLEAN. COYOTE OK05301210 REALIZED THAT HE WAS HOLDING, NOT A BABY, BUT A PERSON-EATING OK05301220 MONSTER. OK05301230 "I WILL FIND YOUR MOTHER, LITTLE SKWAS-QU-SEE (BABY). I WILL OK05301240 LOOK FOR HER," HE SAID, AND HE PUT THE BABY DOWN AND WALKED AWAY. OK05301250 HE SLIPPED INTO A THICKET. THERE HE CALLED SOFTLY TO HIS SQUAS-TENK'. OK05301260 IT HANDED HIM A FLINT KNIFE THAT WAS SHAPED LIKE A FINGER. THE OK05301270 BLADE WAS SHARP. COYOTE RETURNED TO BABY MONSTER AND PICKED IT UP. OK05301280 TALKING NICE WORDS, HE PUT THE KNIFE-FINGER IN THE MONSTER'S MOUTH. OK05301290 HE HELD THE KNIFE-FINGER IN HIS OWN FINGERS, AND BABY MONSTER OK05301300 SWALLOWED HIS WHOLE ARM. THAT WAS WHAT COYOTE WANTED. HE PULLED HIS OK05301310 ARM BACK, PULLED IT BACK QUICKLY, AND THE SHARP KNIFE-FINGER RIPPED OK05301320 OPEN THE MONSTER'S INSIDES. OUT TUMBLED A LOT OF BONES, BONES OF OK05301330 PEOPLE THE FALSE BABY HAD EATEN. OK05301340 "YOU CANNOT DO THIS WAY ANY MORE," SAID COYOTE. "A NEW PEOPLE OK05301350 SOON WILL BE HERE. YOU ARE NOT TO EAT THEM AS YOU HAVE THESE OTHERS. OK05301360 FROM NOW ON, BABIES, WHEN BORN, WILL BE THE MOST HELPLESS OF ALL OK05301370 CREATURES. THAT MUST BE, SO YOU CANNOT CHEAT BY TAKING THEIR FORM." OK05301380 WEARY OF FIGHTING MONSTERS, COYOTE STARTED FOR HOME. "EVEN OK05301390 BABIES ARE MONSTERS IN THIS STRANGE LAND," HE REMARKED. "I WILL GO OK05301400 BACK TO MY OWN COUNTRY BY THE SWAH-NETK'-QHU AND REST." OK05301410 ***OKA-004*** CHIPMUNK AND OWL-WOMAN OK05400010 KOTS-SE-WE-AH -- CHIPMUNK -- WAS A LITTLE GIRL. SHE LIVED WITH OK05400020 HER GRANDMOTHER IN THE WOODS. CHIPMUNK LIKED TO WALK THROUGH THE OK05400030 WOODS AND PICK BERRIES. SOME OF THE BERRIES SHE ATE, AND SOME SHE PUT OK05400040 IN A LITTLE BASKET THAT HUNG AT HER SIDE. THE BASKET WAS MADE FROM OK05400050 A DEER'S HOOF. OK05400060 THERE WAS ONE BERRY BUSH THAT THE LITTLE GIRL VISITED EVERY DAY. OK05400070 SHE CALLED IT HER VERY OWN. IT WAS A SEE'-AH (SERVICE BERRY) BUSH. OK05400080 SHE WOULD CLIMB INTO IT AND EAT ALL THE BERRIES SHE COULD HOLD. AND OK05400090 AS SHE ATE THEM SHE WOULD COUNT: "ONE BERRY RIPE] TWO BERRIES RIPE] OK05400100 THREE BERRIES RIPE]" OK05400110 ONE SUN, WHILE IN THE BUSH COUNTING AND EATING BERRIES, CHIPMUNK OK05400120 HEARD STEPS ON THE GROUND BELOW. SHE LOOKED. STANDING UNDER THE OK05300130 BUSH WAS SNEE'-NAH -- OWL-WOMAN. ON OWL-WOMAN'S BACK WAS A BIG OK05400140 BASKET, AND IN THE BASKET WERE MANY LITTLE CHILDREN THAT OWL-WOMAN OK05400150 HAD STOLEN. OWL-WOMAN TRAVELED FROM CAMP TO CAMP, STEALING CHILDREN. OK05400160 WHENEVER SHE GOT HUNGRY SHE ATE ONE OR TWO OF THEM. OK05400170 CHIPMUNK WAS NOT FRIGHTENED VERY MUCH, FOR SHE KNEW THAT OK05400180 OWL-WOMAN COULD NOT REACH HER UP IN THE SEE'-AH BUSH, AND OWL-WOMAN OK05400190 KNEW THAT TOO. BUT OWL-WOMAN WAS CUNNING. IN HER BEST VOICE, SHE OK05400200 SAID: "KOTS-SE-WE-AH, YOUR FATHER WANTS YOU." OK05400210 "I HAVE NO FATHER," CHIPMUNK ANSWERED. "HE DIED LONG AGO." OK05400220 OWL-WOMAN THOUGHT FOR A MOMENT. THEN SHE SAID: "YOUR MOTHER OK05400230 WANTS YOU. SHE WANTS YOU TO COME HOME." OK05400240 "MY MOTHER DIED MANY SNOWS AGO," CHIPMUNK REPLIED. OK05400250 "YOUR AUNT WANTS YOU TO COME HOME." OK05400260 "I NEVER HAD AN AUNT," AND CHIPMUNK LAUGHED. OK05400270 "YOUR UNCLE IS LOOKING FOR YOU," LIED OWL-WOMAN. OK05400280 "THAT IS FUNNY," SAID CHIPMUNK, LAUGHING SOME MORE. "I NEVER HAD OK05400290 AN UNCLE." OK05400300 "WELL," OWL-WOMAN SIGHED, "YOUR GRANDFATHER WANTS YOU." OK05400310 "THAT IS STRANGE, FOR MY GRANDFATHER DIED BEFORE I WAS BORN." OK05400320 THEN OWL-WOMAN SAID: "YOUR GRANDMOTHER WANTS YOU AT HOME RIGHT OK05400330 AWAY]" OK05400340 CHIPMUNK COULD BELIEVE THAT. SHE WAS SILENT FOR A LITTLE, AND OK05400350 THEN SHE SAID: OK05400360 "I WILL NOT COME DOWN UNLESS YOU HIDE YOUR EYES." OK05400370 "ALL RIGHT, I WILL HIDE MY EYES. SEE] I HAVE THEM COVERED," OK05400380 AND OWL-WOMAN PRETENDED THAT SHE HAD. SHE PLACED HER CLAW-HANDS OVER OK05400390 THEM. OK05400400 "I CAN SEE YOUR BIG EYES BLINKING BEHIND YOUR FINGERS," CRIED OK05400410 CHIPMUNK. "I SHALL NOT COME DOWN UNTIL YOU HAVE HIDDEN THEM OK05400420 ENTIRELY." OK05400430 OWL-WOMAN PRETENDED TO HIDE HER EYES ENTIRELY, BUT SHE LEFT A OK05400440 SMALL SPACE BETWEEN HER FINGERS -- JUST A LITTLE CRACK TO LOOK OK05400450 THROUGH. OK05400460 CHIPMUNK REALLY THOUGHT THAT THE EYES WERE COVERED, BUT SHE OK05400470 WASN'T TAKING ANY CHANCE OF BEING FOOLED. INSTEAD OF DROPPING FROM OK05400480 BRANCH TO BRANCH TO THE GROUND, SHE JUMPED FROM THE TOP OF THE BUSH. OK05400490 SHE JUMPED OVER OWL-WOMAN'S HEAD, AND AS SHE WENT SAILING OVER, OK05400500 OWL-WOMAN REACHED FOR HER. OWL-WOMAN'S FINGERS CLAWED DOWN OK05400510 CHIPMUNK'S BACK, RIPPING OFF LONG STRIPS OF THE SOFT FUR, BUT THE OK05400520 LITTLE GIRL GOT AWAY. EVER SINCE THAT TIME THE CHIPMUNKS HAVE OK05400530 CARRIED THE MARKS OF OWL-WOMAN'S CLAWS -- THE MARKS ARE THE STRIPES OK05400540 YOU SEE ON THE CHIPMUNKS' BACKS. OK05400550 CHIPMUNK RAN AND RAN, AND OWL-WOMAN FOLLOWED AS FAST AS SHE OK05400560 COULD. OK05400570 WHEN CHIPMUNK REACHED HOME, SHE WAS TREMBLING AND OUT OF OK05400580 BREATH. SHE HARDLY COULD SPEAK. ALL SHE COULD SAY WAS: OK05400590 "SING-NAW] SING-NAW]" ("OWL] OWL]") OK05400600 THE DEAF OLD GRANDMOTHER MISUNDERSTOOD. "DID YOU STEP ON A OK05400610 THORN?" SHE ASKED. OK05400620 "SING-NAW] SING-NAW]" CHIPMUNK KEPT REPEATING. SHE WAS SO OK05400630 FRIGHTENED, IT WAS ALL SHE COULD SAY. OK05400640 ONLY AFTER CHIPMUNK HAD SAID THAT MANY TIMES DID THE GRANDMOTHER OK05400650 UNDERSTAND. THEN SHE TRIED TO HIDE THE LITTLE GIRL IN HER BED, BUT OK05400660 CHIPMUNK WOULD NOT KEEP STILL THERE. SHE RAN AROUND UNDER THE ROBES. OK05400670 ANYONE COULD SEE SHE WAS THERE. SO THE GRANDMOTHER TOOK HER OUT OF OK05400680 THE BED AND DROPPED HER INTO A BERRY BASKET. BUT THAT WOULDN'T DO, OK05400690 FOR CHIPMUNK RATTLED AROUND IN THE BASKET AND MADE A LOT OF NOISE. OK05400700 THEN THE GRANDMOTHER TRIED TO HIDE HER IN A BASKET OF SOUP, AND POOR OK05400710 CHIPMUNK NEARLY DROWNED. SHE AND HER GRANDMOTHER WERE IN DESPAIR. OK05400720 THEY DID NOT KNOW WHAT TO DO. THEN THEY HEARD A VOICE -- IT CAME OK05400730 FROM A TREE NEAR THE TEPEE. IT WAS THE VOICE OF WY-WETZ'-KULA, THE OK05400740 TATTLER -- MEADOW LARK, WHO WAS SINGING: OK05400750 "TWO LITTLE OYSTER SHELLS OK05400760 HIDE HER IN]" OK05400770 QUICKLY THE GRANDMOTHER PUT CHIPMUNK BETWEEN TWO LITTLE OYSTER OK05400780 SHELLS. AND, KNOWING MEADOW LARK WAS A GOSSIP AND A TATTLER, SHE OK05400790 TOOK OFF HER NECKLACE AND THREW IT TO THE SINGER. SHE HOPED THAT OK05400800 THE PRESENT WOULD PLEASE MEADOW LARK AND KEEP HER FROM TELLING WHERE OK05400810 CHIPMUNK WAS HIDDEN. MEADOW LARK PUT ON THE NECKLACE AND FLEW AWAY. OK05400820 SOON OWL-WOMAN CAME ALONG. OK05400830 "WHERE IS THE CHILD I AM HUNTING?" SHE SAID. OK05400840 THE GRANDMOTHER PRETENDED THAT SHE HAD NOT SEEN HER GRANDCHILD, OK05400850 SO OWL-WOMAN BEGAN TO LOOK AROUND. SHE LOOKED IN THE BED, IN THE OK05400860 BERRY BASKET AND IN THE SOUP. SHE LOOKED EVERYWHERE SHE COULD THINK OK05400870 MIGHT BE A HIDING PLACE. AT LAST SHE TURNED TO LEAVE, AND JUST THEN OK05400880 MEADOW LARK FLEW BACK TO THE TREE NEAR THE TEPEE. MEADOW LARK SANG: OK05400890 "I WILL TELL YOU, IF YOU PAY ME. OK05400900 I WILL TELL YOU, IF YOU PAY ME. OK05400910 WHERE SHE IS] WHERE SHE IS]" OK05400920 OWL-WOMAN HURRIED OUTSIDE AND THREW A BRIGHT YELLOW VEST TO THE OK05400930 TATTLER, WHO PUT IT ON, AND SANG: OK05400940 "TWO LITTLE OYSTER SHELLS, OK05400950 TAKE HER OUT] OK05400960 TWO LITTLE OYSTER SHELLS, OK05400970 TAKE HER OUT]" OK05400980 THEN MEADOW LARK FLEW AWAY. THE NECKLACE SHE WAS GIVEN FOR OK05400990 HELPING CHIPMUNK AND THE YELLOW VEST SHE EARNED FOR TATTLING SHE OK05401000 WEARS TO THIS DAY. OK05401010 OWL-WOMAN PUSHED THE GRANDMOTHER ASIDE AND SNATCHED CHIPMUNK OK05401020 OUT OF THE OYSTER SHELLS. WITH HER SHARP FINGERS SHE CUT CHIPMUNK OK05401030 OPEN AND TOOK OUT HER HEART AND SWALLOWED IT. OK05401040 "EH] YOM-YOM] IT IS GOOD. LITTLE GIRLS' HEARTS ARE THE BEST," OK05401050 SAID OWL-WOMAN, SMACKING HER LIPS. OK05401060 OWL-WOMAN WENT HER WAY, CARRYING HER BIG BASKET OF CHILDREN. OK05401070 IN A LITTLE WHILE THE WEEPING GRANDMOTHER HEARD A FAMILIAR VOICE. OK05401080 MEADOW LARK WAS SINGING AGAIN FROM THE TREE. HER SONG WAS: OK05401090 "PUT A BERRY IN HER HEART] OK05401100 PUT A BERRY IN HER HEART]" OK05401110 DRYING HER TEARS, THE GRANDMOTHER PUT A HALF-RIPE SEE'AH BERRY OK05401120 IN CHIPMUNK'S BREAST AND SEWED UP THE HOLE. THEN SHE STEPPED OVER OK05401130 CHIPMUNK THREE TIMES, AND CHIPMUNK JUMPED UP AS ALIVE AND AS WELL OK05401140 AS EVER. OK05401150 OWL-WOMAN HAD NOT WALKED FAR WHEN SHE MET COYOTE. HE KNEW HER -- OK05401160 KNEW HOW WICKED SHE WAS. "SNEE'-NAH," HE SAID, "I LIKE TO EAT OK05401170 CHILDREN, TOO. LET US TRAVEL TOGETHER AND WE WILL HAVE BETTER LUCK OK05401180 FINDING THEM." OK05401190 OWL-WOMAN WAS PLEASED. SHE THOUGHT THAT THE TWO OF THEM, OK05401200 TRAVELING TOGETHER AND HELPING EACH OTHER, WOULD BE STRONGER THAN OK05401210 ALL OF THE MONSTERS IN THE WORLD. SHE SMILED. "YES, THAT IS GOOD," OK05401220 SHE SAID. "LET US GO TOGETHER." SO THEY WALKED ALONG LIKE OLD OK05401230 FRIENDS. OK05401240 PRETTY SOON COYOTE SAID: "I AM GETTING HUNGRY. HERE IS A GOOD OK05401250 PLACE TO MAKE A FIRE. LET US STOP HERE AND ROAST THOSE CHILDREN OK05401260 YOU ARE CARRYING IN THE BASKET." OK05401270 OWL-WOMAN SAID SHE WAS HUNGRY, TOO, AND SHE SET HER BIG BASKET OK05401280 ON THE GROUND. COYOTE PERSUADED HER TO LET ALL OF THE CHILDREN OUT OK05401290 SO THEY COULD DO THE WORK OF GATHERING WOOD FOR THE FIRE. COYOTE OK05401300 BOSSED THEM AROUND, TALKING IN A CRUEL WAY. THAT WAS FOR OWL-WOMAN'S OK05401310 EARS -- THAT CRUEL TALK. BUT TO EACH CHILD HE WHISPERED: "GET THE OK05401320 WOOD THAT HAS THE MOST PITCH AND GET PLENTY OF SOLID PITCH. DO THAT OK05401330 IF YOU WISH TO RETURN TO YOUR PARENTS." OK05401340 COYOTE'S WORDS MADE THE CHILDREN WORK HARD. SOON THERE WAS A OK05401350 ROARING FIRE. OK05401360 "THIS IS TO BE AN IMPORTANT FEAST," COYOTE TOLD OWL-WOMAN. OK05401370 "YOU SHOULD PAINT YOUR FACE. PAINT IT WITH CHARCOAL AND RUB IT WITH OK05401380 PITCH. THE PITCH WILL MAKE THE CHARCOAL STAY ON. YOUR ARMS SHOULD OK05401390 BE PAINTED THE SAME WAY. THE CHILDREN AND I WILL HELP YOU FIX UP." OK05401400 COYOTE'S ATTENTION FLATTERED OWL-WOMAN. SHE LET HIM AND THE OK05401410 CHILDREN HELP HER TO PREPARE FOR THE FEAST. THEY PAINTED HER ARMS OK05401420 WITH CHARCOAL, AND THEN SMEARED THEM WITH PITCH, AND SHE PAINTED OK05401430 HER FACE THE SAME WAY. OK05401440 "NOW, LET US ROAST THE CHILDREN," SHE SAID. OK05401450 "NO, NOT YET," COYOTE ADVISED. "WAIT UNTIL THE WOOD BURNS TO OK05401460 RED COALS. THAT PITCH SMOKE WOULD SPOIL THE TASTE. BUT WE CAN DO OK05401470 SOMETHING WHILE WE ARE WAITING. WE CAN DANCE. LET US DANCE THE OK05401480 SUN-DANCE. WHILE WE ARE HAVING A GOOD TIME, THE CHILDREN SHALL GATHER OK05401490 FORKED ROASTING STICKS." OK05401500 "GOOD, WE WILL DANCE," SAID OWL-WOMAN. "BUT WHY THE FORKED OK05401510 ROASTING STICKS?" OK05401520 "BECAUSE FORKED STICKS ARE BETTER THAN STRAIGHT ONES FOR OK05401530 ROASTING CHILDREN." OK05401540 COYOTE TOLD THE CHILDREN TO HURRY AND GATHER FORKED STICKS, OK05401550 AND HE AND OWL-WOMAN BEGAN TO DANCE. THEY DANCED AND DANCED. OK05401560 OWL-WOMAN GREW TIRED. SHE WANTED TO STOP. OK05401570 "DO NOT STOP SO SOON," COYOTE URGED. "YOU ARE A GOOD DANCER. OK05401580 I LIKE TO SEE YOU DANCE." OK05401590 OWL-WOMAN BELIEVED THOSE SLY WORDS. SHE DANCED HARDER AND OK05401600 HARDER, UNTIL SHE STAGGERED. THEN, AS IF IN PLAY, COYOTE SHOVED HER, OK05401610 AND SHE FELL. COYOTE LAUGHED, AND OWL-WOMAN LAUGHED, AND SHE GOT OK05401620 UP AND DANCED AGAIN. COYOTE DANCED BESIDE HER. AND WHEN SHE GOT OK05401630 CLOSE TO THE FIRE HE SHOVED HER RIGHT INTO THE FLAMES. HE CALLED TO OK05401640 THE CHILDREN, AND THEY BROUGHT THE FORKED STICKS WHICH THEY AND OK05401650 COYOTE USED TO HOLD OWL-WOMAN IN THE FIRE. COVERED AS SHE WAS WITH OK05401660 PITCH, OWL-WOMAN BURNED LIKE PITCHWOOD. OK05401670 IN THAT WAY PERISHED THE WICKED OWL-WOMAN. BAD PERSONS ALWAYS OK05401680 MUST PAY FOR THE EVIL WORKINGS OF THEIR MINDS. OK05401690 ***OKA-005*** COYOTE AND THE BUFFALO OK05500010 NO BUFFALO EVER LIVED IN THE SWAH-NETK'-QHU COUNTRY. THAT WAS OK05400020 COYOTE'S FAULT. IF HE HAD NOT BEEN SO FOOLISH AND GREEDY, THE OK05500030 PEOPLE BESIDE THE SWAH-NETK'-QHU WOULD NOT HAVE HAD TO CROSS THE OK05500040 ROCKIES TO HUNT THE QUAS-PEET-ZA (CURLED-HAIRS). OK05500050 THIS IS THE WAY IT HAPPENED: COYOTE WAS TRAVELING OVER THE OK05500060 PLAINS BEYOND THE BIG MOUNTAINS. HE CAME TO A FLAT. THERE HE FOUND OK05500070 AN OLD BUFFALO SKULL. IT WAS THE SKULL OF BUFFALO BULL. COYOTE OK05500080 ALWAYS HAD BEEN AFRAID OF BUFFALO BULL. HE REMEMBERED THE MANY OK05500090 TIMES BULL BUFFALO HAD SCARED HIM, AND HE LAUGHED UPON SEEING THE OK05500100 OLD SKULL THERE ON THE FLAT. OK05500110 "NOW I WILL HAVE SOME FUN," COYOTE REMARKED. "I WILL HAVE OK05500120 REVENGE FOR THE TIMES BUFFALO MADE ME RUN." OK05500130 HE PICKED UP THE SKULL AND THREW IT INTO THE AIR; HE KICKED OK05500140 IT AND SPAT ON IT; HE THREW DUST IN THE EYE-SOCKETS. HE DID THESE OK05500150 THINGS MANY TIMES, UNTIL HE GREW TIRED. THEN HE WENT HIS WAY. SOON OK05500160 HE HEARD A RUMBLING BEHIND HIM. HE THOUGHT IT WAS THUNDER, AND HE OK05500170 LOOKED AT THE SKY. THE SKY WAS CLEAR. THINKING HE MUST HAVE IMAGINED OK05500180 THE SOUND, HE WALKED ON, SINGING. HE HEARD THE RUMBLING AGAIN, ONLY OK05500190 MUCH CLOSER AND LOUDER. TURNING AROUND, HE SAW BUFFALO BULL POUNDING OK05500200 ALONG AFTER HIM, CHASING HIM. HIS OLD ENEMY HAD COME TO LIFE] OK05500210 COYOTE RAN, FASTER THAN HE THOUGHT HE COULD RUN, BUT BUFFALO OK05500220 GAINED STEADILY. SOON BUFFALO WAS RIGHT AT HIS HEELS. COYOTE FELT OK05500230 HIS HOT BREATH. OK05500240 "OH, SQUAS-TENK', HELP ME]" COYOTE BEGGED, AND HIS POWER OK05500250 ANSWERED BY PUTTING THREE TREES IN FRONT OF HIM. THEY WERE THERE IN OK05500260 THE WINK OF AN EYE. COYTOE JUMPED AND CAUGHT A BRANCH OF THE FIRST OK0550027 TREE AND SWUNG OUT OF BUFFALO'S WAY. BUFFALO RAMMED THE TREE HARD, OK05500280 AND IT SHOOK AS IF IN A STRONG WIND. THEN BUFFALO CHOPPED AT THE OK05500290 TRUNK WITH HIS HORNS, FIRST WITH ONE HORN AND THEN THE OTHER. OK05500300 HE CHOPPED FAST, AND IN A LITTLE WHILE OVER WENT THE TREE, AND WITH OK05500310 IT WENT COYOTE. BUT HE WAS UP AND INTO THE SECOND TREE BEFORE BUFFALO OK05500320 BULL COULD REACH HIM. BUFFALO SOON LAID THAT TREE LOW, BUT HE WAS OK05500330 NOT QUICK ENOUGH TO CATCH COYOTE, WHO SCRAMBLED INTO THE THIRD AND OK05500340 LAST TREE. OK05500350 "BUFFALO, MY FRIEND, LET ME TALK WITH YOU," SAID COYOTE, AS OK05500360 HIS ENEMY HACKED AWAY AT THE TREE'S TRUNK. "LET ME SMOKE MY PIPE. OK05500370 I LIKE THE KINNIKINNICK. LET ME SMOKE. THEN I CAN DIE MORE CONTENT." OK05500380 "YOU MAY HAVE TIME FOR ONE SMOKE," GRUNTED BULL BUFFALO, RESTING OK05500390 FROM HIS CHOPPING. OK05500400 COYOTE SPOKE TO HIS MEDICINE-POWER, AND A PIPE, LOADED AND OK05500410 LIGHTED, WAS GIVEN TO HIM. HE PUFFED ON IT ONCE AND HELD OUT THE OK05500420 PIPE TO BUFFALO BULL. OK05500430 "NO, I WILL NOT SMOKE WITH YOU," SAID THAT ONE. "YOU MADE FUN OK05500440 OF MY BONES. I HAVE ENOUGH ENEMIES WITHOUT YOU. YOUNG BUFFALO IS OK05500450 ONE OF THEM. HE KILLED ME AND STOLE ALL MY FINE HERD." OK05500460 "MY UNCLE," SAID COYOTE, "YOU NEED NEW HORNS. LET ME MAKE NEW OK05500470 HORNS FOR YOU. THEN YOU CAN KILL YOUNG BUFFALO. THOSE OLD HORNS ARE OK05500480 DULL AND WORN." OK05500490 BULL BUFFALO WAS PLEASED WITH THAT TALK. HE DECIDED HE DID NOT OK05500500 WANT TO KILL COYOTE. HE TOLD COYOTE TO GET DOWN OUT OF THE TREE OK05500510 AND MAKE THE NEW HORNS. COYOTE JUMPED DOWN AND CALLED TO HIS POWER. OK05500520 IT SCOLDED HIM FOR GETTING INTO TROUBLE, BUT IT GAVE HIM A FLINT OK05500530 KNIFE AND A STUMP OF PITCHWOOD. FROM THIS STUMP COYOTE CARVED A OK05500540 PAIR OF FINE HEAVY HORNS WITH SHARP POINTS. HE GAVE THEM TO BUFFALO OK05500550 BULL. ALL BUFFALO BULLS HAVE WORN THE SAME KIND OF HORNS SINCE. OK05500560 BUFFALO BULL WAS VERY PROUD OF HIS NEW HORNS. HE LIKED THEIR OK05500570 SHARPNESS AND WEIGHT AND THEIR PITCH-BLACK COLOR. HE TRIED THEM OUT OK05500580 ON WHAT WAS LEFT OF THE PITCHWOOD STUMP. HE MADE ONE TOSS AND THE OK05500590 STUMP FLEW HIGH IN THE AIR, AND HE FORGAVE COYOTE FOR HIS MISCHIEF. OK05500600 THEY BECAME GOOD FRIENDS RIGHT THERE. COYOTE SAID HE WOULD GO ALONG OK05500610 WITH BUFFALO BULL TO FIND YOUNG BUFFALO. OK05500620 THEY SOON CAME UPON YOUNG BUFFALO AND THE BIG HERD WE HAD WON OK05500630 FROM BUFFALO BULL. YOUNG BUFFALO LAUGHED WHEN HE SAW HIS OLD ENEMY, OK05500640 AND HE WALKED OUT TO MEET HIM. HE DID NOT KNOW, OF COURSE, ABOUT OK05500650 THE NEW HORNS. IT WAS NOT MUCH OF A FIGHT, THAT FIGHT BETWEEN YOUNG OK05500660 BUFFALO AND BUFFALO BULL. WITH THE FINE NEW HORNS, BUFFALO BULL OK05500670 KILLED THE OTHER EASILY, AND THEN HE TOOK BACK HIS HERD, ALL HIS OK05500680 FORMER WIVES AND THEIR CHILDREN. HE GAVE COYOTE A YOUNG COW, THE OK05500690 YOUNGEST COW, AND HE SAID: OK05500700 "NEVER KILL HER, SIN-KA-LIP'] TAKE GOOD CARE OF HER AND SHE WILL OK05500710 SUPPLY YOU WITH MEAT FOREVER. WHEN YOU GET HUNGRY, JUST SLICE OFF OK05500720 SOME CHOICE FAT WITH A FLINT KNIFE. THEN RUB ASHES ON THE WOUND AND OK05500730 THE CUT WILL HEAL AT ONCE." OK05500740 COYOTE PROMISED TO REMEMBER THAT, AND THEY PARTED. COYOTE OK05500750 STARTED BACK TO HIS OWN COUNTRY, AND THE COW FOLLOWED. FOR A FEW OK05500760 SUNS HE ATE ONLY THE FAT WHEN HE WAS HUNGRY. BUT AFTER AWHILE HE OK05500770 BECAME TIRED OF EATING FAT, AND HE BEGAN TO LONG FOR THE SWEET OK05500780 MARROW-BONES AND THE OTHER GOOD PARTS OF THE BUFFALO. HE SMACKED OK05500790 HIS LIPS AT THE THOUGHT OF HAVING SOME WARM LIVER. OK05500800 "BUFFALO BULL WILL NEVER KNOW," COYOTE TOLD HIMSELF, AND HE OK05500810 TOOK HIS YOUNG COW DOWN BESIDE A CREEK AND KILLED HER. OK05500820 AS HE PEELED OFF THE HIDE, CROWS AND MAGPIES CAME FROM ALL OK05500830 DIRECTIONS. THEY SETTLED ON THE CARCASS AND PICKED AT THE MEAT. OK05500840 COYOTE TRIED TO CHASE THEM AWAY, BUT THERE WERE TOO MANY OF THEM. OK05500850 WHILE HE WAS CHASING SOME, OTHERS RETURNED AND ATE THE MEAT. IT OK05500860 WAS NOT LONG UNTIL THEY HAD DEVOURED EVERY BIT OF THE MEAT. OK05500870 "WELL, I CAN GET SOME GOOD FROM THE BONES AND MARROW-FAT," OK05500880 COYOTE REMARKED, AND HE BUILT A FIRE TO COOK THE BONES. THEN HE SAW OK05500890 AN OLD WOMAN WALKING TOWARD HIM. SHE CAME UP TO THE FIRE. OK05500900 "SIN-KA-LIP'," SHE SAID, "YOU ARE A BRAVE WARRIOR, A GREAT OK05500910 CHIEF. WHY SHOULD YOU DO WOMAN'S WORK? LET ME COOK THE BONES WHILE OK05500920 YOU REST." OK05500930 VAIN COYOTE] HE WAS FLATTERED. HE BELIEVED SHE SPOKE HER TRUE OK05500940 MIND. HE STRETCHED OUT TO REST AND HE FELL ASLEEP. IN HIS SLEEP HE OK05500950 HAD A BAD DREAM. IT AWOKE HIM, AND HE SAW THE OLD WOMAN RUNNING AWAY OK05500960 WITH THE MARROW-FAT AND THE BOILED GREASE. HE LOOKED INTO THE OK05500970 COOKING-BASKET. THERE WAS NOT A DROP OF SOUP LEFT IN IT. HE CHASED OK05500980 THE OLD WOMAN. HE WOULD PUNISH HER] BUT SHE COULD RUN, TOO, AND SHE OK05500990 EASILY KEPT AHEAD OF HIM. EVERY ONCE IN AWHILE SHE STOPPED AND HELD OK05501000 UP THE MARROW-FAT AND SHOUTED: "SIN-KA-LIP', DO YOU WANT THIS?" OK05501010 FINALLY COYOTE GAVE UP TRYING TO CATCH HER. HE WENT BACK TO OK05501020 GET THE BONES. HE THOUGHT HE WOULD BOIL THEM AGAIN. HE FOUND THE OK05501030 BONES SCATTERED ALL AROUND, SO HE GATHERED THEM UP AND PUT THEM INTO OK05501040 THE COOKING-BASKET. NEEDING SOME MORE WATER TO BOIL THEM IN, HE WENT OK05501050 TO THE CREEK FOR IT, AND WHEN HE GOT BACK, THERE WERE NO BONES IN OK05501060 THE BASKET] IN PLACE OF THE BONES WAS A LITTLE PILE OF TREE LIMBS] OK05501070 COYOTE THOUGHT HE MIGHT BE ABLE TO GET ANOTHER COW FROM BUFFALO OK05501080 BULL, SO HE SET OUT TO FIND HIM. WHEN HE CAME TO THE HERD, HE WAS OK05501090 ASTONISHED TO SEE THE COW HE HAD KILLED. SHE WAS THERE WITH THE OK05501100 OTHERS] SHE REFUSED TO GO WITH COYOTE AGAIN, AND BUFFALO BULL WOULD OK05501110 NOT GIVE HIM ANOTHER COW. COYOTE HAD TO RETURN TO HIS OWN COUNTRY OK05501120 WITHOUT A BUFFALO. OK05501130 THAT IS WHY THERE NEVER HAVE BEEN ANY BUFFALO ALONG THE OK05501140 SWAH-NETK'-QHU. OK05501150 ***OKA-006*** WHY THE FLINT-ROCK CANNOT FIGHT BACK OK05600010 STO-WAYNA' -- FLINT -- WAS RICH AND POWERFUL. HIS LODGE WAS OK05600020 TOWARD THE SUNRISE. IT WAS GUARDED BY SQUR-HEIN -- CRANE. HE WAS OK05600030 THE WATCHER. HE WATCHED FROM THE TOP OF A LONE TREE. WHEN ANYBODY OK05600040 APPROACHED, CRANE WOULD CALL OUT AND WARN FLINT, AND FLINT WOULD OK05600050 COME OUT OF HIS LODGE AND MEET THE VISITOR. OK05600060 THERE WAS AN OPEN FLAT IN FRONT OF THE LODGE. FLINT MET ALL OK05600070 HIS VISITORS THERE. WARRIORS AND HUNTERS CAME AND BOUGHT FLINT FOR OK05600080 ARROW-POINTS AND SPEAR-HEADS. THEY PAID FLINT BIG PRICES FOR THE OK05600090 PRIVILEGE OF CHIPPING OFF THE HARD STONE. SOME WHO NEEDED FLINT FOR OK05600100 THEIR WEAPONS WERE POOR AND COULD NOT BUY. THESE POOR PERSONS FLINT OK05600110 TURNED AWAY. OK05600120 COYOTE HEARD ABOUT FLINT AND, AS HE WANTED SOME ARROW-POINTS, OK05600130 HE ASKED HIS SQUAS-TENK' TO HELP HIM. SQUAS-TENK' REFUSED. OK05600140 "HURRY, DO WHAT I ASK, OR I WILL THROW YOU AWAY AND LET THE OK05600150 RAIN WASH YOU -- WASH YOU COLD," SAID COYOTE, AND THEN THE POWER OK05600160 GAVE HIM THREE ROCKS THAT WERE HARDER THAN THE FLINT-ROCK. IT ALSO OK05600170 GAVE HIM A LITTLE DOG THAT HAD ONLY ONE EAR. BUT THIS EAR WAS SHARP, OK05600180 LIKE A KNIFE; IT WAS A KNIFE-EAR. OK05600190 THEN TO HIS WIFE, MOLE, COYOTE SAID: "GO AND MAKE YOUR OK05600200 UNDERGROUND TRAILS IN THE FLAT WHERE STO-WAYNA' LIVES. WHEN YOU OK05600210 HAVE FINISHED AND SEE ME TALKING WITH HIM, SHOW YOURSELF SO WE CAN OK05600220 SEE YOU." OK05600230 THEN COYOTE SET OUT FOR FLINT'S LODGE. AS HE GOT NEAR IT, HE OK05600240 HAD HIS POWER MAKE A FOG TO COVER THE LAND, AND THICK FOG SPREAD OK05600250 OVER EVERYTHING. CRANE, THE WATCHER, UP IN THE LONE TREE, COULD NOT OK05600260 SEE COYOTE. HE DID NOT KNOW THAT COYOTE WAS AROUND. OK05600270 COYOTE CLIMBED THE TREE AND TOOK CRANE FROM HIS HIGH PERCH AND OK05600280 BROKE HIS NECK. CRANE HAD NO TIME TO CRY OUT. THEN COYOTE WENT ON OK05600290 TO FLINT'S LODGE. HE WAS ALMOST THERE WHEN FLINT'S DOG, GRIZZLY OK05600300 BEAR, JUMPED OUT OF THE LODGE AND RAN TOWARD HIM. OK05600310 COYOTE WAS NOT SCARED, AND HE YELLED AT FLINT: "STOP YOUR OK05600320 GRIZZLY BEAR DOG] STOP HIM, OR MY DOG WILL KILL HIM." OK05600330 THAT AMUSED FLINT, WHO WAS LOOKING THROUGH THE DOORWAY. HE OK05600340 SAW THAT COYOTE'S ONE-EARED DOG WAS VERY SMALL, HARDLY A MOUTHFUL OK05600350 FOR GRIZZLY BEAR. FLINT CAME OUT OF HIS LODGE. HE WAS LAUGHING. OK05600360 "SIN-KA-LIP', YOU BETTER TAKE YOUR DOG AWAY. MY GRIZZLY BEAR OK05600370 WILL EAT HIM UP." OK05600380 "NO, STOP YOUR DOG," REPEATED COYOTE. "ONE-EAR IS BAD]" OK05600390 "HAH]" LAUGHED FLINT. "NO DOG CAN HURT MY GRIZZLY BEAR]" OK05600400 SO, WITHOUT MORE TALK, COYOTE SENT ONE-EAR AT GRIZZLY BEAR, OK05600410 WHO OPENED HIS MOUTH WIDE. THE LITTLE DOG WENT RIGHT AHEAD AND OK05600420 JUMPED STRAIGHT INTO GRIZZLY BEAR'S MOUTH, AND KEPT ON GOING. HE OK05600430 WENT CLEAR THROUGH GRIZZLY BEAR. HIS SHARP KNIFE-EAR CUT FLINT'S DOG OK05600440 WIDE OPEN. OK05600450 "SEE]" COYOTE SAID. "I TOLD YOU THAT ONE-EAR WAS BAD. HE CAN OK05600460 KILL ANYTHING." OK05600470 ABOUT THAT TIME MOLE APPEARED AT THE FAR EDGE OF THE FLAT. SHE OK05600480 WAS DRESSED IN SKINS THAT WERE PAINTED RED, AND SHE LOOKED VERY OK05600490 HANDSOME. OK05600500 "MY FRIEND," COYOTE SPOKE TO FLINT, "SEE THAT WOMAN OVER THERE. OK05600510 LET US RUN A RACE. THE ONE WHO GETS TO HER FIRST SHALL TAKE HER FOR OK05600520 HIS WIFE." OK05600530 FLINT WAS WILLING. SO THEY RACED. THEY RAN TOWARD MOLE. SHE OK05600540 PRETENDED TO BE DIGGING SPIT-LUM (BITTER-ROOT). SHE HAD MADE OK05600550 TUNNELS ALL THROUGH THE FLAT, AND THEY WERE A BOTHER TO FLINT. HE OK05600560 KEPT STEPPING INTO THEM AND FALLING, AND EVERY TIME HE FELL COYOTE OK05600570 WOULD JUMP OVER HIM, AND SHOUT: "EH] HA-YEA] MY FRIEND, WHAT IS OK05600580 WRONG?" OK05600590 FLINT WAS HEAVY, AND SLOW IN PICKING HIMSELF UP. SOMETIMES OK05600600 COYOTE JUMPED OVER HIM TWICE BEFORE HE COULD GET UP. WHEN THEY GOT OK05600610 TO WHERE MOLE WAS STANDING, SHE CHANGED HERSELF INTO A REAL MOLE AND OK05600620 SKIPPED INTO ONE OF HER TUNNELS. THEN COYOTE BEGAN TO HIT FLINT WITH OK05600630 THE SQUAS-TENK' ROCKS. AT EACH BLOW THEY SCALED OFF BIG FLAKES OF OK05600640 FLINT. OK05600650 FLINT TRIED TO CATCH COYOTE, BUT EVERY FEW STEPS HE STUMBLED OK05600660 INTO ONE OF MOLE'S TUNNELS, AND HE GREW WEAKER AND WEAKER. COYOTE OK05600670 KEPT STRIKING HIM WITH THE MEDICINE-ROCKS. AT LAST ALL OF THE OK05600680 MONSTER'S BODY WAS CHIPPED AWAY. ONLY THE HEART WAS LEFT. THEN OK05600690 FLINT DIED. OK05600700 COYOTE PICKED UP THE HEART AND THREW IT ACROSS THE FLAT. THERE OK05600710 IT IS TODAY. IT IS A HILL STANDING THERE. MUCH FLINT IS FOUND THERE. OK05600720 THE PIECES OF FLINT'S BODY WHICH WERE SCATTERED AROUND ON THE OK05600730 FLAT WERE GATHERED UP BY COYOTE AND THROWN ALL OVER THE EARTH FOR OK05600740 WARRIORS AND HUNTERS TO USE. OK05600750 THAT DONE, COYOTE SAID: "STO-WAYNA', YOU ARE A PERSON NO MORE. OK05600760 FROM THIS SUN YOU ARE ONLY DEAD STONE]" OK05600770 AND THAT IS WHY THE FLINT-ROCK IS SENSELESS AND CANNOT FIGHT OK05600780 BACK WHEN CHIPPED FOR ARROW-HEADS. COYOTE MADE IT SO BEFORE THE NEW OK05600790 PEOPLE CAME. OK05600800 ***OKA-007*** HOW TURTLE GOT HIS TAIL OK05700010 NO ONE COULD RUN FASTER THAN RABBIT. HE HAD WON MANY RACES AND OK05700020 PRIZES. HE HAD WON FROG'S TAIL FROM FROG AND BEAR'S TAIL FROM BEAR. OK05700030 RABBIT'S OWN TAIL WAS VERY LONG. OK05700040 ONE SUN, TURTLE, WHO HAD NO TAIL AT ALL, WENT TO RABBIT AND OK05700050 SAID: "SPEPA-LEENA, MY FRIEND, I WOULD LIKE TO RACE WITH YOU. I OK05700060 THINK I CAN BEAT YOU. I WOULD LIKE TO WIN THOSE TAILS, YOURS AND OK05700070 THE OTHERS." OK05700080 RABBIT LAUGHED, FOR AR-SIKH' WAS SUCH A SLOW TRAVELER. RABBIT OK05700090 MADE FUN OF HIM BEFORE THE PEOPLE. BUT TURTLE INSISTED, AND RABBIT OK05700100 FINALLY AGREED TO RACE WITH HIM. "BEATING YOU WILL BE EASY," SAID OK05700110 RABBIT. "WHEN DO YOU WANT TO RACE?" OK05700120 "LET US RACE TOMORROW WHILE THE MORNING IS YOUNG," SAID TURTLE. OK05700130 THE PEOPLE ALL GATHERED THE NEXT MORNING EARLY TO WATCH THE OK05700140 STRANGE RACE BETWEEN RABBIT, THE SWIFT-JUMPER, AND TURTLE, THE OK05700150 SLOW-WALKER. THEY STARTED, AND RABBIT QUICKLY LEFT TURTLE FAR BEHIND. OK05700160 "NO USE FOR ME TO RUN ALL THE WAY NOW," RABBIT REMARKED TO OK05700170 HIMSELF. "I WILL SIT DOWN AWHILE AND WAIT FOR THAT SILLY AR-SIKH'. OK05700180 THAT WILL MAKE HIM FEEL FOOLISH." SO RABBIT STOPPED TO REST. HE WENT OK05700190 TO SLEEP. WHEN HE AWOKE, HE WAS SURPRISED TO SEE TURTLE MOVING OK05700200 SLOWLY ALONG SOME DISTANCE AHEAD. OK05700210 "I MUST HAVE SLEPT LONG," SAID RABBIT, AND HE HOPPED SWIFTLY OK05700220 AFTER THE SLOW-WALKER. HE PASSED TURTLE AND KEPT ON GOING UNTIL, WHEN OK05700230 HE LOOKED BACK, HE COULD NOT SEE THE OTHER. THEN HE SAT DOWN TO OK05700240 WAIT, AND AGAIN HE FELL ASLEEP. WHILE RABBIT SLEPT, TURTLE CRAWLED OK05700250 BY, AND WHEN RABBIT OPENED HIS EYES THERE WAS TURTLE FAR AHEAD. BUT OK05700260 THAT DID NOT WORRY RABBIT. HE EASILY OVERTOOK THE SLOW ONE. OK05700270 THAT IS THE WAY THEY RACED, RABBIT RUNNING AND RESTING AND OK05700280 GOING TO SLEEP, AND TURTLE PLODDING, PLODDING WITHOUT A STOP. THE OK05700290 RACE TRAIL WAS LONG. IT WENT TO A HALF-WAY STAKE AND RETURNED TO OK05700300 THE POINT OF STARTING. ON THE HOME STRETCH, RABBIT DECIDED TO TAKE OK05700310 ONE LAST REST. HE INTENDED TO STAY AWAKE, BUT, IN SPITE OF HIMSELF, OK05700320 HE FELL ASLEEP. WHEN HE FINALLY AWOKE HE COULD NOT SEE TURTLE OK05700330 ANYWHERE. OK05700340 "HE OUGHT TO BE IN SIGHT BY NOW," SAID RABBIT. "PERHAPS HE HAS OK05700350 GIVEN UP." THEN RABBIT RUBBED HIS EYES AND LOOKED AGAIN. AWAY OFF, OK05700360 NEAR THE FINISH-LINE, HE SAW A SPECK. IT WAS TURTLE. RABBIT WAS OK05700370 STARTLED. HE JUMPED UP AND RAN. HE RAN HIS FASTEST, BUT HE HAD SLEPT OK05700380 TOO LONG. TURTLE CRAWLED OVER THE FINISH-LINE FIRST. RABBIT WAS A OK05700390 FEW LEAPS BEHIND. THE PEOPLE LAUGHED AND LAUGHED AT RABBIT, AND HE OK05700400 WAS VERY MUCH ASHAMED. OK05700410 CUTTING OFF HIS OWN TAIL, SO THAT THERE WAS ONLY A LITTLE STUMP OK05700420 LEFT, RABBIT GAVE IT TO TURTLE. HE ALSO GAVE TURTLE THE OTHER TWO OK05700430 TAILS. TURTLE FIRST TRIED ON BEAR'S TAIL. IT WAS TOO LONG AND BUSHY. OK05700440 HE THREW IT ASIDE AND TRIED ON RABBIT'S OWN TAIL. THAT DID NOT SUIT OK05700450 HIM, EITHER, AS THE FUR WAS THICK AND FINE -- THE WATER AND MUD OK05700460 WOULD MAKE IT TOO HEAVY. THEN TURTLE PUT ON FROG'S TAIL. OK05700470 "THAT IS THE TAIL I NEED," SAID TURTLE. "FROG'S TAIL MATCHES MY OK05700480 COLOR, IT HASN'T ANY FUR OR HAIR ON IT, AND IT IS JUST THE RIGHT OK05700490 SIZE." OK05700500 ALL TURTLES HAVE TAILS LIKE THAT TODAY, WHILE RABBITS HAVE OK05700510 SCARCELY ANY TAIL AT ALL. OK05700520 ***OKA-008*** WHY SKUNK'S TAIL IS BLACK AND WHITE OK05800010 FAR OFF IN HIS OWN COUNTRY, SEN-KES-TIA -- SKUNK -- HEARD ABOUT OK05800020 THE RACE BETWEEN TURTLE AND RABBIT. AS SKUNK DID NOT HAVE A TAIL, OK05800030 HE THOUGHT HE WOULD LIKE TO RACE TURTLE FOR THE TAILS OF RABBIT AND OK05800040 BEAR. HE SET OUT FOR TURTLE'S COUNTRY. WITH HIM WENT HIS FRIEND, OK05800050 E-WHE-WHOOT'-KEN -- SHARP-CLAWS. THAT WAS BADGER. THEY RODE A OK05800060 LITTLE WHITE HORSE, AND SAT DOUBLE, LIKE WARRIORS ON PARADE. OK05800070 WHEN THEY GOT TO WHERE TURTLE LIVED, SKUNK ASKED HIM TO RACE. OK05800080 TURTLE REFUSED. SKUNK WAS VERY ANGRY, FOR HE HAD RIDDEN A LONG WAY OK05800090 JUST TO MAKE THAT RACE, AND HE RAISED A BIG FUSS. NOW, THE PEOPLE OK05800100 WERE AFRAID OF SKUNK BECAUSE OF HIS STRONG ODOR; IT WAS STRONG OK05800110 MEDICINE. WITH IT SKUNK COULD KILL PEOPLE, AND THOSE PERSONS THERE OK05800120 WERE AFRAID HE MIGHT KILL SOME OF THEM. THEY TOLD TURTLE HE HAD TO OK05800130 RACE WHETHER HE WANTED TO OR NOT. THEN TURTLE AGREED, BUT SKUNK SAID: OK05800140 "I WILL NOT RACE ON FOOT. MY FRIEND, E-WHE-WHOOT'-KEN, AND I OK05800150 WILL RIDE DOUBLE ON THIS WHITE HORSE." OK05800160 "ALL RIGHT," TURTLE REPLIED, BECAUSE HE DID NOT DARE TO OBJECT. OK05800170 "YOU RIDE THE WHITE HORSE." OK05800180 TURTLE KNEW HE DIDN'T HAVE A CHANCE IN THAT RACE. IT WAS OVER OK05800190 BEFORE HE COULD EVEN GET A FAIR START, AND HE HAD TO GIVE THE TAILS OK05800200 OF RABBIT AND BEAR TO SKUNK. HIS OWN TAIL WAS SAFE. SKUNK HAD NO USE OK05800210 FOR IT. OK05800220 SKUNK PUT ON BOTH OF THE TAILS HE HAD WON. HE MADE THEM INTO ONE OK05800230 TAIL, AND THAT IS WHY ALL SKUNKS NOW HAVE BUSHY BLACK AND WHITE OK05800240 TAILS. OK05800250 AFTER THE RACE BADGER WAS NOT READY TO GO HOME. HE WANTED TO OK05800260 STAY AND VISIT AWHILE, BUT SKUNK MADE HIM GET ON THE LITTLE WHITE OK05800270 HORSE. THEY STARTED. PRETTY SOON BADGER THOUGHT OF A TRICK TO MAKE OK05800280 SKUNK LEAVE HIM BEHIND. BADGER SUDDENLY FELL OFF THE HORSE. HE OK05800290 FLOPPED OFF TO THE GROUND AND PRETENDED TO BE DEAD. SKUNK GOT OFF OK05800300 AND LOOKED AT HIM. SKUNK FELT VERY SAD. OK05800310 "I LOVED MY FRIEND, E-WHE-WHOOT'-KEN," SKUNK CRIED. "I WILL OK05800320 NOT LEAVE HIM IN THIS PLACE, SO FAR FROM HOME. RATHER THAN GO AWAY OK05800330 AND LEAVE HIM, I WOULD EAT HIM. YES, I WILL EAT HIM. I WILL EAT HIM OK05800340 THIS EVENING." OK05800350 BADGER WAS SCARED. HE HAD NOT THOUGHT OF ANYTHING LIKE THAT OK05800360 HAPPENING -- OF BEING EATEN. HE DID NOT KNOW WHAT TO DO. SKUNK CRIED OK05800370 AND CRIED, AND AFTER AWHILE SKUNK SANG: OK05800380 "I WILL NEVER LEAVE MY FRIEND, E-WHE-WHOOT'-KEN. OK05800390 I WILL NOT GIVE UP HIS FLESH TO ANYONE; OK05800400 NOT EVEN TO AN ENEMY. OK05800410 ONLY WHEE'-WHO -- WHISTLER, THE HOARY MARMOT -- OK05800420 CAN MAKE ME RUN AWAY AND LEAVE HIM." OK05800430 THAT MENTION OF WHISTLER, THE HOARY MARMOT, GAVE HOPE TO OK05800440 BADGER. HE KNEW THAT SKUNK WAS AFRAID OF WHISTLER. OK05800450 SKUNK STARTED TO WALK, CARRYING BADGER IN HIS ARMS. BADGER OK05800460 WHISTLED. IT WAS A LOW WHISTLE. SKUNK JUMPED AND LOOKED AROUND. OK05800470 THEN BADGER WHISTLED A LITTLE LOUDER. SKUNK BEGAN TO RUN. BADGER OK05800480 WHISTLED STILL LOUDER, AND SKUNK THREW HIM DOWN AND JUMPED INTO OK05800490 SOME THICK BRUSH. SKUNK CRAWLED DEEP INTO THE BRUSH TO HIDE. HE OK05800500 THOUGHT THAT WHISTLER WAS COMING. BADGER GOT UP AND RAN, AND SKUNK OK05800510 DID NOT SEE HIM GO. OK05800520 AS BADGER AND SKUNK PARTED AS GOOD FRIENDS, THEIR FRIENDSHIP OK05800530 NEVER HAS DIED. OK05800540 ***OKA-009*** RATTLESNAKE AND SALMON OK05900010 THE LODGE OF EN-TEE-TEE-UEH -- SALMON -- WAS IN THE CLIFFS OK05900020 ABOVE THE BIG FALLS OF THE SWAH-NETK'-QHU. SALMON WAS A GREAT OK05900030 WARRIOR. OK05900040 SALMON HEARD OF A BEAUTIFUL GIRL WHO LIVED IN THE KALISPEL OK05900050 COUNTRY. MANY WARRIORS WERE TRYING TO WIN HER, SALMON HEARD, AND OK05900060 HE DECIDED HE WOULD WIN HER HIMSELF. SO HE WENT TO HER COUNTRY AND OK05900070 MADE WAR ON THE PEOPLE. HE BEAT THEM AND TOOK AWAY THE MAIDEN. HE OK05900080 BROUGHT HER HOME WITH HIM. SHE LOVED SALMON FROM THE FIRST. SHE OK05900090 LOVED HIM FOR HIS RED HANDSOME FACE. OK05900100 MANY WARRIORS WANTED TO KILL SALMON AND TAKE HIS BRIDE, BUT OK05900110 THEY DID NOT KNOW HOW TO GET AT THE PAIR IN THE LODGE ABOVE THE OK05900120 ROARING FALLS. BUT NEAR SALMON'S LODGE LIVED HAH-AH-OOH-LAH -- OK05900130 RATTLESNAKE. HE WAS AN OLD MAN. HE ENVIED SALMON. HE DECIDED TO OK05900140 KILL HIM. HE MADE WARARROWS, SINGING AS HE WORKED. AND THEN, ONE OK05900150 SUN WHEN HE HAD FINISHED THE ARROWS, RATTLESNAKE STRUNG HIS BOW OK05900160 AND STEPPED OUTSIDE HIS BOUGH-COVERED LODGE AND SENT AN ARROW INTO OK05900170 SALMON'S HEAD. OK05900180 SALMON TUMBLED FROM HIS CLIFF HOME INTO THE RIVER. HIS BODY OK05900190 FLOATED DOWN THE RIVER. SALMON'S WIFE CRIED. THE THREE WOLF BROTHERS OK05900200 HAD BEEN WATCHING. THEY SAW SALMON DIE. THEY TOOK SALMON'S WIFE TO OK05900210 THEIR OWN CAMP. THERE SHE WAS MADE TO WORK -- TO BE A SLAVE -- AND OK05900220 SHE WAS WATCHED NIGHT AND DAY BY THE WIVES OF THE THREE BROTHERS. OK05900230 SHE WAS UNHAPPY; SHE FELT VERY BAD. OK05900240 THE RIVER CARRIED SALMON'S BODY A LONG WAY. FINALLY IT WAS OK05900250 WASHED UPON A SAND-BAR, TO BLEACH IN THE SUN. SOON ONLY THE SKULL OK05900260 AND THE BACKBONE REMAINED. OK05900270 GOU-KOUH-ANA -- MOUSE, THE SLY ONE -- CAME THERE TO THE OK05900280 SAND-BAR ONE DAY WITH HER SISTER. THEY WERE LOOKING FOR SOMETHING OK05900290 TO STEAL. THEY FOUND WHAT WAS LEFT OF SALMON. MOUSE WAS VERY SAD, OK05900300 FOR SALMON HAD BEEN HER CHIEF. SHE WENT TO A CAMP NEAR-BY AND STOLE OK05900310 SOME SALMON OIL. WITH THAT OIL SHE GREASED THE SKULL AND BACKBONE OK05900320 EVERY SUN FOR MANY SUNS. AFTER AWHILE THE FLESH BEGAN TO GROW OK05900330 AROUND THE BONES. SLOWLY SALMON WAS RESTORED TO LIFE BY THE OIL OK05900340 MOUSE RUBBED ON HIM. AT LAST HE COULD GET UP AND MOVE AROUND, AND OK05900350 AFTER MANY MOONS HE BECAME STRONG AGAIN. THEN HE WENT BACK TO THE OK05900360 BIG FALLS, TO HIS HOME. AS HIS WIFE WAS NOT THERE, HE WENT OVER TO OK05900370 RATTLESNAKE'S LODGE TO ASK ABOUT HER. HE HEARD RATTLESNAKE SINGING. OK05900380 "TA-PIN-EE, EX-EN-LEE-AH]" ("I SHOT HIM, AND HE RAN DOWN THE OK05900390 CLIFFS]") AND RATTLESNAKE SANG THIS: "I SHOT HIM] HE WAS A CHIEF, OK05900400 BUT HE IS A CHIEF NO MORE]" OK05900410 SALMON WALKED INTO RATTLESNAKE'S LODGE. OUT OF THE CORNER OF OK05900420 ONE EYE, RATTLESNAKE SAW HIM, BUT HE DID NOT LET ON THAT HE SAW, OK05900430 AND HE CHANGED HIS SONG. HE PRETENDED TO BE MOURNING SALMON'S DEATH. OK05900440 SALMON SAID NOTHING. HE STOOPED AND PICKED A PIECE OF BLAZING WOOD OK05900450 FROM THE FIRE AND TOUCHED IT TO THE DRY BOUGH LODGE COVERING. HE OK05900460 JUMPED OUTSIDE, AND THE FLAMES LEAPED UP. RATTLESNAKE WAS TRAPPED. OK05900470 HE COULD NOT GET OUT; HE WAS BURNED TO DEATH. FROM ONE OF OK05900480 RATTLESNAKE'S EYES CRAWLED A SMALL SNAKE. IT WAS RATTLESNAKE'S OK05900490 MYSTERY-POWER. OK05900500 "ALWAYS SHALL YOU CRAWL ON YOUR BELLY," SALMON TOLD THE LITTLE OK05900510 RATTLESNAKE. "THAT IS MY REVENGE." OK05900520 THEN SALMON STARTED IN SEARCH OF HIS WIFE. HE FOUND HER IN OK05900530 THE CAMP OF THE THREE WOLF BROTHERS. TWO OF THE BROTHERS HE KILLED, OK05900540 AND HE TOLD THE THIRD, THE YOUNGEST, TO GET OUT OF THAT COUNTRY. OK05900550 HE TOLD HIM TO GO INTO THE TIMBER COUNTRY AND NEVER COME BACK. WOLF OK05900560 WENT. HE WAS THE FIRST OF THE TIMBER WOLVES. THAT IS HOW THE RACE OK05900570 OF TIMBER WOLVES ORIGINATED. OK05900580 SALMON AND HIS WIFE DID NOT RETURN TO THEIR LODGE IN THE CLIFFS. OK05900590 HE TOOK HER INTO THE WATER BELOW THE BIG FALLS, WHERE THEY WOULD BE OK05900600 SAFE FROM THE ENEMIES THEY HAD AMONG THE LAND PEOPLE. OK05900610 THE ARROW-POINT THAT RATTLESNAKE SHOT INTO SALMON'S HEAD STAYED OK05900620 IN HIS HEAD. ALL SALMON HAVE ARROW-POINTS LIKE THAT IN THEIR HEADS OK05900630 TODAY. OK05900640 ***OKA-010*** COYOTE MEETS WIND AND SOME OTHERS OK06000010 COYOTE WANTED TO TRAVEL, TO SEE SOME NEW COUNTRY, SO HE TOOK OK06000020 MOLE AND THE CHILDREN TO THE LODGE OF HIS FRIEND BADGER. HE ASKED OK06000030 BADGER TO CARE FOR THEM, AND BADGER SAID HE WOULD. OK06000040 "I AM GOING TO HUNT FOR ENEMIES, E-WHE-WHOOT'-KEN, MY FRIEND," OK06000050 SAID COYOTE. "I AM GOING WHERE THERE IS GREAT DANGER. HERE IS A OK06000060 LITTLE SACK THAT BELONGS TO ME. HANG IT ON A TEPEE POLE. IF IT OK06000070 SHOULD FALL FROM THE POLE, YOU WILL KNOW THAT I AM DEAD. IF IT OK06000080 STAYS WHERE YOU HANG IT, I AM ALIVE." OK06000090 BADGER HUNG THE SACK ON A TEPEE POLE, AND COYOTE STARTED. HE OK06000100 TRAVELED FOR SOME TIME WITHOUT MEETING ANY ENEMIES OR GETTING INTO OK06000110 TROUBLE. THEN, ONE SUN, HE HEARD SOMEONE SINGING AT THE TOP OF A OK06000120 HIGH CLIFF. HE WENT THAT WAY. HE SAW A SWEAT-HOUSE BY THE EDGE OF OK06000130 THE CLIFF. INSIDE WAS THE SINGER. HANGING ON A BRANCH OF A TREE BY OK06000140 THE SWEAT-HOUSE WAS A SUIT OF VERY FINE BUCKSKIN CLOTHES. COYOTE OK06000150 LIKED THAT SUIT. HE WANTED IT. HE WALKED UP TO THE SWEAT-HOUSE. OK06000160 "I WOULD LIKE TO SWEAT WITH YOU," HE CALLED, AND THE SINGER, OK06000170 WHO WAS SIN-NEE-IUT -- WIND, STOPPED SINGING. OK06000180 "I HAVE USED UP ALL THE WATER," HE ANSWERED. "IF YOU WANT TO OK06000190 SWEAT-HOUSE YOU WILL HAVE TO GET WATER DOWN AT THE BOTTOM OF THIS OK06000200 CLIFF." OK06000210 "I WILL GET SOME WATER," COYOTE SAID, AND HE PICKED UP A OK05900220 WATER-BASKET AND WENT DOWN TO THE BASE OF THE CLIFF AND FILLED IT OK06000230 WITH WATER. HE CARRIED IT BACK TO WIND'S SWEAT-LODGE. "I HAVE THE OK06000240 WATER. I WILL PASS IT IN TO YOU," AND HE LIFTED THE DOOR-FLAP AS IF OK06000250 TO HAND THE BASKET IN TO WIND. BUT, AS WIND REACHED FOR THE BASKET, OK06000260 COYOTE THREW ALL OF THE WATER ON THE HOT STONES IN THE SWEAT-HOUSE. OK06000270 THAT MADE SUCH A STEAM THAT WIND WAS SCALDED TO DEATH. OK06000280 COYOTE LAUGHED AND PUT ON THE FINE BUCKSKIN CLOTHING, WHICH OK06000290 WAS DECORATED WITH NICE SHELL ORNAMENTS. QUITE PLEASED WITH HIMSELF, OK06000300 COYOTE WALKED AWAY. PRETTY SOON HE WISHED THERE WAS A GENTLE BREEZE OK06000310 TO BLOW THE SHELLS AND MAKE THEM RATTLE. RIGHT AWAY HIS WISH BROUGHT OK06000320 A SOFT BREEZE THAT TINKLED THE SHELLS. THEN COYOTE WISHED FOR A OK06000330 STRONGER WIND, AND A STRONG WIND CAME. IT BLEW HARDER AND HARDER, OK06000340 UNTIL IT LIFTED COYOTE OFF HIS FEET AND SPUN HIM THROUGH THE AIR. OK06000350 HIS WISHING HAD BROUGHT SIN-NEE-IUT BACK TO LIFE. OK06000360 THE WIND CARRIED COYOTE TO THE TOP OF THE CLIFFS THAT WATCH OVER OK06000370 THE BIG FALLS OF THE SWAH-NETK'-QHU. THERE HE GRASPED A LITTLE BUSH OK06000380 THAT GREW OUT OF THE CLIFF. THE BUSH WAS SPET-ZEN' -- HEMP -- AND OK06000390 HER SISTER. THE HEMP SISTERS STRIPPED COYOTE OF HIS STOLEN CLOTHES, OK06000400 AND THEY HELD HIM DOWN UNDER THE EDGE OF THE CLIFF. WIND CAME ALONG OK06000410 PRESENTLY, LOOKING FOR COYOTE. "WHERE IS SIN-KA-LIP'?" HE ASKED. OK06000420 "HE FELL INTO THE FALLS AND WAS DROWNED," ANSWERED HEMP, AND OK06000430 WIND BELIEVED HER. HE PUT ON HIS CLOTHES AND WENT AWAY. THEN THE OK06000440 SISTERS PULLED COYOTE UP BESIDE THEM. HE WAS GLAD TO BE SAVED, AND OK06000450 HE SAID, "NOW, WHAT CAN I DO TO HELP YOU?" OK06000460 "WE BARELY EXIST," SAID HEMP. "ALL THE TIME WE SUFFER FROM OK06000470 THIRST. WE HAVE TO LIVE ON THE LITTLE MOISTURE THAT SPRAYS UP FROM OK06000480 THE FALLS. IT IS NOT ENOUGH. WE NEED WATER." OK06000490 "I WILL GIVE YOU WATER," SAID COYOTE, AND HE WALKED OFF A FEW OK06000500 STEPS AND THREW WATER ON THE ROCKS AROUND HEMP AND HER SISTER. THEN, OK06000510 OUT OF THE CLIFF TRICKLED SOME WATER. YOU WILL NOTICE TODAY THAT OK06000520 HEMP GROWS ONLY WHERE THE GROUND IS WET. OK06000530 COYOTE LEFT THE HEMP SISTERS AND WALKED UNTIL HE CAME TO A LARGE OK06000540 ENCAMPMENT BY A LAKE. YELLING THAT ENEMIES WERE COMING, HE RAN INTO OK06000550 THE CAMP LIKE HE WAS BEING CHASED. THE PEOPLE WERE SCARED. THEY OK06000560 GRABBED THEIR WEAPONS AND MADE THEIR CANOES READY FOR WAR. THEN OK06000570 COYOTE TALKED TO HIS SQUAS-TENK'. HE HAD IT PUT ALL OF THE PEOPLE OK06000580 TO SLEEP. COYOTE COLLECTED THEIR WEAPONS AND FOOD, WHICH HE LOADED OK06000590 INTO ONE CANOE. THEN HE BROKE ALL THE OTHER CANOES AND PADDLED OUT OK06000600 ON THE LAKE. OK06000610 WHEN THE PEOPLE AWOKE THEY HURRIED TO MAKE NEW WEAPONS AND NEW OK06000620 CANOES. THEY KNEW WHO HAD TRICKED THEM. THEY STARTED AFTER COYOTE. OK06000630 SEEING THEM COMING, HE CAUSED A HEAVY FOG WITH HIS MEDICINE-POWER. OK06000640 THE FOG SETTLED CLOSE TO THE WATER AND ALL OVER THE LAKE. NONE OF OK06000650 THE PEOPLE COULD SEE INTO THE FOG -- NONE BUT SWA-LAH'-KIN -- OK06000660 FROG-WOMAN. THE FOG DID NOT BOTHER HER. SHE TOOK THE LEAD AND GUIDED OK06000670 THE OTHERS. NOT KNOWING THAT FROG-WOMAN COULD FOLLOW THROUGH THE FOG, OK06000680 COYOTE THOUGHT HE WAS SAFE. HE PADDLED HIS CANOE TO SHORE AND WENT OK06000690 TO SLEEP ON THE BEACH. THERE THE PEOPLE FOUND AND KILLED HIM. OK06000700 MANY MOONS LATER, SUI-AH' -- COUGAR -- TRAVELED THROUGH THAT OK06000710 COUNTRY. HE TRAVELED HIGH UP ALONG THE MOUNTAIN SIDES. AS HE CAME OK06000720 CLOSE TO THE DEATH-PLACE OF COYOTE, HE BECAME THIRSTY AND WENT DOWN OK06000730 TO THE LAKE. THERE HE FOUND WHAT WAS LEFT OF COYOTE. HE COLLECTED OK06000740 THE REMAINS AND STEPPED OVER COYOTE THREE TIMES, AND COYOTE RETURNED OK06000750 TO LIFE. OK06000760 "EH-AHE] KES-SAP TEE-SEH-EET]" ("EH] LONG TIME SLEEP]") SAID OK06000770 COYOTE, STRETCHING AND YAWNING. OK06000780 "YOU HAVE NOT BEEN SLEEPING," CORRECTED COUGAR. "YOU WERE DEAD. OK06000790 YOU WERE KILLED BY THE ARROW LAKES PEOPLE." OK06000800 "MAY I GO ALONG WITH YOU, BIG TEETH?" ASKED COYOTE. OK06000810 "WELL, I PREFER TO TRAVEL ALONE," SAID COUGAR, "BUT YOU MAY OK06000820 COME WITH ME, IF YOU WILL PROMISE TO KEEP OUT OF MISCHIEF." OK06000830 COYOTE SAID HE WOULD KEEP OUT OF TROUBLE, SO THEY SET OUT OK06000840 TOGETHER. THAT NIGHT THEY CAMPED ON A MOUNTAIN TOP. COUGAR BROUGHT OK06000850 OUT A SMALL BAG OF FOOD. COYOTE THOUGHT IT WOULD NOT BE ENOUGH FOR OK06000860 BOTH OF THEM. HE WAS HUNGRY -- HE WAS ALWAYS HUNGRY. COUGAR READ OK06000870 HIS THOUGHTS. OK06000880 "THERE IS PLENTY HERE FOR THE TWO OF US," HE SAID. "EAT ALL OK06000890 YOU WANT." SO COYOTE ATE HEARTILY. WHEN HE AND COUGAR HAD FINISHED, OK06000900 HE WAS SURPRISED TO SEE THAT THE BAG WAS AS FULL OF FOOD AS AT FIRST. OK06000910 COUGAR TOLD COYOTE TO THROW THE SCRAPS AWAY. COYOTE DID NOT WANT TO OK06000920 DO THAT. HE THOUGHT THAT WAS WASTEFUL. BUT COUGAR INSISTED, AND HE OK06000930 THREW AWAY THE SCRAPS. THEN THEY SLEPT. OK06000940 IN THE MORNING COUGAR BROUGHT OUT ANOTHER BAG -- A DEER-BLADDER OK06000950 FULL OF FOOD -- AND, WHEN THEY WERE THROUGH EATING, THE BLADDER WAS OK06000960 STILL FULL. THAT DAY, FROM THE TOP OF A MOUNTAIN, COUGAR POINTED OK06000970 OUT HIS LODGE. OK06000980 "I MUST GO HOME NOW TO MY CHILDREN, AS THEY ARE HUNGRY," HE OK06000990 SAID. " I WILL GIVE YOU A BOW AND TWO ARROWS," AND HE GAVE THEM TO OK06001000 COYOTE. "THIS FIRST ARROW IS TO KILL DEER. SHOOT IT THROUGH A DIVIDE OK06001010 IN A HILL AND YOU WILL KILL A DEER. THIS OTHER ARROW IS FOR BIRDS. OK06001020 DO NOT GET THEM MIXED. DO NOT SHOOT A BIRD WITH THE DEER-ARROW AND OK06001030 DO NOT SHOOT A DEER WITH THE BIRD-ARROW. IF YOU USE THEM WRONG, YOU OK06001040 WILL LOSE THE ARROWS." OK06001050 AFTER COUGAR LEFT HIM, COYOTE TRIED HIS NEW ARROWS. HE SHOT OK06001060 THE DEER-ARROW THROUGH A DIVIDE AND KILLED A DEER. HE ATE THE DEER. OK06001070 THEN HE SHOT A PHEASANT WITH THE BIRD-ARROW, AND HE ATE THE OK06001080 PHEASANT. HE SAW ANOTHER PHEASANT. HE SHOT IT WITH THE DEER-ARROW OK06001090 BUT IT DID NOT FALL. IT SAT, WITH THE ARROW STICKING THROUGH IT. OK06001100 SO HE SHOT THE BIRD-ARROW, AND THE PHEASANT FLEW OFF WITH BOTH OK06001110 ARROWS. IT SAILED DOWN THE MOUNTAIN AND OUT OF SIGHT. COYOTE HATED OK06001120 TO LOSE THOSE ARROWS, SO HE TRIED TO FOLLOW THE PHEASANT. HE CAME TO OK06001130 A TEPEE. HE WENT IN. BY THE FIRE SAT CHAR'-TUPS -- FISHER. THE TWO OK06001140 LOST ARROWS WERE THERE. FISHER HAD THEM. OK06001150 "LONG TAIL," SAID COYOTE, " I CAME TO GET THOSE ARROWS." OK06001160 "THE ARROWS BELONGED TO MY OLDER BROTHER, SUI-AH'," ANSWERED OK06001170 FISHER. "I HAVE FOUND THEM AND I WILL KEEP THEM. BUT I WILL GIVE OK06001180 YOU TWO OF MY OWN ARROWS. THEY ARE LIKE THE OTHERS, AND THE RULE IS OK06001190 THE SAME. DO NOT MIX THEM WHEN YOU SHOOT." OK06001200 COYOTE TOOK FISHER'S ARROWS AND WENT AWAY FEELING GOOD. BUT HE OK06001210 SOON FORGOT THE RULE FOR THE ARROWS. HE MIXED THEM, SHOOTING THE OK06001220 WRONG ONE FIRST, AND A PHEASANT FLEW OFF WITH BOTH ARROWS. FOLLOWING OK06001230 THE PHEASANT, COYOTE CAME TO THE LODGE OF PIP-QUS -- MARTEN, WHO HAD OK06001240 THE LOST ARROWS IN HIS HAND. OK06001250 "NO, I CANNOT GIVE YOU THESE ARROWS," EXPLAINED MARTEN. "THEY OK06001260 BELONGED TO MY OLDER BROTHER, FISHER. I FOUND THEM, AND I WILL KEEP OK06001270 THEM, BUT I WILL GIVE YOU TWO OF MY OWN ARROWS. THEY ARE USED THE OK06001280 SAME WAY, BY THE SAME RULE." OK06001290 MARTEN GAVE COYOTE TWO ARROWS, BUT IT WAS NOT LONG BEFORE OK06001300 FOOLISH COYOTE FORGOT THE RULE AND SHOT THE WRONG ONE AND THEN THE OK06001310 OTHER, AND BOTH ARROWS WERE LOST. HE HUNTED FOR THEM UNTIL HE GREW OK06001320 TIRED. THEN HE DECIDED TO GO HOME. OK06001330 WHEN HE REACHED HIS TEPEE, HE STOPPED OUTSIDE TO LISTEN. HE OK06001340 HEARD BADGER CRYING. HE CREPT CLOSE AND PEEKED THROUGH THE DOORWAY, OK06001350 AND HIS YOUNGEST SON SHOUTED: OK06001360 "LE-EE'-OO]" ("FATHER]") OK06001370 "YOUR FATHER IS DEAD," BADGER SAID TO THE BOY. "HE NEVER WILL OK06001380 COME BACK." OK06001390 "NO]" THE BOY ANSWERED. " I SEE MY FATHER NOW] LOOK -- AT THE OK06001400 DOORWAY." HE POINTED. THEN BADGER SAW COYOTE PEEKING. OK06001410 "YOU WERE DEAD," SAID BADGER. "THE LITTLE SACK FELL FROM THE OK06001420 POLE MANY MOONS AGO." OK06001430 "I WAS TIRED," COYOTE REPLIED. "I SLEPT BY THE WATER. THE OK06001440 ARROW LAKES PEOPLE FOLLOWED ME. THEY FOUND ME SLEEPING. THEY KILLED OK06001450 ME. BIG TEETH FOUND MY BONES AND HELPED ME BACK TO LIFE." OK06001460 COYOTE WAS GLAD TO BE HOME AGAIN, AND MOLE AND THE CHILDREN OK06001470 WERE GLAD, TOO. SO WAS BADGER. OK06001480 ***OKA-011*** WHY GARTERSNAKE WEARS A GREEN BLANKET OK06100010 SUCK-Z'-CUM -- THUNDER-BIRD -- USED TO FLY FROM THE WARMLAND OK06100020 (SOUTH) ONCE EVERY SNOW TO DEVOUR THE MOST BEAUTIFUL OF THE MAIDENS. OK06100030 HE ALWAYS WANTED A MAIDEN AS SOON AS HE APPEARED -- AT HIS FIRST OK06100040 ROLLING AMONG THE CLOUDS. HE WOULD NOT STAND FOR ANY DELAY. HE CAME OK06100050 AT THE BLOOMING OF THE WOODS-FLOWERS, AND THEN THERE WAS WAILING IN OK06100060 THE VILLAGES -- SORROW FOR THE GIRL WHO MUST GIVE HERSELF TO THE OK06100070 MONSTER. THIS MAIDEN, CHOSEN BY THE TRIBES BECAUSE OF HER GREAT OK06100080 BEAUTY, WOULD HAVE TO WALK OUT AND MEET THE MONSTER, AND BE EATEN. OK06100090 THEN THING-THAT-HITS WOULD NOT HARM THE OTHER PEOPLE. THAT WAS THE OK06100100 CUSTOM. NO ONE EVER THOUGHT OF TRYING TO CHANGE IT, OF DEFYING THE OK06100110 TERRIBLE THUNDER-BIRD. OK06100120 IT HAPPENED ONE SPRING THAT THE GIRL WHO WAS LOVED BY LITTLE OK06100130 SKU-QUA-WEL'-HAU -- GARTERSNAKE -- WAS CHOSEN TO BE THE SACRIFICE TO OK06100140 THUNDER-BIRD. THAT MADE GARTERSNAKE VERY SAD. HE HAD NO WISH TO OK06100150 LIVE WITHOUT HER, SO HE DECIDED TO GO WITH HER WHEN SHE WENT TO OK06100160 MEET THE MONSTER. OK06100170 THUNDER-BIRD COULD BE SEEN HIGH IN THE CLOUDS WHEN THE MAIDEN OK06100180 STARTED TOWARD THE SACRIFICE-PLACE. PUTTING ON HIS BEST WAR-SHIRT, OK06100190 GARTERSNAKE FOLLOWED HER. SHE LOOKED AROUND AND SAW HIM. SHE BEGGED OK06100200 HIM TO GO BACK, TO LEAVE HER. SHE DID NOT WANT HIM TO BE KILLED, TOO. OK06100210 BUT GARTERSNAKE HURRIED HIS STEPS AND CAUGHT UP WITH HER. OK06100220 "OH, GO BACK] GO BACK TO OUR PEOPLE," SHE SAID. "YOU CANNOT OK06100230 STAND BEFORE THE AWFUL SUCK-Z'-CUM. LET ME DIE ALONE." OK06100240 "NO] IF YOU MUST DIE, I WILL DIE WITH YOU," ANSWERED OK06100250 GARTERSNAKE, AND HE KEPT BY HER SIDE. OK06100260 SOON THEY HEARD THE NOISE OF THE MONSTER'S WINGS. THE MAIDEN OK06100270 CRIED, AND GARTERSNAKE FELT WEAK, BUT HE TRIED NOT TO SHOW HIS OK06100280 FEAR. THUNDER-BIRD ROARED OVER THEM. HIS GREAT WINGS SHOOK THE AIR OK06100290 AND MADE THE SKY DARK. HE SWOOPED LOW AND FROM HIS MOUTH CAME A OK06100300 STREAM OF FIRE. GARTERSNAKE SPAT BACK. OK06100310 "THIS PERSON MUST BE POWERFUL," SAID THUNDER-BIRD TO HIMSELF. OK06100320 "HE SPITS FIRE AS I DO." THEN, THINKING TO DISCOVER HIS SMALL OK06100330 ENEMY'S WEAKNESS, THUNDER-BIRD ASKED: "WHAT DO YOU FEAR? OF WHAT OK06100340 ARE YOU AFRAID?" OK06100350 "NOTHING] THERE IS NOTHING I FEAR," REPLIED GARTERSNAKE. "AND OK06100360 YOU CANNOT HURT ME. NOTHING CAN HURT ME. IF YOU FEEL LIKE FIGHTING OK06100370 ME, I WILL SHOW YOU HOW TO SPIT REAL FIRE. MY FIRE-SPIT IS WORSE OK06100380 THAN YOURS." OK06100390 THUNDER-BIRD BELIEVED THOSE WORDS, FOR NONE OF THE PEOPLE EVER OK06100400 HAD DARED TO TALK TO HIM LIKE THAT. ONLY THE FRIGHTENED, WAILING OK06100410 MAIDENS EVER HAD COME TO MEET HIM. BUT HE HOPED TO SCARE THE OTHER, OK06100420 AND HE SPAT A FEARFUL STREAK OF FIRE. GARTERSNAKE THEN SPAT A OK06100430 STREAM OF SIZZLING FIRE THAT FLASHED RIGHT IN THE MONSTER'S FACE. OK06100440 THUNDER-BIRD COULDN'T STAND THAT. HE TURNED AND FLED, HEADING FOR OK06100450 THE WARM-LAND. SPITTING HIS HARDEST, GARTERSNAKE RAN AFTER HIM, AND OK06100460 NOT UNTIL HE WAS SURE THAT THE MONSTER REALLY WAS BEATEN DID OK06100470 GARTERSNAKE STOP CHASING HIM. THEN HE SHOUTED: OK06100480 "A NEW PEOPLE ARE COMING TO THE WORLD. FROM THIS DAY YOU WILL OK06100490 NOT COME DOWN OUT OF THE SKY TO EAT PEOPLE. YOU MAY ROAM THE SKY, OK06100500 BUT YOU SHALL MAKE ONLY RUMBLINGS AND CRASHINGS IN THE STORM." OK06100510 SUCK-Z'-CUM NEVER RETURNED TO EAT ANY MORE MAIDENS OR TO OK06100520 DESTROY THE TRIBES. BUT SOMETIMES HE CLASHES HIS WINGS AND SPITS OK06100530 HIS FIRE THROUGH THE CLOUDS. OK06100540 FOR HIS BRAVERY THE PEOPLE GAVE GARTERSNAKE A PRETTY GREEN OK06100550 BLANKET WITH STRIPES ON IT. SKU-QUA-WEL'-HAU, THE GROUND TWISTER, OK06100560 STILL WEARS THAT BLANKET. OK06100570 ***OKA-012*** COYOTE QUARRELS WITH MOLE OK06200010 COYOTE AND HIS WIFE, MOLE, AND THEIR CHILDREN WERE LIVING BY OK06200020 THEMSELVES, AWAY FROM THE WINTER ENCAMPMENT OF THE PEOPLE. THE OTHER OK06200030 PEOPLE DID NOT WANT COYOTE AROUND, HE WAS SO LAZY AND TRICKY. COYOTE OK06200040 AND HIS FAMILY WERE POOR THAT WINTER. THEY HAD ONLY A LITTLE FOOD, OK06200050 AND THAT WAS SUPPLIED BY THE FAITHFUL MOLE. EACH DAY SHE WOULD GO OK06200060 OUT AND GATHER HERBS AND MOSS AND DRIED AND SHRIVELED SKO-QEEU OK06200070 (ROSE-HIPS). SHE DID THAT TO KEEP THE FIVE CHILDREN FROM STARVING. OK06200080 AND SHE CARRIED ALL THE WOOD AND WATER, WHILE COYOTE LOAFED AND OK06200090 PRACTISED HIS WAR SONGS. OK06200100 ONE SUN, AS MOLE WAS CHOPPING A ROTTEN STUMP FOR FIREWOOD, A OK06200110 LITTLE FAWN JUMPED OUT OF THE STUMP. THE DEER FAMILY HAD PUT IT OK06200120 THERE. THE DEER FELT SORRY FOR MOLE. THEY WANTED HER TO HAVE THE OK06200130 FAWN FOR FOOD. OK06200140 MOLE DROPPED HER AXE AND CAUGHT THE LITTLE DEER. SHE TOLD HER OK06200150 OLDEST BOY TO RUN AND TELL HIS FATHER TO COME WITH A KNIFE AND CUT OK06200160 THE FAWN'S THROAT. OK06200170 "TELL YOUR FATHER TO HURRY," SAID MOLE, "BECAUSE I CANNOT HOLD OK06200180 THIS FAWN LONG. MY STRENGTH WILL GIVE OUT." OK06200190 THE BOY RAN FAST TO THE TEPEE. HE TOLD COYOTE WHAT MOLE HAD OK06200200 SAID. OK06200210 "GO BACK TO YOUR MOTHER AND TELL HER TO HOLD THE FAWN WHILE I OK06200220 GET MY BOW AND ARROWS READY," COYOTE ORDERED, AND THE BOY RAN BACK OK06200230 TO HIS MOTHER WITH THE MESSAGE. OK06200240 COYOTE RAN OUT OF THE LODGE AND GOT A PIECE OF DOGWOOD, FROM OK06200250 WHICH HE MADE A BOW. THEN HE RAN TO A SERVICE BERRY BUSH, WHERE HE OK06200260 CUT TWO ARROWS. THEN HE RAN BACK TO HIS LODGE TO FINISH MAKING HIS OK06200270 WEAPONS. TAKING FEATHERS FROM HIS WAR BONNET, HE FEATHERED THE OK06200280 ARROWS AND, AS HE HAD NO SINEW FOR A BOWSTRING, HE TORE THE STRINGS OK06200290 OFF HIS MOCCASINS AND MADE A STRING. THEN HE WAS READY TO SHOOT THE OK06200300 FAWN. OK06200310 ALL THE WHILE MOLE WAS HAVING A HARD TIME HOLDING THE FAWN. IT OK06200320 STRUGGLED AND KICKED AND FOUGHT TO GET AWAY, AND MOLE'S STRENGTH OK06200330 WAS LEAVING HER. HER ARMS ACHED. SHE CALLED TO COYOTE TO HURRY. HE OK06200340 RAN OUT OF THE LODGE AND TRAMPED DOWN THE SNOW SO HE COULD KNEEL AND OK06200350 SHOOT. HE TOLD MOLE TO LET LOOSE OF THE FAWN SO HE COULD SHOOT IT. OK06200360 MOLE LET GO AND COYOTE SHOT HIS ARROW, BUT THE LITTLE DEER FELL JUST OK06200370 THEN AND THE ARROW MISSED IT. WITH HIS SECOND AND LAST ARROW COYOTE OK06200380 SHOT AGAIN AS THE FAWN LEAPED UP, AND AGAIN COYOTE MISSED. THE FAWN OK06200390 ESCAPED INTO THE WOODS. OK06200400 MOLE WAS DISGUSTED AND ANGRY. SHE WENT BACK TO THE TEPEE. THERE OK06200410 SHE DISCOVERED THAT COYOTE HAD EATEN ALL THE ROSE-HIPS, ALL THE FOOD OK06200420 THAT WAS LEFT, WHILE HE WAS MAKING HIS WEAPONS. WHEN COYOTE CAME OK06200430 IN, MOLE SPOKE TO HIM ABOUT THAT. THEY QUARRELED, AND COYOTE OK06200440 STABBED HER WITH HIS FLINT KNIFE. MOLE RAN OUT. COYOTE FOLLOWED. HE OK06200450 MEANT TO KILL HER. MOLE CHANGED HERSELF INTO A REAL MOLE AS COYOTE OK06200460 STABBED AGAIN. HE STABBED THE EARTH, AND MOLE QUICKLY UNTIED HER OK06200470 LITTLE POUCH OF TUL-MEEN (RED FACIAL PAINT) AND PUT SOME OF THE OK06200480 PAINT ON THE POINT OF THE KNIFE. DRAWING THE KNIFE OUT OF THE OK06200490 GROUND, COYOTE SAW THE RED PAINT AND THOUGHT IT WAS BLOOD. HE WAS OK06200500 SATISFIED THAT HIS WIFE MUST BE DEAD FROM THAT LAST BLOW. OK06200510 COYOTE SOON FOUND THAT HE COULD NOT TAKE CARE OF HIS CHILDREN OK06200520 WITHOUT MOLE'S HELP. THEY COULD NOT LIVE AS THEY HAD BEFORE, SO OK06200530 COYOTE TOLD THE FOUR OLDEST CHILDREN TO VISIT THEIR "UNCLE", OK06200540 KINGFISHER -- Z-REECE', WHO WAS A GOOD HUNTER AND HAD PLENTY OF OK06200550 FOOD IN HIS LODGE. THE FOUR BOYS STARTED FOR KINGFISHER'S HOME, AND OK06200560 COYOTE TOOK HIS YOUNGEST AND FAVORITE SON AND WENT TRAVELING. THE OK06200570 YOUNGEST BOY'S NAME WAS TOP'-KAN. OK06200580 THEY TRAVELED MANY SUNS WITHOUT GETTING MUCH TO EAT. THEY WERE OK06200590 HUNGRY WHEN THEY CAME TO A LARGE PRAIRIE, WHERE A WOMAN DRESSED IN OK06200600 RED-PAINTED BUCKSKIN WAS DIGGING SPIT-LUM (BITTER-ROOT). SEEING HER OK06200610 DIGGING REMINDED COYOTE OF HIS WIFE, AND HE WISHED THAT MOLE WERE OK06200620 ALIVE TO DIG ROOTS FOR HIM TO EAT. HE TOOK TOP'-KAN OFF HIS BACK, OK06200630 WHERE THE LITTLE BOY RODE MUCH OF THE TIME TO KEEP FROM TIRING, AND OK06200640 TOLD HIM TO WAIT. THEN COYOTE WENT TOWARD THE STRANGE WOMAN. OK06200650 "TELL ME A STORY, TELL ME NEWS, GOOD WOMAN," SAID COYOTE UPON OK06200660 GETTING NEAR TO THE DIGGER. BUT THE WOMAN DID NOT TAKE ANY NOTICE OF OK06200670 HIM. SHE KEPT ON DIGGING ROOTS AND CLEANING THEM AS SHE PUT THEM IN OK06200680 HER BASKET, WHICH WAS STRAPPED TO HER SIDE. OK06200690 NOT SO EASILY DISCOURAGED, COYOTE WALKED CLOSER, SAYING: "TELL OK06200700 ME NEWS. I AM A TRAVELER FROM A DISTANT COUNTRY." OK06200710 "I WILL TELL YOU A STORY," SAID THE WOMAN, AND SHE TURNED OK06200720 ANGRILY TO COYOTE. "COYOTE DESERTED HIS CHILDREN AND KILLED HIS OK06200730 WIFE]" OK06200740 THEN COYOTE RECOGNIZED THE WOMAN AS HIS OWN WIFE, MOLE. SHE OK06200750 HAD FOLLOWED HIM TO WATCH OVER LITTLE TOP'-KAN, BUT COYOTE HAD NOT OK06200760 KNOWN THAT. GRABBING HIS KNIFE, COYOTE RAN AT HIS WIFE. HE MEANT TO OK06200770 KILL HER, BUT SHE CHANGED INTO A REAL MOLE AND WENT UNDERGROUND AND OK06200780 GOT AWAY. OK06200790 COYOTE RETURNED TO TOP'-KAN. HE PICKED THE BOY UP, PUT HIM ON OK06200800 HIS BACK, AND RESUMED HIS JOURNEY. HE SOUGHT NEW LANDS WHERE HIS OK06200810 TRICKS AND MISCHIEF-MAKING WERE NOT KNOWN. OK06200820 ***OKA-013*** HOW COYOTE HAPPENED TO MAKE THE BLACK MOSS FOOD OK06300010 COYOTE AND TOP'-KAN WERE TRAVELING. WHEREVER THE TRAIL WAS OK06300020 ROUGH, LITTLE TOP'-KAN RODE ON HIS FATHER'S BACK. THEY CAME TO THE OK06300030 LODGE OF EN-ZE'-CHEN -- WOLF, AN OLD MAN. HE WAS BUSY SKINNING A OK06300040 BEAVER. AFTER WATCHING OLD BLOOD-CURDLING CALL FOR AWHILE, COYOTE OK06300050 ASKED: "EN-ZE'-CHEN, HOW DO YOU KILL THE STUN'-WHU (BEAVER)?" OK06300060 "IT IS AT THE BEAVER DAM," ANSWERED WOLF. "I SIT ON THE DAM, OK06300070 WITH ONE LEG IN THE WATER. AS A BEAVER PASSES OVER MY LEG, I STRIKE OK06300080 HARD WITH A BIG STICK. THE STUN'-WHU CANNOT LIVE AFTER A BLOW LIKE OK06300090 THAT." OK06300100 "HA-HA-EAH]" COYOTE LAUGHED. "THAT IS MY WAY OF KILLING THE OK06300110 STUN'-WHU]" OK06300120 OLD WOLF SAID NOTHING. HE KNEW THAT SIN-KA-LIP', THE IMITATOR, OK06300130 HAD NEVER KILLED BEAVER IN THAT WAY. HE SUSPECTED THAT COYOTE SOON OK06300140 WOULD BE IN TROUBLE. OK06300150 COYOTE TOOK A HEAVY STICK AND WENT DOWN TO THE BEAVER DAM AND OK06300160 SAT WITH ONE LEG IN THE WATER, AS WOLF HAD INSTRUCTED. THE BEAVER OK06300170 SAW HIM. ONE OF THEM SAID: OK06300180 "LOOK] THERE IS SIN-KA-LIP'] HE IS TRYING TO TRICK SOMEONE. OK06300190 LET US WALK OVER HIS LEG, AND SEE WHAT HE DOES." OK06300200 TWO YOUNG BEAVER SWAM UP TO THE DAM. THEY CLIMBED OVER COYOTE'S OK06300210 LEG, AND HE STRUCK HARD WITH THE HEAVY STICK. HE MISSED THE BEAVER -- OK06300220 THEY WERE TOO QUICK FOR HIM -- BUT HE HIT HIS LEG A TERRIFIC WHACK. OK06300230 HE HOWLED AND DANCED WITH PAIN AND RAGE, AND THEN HE TORE INTO THE OK06300240 BEAVER DAM AND THREW THE STICKS AND MUD RIGHT AND LEFT. IN A LITTLE OK06300250 WHILE THERE WAS NO DAM THERE. HE FOUND THE TWO BEAVER THAT HAD OK06300260 FOOLED HIM. THEY APPEARED TO BE DEAD. OK06300270 "THEY WILL MAKE GOOD EATING," HE REMARKED, AND HE CARRIED THE OK06300280 BEAVER TO WHERE TOP'-KAN WAS PLAYING. "YOU CAN WEAR THESE AS EAR OK06300290 ORNAMENTS WHILE I AM GETTING WOOD FOR A FIRE," COYOTE TOLD HIS SON, OK06300300 AND HE TIED THE BEAVER TO THE LITTLE BOY'S EARS, ONE TO EACH EAR. OK06300310 AS SOON AS COYOTE WAS BUSY GATHERING WOOD, THE BEAVER JUMPED UP OK06300320 AND RAN, DRAGGING TOP'-KAN BEHIND THEM. THEY RAN DOWN THE BANK TO OK06300330 THE PLACE WHERE THE DAM HAD BEEN. THERE THEY SQUIRMED INTO DIFFERENT OK06300340 HOLES. THAT STRETCHED TOP'-KAN'S EARS IN OPPOSITE DIRECTIONS. OK06300350 TOP'-KAN YELLED, FOR THE STRETCHING HURT. OK06300360 HEARING THE CRIES OF HIS SON, COYOTE RAN TO HELP HIM. HE FOUND OK06300370 POOR TOP'-KAN BRACED BETWEEN THE HOLES AND UNABLE TO MOVE. THERE OK06300380 WAS NOTHING TO DO BUT TO CUT THE THONGS THAT HELD THE BEAVER, WHICH OK06300390 COYOTE DID. THE BEAVER GOT AWAY. EVER SINCE THAT TIME THE EARS OF OK06300400 COYOTES HAVE STOOD LONG AND POINTED. OK06300410 NO BEAVER TO ROAST, COYOTE AND TOP'-KAN STARTED TRAVELING OK06300420 AGAIN. THEY WENT ALONG UNTIL THEY CAME TO A LARGE LAKE. RESTING IN OK06300430 THE WATER WERE MANY SI-MIL'-KA-MEEN (WHITE SWANS). COYOTE WANTED OK06300440 ONE OF THOSE SWANS TO EAT, SO HE SWAM OUT INTO THE LAKE. HE KEPT OK06300450 UNDER WATER, BUT THE SWANS WERE NOT FOOLED. THEY KNEW HE WAS THERE. OK06300460 "HERE COMES SIN-KA-LIP']" THEY SAID. "SEE HIS TAIL FLOATING] OK06300470 LET HIM CATCH A COUPLE OF US, AND WE WILL SEE WHAT HE WILL DO." OK06300480 SO TWO OF THE YOUNGER SWANS ALLOWED COYOTE TO CATCH THEM. HE OK06300490 CARRIED THEM TO SHORE. THEY PRETENDED TO BE DEAD. HE TIED THEM FAST OK06300500 TO TOP'-KAN. THEN HE CLIMBED A PINE TREE TO GET THE PITCH-TOP, OK06300510 WHERE KWIL-KIN -- PORCUPINE -- HAD GNAWED. HE WANTED THE PITCH-TOP OK06300520 FOR FIRE-KINDLING. OK06300530 JUST AS HE GOT TO THE TOP OF THE TREE, COYOTE HEARD HIS SON OK06300540 CRYING. HE LOOKED DOWN AND SAW THE SWANS FLAPPING THEIR WINGS. THEY OK06300550 WERE STARTING TO FLY. COYOTE JUMPED, BUT HIS LONG HAIR BRAID CAUGHT OK06300560 ON A BRANCH OF THE PINE TREE AND DID NOT COME LOOSE. COYOTE SWUNG OK06300570 THERE, HELPLESS. HE COULD NOT UNTANGLE HIS HAIR. OK06300580 THE SWANS FLEW PAST THE TREE, PAST COYOTE, AND UP INTO THE SKY. OK06300590 DANGLING BENEATH THEM, TIED TO THEM BY THE THONGS, WAS LITTLE OK06300600 TOP'-KAN. WHEN THE SWANS WERE HIGH IN THE AIR THEY CUT THE THONGS, OK06300610 AND TOP'-KAN FELL TO THE GROUND AND WAS KILLED. THEN COYOTE TOOK HIS OK06300620 FLINT KNIFE AND CHOPPED OFF HIS HAIR BRAID, AND DROPPED TO THE EARTH. OK06300630 HE LOOKED UP AT HIS HAIR HANGING FROM THE BRANCH. OK06300640 "YOU SHALL NOT BE WASTED, MY VALUABLE HAIR. AFTER THIS YOU SHALL OK06300650 BE GATHERED BY THE PEOPLE. THE OLD WOMEN WILL MAKE YOU INTO FOOD," OK06300660 HE SAID. OK06300670 THAT WAS COYOTE'S RULING NEAR THE BEGINNING. THAT IS WHY HIS OK06300680 HAIR, THE LONG BLACK TIMBER-HAIR, HANGS FROM TREES IN THE MOUNTAINS. OK06300690 IT IS CALLED SQUIL-LIP. IT IS THE BLACK MOSS THAT THE PEOPLE COOK OK06300700 IN PIT-OVENS. OK06300710 TOP'-KAN DID NOT STAY DEAD. COYOTE RESTORED HIM TO LIFE BY OK06300720 STEPPING OVER HIS BODY THREE TIMES. THEN THEY RETURNED TO THEIR OWN OK06300730 COUNTRY. OK06300740 ***OKA-014*** WHY SPIDER HAS SUCH LONG LEGS OK06400010 TU-PEL -- SPIDER, THE SPINNER -- WAS A HANDSOME WARRIOR AND GOOD OK06400020 HUNTER. HE LIVED WITH HIS GRANDMOTHER, SPU-WEL'-KIN -- TOPKNOT, OK06400030 WOODPECKER. BECAUSE HE ALWAYS BROUGHT HOME PLENTY OF GAME, THE OK06400040 MAIDENS OF THE NEARBY VILLAGES ALL WANTED TO MARRY HIM. THEY WOULD OK06400050 VISIT HIS LODGE, HOPING TO WIN HIM. OK06400060 SPIDER HAD A SMOKE-TEST FOR THE MAIDENS. WHEN ONE CAME TO SEE OK06400070 HIM, SPIDER WOULD SEND HIS GRANDMOTHER OUTSIDE TO CLOSE THE OK06400080 SMOKE-FLUE. SHE WOULD LAP THE EAR-FLAPS SO THAT THE SMOKE COULD NOT OK06400090 GET OUT. THAT WOULD MAKE THE SMOKE THICK IN THE LODGE, AND IT WOULD OK06400100 BE HARD TO BREATHE IN THERE. OK06400110 SPIDER THOUGHT THAT HE DID NOT WANT A WIFE WHO COULD NOT STAY OK06400120 IN THE SMOKE AS LONG AS HE COULD, AND HE COULD STAY IN IT A LONG OK06400130 TIME. MANY MAIDENS HAD TRIED THE SMOKE-TEST AND FAILED. BUT SPIDER OK06400140 ALWAYS WAS NICE TO THEM. HE WOULD SEND THEM HOME WITH BIG PACKS OF OK06400150 MEAT. OK06400160 STUN'-WHU -- BEAVER -- HAD A VERY PRETTY DAUGHTER. SHE WANTED OK06400170 TO WIN SPIDER. SHE SPOKE TO HER FATHER -- ASKED HIS HELP. BEAVER'S OK06400180 MEDICINE WAS STRONG. HE GAVE HIS POWER TO HIS DAUGHTER AND TOLD HER OK06400190 HOW TO USE IT. THEN HE SENT HER TO SPIDER'S LODGE. OK06400200 SPIDER LIKED THE GIRL RIGHT AWAY. HE WANTED HER TO BE HIS WIFE. OK06400210 HE DID NOT CARE IF SHE COULD NOT STAND HIS SMOKE-TEST. SENDING HIS OK06400220 GRANDMOTHER OUT TO CLOSE THE SMOKE-FLUE, SPIDER PRETENDED TO MAKE OK06400230 A SMOKY FIRE. BUT THERE WAS ONLY A LITTLE SMOKE, AND IT WAS NOT THE OK06400240 EYE-STINGING KIND. OK06400250 BEAVER'S DAUGHTER LAUGHED. SHE SAT ON A SPREAD ROBE AND LAUGHED OK06400260 AT THE SMOKE THAT SPIDER MADE, BUT SHE SAID NOTHING TO SPIDER. WITH OK06400270 BEAVER'S MEDICINE SHE CALLED THE BLACKEST SMOKE, PITCH SMOKE. IT OK06400280 FILLED THE LODGE. OK06400290 FOR MOST OF THAT SUN BEAVER-GIRL AND SPIDER SAT IN THE LODGE, OK06400300 ON OPPOSITE SIDES OF THE FIRE. SPIDER'S EYES FINALLY BECAME OK06400310 SMOKE-SICK, AND THE PITCH-SMOKE CHOKED HIM. HE SPOKE TO BEAVER-GIRL. OK06400320 SHE MADE NO ANSWER. SPIDER TRIED TO THINK. THAT WAS HARD, FOR THE OK06400330 SMOKE BLINDED HIM, AND HIS WHOLE HEAD ACHED. HIS OWN MEDICINE COULD OK06400340 NOT HELP HIM. IT WAS WEAK AGAINST THE POWERFUL SHOO'-MESH OF BEAVER. OK06400350 SPIDER WONDERED IF THE GIRL WAS STILL IN THE LODGE. HE SPOKE. OK06400360 NO ANSWER. HE SPOKE AGAIN AND AGAIN, MANY TIMES, CALLING LOUDLY OK06400370 THROUGH THE SMOKE-DARKNESS. MAYBE THE MAIDEN WAS DEAD] MAYBE THE OK06400380 BLACK SMOKE HAD KILLED HER] OK06400390 SPIDER FELT HIS WAY AROUND THE FIRE. HIS FOOT STRUCK THE GIRL. OK06400400 SHE LAUGHED. THAT MADE SPIDER ASHAMED. A WOMAN WAS BEATING HIM IN A OK06400410 TRIAL OF STRENGTH. HE KICKED BEAVER-GIRL HARD. HE KICKED HER THREE OK06400420 TIMES, AND THAT MADE HER VERY ANGRY. SHE CAUGHT HOLD OF ONE OF OK06400430 SPIDER'S LEGS, AND SHE PULLED AND PULLED, STRETCHING THE LEG OUT, OK06400440 MAKING IT LONG. THEN SHE PULLED HIS OTHER LEGS THE SAME WAY. SPIDER OK06400450 COULD NOT STOP HER. OK06400460 WELL, WHEN WOODPECKER AT LAST UNCOVERED THE SMOKE-FLUE AND OK06400470 TURNED BACK THE DOOR-FLAP SHE SAW A STRANGE-LOOKING GRANDSON OK06400480 STANDING IN THE SWIRL OF THE OUTRUSHING SMOKE. HE NO LONGER WAS OK06400490 HANDSOME. HIS BODY WAS SMALL AND HIS LEGS WERE VERY LONG AND UGLY. OK06400500 SPU-WEL'-KIN WAS SORRY FOR HIM. SHE KNEW THAT THE MAIDENS WOULD OK06400510 NOT TRY TO WIN HIM ANY MORE. SO SHE RULED THAT BEAVER-GIRL BECOME OK06400520 HIS WIFE. BEAVER'S DAUGHTER WAS WILLING; SHE KNEW THAT TU-PEL ALWAYS OK06400530 WOULD PROVIDE PLENTY OF GAME. AND SPIDER WAS GLAD. HE LIKED OK06400540 BEAVER-GIRL EVEN THOUGH SHE HAD TREATED HIM SO ROUGHLY AND SPOILED OK06400550 HIS FINE LOOKS, AND HE FORGAVE HER FOR PULLING HIM ALL OUT OF OK06400560 SHAPE -- FOR MAKING HIS LEGS SO LONG. OK06400570 ***OKA-015*** WHY BADGER IS SO HUMBLE OK06500010 ONE TIME WHY-AY'-LOOH -- FOX -- AND COYOTE WERE LIVING IN THE OK06500020 SAME LODGE. THE HUNTING WAS POOR, AND THEY BECAME VERY HUNGRY. THEY OK06500030 HUNTED HARD EVERY SUN BUT DID NOT FIND ANY GAME. AT LAST FOX DECIDED OK06500040 TO LEAVE THAT COUNTRY AND HUNT SOMEWHERE ELSE, BUT SIN-KA-LIP' DID OK06500050 NOT FEEL LIKE GOING. SO FOX LEFT AND COYOTE STAYED. OK06500060 COYOTE HAD NOTHING TO EAT BUT INSECTS AND LEAVES, ALTHOUGH IN OK06500070 A LARGE CAMP NOT FAR AWAY THERE WAS PLENTY OF GOOD FOOD. COYOTE KNEW OK06500080 IT WAS USELESS TO ASK FOR FOOD THERE, AS THOSE PEOPLE HATED HIM. BUT OK06500090 HE INTENDED TO GET SOME OF THAT FOOD. HE BEGAN TO SCHEME. THE OK06500100 HUNGRIER HE GREW THE HARDER HE SCHEMED. FINALLY HE HAD A PLAN. OK06500110 NOW, IN THAT CAMP WHERE THE FOOD WAS PLENTIFUL LIVED OK06500120 E-WHE-WHOOT'-KEN -- BADGER. HE WAS A HANDSOME PERSON, WAS SHARP OK06500130 CLAWS, AND HE WAS A PROUD WARRIOR AND A GOOD HUNTER. MUCH OF THE OK06500140 MEAT HE KILLED HE GAVE TO POOR PERSONS. HE WAS SUCH A GOOD HUNTER OK06500150 THAT MANY OF THE OLD PEOPLE WANTED HIM FOR A SON-IN-LAW. BUT BADGER OK06500160 DID NOT WISH TO MARRY ANY OF THE MAIDENS IN THAT VILLAGE. HE THOUGHT OK06500170 THAT SOMETIME HE WOULD FIND A BETTER WIFE IN A FAR COUNTRY. OK06500180 ONE SUN WHEN BADGER'S FOUR SISTERS WENT TO THE RIVER TO TAKE OK06500190 THEIR BATH THEY CAME UPON A PRETTY WOMAN. SHE WAS SITTING ON THE OK06500200 BANK, PAINTING HER FACE WITH MANY COLORS. THE SISTERS LIKED HER OK06500210 APPEARANCE. THEY INVITED HER TO THEIR LODGE. THEY HOPED THAT THEIR OK06500220 PROUD BROTHER WOULD LIKE HER AND MAKE HER HIS WIFE. OK06500230 WHEN BADGER RETURNED FROM HUNTING HE WAS PLEASED TO FIND THE OK06500240 NEW WOMAN IN HIS LODGE. HE ASKED HER TO SIT BY HIS SIDE, TO SIT IN OK06500250 THE PLACE THAT WAS GIVEN TO A WIFE. THE WOMAN SMILED AND SAID: "I AM OK06500260 WILLING TO BE YOUR WIFE, BUT FIRST I MUST TAKE SOME DRIED MEAT TO MY OK06500270 AGED PARENTS. YOUR SISTERS MUST GO WITH ME AND HELP CARRY THE MEAT." OK06500280 BADGER AGREED TO THAT, AND THE NEXT SUN THE PRETTY WOMAN AND OK06500290 THE SISTERS OF BADGER CARRIED BIG PACKS OF DRIED MEAT TO THE LODGE OK06500300 THAT THE WOMAN SAID WAS THE HOME OF HER AGED PARENTS. THERE THE OK06500310 WOMAN TOLD THEM: "WAIT OUTSIDE WHILE I TAKE THE MEAT IN TO MY OK06500320 PARENTS. THEY DO NOT LIKE TO MEET STRANGERS." OK06500330 THE SISTERS WAITED OUTSIDE WHILE THE MEAT WAS CARRIED INTO THE OK06500340 TEPEE, AND THEY COULD HEAR TALKING, AS IF TWO OR THREE PERSONS WERE OK06500350 TALKING. THEN, AFTER ALL THE MEAT WAS STORED AWAY IN THE LODGE, THE OK06500360 DOOR-FLAP WAS THROWN BACK AND OUT STEPPED COYOTE. HE HAD BEEN THE OK06500370 PRETTY WOMAN. HE LAUGHED OVER THE JOKE HE HAD PLAYED ON BADGER AND OK06500380 THE SISTERS. OK06500390 THE SISTERS WERE VERY ANGRY, BUT THEY WERE UNABLE TO PUNISH OK06500400 COYOTE. THEY WENT HOME. THEY TOLD BADGER OF THE TRICK. HE WAS ANGRY OK06500410 AND ASHAMED. IT HURT HIS PRIDE TO BE FOOLED IN THAT WAY. HE AND HIS OK06500420 SISTERS DID NOT WANT THE PEOPLE TO FIND OUT, BUT SOMEHOW THE PEOPLE OK06500430 LEARNED OF WHAT HAD HAPPENED. OK06500440 A FEW SUNS LATER BADGER WANTED TO TAKE A SWEAT-BATH. HE WENT OK06500450 TO THE SWEAT-HOUSE. SOME PEOPLE WERE THERE. AS HE WALKED UP, HE OK06500460 HEARD SOMEONE SAY: "THE PROUD, THE HANDSOME BADGER IS COMING. HE OK06500470 WOULD NOT TAKE A WOMAN OF HIS OWN TRIBE. HE LIKED COYOTE BETTER] WE OK06500480 DO NOT WANT TO SWEAT-HOUSE WITH HIM." OK06500490 THOSE WORDS SHAMED BADGER. HE TURNED FROM THE SWEAT-HOUSE AND OK06500500 WENT TO LOOK FOR COYOTE. HE FOUND COYOTE AND CHASED HIM OUT OF THE OK06500510 COUNTRY. THEN HE CAME HOME. HE WAS PROUD NO LONGER. HE HUMBLED OK06500520 HIMSELF BEFORE ALL THE PEOPLE AND TOOK FROM AMONG THEM A WIFE. AND OK06500530 HE HAS BEEN HUMBLE EVER SINCE, HAS E-WHE-WHOOT'-KEN. OK06500540 ***OKA-016*** COYOTE JUGGLES HIS EYES OK06600010 AS HE WAS WALKING THROUGH THE TIMBER ONE MORNING, COYOTE HEARD OK06600020 SOMEONE SAY: "I THROW YOU UP AND YOU COME DOWN IN]" OK06600030 COYOTE THOUGHT THAT WAS STRANGE TALK. IT MADE HIM CURIOUS. HE OK06600040 WANTED TO LEARN WHO WAS SAYING THAT, AND WHY. HE FOLLOWED THE SOUND OK06600050 OF THE VOICE, AND HE CAME UPON LITTLE ZST-SKAKA'-NA -- CHICKADEE -- OK06600060 WHO WAS THROWING HIS EYES INTO THE AIR AND CATCHING THEM IN HIS OK06600070 EYE-SOCKETS. WHEN HE SAW COYOTE PEERING AT HIM FROM BEHIND A TREE, OK06600080 CHICKADEE RAN. HE WAS AFRAID OF COYOTE. OK06600090 "THAT IS MY WAY, NOT YOURS," COYOTE YELLED AFTER HIM. OK06600100 NOW, IT WASN'T COYOTE'S WAY AT ALL, BUT COYOTE THOUGHT HE COULD OK06600110 JUGGLE HIS EYES JUST AS EASILY AS CHICKADEE JUGGLED HIS, SO HE TRIED. OK06600120 HE TOOK OUT HIS EYES AND TOSSED THEM UP AND REPEATED THE WORDS USED OK06600130 BY THE LITTLE BOY: "I THROW YOU UP AND YOU COME DOWN IN]" HIS EYES OK06600140 PLOPPED BACK WHERE THEY BELONGED. THAT WAS FUN. HE JUGGLED THE EYES OK06600150 AGAIN AND AGAIN. OK06600160 TWO RAVENS HAPPENED TO FLY THAT WAY. THEY SAW WHAT COYOTE WAS OK06600170 DOING, AND ONE OF THEM SAID: "SIN-KA-LIP' IS MOCKING SOMEONE. LET OK06600180 US STEAL HIS EYES AND TAKE THEM TO THE SUN-DANCE. PERHAPS THEN WE OK06600190 CAN FIND OUT HIS MEDICINE-POWER." OK06600200 "YES, WE WILL DO THAT," AGREED THE OTHER RAVEN. "WE MAY LEARN OK06600210 SOMETHING." OK06600220 AS COYOTE TOSSED HIS EYES THE NEXT TIME, THE RAVENS SWOOPED, OK06600230 SWIFT AS ARROWS FROM A STRONG BOW. ONE OF THEM SNATCHED ONE EYE AND OK06600240 THE OTHER RAVEN CAUGHT THE OTHER EYE. OK06600250 "QUOH] QUOH] QUOH]" THEY LAUGHED, AND FLEW AWAY TO THE OK06600260 SUN-DANCE CAMP. OK06600270 OH, BUT COYOTE WAS MAD] HE WAS CRAZY WITH RAGE. WHEN HE COULD OK06600280 HEAR THE RAVENS LAUGHING NO LONGER, HE STARTED IN THE DIRECTION THEY OK06600290 HAD GONE. HE HOPED SOMEHOW TO CATCH THEM AND GET BACK HIS EYES. HE OK06600300 BUMPED INTO TREES AND BUSHES, FELL INTO HOLES AND GULLIES, AND OK06600310 BANGED AGAINST BOULDERS. HE SOON WAS BRUISED ALL OVER, BUT HE KEPT OK06600320 ON GOING, STUMBLING ALONG. HE BECAME THIRSTY, AND HE KEPT ASKING OK06600330 THE TREES AND BUSHES WHAT KIND THEY WERE, SO THAT HE COULD LEARN WHEN OK06600340 HE WAS GETTING CLOSE TO WATER. THE TREES AND BUSHES ANSWERED OK06600350 POLITELY, GIVING THEIR NAMES. AFTER AWHILE HE FOUND HE WAS AMONG THE OK06600360 MOUNTAIN BUSHES, AND HE KNEW HE WAS NEAR WATER. HE CAME SOON TO A OK06600370 LITTLE STREAM AND SATISFIED HIS THIRST. THEN HE WENT ON AND OK06600380 PRESENTLY HE WAS IN THE PINE TIMBER. HE HEARD SOMEONE LAUGHING. IT OK06600390 WAS KOK'-QHI SKI'-KAKA -- BLUEBIRD. SHE WAS WITH HER SISTER, OK06600400 KWAS'-KAY -- BLUEJAY. OK06600410 "LOOK, SISTER," SAID BLUEBIRD. "THERE IS SIN-KA-LIP' PRETENDING OK06600420 TO BE BLIND. ISN'T HE FUNNY?" OK06600430 "DO NOT MIND SIN-KA-LIP'," ADVISED BLUEJAY. "DO NOT PAY ANY OK06600440 ATTENTION TO HIM. HE IS FULL OF MEAN TRICKS. HE IS BAD." OK06600450 COYOTE PURPOSELY BUMPED INTO A TREE AND ROLLED OVER AND OVER OK06600460 TOWARD THE VOICES. THAT MADE LITTLE BLUEBIRD STOP HER LAUGHING. SHE OK06600470 FELT JUST A LITTLE BIT AFRAID. OK06600480 "COME, LITTLE GIRL," COYOTE CALLED. "COME AND SEE THE PRETTY OK06600490 STAR THAT I SEE]" OK06600500 BLUEBIRD NATURALLY WAS VERY CURIOUS, AND SHE WANTED TO SEE THAT OK06600510 PRETTY STAR, BUT SHE HUNG BACK, AND HER SISTER WARNED HER AGAIN NOT OK06600520 TO PAY ATTENTION TO COYOTE. BUT COYOTE USED COAXING WORDS; TOLD HER OK06600530 HOW BRIGHT THE STAR LOOKED. OK06600540 "WHERE IS THE STAR?" ASKED BLUEBIRD, HOPPING A FEW STEPS OK06600550 TOWARD COYOTE. OK06600560 "I CANNOT SHOW YOU WHILE YOU ARE SO FAR AWAY," HE REPLIED. "SEE, OK06600570 WHERE I AM POINTING MY FINGER]" OK06600580 BLUEBIRD HOPPED CLOSE, AND COYOTE MADE ONE QUICK BOUND AND OK06600590 CAUGHT HER. HE YANKED OUT HER EYES AND THREW THEM INTO THE AIR, OK06600600 SAYING: OK06600610 "I THROW YOU UP AND YOU COME DOWN IN]" AND THE EYES FELL INTO OK06600620 HIS EYE-SOCKETS. OK06600630 COYOTE COULD SEE AGAIN, AND HIS HEART WAS GLAD. "WHEN DID YOU OK06600640 EVER SEE A STAR IN THE SUNLIGHT?" HE ASKED BLUEBIRD, AND THEN RAN OK06600650 OFF THROUGH THE TIMBER. OK06600660 BLUEBIRD CRIED, AND BLUEJAY SCOLDED HER FOR BEING SO FOOLISH AS OK06600670 TO TRUST COYOTE. BLUEJAY TOOK TWO OF THE BERRIES SHE HAD JUST PICKED OK06600680 AND PUT THEM INTO HER SISTER'S EYE-SOCKETS, AND BLUEBIRD COULD SEE OK06600690 AS WELL AS BEFORE. BUT, AS THE BERRIES WERE SMALL, HER NEW EYES WERE OK06600700 SMALL, TOO. THAT IS WHY BLUEBIRD HAS SUCH BERRYLIKE EYES. OK06600710 WHILE HIS NEW EYES WERE BETTER THAN NONE AT ALL, COYOTE WAS OK06600720 NOT SATISFIED. THEY WERE TOO LITTLE. THEY DID NOT FIT VERY WELL INTO OK06600730 HIS SLANT SOCKETS. SO HE KEPT ON HUNTING FOR THE RAVENS AND THE OK06600740 SUN-DANCE CAMP. ONE DAY HE CAME TO A SMALL TEPEE. HE HEARD SOMEONE OK06600750 INSIDE POUNDING ROCKS TOGETHER. HE WENT IN AND SAW AN OLD WOMAN OK06600760 POUNDING MEAT AND BERRIES IN A STONE MORTAR. THE OLD WOMAN WAS OK06600770 SU-SEE-WASS -- PHEASANT. COYOTE ASKED HER IF SHE LIVED ALONE. OK06600780 "NO," SHE SAID, "I HAVE TWO GRANDDAUGHTERS. THEY ARE AWAY AT OK06600790 THE SUN-DANCE. THE PEOPLE THERE ARE DANCING WITH COYOTE'S EYES." OK06600800 "AREN'T YOU AFRAID TO BE HERE ALONE?" COYOTE ASKED. "ISN'T OK06600810 THERE ANYTHING THAT YOU FEAR?" OK06600820 "I AM AFRAID OF NOTHING BUT THE STET'-CHEE-HUNT OK06600830 (STINGING-BUSH)," SHE SAID. OK06600840 LAUGHING TO HIMSELF, COYOTE WENT OUT TO FIND A STINGING-BUSH. OK06600850 IN A SWAMP NOT FAR AWAY HE FOUND SEVERAL BUSHES OF THAT KIND. HE OK06600860 BROKE OFF ONE OF THOSE NETTLE BUSHES AND CARRIED IT BACK TO THE OK06600870 TEPEE. SEEING IT, PHEASANT CRIED: OK06600880 "DO NOT TOUCH ME WITH THE STET'-CHEE-HUNT] DO NOT TOUCH ME] IT OK06600890 WILL KILL ME]" OK06600900 BUT COYOTE HAD NO MERCY IN HIS HEART, NO PITY. HE WHIPPED POOR OK06600910 PHEASANT WITH THE STINGING-BUSH UNTIL SHE DIED. THEN, WITH HIS FLINT OK06600920 KNIFE, HE SKINNED HER, AND DRESSED HIMSELF IN HER SKIN. HE LOOKED OK06600930 ALMOST EXACTLY LIKE THE OLD WOMAN. HE HID HER BODY AND BEGAN TO OK06600940 POUND MEAT IN THE STONE MORTAR. HE WAS DOING THAT WHEN THE OK06600950 GRANDDAUGHTERS CAME HOME. THEY WERE LAUGHING. THEY TOLD HOW THEY OK06600960 HAD DANCED OVER COYOTE'S EYES. THEY DID NOT RECOGNIZE COYOTE IN OK06600970 THEIR GRANDMOTHER'S SKIN, BUT COYOTE KNEW THEM. ONE WAS LITTLE OK06600980 BLUEBIRD AND THE OTHER WAS BLUEJAY. COYOTE SMILED. "TAKE ME WITH OK06600990 YOU TO THE SUN-DANCE, GRANDDAUGHTERS," HE SAID IN HIS BEST OK06601000 OLD-WOMAN'S VOICE. OK06601010 THE SISTERS LOOKED AT EACH OTHER IN SURPRISE, AND BLUEJAY OK06601020 ANSWERED: "WHY, YOU DID NOT WANT TO GO WITH US WHEN THE MORNING WAS OK06601030 YOUNG." OK06601040 "GRANDMOTHER, HOW STRANGE YOU TALK]" SAID BLUEBIRD. OK06601050 "THAT IS BECAUSE I BURNED MY MOUTH WITH HOT SOUP," SAID COYOTE. OK06601060 "AND, GRANDMOTHER, HOW ODD YOUR EYES LOOK]" BLUEJAY EXCLAIMED. OK06601070 "ONE EYE IS LONGER THAN THE OTHER]" OK06601080 "MY GRANDCHILD, I HURT THAT EYE WITH MY CANE," EXPLAINED COYOTE. OK06601090 THE SISTERS DID NOT FIND ANYTHING ELSE WRONG WITH THEIR OK06601100 GRANDMOTHER, AND THE NEXT MORNING THE THREE OF THEM STARTED FOR THE OK06601110 SUN-DANCE CAMP. THE SISTERS HAD TO CARRY THEIR SUPPOSED GRANDMOTHER. OK06601120 THEY TOOK TURNS. THEY HAD GONE PART WAY WHEN COYOTE MADE HIMSELF AN OK06601130 AWKWARD BURDEN AND ALMOST CAUSED BLUEJAY TO FALL. THAT MADE BLUEJAY OK06601140 ANGRY, AND SHE THREW COYOTE TO THE GROUND. BLUEBIRD THEN PICKED HIM OK06601150 UP AND CARRIED HIM. AS THEY REACHED THE EDGE OF THE SUN-DANCE CAMP, OK06601160 COYOTE AGAIN MADE HIMSELF AN AWKWARD BURDEN, AND BLUEBIRD LET HIM OK06601170 FALL. MANY OF THE PEOPLE IN THE CAMP SAW THAT HAPPEN. THEY THOUGHT OK06601180 THE SISTERS WERE CRUEL, AND THE WOMEN SCOLDED BLUEBIRD AND BLUEJAY OK06601190 FOR TREATING SUCH AN OLD PERSON SO BADLY. OK06601200 SOME OF THE PEOPLE CAME OVER AND LIFTED COYOTE TO HIS FEET AND OK06601210 HELPED HIM INTO THE SUN-DANCE LODGE. THERE THE PEOPLE WERE DANCING OK06601220 OVER COYOTE'S EYES, AND THE MEDICINE-MEN WERE PASSING THE EYES TO OK06601230 ONE ANOTHER AND HOLDING THE EYES UP HIGH FOR EVERYONE TO SEE. AFTER OK06601240 A LITTLE COYOTE ASKED TO HOLD THE EYES, AND THEY WERE HANDED TO HIM. OK06601250 HE RAN OUT OF THE LODGE, THREW HIS EYES INTO THE AIR, AND OK06601260 SAID: "I THROW YOU UP AND YOU COME DOWN IN]" OK06601270 HIS EYES RETURNED TO THEIR PLACES, AND COYOTE RAN TO THE TOP OK06601280 OF A HILL. OK06601290 THERE HE LOOKED BACK AND SHOUTED: "WHERE ARE THE MAIDENS WHO OK06601300 HAD COYOTE FOR A GRANDMOTHER?" OK06601310 BLUEJAY AND BLUEBIRD WERE FULL OF SHAME. THEY WENT HOME, OK06601320 CARRYING PHEASANT'S SKIN, WHICH COYOTE HAD THROWN ASIDE. THEY OK06601330 SEARCHED AND FOUND THEIR GRANDMOTHER'S BODY AND PUT IT BACK IN THE OK06601340 SKIN, AND PHEASANT'S LIFE WAS RESTORED. SHE TOLD THEM HOW COYOTE OK06601350 HAD KILLED HER WITH THE STINGING-BUSH. OK06601360 ***OKA-017*** WHY MARTEN'S FACE IS WRINKLED OK06700010 THE FACE OF PIP-QUS -- MARTEN -- HAS NOT ALWAYS BEEN WRINKLED OK06700020 AND HOMELY. LONG AGO IT WAS SMOOTH AND HANDSOME. THAT WAS BEFORE OK06700030 MARTEN DISOBEYED HIS OLDER BROTHER, CHAR'-TUPS, LONG TAIL -- OK06700040 FISHER. BEFORE THAT TIME, TOO, MARTEN WOULD EAT ONLY BIRDS AND OK06700050 SQUIRRELS. FISHER LIKED VENISON AND FAT. OK06700060 IN THEIR COUNTRY WAS A MOUNTAIN THAT FISHER TOLD MARTEN NOT OK06700070 TO GO NEAR. FISHER TOLD HIM NEVER TO GO THERE, BUT HE GAVE NO OK06700080 REASON. MARTEN COULD NOT UNDERSTAND WHY HE SHOULD NOT GO TO THAT OK06700090 PLACE; HE OFTEN NOTICED HIS BROTHER SETTING OUT IN THAT DIRECTION. OK06700100 HE DID NOT KNOW THAT FISHER WENT TO VISIT A PRETTY YOUNG WOMAN. OK06700110 FOR A LONG TIME MARTEN OBEYED HIS BROTHER. THEN, ONE SUN, HE OK06700120 FORGOT HIS BROTHER'S WORDS. HE WAS TRYING TO CATCH SOME BIRDS. OK06700130 THEY FLITTED ON AHEAD OF HIM, GOING TOWARD THE MOUNTAIN. AFTER OK06700140 AWHILE HE CAME TO THE FOOT OF THE MOUNTAIN. HE SAW A BLUEJAY SITTING OK06700150 IN A TREE. HE SHOT THE BLUEJAY WITH AN ARROW, AND THE BLUEJAY FELL OK06700160 DOWN THROUGH THE SMOKE-HOLE OF A LODGE. OK06700170 MARTEN WALKED INTO THE LODGE TO GET THE BIRD. BESIDE THE FIRE OK06700180 WAS A PRETTY YOUNG WOMAN. SHE PREPARED FOOD FOR HER VISITOR. SHE OK06700190 GAVE HIM DRIED VENISON AND BERRIES MIXED WITH FAT. MARTEN NEVER ATE OK06700200 THAT KIND OF FOOD. THE SIGHT AND THE SMELL OF THE DRIED VENISON AND OK06700210 THE FATTY BERRIES MADE HIM FEEL SICK. HE PUSHED THE FOOD AWAY. THAT OK06700220 INSULTED THE YOUNG WOMAN. THE FOOD WAS THE BEST SHE HAD. OK06700230 "YOU SHOT MY COMB, MY BLUEJAY," SHE SAID, "AND NOW YOU REFUSE OK06700240 TO EAT MY FOOD." OK06700250 SHE GRABBED MARTEN BY THE HAIR AND PITCHED HIM INTO THE FIRE, OK06700260 AND RUBBED HIS SMOOTH HANDSOME FACE IN THE HOT ASHES UNTIL HE YELLED OK06700270 WITH PAIN. THEN SHE THREW HIM OUT OF THE LODGE. OK06700280 MARTEN'S FACE WAS BURNED ALL OVER. HE WAS ALMOST KILLED. FOR OK06700290 SOME TIME HE LAY ON THE GROUND. WHEN SOME OF HIS STRENGTH CAME BACK, OK06700300 HE GOT UP AND SNEAKED HOME. HE DID NOT WANT TO BE SEEN, HE WAS SO OK06700310 FULL OF SHAME. HE HID BETWEEN THE COVERINGS OF THE LODGE, AND THERE OK06700320 HE WAS WHEN HIS BROTHER RETURNED FROM HUNTING. OK06700330 AS HE WAS ACCUSTOMED TO DO, FISHER CALLED MARTEN TO CATCH HIS OK06700340 LOAD OF FRESH MEAT. MARTEN DID NOT ANSWER. LONG TAIL CALLED AGAIN. OK06700350 THEN MARTEN MOCKED HIS BROTHER, WHICH MADE FISHER ANGRY. HE FOUND OK06700360 MARTEN AND PULLED HIM FROM HIS HIDING PLACE. FISHER INTENDED TO OK06700370 PUNISH HIM, BUT HE CHANGED HIS MIND UPON SEEING HOW TERRIBLY OK06700380 MARTEN'S FACE WAS BURNED, AND HE TOOK SOME GREASE AND RUBBED IT ON OK06700390 THE BURNS. OK06700400 AFTER A FEW SUNS MARTEN GREW VERY HUNGRY. HE WOULD NOT EAT THE OK06700410 MEAT THAT HIS BROTHER BROUGHT HOME, AND HE WAS NOT ABLE TO HUNT FOR OK06700420 HIS KIND OF FOOD. IN A FEW MORE SUNS HE WAS SO WEAK AND THIN THAT OK06700430 HE HAD TO EAT SOMETHING OR DIE. HE LICKED A FEW DROPS OF GREASE OK06700440 FROM HIS FACE. IT WAS THE VENISON GREASE THAT FISHER HAD PUT ON THE OK06700450 BURNS. MARTEN WAS SURPRISED. THE GREASE TASTED GOOD. AFTER THAT HE OK06700460 ATE VENISON AND LIKED IT. HE STILL LIKES SUCH FOOD. OK06700470 MARTEN'S FACE FINALLY HEALED, BUT THE DEEP BURNS LEFT MANY OK06700480 WRINKLES, AND THAT IS WHY HE IS CALLED PIP-QUS -- WRINKLED FACE. OK06700490 THE YOUNG WOMAN WHO WAS THE CAUSE OF THOSE CHANGES BECAME OK06700500 FISHER'S WIFE. OK06700510 ***OKA-018*** CRAWFISH AND GRIZZLY BEAR OK06800010 KEE-LAU-NAW -- GRIZZLY BEAR -- LIVED IN A BIG FOREST. HE WOULD OK06800020 NOT LET ANYBODY HUNT THERE. PEOPLE WHO WENT THERE TO HUNT NEVER CAME OK06800030 BACK. GRIZZLY BEAR ATE THEM. OK06800040 BECAUSE THEY COULD NOT GET ANY OF THE GAME IN GRIZZLY BEAR'S OK06800050 FOREST, THE PEOPLE BEGAN TO STARVE. THEY DANCED AND PRAYED, ASKING OK06800060 THEIR POWERS TO HELP THEM. ONE SUN THE PRAYERS OF J-I'-AH -- OK06800070 CRAWFISH -- WERE ANSWERED. HE RECEIVED STRONG MEDICINE. THEN HE OK06800080 STARTED FOR GRIZZLY BEAR'S FOREST. OK06800090 OWL, WHO WAS GRIZZLY BEAR'S LOOKOUT, SAW CRAWFISH COMING. OWL OK06800100 HOOTED TO WARN GRIZZLY BEAR, WHO RUSHED OUT OF HIS LODGE, ROARING OK06800110 HIS WAR CRY. CRAWFISH PRETENDED NOT TO SEE HIM, AND THAT HURT OK06800120 GRIZZLY BEAR'S PRIDE, AND HE ROARED LOUDER AND GNASHED HIS TEETH. OK06800130 BUT CRAWFISH PAID NO ATTENTION. OK06800140 GRIZZLY BEAR RUSHED BACK INTO HIS LODGE AND CHANGED HIS SUMMER OK06800150 TEETH FOR HIS NEW, SHARP WINTER TEETH. OUT HE CAME AGAIN. HE THOUGHT OK06800160 THAT CRAWFISH SURELY WOULD BE SCARED NOW, FOR THE WINTER TEETH MADE OK06800170 HIM LOOK VERY FIERCE. BUT CRAWFISH STILL PAID NO ATTENTION. GRIZZLY OK06800180 BEAR WENT BACK TO HIS LODGE AND PUT ON HIS SHARPEST CLAWS, AND HE OK06800190 HURRIED OUT, WAVING HIS BIG ARMS AND SHOWING THE SHARP CLAWS. BUT OK06800200 CRAWFISH ACTED AS IF HE DIDN'T KNOW SUCH A PERSON AS GRIZZLY BEAR OK06800210 WAS AROUND. CRAWFISH JUST KEPT WALKING ALONG. OK06800220 GRIZZLY BEAR WAS USED TO BEING TREATED WITH RESPECT. HE COULD OK06800230 NOT UNDERSTAND WHY CRAWFISH WAS NOT AFRAID, AND HE WAS BOILING WITH OK06800240 RAGE. HE DECIDED TO FINISH CRAWFISH WITHOUT MORE DELAY. HE CHARGED. OK06800250 ONE QUICK, STRONG HUG, AND THERE WOULD BE NO MORE CRAWFISH -- SO OK06800260 THOUGHT GRIZZLY BEAR. BUT JUST AS HE EXPECTED TO GRAB CRAWFISH, THAT OK06800270 PERSON LIFTED HIS TWO RED FINGERS AND PINCHED GRIZZLY BEAR, PINCHED OK06800280 HIM HARD. OK06800290 HOLDING HIS ENEMY TIGHT, CRAWFISH DREW HIM CLOSE, PULLED HIM OK06800300 RIGHT UP TO HIS SHARP RED NOSE. GRIZZLY BEAR WAS BADLY SCARED. HE OK06800310 BELIEVED HE WAS ABOUT TO BE EATEN. HE WAS SO FRIGHTENED THAT HE SPIT OK06800320 FROTH AND FOAM INTO THE FACE OF CRAWFISH. THAT DISGUSTED CRAWFISH, OK06800330 BUT HE DID NOT LET GO. HE PINCHED ALL THE HARDER, AND GRIZZLY BEAR OK06800340 CRIED IN PAIN AND BEGGED FOR MERCY. OK06800350 "KEE-LAU-NAW," SAID CRAWFISH, "YOU WILL HAVE TO LEAVE THESE OK06800360 WOODS. YOU WILL HAVE TO GO AWAY AND LEAVE THESE WOODS FOR THE OK06800370 HUNTERS. YOU MUST GO HIGH IN THE MOUNTAINS AND MAKE YOUR HOME. OK06800380 THERE, AWAY FROM THE PEOPLE, YOU CAN HARM THEM NO LONGER, AND YOU OK06800390 ARE NOT TO BOTHER PEOPLE UNLESS THEY ATTACK YOU. START NOW FOR THE OK06800400 HIGHEST MOUNTAINS. DO NOT COME BACK] GO] HURRY AWAY FROM HERE]" OK06800410 GRIZZLY BEAR AGREED TO GO. HE RAN UNTIL HE FOUND HIMSELF IN SOME OK06800420 LOW MOUNTAINS. THERE HE STOPPED AND LOOKED AROUND. HE COULD SEE OK06800430 NOBODY FOLLOWING HIM, AND HE SAID TO HIMSELF: "J-I'-AH, YOU THINK OK06800440 YOU CAN MAKE ME LIVE IN THE HIGH MOUNTAINS. I SHALL NOT GO. I AM OK06800450 GOING HOME." AND HE TURNED AND HEADED FOR HIS FOREST. HE WAS IN A OK06800460 HURRY TO GET BACK. HE RAN. HE STARTED TO RUN BETWEEN TWO BIG RED OK06800470 TREES. THAT IS, HE THOUGHT THEY WERE TREES. BUT THEY WERE THE OK06800480 FINGERS OF CRAWFISH, AND THEY CLOSED AROUND HIM. THEY LIFTED HIM UP OK06800490 AND CARRIED HIM TO THE PLACE HE HAD REACHED WHEN HE DECIDED TO OK06800500 RETURN HOME. OK06800510 GRIZZLY BEAR SPIT IN THE FACE OF CRAWFISH AGAIN, BUT THAT ONLY OK06800520 CAUSED CRAWFISH TO PINCH THE HARDER. THEN GRIZZLY BEAR BEGGED TO BE OK06800530 FREE. HE PROMISED TO DO AS CRAWFISH TOLD HIM, SO CRAWFISH LET HIM GO. OK06800540 UP HILL AND DOWN, AND UP AGAIN, RAN GRIZZLY BEAR, UNTIL HE HAD OK06800550 TRAVELED A LONG WAY. HE STOPPED TO REST, LEANING AGAINST A TREE, OK06800560 AND HE LOOKED BACK OVER HIS TRAIL. HE SAW NO ONE COMING, AND HE OK06800570 CHANGED HIS MIND ABOUT GOING FURTHER INTO THE MOUNTAINS. HIS TEMPER OK06800580 WAS SOUR AND HE WHISPERED TO HIMSELF: "J-I'-AH CANNOT MAKE ME DO OK06800590 THAT. HE CANNOT KEEP ME FROM MY OLD HOME. I AM GOING BACK WHERE I OK06800600 ALWAYS HAVE LIVED." OK06800610 HE HAD BARELY FINISHED THOSE WORDS WHEN HE FELT THE SUPPOSED OK06800620 TREE AGAINST WHICH HE WAS LEANING LIFT HIM OFF THE GROUND. TWO BIG OK06800630 RED FINGERS TIGHTENED ABOUT HIS MIDDLE. THE FINGERS OF CRAWFISH HELD OK06800640 HIM FAST. SURPRISED AND BADLY FRIGHTENED, GRIZZLY BEAR THOUGHT HIS OK06800650 ENEMY WOULD SHOW NO MERCY NOW. HE KICKED AND GROANED, AND THEN HE OK06800660 PRETENDED TO BE HALF-DEAD FROM THE SQUEEZING, BUT CRAWFISH WOULD OK06800670 NOT LET GO. OK06800680 THEN GRIZZLY BEAR CRIED: "DO NOT KILL ME] I WILL NEVER RETURN OK06800690 TO THE FOREST. I WILL GO TO THE HIGHEST MOUNTAINS, AND STAY THERE." OK06800700 THIS HE SAID FIVE TIMES, AND CRAWFISH LET HIM GO. OK06800710 CRAWFISH WARNED: "IF YOU DO COME BACK, I WILL CATCH YOU AND OK06800720 KILL YOU. THIS IS YOUR LAST CHANCE. DO NOT EVER COME BACK TO THE OK06800730 LOWER COUNTRY. FROM THIS SUN YOUR LODGE MUST BE IN THE HIGHEST OK06800740 MOUNTAINS, UP WHERE THE MISTS ARE THICKEST, WHERE THE SNOWS ARE OK06800750 DEEPEST. A NEW PEOPLE ARE COMING TO THE WORLD. YOU SHALL NOT STARVE OK06800760 THEM BY KEEPING ALL THE GAME TO YOURSELF. GO AND DO NOT LOOK BACK]" OK06800770 GRIZZLY BEAR WAS GLAD TO GET AWAY. HE RAN, AND HE DID NOT LOOK OK06800780 BACK. HE DID NOT STOP RUNNING UNTIL HE WAS IN THE HIGHEST RANGE OF OK06800790 MOUNTAINS. THERE HE HAS MADE HIS HOME EVER SINCE. OK06800800 CRAWFISH RETURNED TO HIS OWN COUNTRY. THE PEOPLE THERE WERE OK06800810 GLAD. NOW THEY COULD HUNT AND GET PLENTY OF FOOD AND PLENTY OF SKINS. OK06800820 SINCE THE TIME THAT CRAWFISH WHIPPED GRIZZLY BEAR THERE HAVE OK06800830 BEEN FEWER TIMES OF FAMINE. OK06800840 ***OKA-019*** COYOTE AND WOOD-TICK OK06900010 TIRED AND HUNGRY, COYOTE SAT IN HIS HUNTING-CAMP TEPEE. GAME OK06900020 WAS SCARCE, AND HE HAD NOT FOUND ANY DEER FOR A LONG TIME. "I WISH OK06900030 I HAD SOME DEER MEAT," HE SAID, AND HE HEARD SOMETHING FALL AT THE OK06900040 DOORWAY OF THE TEPEE. HE GOT UP AND LOOKED. EH-AHE] ON THE GROUND OK06900050 WAS A PACK OF VENISON] THAT MADE COYOTE FEEL GOOD. HE QUICKLY OK06900060 KINDLED A FIRE AND COOKED A BIG MEAL. HE FILLED HIS BELLY AND HAD OK06900070 A GOOD SLEEP. NEXT MORNING HE WAS UP AND OUT HUNTING BEFORE SUN'S OK06900080 LIGHT REACHED INTO THE WOODS. OK06900090 "I WILL FIND A DEER TODAY," THOUGHT COYOTE. "THAT PACK OF OK06900100 MEAT AT MY DOORWAY LAST NIGHT SHOWS THAT THERE ARE DEER IN THIS OK06900110 COUNTRY." OK06900120 BUT HE DID NOT SEE A DEER ALL DAY. BY NIGHT HE WAS VERY HUNGRY OK06900130 AGAIN AND VERY TIRED. RESTING ON HIS ROBES IN THE TEPEE, HE WISHED OK06900140 ALOUD FOR MORE VENISON, AND ANOTHER PACK OF IT CAME BOUNCING OK06900150 THROUGH THE DOORWAY. COYOTE LOOKED OUT TO SEE WHO HAD BROUGHT THE OK06900160 MEAT, BUT THERE WAS NO ONE IN SIGHT. OK06900170 "NOW, WHO ANSWERS MY WISHES SO PROMPTLY?" HE ASKED HIMSELF. OK06900180 "I MUST FIND OUT TOMORROW NIGHT." OK06900190 HE HUNTED ALL THE NEXT DAY WITHOUT SUCCESS, AND THAT NIGHT, OK06900200 INSTEAD OF LYING ON HIS ROBE TO REST, HE CROUCHED JUST INSIDE THE OK06900210 DOOR-FLAP. THEN HE WISHED FOR DEER MEAT. EH-AHE] THERE IT WAS -- OK06900220 RIGHT AT HIS FEET -- A PACK OF VENISON THAT WOULD LAST HIM OK06900230 HALF-A-MOON. JUMPING THROUGH THE DOORWAY, HE SAW A WOMAN DISAPPEARING OK06900240 IN THE WOODS. AT LAST HE KNEW -- HIS NEIGHBOR. HE COULD NOT MISTAKE OK06900250 HER. HE RECOGNIZED HER FLAT SHINY HEAD. SHE WAS KUK-CHIL'-KEN -- OK06900260 WOOD-TICK. SHE HAD NO HUSBAND. OK06900270 IN HIS MEAN, UNGRATEFUL WAY, COYOTE YELLED: "YOU SHINY-HEAD] OK06900280 YOU FLAT-HEADED WOMAN] I THOUGHT A MAIDEN WORTH HAVING WAS FAVORING OK06900290 ME." OK06900300 WOOD-TICK NO LONGER WAS A YOUNG WOMAN, AND THAT INSULT MADE OK06900310 HER VERY ANGRY. SHE WAS USED TO BEING TREATED WITH RESPECT, FOR OK06900320 SHE WAS THE RULER OF ALL THE DEER. SHE DID NOT ANSWER COYOTE; SHE OK06900330 DID NOT EVEN LOOK AROUND. SHE WENT ON AS IF SHE HAD NOT HEARD HIM. OK06900340 COYOTE RETURNED TO HIS CAMP AND ATE SOME OF THE VENISON SHE OK06900350 HAD GIVEN HIM. THAT BUNDLE OF VENISON LASTED MANY SUNS, BUT IT OK06900360 COULD NOT LAST FOREVER. WHEN THE LAST SCRAP WAS GONE, COYOTE OK06900370 WISHED FOR MORE, BUT NO PACK OF VENISON FELL AT HIS DOORWAY. HE OK06900380 WISHED MANY TIMES AND IN A VERY LOUD VOICE. NO MEAT CAME. THEN HE OK06900390 REALIZED THAT KUK-CHIL'-KEN MUST STILL BE VERY ANGRY. OK06900400 "I WILL MAKE UP WITH HER," COYOTE REMARKED, AND HE WALKED OVER OK06900410 TO HER LODGE. WOOD-TICK WOULD NOT LOOK AT HIM WHEN HE ENTERED. OK06900420 SHE TURNED HER BACK AND WOULD NOT ANSWER HIS GREETING. COYOTE SAW OK06900430 THAT HE COULD NOT MAKE UP WITH HER, SO HE GRABBED HER BY THE NECK OK06900440 AND THREW HER TO THE GROUND. HE POUNDED HER HEAD WITH A ROCK, OK06900450 MAKING HER HEAD EVEN FLATTER THAN BEFORE. OK06900460 "THAT'S WHAT YOU GET FOR BEING STUBBORN," SAID COYOTE, AND OK06900470 HE TOSSED WOOD-TICK'S BODY TO ONE SIDE. OK06900480 WOOD-TICK'S TEPEE WAS FULL OF MEAT, SO COYOTE STAYED THERE OK06900490 AND ATE ALL HE COULD HOLD. IN THE MORNING HE PUT ON WOOD-TICK'S OK06900500 ROBES AND WENT OUTSIDE TO CALL THE DEER, AS SHE HAD DONE EVERY OK06900510 MORNING. OK06900520 HE USED HER WORDS: "KAT-CH-LHN, S'SCOOLY-WHN]" ("RUN, DEER]") OK06900530 THE DEER CAME. THEY RAN OUT OF THE WOODS, ONE AFTER THE OTHER, OK06900540 IN A LONG LINE. THEY RAN STRAIGHT TO THE LODGE. COYOTE HELD UP A OK06900550 PART OF THE LODGE-COVERING, AS WOOD-TICK ALWAYS HAD DONE, AND THE OK06900560 DEER WENT RIGHT ON THROUGH THE TEPEE. FOLLOWING WOOD-TICK'S CUSTOM, OK06900570 COYOTE SHOT THE LAST DEER IN THE LINE -- THE LARGEST BUCK. THAT OK06900580 WAS THE RULE. OK06900590 EACH MORNING AFTER THAT COYOTE CALLED THE DEER AND SHOT THE OK06900600 LARGEST BUCK. HE DID THAT FOR A LONG TIME, AND HE HAD PLENTY TO OK06900610 EAT. BUT AFTER AWHILE HE GREW TIRED OF BUCK MEAT AND WANTED A YOUNG OK06900620 DEER FOR A CHANGE. SO HE SHOT A FAWN. THAT SCARED THE OTHER DEER; OK06900630 THEY KNEW SOMETHING WAS WRONG. OK06900640 "THAT PERSON IS NOT OUR MISTRESS]" THEY SAID. "THE EYES ARE OK06900650 NOT HERS. THEY ARE TOO SLANT. THAT MUST BE SIN-KA-LIP']" OK06900660 THE DEER SCATTERED AND VANISHED IN THE WOODS. AT THE SAME TIME OK06900670 ALL THE DRIED VENISON THAT WAS STORED IN THE LODGE CAME TO LIFE OK06900680 AND FOLLOWED THE MAIN HERD. ON THEIR WAY OUT OF THE TEPEE, THE OK06900690 VENISON-DEER PICKED UP WOOD-TICK'S BODY AND CARRIED IT ON THEIR OK06900700 BACKS, AND WOOD-TICK CAME TO LIFE, TOO. COYOTE'S FINE BUCKSKIN OK06900710 CLOTHES PEELED OFF HIM AND WENT ALONG AFTER THE VENISON-DEER, OK06900720 AND THE WHOLE HERD KEPT ON GOING UNTIL IT REACHED THE MOUNTAINS, OK06900730 WHERE THE DEER HAVE REMAINED EVER SINCE. OK06900740 AS SOON AS COYOTE COULD COLLECT HIS SENSES, HE HURRIED TO SAVE OK06900750 WHAT SCRAPS OF MEAT THERE MIGHT BE LEFT. HE FOUND A LITTLE. THIS OK06900760 HE GATHERED AND HID. SOME HE PUT BEHIND LOGS, SOME IN BRUSHY PLACES OK06900770 AND SOME IN THE GROUND. BUT, A LITTLE LATER, WHEN HE WENT TO THE OK06900780 HIDING-PLACES, HE HAD ANOTHER SURPRISE. BEHIND THE LOGS, WHERE HE OK06900790 HAD HIDDEN MEAT AND BONES, THERE WAS NOTHING BUT DRIED BARK AND OK06900800 DEAD TREE LIMBS, AND IN THE GROUND CACHES HE FOUND ONLY STONES] OK06900810 NAKED AND HUNGRY, COYOTE WENT HOME. MOLE, HIS WIFE, MADE NEW CLOTHES OK06900820 FOR HIM. OK06900830 OLD MAID WOOD-TICK RULES THE DEER TO THIS DAY. THAT IS WHY OK06900840 THERE ARE WOOD-TICKS ON THE BACKS OF ALL THE DEER. OK06900850 ***OKA-020*** WHY MOSQUITOES BITE PEOPLE OK07000010 THERE WERE FIVE BROTHERS. THE SMALLEST WAS SCH'-LUX -- OK07000020 MOSQUITO. HE WAS LAZY AND GREEDY -- GREEDY FOR BLOOD. WHEN HIS OK07000030 BROTHERS KILLED GAME, THEY ALWAYS GAVE HIM BLOOD FOR HIS SHARE. HE OK07000040 NEVER COOKED IT. HE LIKED IT UNCOOKED. OK07000050 EACH NIGHT THE BROTHERS MADE MOSQUITO GO TO THEIR SWEAT-HOUSE OK07000060 TO SEEK SHOO'-MESH, AS HE WAS THE ONLY ONE OF THE FIVE WHO HAD OK07000070 NOT RECEIVED MEDICINE-POWER. ONE NIGHT HE HEARD VOICES WHISPERING OK07000080 AS HE WALKED TOWARD THE SWEAT-HOUSE, AND HE WAS AFRAID. HE RAN AND OK07000090 TOLD HIS BROTHERS. THEY CALLED HIM A COWARD AND WHIPPED HIM. THEN OK07000100 THEY MADE HIM GO TO THE SWEAT-HOUSE TO SPEND THE NIGHT. MOSQUITO OK07000110 CRAWLED IN THERE AND CRIED HIMSELF TO SLEEP. OK07000120 LATE IN THE NIGHT MOSQUITO WAS AWAKENED BY SHOUTS AND CRIES, OK07000130 THE CRIES OF HIS BROTHERS. ENEMIES WERE KILLING THEM IN THEIR OK07000140 LODGE. SOON THE ENEMY PEOPLE CAME TO THE SWEAT-HOUSE TO KILL LITTLE OK07000150 MOSQUITO. THEY JABBED THEIR SPEARS INTO THE SWEAT-HOUSE. MOSQUITO OK07000160 DAUBED RED PAINT ON THE SPEAR-POINTS. BELIEVING THE RED PAINT WAS OK07000170 THE BLOOD OF THE BOY, THE ENEMIES WENT AWAY. OK07000180 NEXT MORNING, AFTER SUN TRAILED HIGH, MOSQUITO SNEAKED OUT OF OK07000190 THE SWEAT-LODGE AND WENT TO HIS BROTHERS' TEPEE. THERE HE FOUND OK07000200 THEM. THEY WERE DEAD. OK07000210 MOSQUITO FELT VERY SAD. HE CRIED AND CRIED. AFTER AWHILE HE OK07000220 WALKED DOWN TO THE RIVER AND MADE A CANOE. THEN HE FLOATED IN IT OK07000230 DOWN THE RIVER, AND HE CRIED ALL THE TIME. HE SANG HIS SONG FOR OK07000240 THE DEAD. HE STUTTERED WHEN HE TALKED OR SANG; HE COULD NOT HELP OK07000250 IT. THE SONG HE SANG WAS: OK07000260 "O-O-O] LA-LA] CO-PAH-POOL-EE-LA KECHT-KAH]" ("O-O-OH] LA-LA] OK07000270 THE-THEY KIL-KILLED M-MY BROTHERS]") OK07000280 HE FLOATED A LONG WAY DOWN THE RIVER. HE CAME TO A BIG CAMP. OK07000290 THE PEOPLE SAW HIM, AND THEY SHOUTED: "COME ASHORE AND EAT OK07000300 CHOKECHERRIES," BUT MOSQUITO DID NOT STOP. HE FLOATED ON IN HIS OK07000310 CANOE AND SANG HIS MOURNFUL SONG. OK07000320 HE CAME TO A SECOND ENCAMPMENT. THE PEOPLE THERE SHOUTED: "COME OK07000330 HERE, COME HERE, SCH'-LUX] COME AND EAT OLLALEES (BERRIES)." OK07000340 "O-OH] N-NO]" MOSQUITO ANSWERED, IN HIS STUTTERING VOICE, AND OK07000350 HE FLOATED ON DOWN THE RIVER. HE CAME TO A THIRD ENCAMPMENT. MANY OK07000360 PEOPLE WERE THERE. OK07000370 "THERE COME SCH'-LUX," THEY SAID. "HE LIKES BLOOD." OK07000380 SOME OF THE PEOPLE CALLED TO HIM TO COME AND EAT. MOSQUITO OK07000390 REFUSED, AND HE WAS FLOATING ON BY WHEN THEY TOLD HIM THEY COULD OK07000400 GIVE HIM SOME UNCOOKED BLOOD. AT THAT, HE TURNED HIS CANOE AND OK07000410 PADDLED TO SHORE. HE TIED THE CANOE FAST, SO IT COULD NOT DRIFT OK07000420 AWAY, AND WENT TO THE FEAST. WHILE HE WAS EATING, FILLING HIMSELF OK07000430 WITH BLOOD IN HIS GREEDY WAY, SOME OF THE PEOPLE SHOVED HIS CANOE OK07000440 OUT ON THE RIVER. THE CURRENT CARRIED IT AWAY. THEN THEY TOLD HIM OK07000450 THAT THE CANOE WAS GONE. OK07000460 MOSQUITO DID NOT WANT TO LOSE THE CANOE. HE RAN. HE COULD NOT OK07000470 RUN FAST -- HIS STOMACH WAS TOO FULL. IN HIS HASTE, HE TRIPPED AND OK07000480 FELL ON A STICK, WHICH PIERCED HIS STOMACH AND LET OUT ALL THE OK07000490 BLOOD. FROM THE WOUND FLEW A LITTLE FLY. IT ALIGHTED ON A OK07000500 COTTONWOOD TREE. OK07000510 "O-OH] THE-THEY KIL-KILLED M-MY BROTHERS]" IT SANG. OK07000520 THE PEOPLE HEARD THE SONG. THEY SPOKE TO THE LITTLE FLY: "WHEN OK07000530 THE FUTURE GENERATIONS COME, YOU WILL SING YOUR SONG FOR THE DEAD, OK07000540 AND YOU WILL LIVE ON THE BLOOD OF MEN -- ON THE BLOOD OF PEOPLE," OK07000550 THEY SAID. "THAT SHALL BE YOUR REVENGE FOR THE DEATH OF YOUR OK07000560 BROTHERS." OK07000570 ***OKA-021*** THE GODS OF THE SUN AND THE MOON OK07100010 MOLE WAS LONELY. COYOTE WAS AWAY ON ONE OF HIS LONG TRIPS. OK07100020 MOLE WOULD NOT HAVE FELT SO LONESOME IF ALL HER CHILDREN HAD BEEN OK07100030 WITH HER. BUT THERE WERE ONLY TWO LEFT WITH HER AT HOME. THE OTHERS OK07100040 HAD GROWN UP AND GONE SEPARATE WAYS, AS FAMILIES DO. THE TWO THAT OK07100050 WERE LEFT WERE BOYS. THEY WERE LITTLE. OK07100060 EVERY SUN MOLE BECAME MORE LONELY. ONE DAY SHE SAW A ROCK OF OK07100070 ODD SHAPE. SHE LIKED IT. SHE PRETENDED IT WAS COYOTE; SHE MADE LOVE OK07100080 TO IT. AFTER IT SHE NAMED THE OLDER OF HER TWO SMALL BOYS. SHE NAMED OK07100090 HIM STEE-QU'-LOT -- HEATED-ROCK-CHILD. THE ROCK WAS WARMED BY THE OK07100100 SUN. ON ANOTHER DAY, WHILE DIGGING ROOTS SHE FOUND A ROOT THAT WAS OK07100110 WHITE. IT PLEASED HER. AS HER SMALLEST SON'S SKIN WAS LIGHT IN OK07100120 COLOR, SHE NAMED HIM AFTER THE ROOT. SHE NAMED HIM SWEE'-ELT -- OK07100130 WHITE ROOT. OK07100140 THE MOONS PASSED AND COYOTE DID NOT RETURN. THE BOYS GREW. OK07100150 SWEE'-ELT TOLD HIS MOTHER THAT HE COULD HEAR WHISPERS COMING UP OK07100160 FROM THE GROUND, AND HE ASKED HER THE REASON. OK07100170 "YOU ARE NAMED AFTER THE ROOTS," MOLE EXPLAINED. "THE ROOTS OK07100180 ARE YOUR RELATIVES. THEY CALL TO YOU." OK07100190 STEE-QU'-LOT SAID THAT HE COULD HEAR THE ROCKS WHISPERING TO OK07100200 HIM, WHISPERING SOUNDS OF FRIENDSHIP, AND HIS MOTHER TOLD HIM THAT OK07100210 THE ROCKS WERE HIS RELATIVES. OK07100220 COYOTE FINALLY CAME HOME. HE FOUND HIS SONS GROWN TO FINE BIG OK07100230 BOYS, AND HE WAS GLAD. HE WAS SORRY THAT HE HAD STAYED AWAY SO LONG. OK07100240 HE TOOK THE BOYS TO HIMSELF TO TRAIN. EVERY MORNING HE GOT THEM UP OK07100250 AND MADE THEM SWIM IN THE COLD RIVER; HE TAUGHT THEM TO PRAY FOR OK07100260 STRONG MEDICINE-POWERS. HE WAS PREPARING THEM TO MEET HARDSHIPS, TO OK07100270 BECOME GOOD WARRIORS. THEY BECAME STRONG IN BODY AND SPIRIT, AND OK07100280 MOLE WAS PROUD OF THEM. SWEE'-ELT WAS HANDSOME AND WHITE OF SKIN, OK07100290 WHILE STEE-QU'-LOT WAS RED OF SKIN AND STRONG AND LONG OF LIMB. HE OK07100300 WAS A GOOD HUNTER. OK07100310 COYOTE HEARD THERE WAS TO BE A BIG COUNCIL IN ANOTHER COUNTRY OK07100320 TO DECIDE ON WHO SHOULD BE THE GODS OF KYA'-LEN-WHU -- THE SUN -- OK07100330 AND SKUK'-ACH KYA'-LEN-WHU, THE NIGHT SUN -- MOON. COYOTE TOLD HIS OK07100340 SONS ABOUT THE COUNCIL. THEY WANTED TO GO. THEY KILLED GAME, ENOUGH OK07100350 TO LAST THEIR PARENTS WHILE THEY WERE AT THE COUNCIL. AS THEY WERE OK07100360 LEAVING, COYOTE SUDDENLY DECIDED TO GO WITH THEM. THAT LEFT POOR OK07100370 MOLE ALL ALONE. OK07100380 WHEN COYOTE AND HIS SONS REACHED THE COUNCIL THEY FOUND THE OK07100390 PEOPLE WORRIED. THE PEOPLE SAID THEY HAD NOT FOUND ANYONE SUITED TO OK07100400 TAKE CHARGE OF EITHER SUN OR MOON. MANY OF THE PEOPLE HAD SOUGHT OK07100410 THOSE HONORS, TRAVELING IN THE SUN-LODGE OR THE MOON-LODGE ACROSS OK07100420 THE SKY, BUT ALL HAD FAILED. THEY EITHER WERE TOO HOT OR TOO COLD OK07100430 OR TOO BRIGHT OR TOO DIM. OK07100440 "I WILL BE THE SUN-GOD," DECLARED COYOTE, AND THE PEOPLE OK07100450 ALLOWED HIM TO TRY. HE TOOK THE SUNLODGE ACROSS THE SKY. BUT HE OK07100460 WATCHED EVERYTHING THAT THE PEOPLE DID. SEEING PEOPLE IN SECRET OK07100470 LOVE, HE YELLED DOWN TO THEM, MUCH TO THEIR EMBARRASSMENT. HE TOLD OK07100480 ON THOSE WHO WERE HIDING. THE PEOPLE WERE GLAD WHEN THAT DAY WAS OK07100490 OVER. THEY LOST NO TIME IN TAKING COYOTE FROM THE SUN-LODGE. THEN OK07100500 THEY ASKED COYOTE'S SONS TO TRY, BUT THE SONS REFUSED. THEY WANTED OK07100510 TO REMAIN ON THE EARTH. OK07100520 NOW, AMONG THOSE AT THE COUNCIL WAS SWA-LAH'-KIN -- FROG-WOMAN. OK07100530 SHE WAS OLD AND UGLY, BUT SHE WAS IN LOVE WITH SWEE'-ELT, THE OK07100540 WHITE-SKINNED. HER SPECIAL MEDICINE WAS THE RAIN. SHE CAUSED A BIG OK07100550 RAIN TO FALL, AND EVERYTHING GOT SOPPING WET; THE PEOPLE WERE SOAKED OK07100560 TO THE SKIN AND COULD NOT GET DRY, AS ALL THEIR FIRES WERE PUT OUT. OK07100570 ALL THE FIRES BUT FROG-WOMAN'S WERE KILLED. EVERYBODY SHIVERED WITH OK07100580 COLD -- EVERYBODY BUT FROG-WOMAN. OK07100590 SWEE'-ELT DID NOT KNOW THAT FROG-WOMAN'S HEART WAS SOFT TOWARD OK07100600 HIM. HE SUGGESTED TO HIS BROTHER THAT THEY GO TO HER LODGE AND GET OK07100610 DRY BY HER BRIGHT FIRE. STEE-QU'-LOT DID NOT WANT TO GO. KNOWING OK07100620 THAT FROG-WOMAN LOVED HIS BROTHER, HE WARNED SWEE'-ELT; HE TOLD HIM OK07100630 TO KEEP AWAY -- TOLD HIM SHE WAS BAD AND POWERFUL. BUT SWEE'-ELT OK07100640 BECAME SO COLD THAT HE WENT TO HER LODGE BY HIMSELF. FROG-WOMAN WAS OK07100650 DRESSING A DEER SKIN BY THE FIRE. HER LODGE WAS WARM AND DRY. OK07100660 SWEE'-ELT WAS GLAD HE HAD COME. OK07100670 LOOKING UP AT HIM, FROG-WOMAN SAID: "MY HUSBAND] TAKE YOUR OK07100680 PLACE ON THE HONORED ROBE OF YOUR LODGE." OK07100690 STARTLED, SWEE'-ELT DID NOT CROSS TO THE ROBE. INSTEAD, HE SAT OK07100700 DOWN NEAR THE ENTRANCE. HE KNEW HE SHOULD LEAVE, BUT HE DID WANT TO OK07100710 GET WARM. FROG-WOMAN COAXED HIM TO MOVE TO THE HUSBAND-ROBE, BUT HE OK07100720 SHOOK HIS HEAD AND STAYED BY THE DOORWAY. SEEING THAT HER COAXING OK07100730 WAS OF NO USE, FROG-WOMAN BECAME ANGRY. SUDDENLY, SHE CHANGED OK07100740 HERSELF INTO A REAL FROG AND JUMPED -- SMACK] -- AT THE YOUNG MAN'S OK07100750 SMOOTH WHITE FACE. SHE STRUCK HIS CHEEK AND CLUNG THERE. "NOW," OK07100760 SAID FROG-WOMAN, "YOU CANNOT LEAVE ME. NOT IF YOU GO TO THE EDGE OF OK07100770 THE WORLD WILL YOU EVER GET ANOTHER WIFE]" OK07100780 SWEE'-ELT TRIED TO TAKE FROG-WOMAN OFF HIS CHEEK. HE TUGGED OK07100790 SCRAPED IN VAIN. ALL THE PEOPLE CAME AND TRIED TO TAKE HER OFF. OK07100800 NOTHING COULD BUDGE FROG-WOMAN. THE PEOPLE EVEN TRIED TO CUT HER OFF OK07100810 AND TO BURN HER LOOSE FROM HIS CHEEK, BUT SHE DID NOT MOVE. AT LAST OK07100820 SWEE'-ELT GAVE UP HOPE. ASHAMED OF HIS APPEARANCE, HE DECIDED WHAT OK07100830 TO DO. HE SAID TO THE PEOPLE: "I WILL TAKE CHARGE OF THE MOON-LODGE. OK07100840 I WILL GO WITH IT ACROSS THE SKY." OK07100850 STEE-QU'-LOT WISHED TO BE NEAR HIS UNHAPPY BROTHER, SO HE OK07100860 SAID: "I WILL TAKE CHARGE OF THE SUN-LODGE. I WILL TAKE IT ACROSS OK07100870 THE SKY." OK07100880 IN HIS MOON-LODGE, SWEE'-ELT TRAVELS BY NIGHT. THAT IS OK07100890 BECAUSE HE IS ASHAMED OF HIS UGLY WIFE. HE HATES HER. SHE STILL OK07100900 CLINGS TO HIS CHEEK. SOMETIMES YOU CAN SEE HER WHEN THE NIGHTS ARE OK07100910 CLEAR. AND IF A FROG IS KILLED AND LAID ON ITS BACK OR HELD BELLY OK07100920 TOWARD THE SKY, YOU WILL SEE A CLOUD-BLANKET SPREAD OVER THE SUN OR OK07100930 THE MOON. THE BROTHER-GODS ALWAYS HIDE THEIR FACES FROM FROGS PLACED OK07100940 IN THAT WAY. PERHAPS THEY THINK THAT THE FROGS ARE TRYING TO MAKE OK07100950 LOVE TO THEM. OK07100951 BECAUSE HE IS OF THE HEATED-ROCK, STEE-QU'-LOT IS WELL SUITED OK07100970 TO SIT IN THE SUN-LODGE. SWEE'-ELT, BEING RELATED TO THE WHITE ROOTS OK07100980 IN THE COOL GROUND, IS SUITED TO STAY IN THE MOON-LODGE. HIS WHITE OK07100990 FACE GIVES THE MOON ITS LIGHT. THAT DARK SPOT ON HIS FACE IS THE OK07101000 HATED FROG-WOMAN. MOONLIGHT IS COOL, BECAUSE SWEE'-ELT WAS OF THE OK07101010 ROOT-GROWING EARTH. HIS DESCENDANTS ARE THE WHITE-SKINNED PEOPLE. OK07101020 THE DESCENDANTS OF STEE-QU'-LOT ARE THE RED-SKINNED PEOPLE. OK07101030 WHEN SWEE'-ELT LEFT THE COUNCIL-CAMP TO SIT IN THE MOON-LODGE OK07101040 HE SAID: "IN THE FUTURE HANDSOME WARRIORS WILL MARRY HOMELY WOMEN, OK07101050 AND PRETTY WOMAN SOMETIMES WILL MARRY HOMELY MEN." OK07101060 WHAT SWEE'-ELT SAID IS TRUE TO THIS DAY. HE MADE IT SO FROM THE OK07101070 BEGINNING. OK07101080 ***OKA-022*** PORCUPINE LEARNS THE SUN-DANCE OK07200010 THE KHAKA'-MALH -- FLY-PEOPLE -- HAD THE SWEN-QHUM (SUN-DANCE) OK07200020 FIRST. THE SUN-DANCE WAS THEIRS. IT WAS THEIR MEDICINE. MANY OK07200030 PEOPLE WANTED TO LEARN THE SUN-DANCE, TO DISCOVER THE POWER OF THE OK07200040 FLIES, AND MANY WENT TO THE FLIES' VILLAGE TO LEARN THE DANCE. BUT OK07200050 NONE EVER RETURNED. THEY WERE EATEN BY THE CRAWLERS THAT HATCHED OK07200060 FROM THE EGGS OF THE FLIES. THE KHAKA'-MALH KEPT THEIR SECRET WELL. OK07200070 ONE TIME COYOTE WENT TO THE DANCE. AS HE DANCED, HE BECAME OK07200080 COVERED WITH EGGS. CRAWLERS HATCHED FROM THE EGGS AND ATE HIM -- OK07200090 ATE MOST OF HIM. WHAT WAS LEFT THE FLIES THREW OUTSIDE THEIR CAMP. OK07200100 THERE THE REMAINS WERE FOUND BY FOX, WHO STEPPED OVER THEM THREE OK07200110 TIMES. THAT RESTORED COYOTE TO LIFE. OK07200120 THEN COYOTE WENT IN SEARCH OF SOMEONE TO HELP HIM LEARN THE OK07200130 SECRET OF THE SUN-DANCE. HE MET KWIL-KIN -- PORCUPINE, A BRAVE OK07200140 MAN. HE ASKED PORCUPINE TO GO BACK WITH HIM TO THE FLY VILLAGE, AND OK07200150 PINE-BOUGH HEAD WENT. WHEN THEY GOT TO THE CAMP, COYOTE TOLD OK07200160 PORCUPINE TO GO AND DANCE WHILE HE WATCHED. SO PORCUPINE WENT ON IN OK07200170 AND DANCED WITH THE FLIES. THEY LAID EGGS ALL OVER HIM. BUT THE OK07200180 EGGS DID NOT BOTHER PORCUPINE. EVERY LITTLE WHILE HE WOULD SHAKE OK07200190 HIMSELF HARD, AND THE CREEPERS THAT HAD CRAWLED FROM THE EGGS OK07200200 WOULD BE KILLED ON HIS SHARP QUILLS. OK07200210 THE FLIES LAID MORE AND MORE EGGS ON PORCUPINE, AND HE KEPT OK07200220 ON SHAKING HIMSELF AND KILLING THE CRAWLERS; HE WAS TOO MUCH FOR OK07200230 THE FLIES. HE KILLED ALL OF THEM, TOO, EXCEPT A VERY FEW SMALL OK07200240 ONES. THESE HE PERMITTED TO LIVE. OK07200250 "HEREAFTER, FLIES WILL NOT KILL ANYBODY," PORCUPINE TOLD THE OK07200260 LITTLE FLIES. "THERE SHALL BE NO MORE BIG FLIES TO KILL PEOPLE. OK07200270 AFTER THIS, ONLY THAT WHICH IS DEAD SHALL BE THE EGG-LAYING PLACE OK07200280 OF THE FLIES." OK07200290 THAT WAS HOW THE FLIES LOST THE SECRET OF THEIR SUN-DANCE AND OK07200300 THEIR MEDICINE-POWER. BECAUSE OF PORCUPINE IT NO LONGER WAS A OK07200310 SECRET. THE NEW PEOPLE, WHEN THEY CAME, WERE ABLE TO LEARN THE OK07200320 SUN-DANCE. OK07200330 ***OKA-023*** EN-AM-TUES -- THE WISHING STONE OK07300010 THERE WERE THREE BROTHERS, ALL GREAT WARRIORS. THEY LIVED IN OK07300020 THE OKANOGAN COUNTRY. CHOO'-PAHK -- STICKING -- WAS THE OLDEST; THE OK07300030 SECOND BROTHER WAS SCRA'-KAN -- COPPER -- AND THE YOUNGEST WAS OK07300040 NAK-KA'-TUYA -- CUT-UP. OK07300050 AMONG THE KALISPEL PEOPLE LIVED A MAIDEN NAMED SCOO'-MALT -- OK07300060 VIRGIN. HER FATHER WAS CHIEF OF THE KALISPELS. OK07300070 ONE SUN SCOO'-MALT FILLED A BASKET WITH CAMAS ROOTS AND OK07300080 STARTED FOR THE OKANOGAN COUNTRY. SHE HOPED TO PLEASE THE HANDSOME OK07300090 COPPERY SCRA'-KAN AND BECOME HIS WIFE. UPON REACHING THE SUMMIT OF OK07300100 THE RANGE OVERLOOKING THE OKANOGAN VALLEY FROM THE EAST, SHE OK07300110 STOPPED TO MAKE HERSELF BEAUTIFUL. SHE COMBED AND BRAIDED HER LONG OK07300120 BLACK HAIR AND PAINTED HER FACE WITH RED EARTH PAINT. OK07300130 IN THEIR DREAMS THE THREE BROTHERS SAW SCOO'-MALT COMING, AND OK07300140 THEY WENT TO MEET HER. EACH ASKED HER TO MARRY HIM, AND THEN THE OK07300150 YOUNGER BROTHERS FOUGHT. NAK-KA'-TUYA SLASHED THE SHOULDERS OFF OK07300160 SCRA'-KAN, WHILE SCRA'-KAN KNOCKED NAK-KA'-TUYA DOWN AND KICKED OK07300170 HIM INTO A LONG HEAP, FLAT ON THE GROUND. OK07300180 COYOTE CAME ALONG AS THE BROTHERS WERE FIGHTING, AND HE LAUGHED OK07300190 AT SEEING THEM FIGHTING SO HARD OVER THE KALISPEL MAIDEN. HE OK07300200 THOUGHT IT WAS A GOOD JOKE, BUT HIS GLEE ANGERED THE GIRL, AND SHE OK07300210 SPOKE SHARPLY TO HIM. HER WORDS, IN TURN, ANGERED COYOTE. HE WOULD OK07300220 SHOW THE MAIDEN THAT SHE COULD NOT TALK THAT WAY TO HIM. WITH THE OK07300230 HELP OF HIS GREAT MEDICINE-POWER HE MOVED THE BROTHERS BACK TO OK07300240 WHERE THEY HAD BEEN WHEN THEY STARTED TO MEET SCOO'-MALT, AND HE OK07300250 CHANGED THEM INTO MOUNTAINS. THEN HE MADE SCOO'-MALT HELPLESS BY OK07300260 TURNING HER LOWER BODY INTO STONE. OK07300270 TAKING HER BASKETFUL OF ET-QUAH (CAMAS), SCOO'-MALT THREW IT OK07300280 BACK TO HER PEOPLE, TO THE KALISPEL COUNTRY, SO THAT NONE WOULD OK07300290 GROW IN THE LAND OF THE OKANOGANS, AND SHE TRANSFORMED THE REST OF OK07300300 HERSELF INTO STONE, TO REMAIN THERE IN SIGHT OF HER STONE LOVERS OK07300310 FOREVER. OK07300320 COYOTE WAS AMUSED. TO THE STONE MAIDEN, HE SAID: "BECAUSE YOU OK07300330 ARE A STRANGER IN THIS PLACE, YOU WILL HELP THE COMING GENERATIONS OK07300340 BY GIVING THEM GOOD LUCK, BUT THEY WILL HAVE TO PAY YOU TO MAKE OK07300350 THEIR WISHES HAPPEN." THEN HE TURNED TO THE MOUNTAINS THAT HAD BEEN OK07300360 WARRIORS, AND SAID: "CHOO'-PAHK, BECAUSE YOU ARE PROUD AND WOULD OK07300370 NOT TAKE PART IN THE FIGHT, YOU WILL STAND WITH YOU HEAD HIGH AND OK07300380 STATELY. YOU, SCRA'-KAN, BECAUSE A VIRGIN OF ANOTHER LAND CAME TO OK07300390 COURT YOU, WILL BE LOVED ALWAYS BY THE WOMEN FOR YOUR HANDSOME OK07300400 COPPERY BODY. THE WOMEN WILL LIKE PIECES OF IT FOR DECORATING THEIR OK07300410 ARMS AND HANDS. NAK-KA'-TUYA, BECAUSE YOU WERE BEATEN AND KICKED OK07300420 TO THE GROUND, YOU WILL LIE IN SHAME AS A MOUNTAIN RIDGE FOR OTHER OK07300430 GENERATIONS TO SEE." OK07300440 THAT IS WHY CHOO'-PAHK (MT. CHOPAKA) LOOKS SO PROUD AND FINE. OK07300450 SCRA'-KAN, NEARBY, TO THE NORTH AND WEST, STANDS WITHOUT SHOULDERS, OK07300460 A SHARP-POINTED PEAK (IN BRITISH COLUMBIA). ACROSS THE VALLEY OF OK07300470 THE SIMILKAMEEN RIVER LIES NAK-KA'-TUYA (MT. RICHTER, B.C.) OK07300480 THE MAIDEN STILL SITS ON THE SUMMIT WHERE SHE STOPPED THAT DAY OK07300490 LONG AGO TO COMB HER HAIR AND PAINT HER FACE WITH THE RED EARTH OK07300500 PAINT. THE PEOPLE CALL HER EN-AM-TUES -- SITTING ON THE SUMMIT. THE OK07300510 PLACE WHERE SHE SITS IS MOCK-TSIN -- KNOLL-BETWEEN-A-DIVIDE. THERE OK07300520 THE PEOPLE HAVE GONE FOR MANY GENERATIONS TO ASK FOR GOOD LUCK AND OK07300530 TO PAY FOR THEIR ASKING WITH GIFTS SO THAT THEIR WISHES WOULD COME OK07300540 TRUE. OK07300550 ***OKA-024*** CHICKADEE MAKES A SHOO'-MESH BOW OK07400010 CHICKADEE WANTED TO CROSS THE RIVER WHERE ELK HAD HIS TRAIL. OK07400020 ELK CROSSED THE RIVER AT THE SAME PLACE EACH SUN. CHICKADEE WAITED OK07400030 FOR HIM THERE. WHEN ELK CAME, CHICKADEE SAID: "STE-EEL'-TZA, MY OK07400040 GRANDFATHER. TAKE ME ACROSS ON YOUR BACK." OK07400050 NOW, ELK WAS NOT CHICKADEE'S GRANDFATHER, BUT CHICKADEE WANTED OK07400060 TO PLEASE ELK AND GAIN HIS FAVOR. ELK AGREED TO CARRY THE LITTLE OK07400070 BOY ACROSS THE RIVER. HE TOOK CHICKADEE ON HIS BACK AND WADED INTO OK07400080 THE WATER. WITH HIS FLINT KNIFE, CHICKADEE BEGAN TO CUT THE BACK OK07400090 OF ELK'S NECK. OK07400100 "ZST-SKAKA'-NA, WHAT ARE YOU DOING?" ASKED ELK. OK07400110 AND CHICKADEE ANSWERED: "GRANDFATHER, I AM ONLY SCRATCHING OK07400120 YOUR NECK." OK07400130 ELK WENT ON. SOON HE THOUGHT THAT CHICKADEE WAS SCRATCHING TOO OK07400140 HARD, AND AGAIN HE ASKED WHAT THE BOY WAS DOING. OK07400150 "GRANDFATHER, I AM ONLY SCRATCHING YOUR NECK," SAID OK07400160 CHICKADEE, BUT ALL THE TIME HE WAS CUTTING, CUTTING WITH HIS OK07400170 FLINT KNIFE. JUST AS ELK REACHED THE SHORE, CHICKADEE MADE A LAST OK07400180 CUT AND ELK FELL DEAD WITH A BROKEN NECK. CHICKADEE WAS GLAD. HE OK07400190 WANTED ONE OF ELK'S RIBS FOR A BOW. SUCH A BOW WOULD HAVE STRONG OK07400200 SHOO'-MESH. HE SKINNED ELK WITH HIS KNIFE. AS HE FINISHED TAKING OK07400210 OFF THE HIDE, MOTHER WOLF WALKED UP. SHE HAD HIDDEN HER TWO OK07400220 CHILDREN CLOSE BY IN THEIR CRADLE THAT WAS HUNG ON A TREE. OK07400230 MOTHER WOLF LOOKED GREEDILY AT THE ELK MEAT. OK07400240 "GO AND GET YOUR LITTLE COUSINS," SHE SAID. "I LEFT THEM OK07400250 ON A TREE BY THE TRAIL." OK07400260 CHICKADEE KNEW THAT SHE WANTED TO STEAL THE MEAT, BUT HE OK07400270 DID NOT LET ON THAT HE KNEW. HE RAN ALONG THE TRAIL AND FOUND OK07400280 THE CHILDREN, BUT HE DID NOT TAKE THEM TO THEIR MOTHER. HE OK07400290 CARRIED THEM IN THE OPPOSITE DIRECTION, RUNNING FAR WITH THEM. OK07400300 THEN HE HURRIED BACK TO MOTHER WOLF. OK07400310 "I COULD NOT FIND YOUR BABIES," HE SAID. OK07400320 "WHY, THEY ARE ON A TREE CLOSE BY THE TRAIL," SAID MOTHER OK07400330 WOLF, WHO THOUGHT THAT CHICKADEE COULD NOT FIND THEM. "LOOK AGAIN OK07400340 FOR THEM," AND CHICKADEE RAN TO WHERE HE HAD LEFT THE CHILDREN OK07400350 AND CARRIED THEM STILL FARTHER AWAY. HE HURRIED BACK TO MOTHER OK07400360 WOLF. OK07400370 "NO, I CANNOT FIND YOUR BABIES," HE SAID. OK07400380 MOTHER WOLF SENT HIM ONCE MORE. AS SOON AS HE WAS GONE SHE OK07400390 STARTED CUTTING THE ELK MEAT INTO SMALL PIECES. BY THE TIME OK07400400 CHICKADEE RETURNED, THE MEAT WAS ALL CUT UP. CHICKADEE DID NOT OK07400410 HAVE THE CHILDREN, OF COURSE, SO MOTHER WOLF FINALLY HAD TO GO OK07400420 FOR THEM. OK07400430 "DO NOT EAT ANY OF THE MEAT UNTIL I COME BACK," SHE TOLD OK07400440 CHICKADEE. "WAIT, AND WE WILL EAT TOGETHER," AND SHE STARTED DOWN OK07400450 THE TRAIL. IT TOOK HER A LONG TIME TO FIND HER CHILDREN. OK07400460 CHICKADEE BEGAN TO CARRY THE MEAT AWAY AS SOON AS MOTHER WOLF OK07400470 WAS OUT OF SIGHT. HE TOOK IT TO A HIGH CLIFF, TO A LEDGE HALFWAY OK07400480 UP THE WALL OF THE CLIFF. HE MADE SEVERAL TRIPS, AND HE FINISHED OK07400490 CARRYING ALL THE MEAT THERE JUST BEFORE MOTHER WOLF RETURNED WITH OK07400500 HER CHILDREN. SHE FOLLOWED CHICKADEE'S TRACKS TO THE FOOT OF THE OK07400510 CLIFF, AND THEN SHE LOOKED UP AND SAW HIM SITTING ON THE LEDGE OK07400520 AND ROASTING THE MEAT OVER A FIRE. OK07400530 "ZST-SKAKA'-NA, THROW DOWN A MOUTHFUL OF MEAT FOR YOUR LITTLE OK07400540 COUSINS," SAID MOTHER WOLF. OK07400550 "OPEN THEIR MOUTHS. I WILL THROW DOWN A MOUTHFUL TO EACH," OK07400560 ANSWERED CHICKADEE. OK07400570 MOTHER WOLF OPENED THE MOUTHS OF THE LITTLE WOLVES, AND INTO OK07400580 THEIR MOUTHS CHICKADEE DROPPED TWO HOT STONES THAT HE HAD WRAPPED OK07400590 IN FAT. THEY SWALLOWED THE HOT STONES AND WERE KILLED. MOTHER WOLF OK07400600 WAS NOT WATCHING THEM. SHE WAS LOOKING UP AT CHICKADEE, HOPING HE OK07400610 WOULD THROW HER SOME MEAT. OK07400620 "NOW OPEN YOUR MOUTH, MOTHER WOLF," HE INSTRUCTED, AND WHEN OK07400630 HER JAWS WERE WIDE OPEN CHICKADEE DROPPED A BIG ROCK, RED HOT AND OK07400640 WRAPPED IN FAT. IT SLID DOWN MOTHER WOLF'S THROAT, AND SHE FELL OK07400650 OVER, DEAD. OK07400660 CHICKADEE NOW DRIED THE REMAINDER OF HIS MEAT IN PEACE, AND OK07400670 FROM ONE OF ELK'S RIBS HE MADE A BOW. IT HAD STRONG POWER. OK07400680 ***OKA-025*** COYOTE AND CHICKADEE OK07500010 WHILE ROAMING THE HILLS ONE SUN, LOOKING FOR FOOD, COYOTE MET OK07500020 CHICKADEE, WHO WAS CARRYING HIS ELK-RIB SHOO'-MESH BOW. CHICKADEE OK07500030 WAS VERY PROUD OF HIS BOW AND THE SHORT STUBBY ARROWS THAT IT OK07500040 USED. COYOTE THOUGHT HE WOULD LIKE TO HAVE THAT BOW, SO HE MADE OK07500050 FUN OF IT. OK07500060 "THAT BOW IS NO GOOD, ZST-SKAKA'-NA," HE SAID. "AND SUCH OK07500070 SHORT, FAT ARROWS. THEY CANNOT FLY FAR -- CANNOT KILL ANYTHING. OK07500080 PEOPLE WILL LAUGH AT YOU FOR CARRYING SUCH POOR WEAPONS. YOU HAD OK07500090 BETTER THROW THEM AWAY." OK07500100 "MY BOW AND ARROWS MAY LOOK POOR AND QUEER, BUT I LIKE THEM," OK07500110 ANSWERED CHICKADEE. "AND YOU THINK THEY CANNOT SHOOT FAR. I WILL OK07500120 SHOW YOU. GO TO THE TOP OF THAT RIDGE AND WALK SLOWLY ALONG IT. OK07500130 GO THERE, AND I WILL SHOW YOU." OK07500140 "I WILL GO, SILLY ZST-SKAKA'-NA," COYOTE SAID. "THAT BOW OK07500150 CANNOT PUT AN ARROW HALF WAY TO THE TOP OF THE RIDGE," AND HE OK07500160 STARTED OFF. HE WAS LAUGHING. OK07500170 COYOTE FELT GAY. HE TROTTED ALONG, THINKING ABOUT MANY OK07500180 FOOLISH THINGS, AND BY THE TIME HE REACHED THE TOP OF THE RIDGE OK07500190 HE HAD FORGOTTEN WHY HE WAS THERE. HE SANG AS HE WALKED ALONG THE OK07500200 TOP OF THE RIDGE. HE WAS ENJOYING THE BRIGHT SUNLIGHT AND THE OK07500210 SWEET SMELL OF THE AIR. ALL AT ONCE HE HEARD A NOISE LIKE THAT OK07500220 OF A STRANGE WIND, AND HE STOPPED TO LISTEN. OK07500230 "EH-AHE]" HE SAID. "THAT MUST BE THE SPIRITS OF OTHER SNOWS OK07500240 WHISPERING TO ME." THE WORDS WERE BUT OUT OF HIS MOUTH WHEN ONE OK07500250 OF CHICKADEE'S ARROWS WAS IN HIS RIBS. IT KILLED HIM. OK07500260 CHICKADEE WENT AFTER THE ARROW. HE PULLED IT OUT, BUT HE OK07500270 DID NOT KEEP IT. "CAW] I DO NOT WANT THAT ARROW. IT SMELLS BAD," OK07500280 AND HE THREW IT AWAY. HE WENT ON FROM THERE. HE WAS GOING TO A OK07500290 BIG COUNCIL, A COUNCIL OF ALL THE ANIMAL PEOPLE. OK07500300 A FEW SUNS LATER FOX CAME UPON THE BODY OF HIS TWIN BROTHER. OK07500310 HE KNEW THAT COYOTE HAD BEEN INTO MISCHIEF. HE STEPPED OVER THE OK07500320 BODY THREE TIMES, AND THAT BROUGHT COYOTE TO LIFE. OK07500330 "EH-AHE] I HAVE SLEPT LONG, WHY-AY'-LOOH." COYOTE YAWNED. OK07500340 "I WAS RESTING ON THIS RIDGE." OK07500350 "YES, HOW LONG YOU HAVE SLEPT, SIN-KA-LIP'] IF I HAD NOT OK07500360 WALKED OVER YOUR TRAIL, YOU WOULD HAVE SLEPT FOREVER. YOU SHOULD OK07500370 KNOW BETTER THAN TO CONTEND WITH THE LITTLE BOY. HIS BOW IS OK07500380 POWERFUL, AND HIS ARROWS TRAVEL AS THE LIGHTNING. THEY REACH THE OK07500390 LIFE, NO MATTER THE DISTANCE. MY HEART IS SAD WITH YOUR MISCHIEF." OK07500400 "WHERE DID ZST-SKAKA'-NA GO?" OK07500410 "HE IS ON HIS WAY TO THE BIG COUNCIL. THE PEOPLE ARE TALKING OK07500420 OF MAKING A TRAIL TO THE UPPER WORLD LAND," AND WITH THESE WORDS OK07500430 FOX LEFT COYOTE. OK07500440 COYOTE PICKED UP THE ARROW THAT HAD KILLED HIM, AND STARTED OK07500450 AFTER CHICKADEE. HE FOLLOWED FAST ON THE TRAIL, AND IN A FEW SUNS OK07500460 HE CAUGHT UP WITH CHICKADEE, WHO WAS QUITE SURPRISED AND NOT AT OK07500470 ALL GLAD TO SEE HIM. OK07500480 "WE SHALL GAMBLE FOR THE BOW AND THE ARROWS," COYOTE SPOKE. OK07500490 "WE WILL THROW ARROWS AT A MARK, NOT USING THE BOW. THE WINNER OK07500500 WILL TAKE THE WEAPONS." OK07500510 CHICKADEE HAD NO WISH TO GAMBLE, BUT COYOTE COAXED AND OK07500520 COAXED, AND FINALLY CHICKADEE SAID "ALL RIGHT." CHICKADEE THOUGHT OK07500530 HE WOULD WIN EASILY. BUT COYOTE ASKED HIS SQUAS-TENK' FOR HELP, OK07500540 AND IT MOVED CHICKADEE'S EYE FROM THE MARK WHEN THE BOY THREW OK07500550 AN ARROW. CHICKADEE COULD NOT HIT THE MARK, AND COYOTE HIT IT OK07500560 EVERY TIME, WINNING THE STOUT BOW AND THE POWERFUL ARROWS. THEN OK07500570 THEY GAMBLED SOME MORE, AND CHICKADEE LOST HIS FINE CLOTHES OF OK07500580 FEATHERS, HIS WEASEL SKINS, AND SHELL BEADS, EVEN HIS HAIR OK07500590 ORNAMENTS -- EVERYTHING -- AND HE WAS NAKED. OK07500600 COYOTE DRESSED IN CHICKADEE'S CLOTHES AND WENT HIS WAY. HE OK07500610 TOOK THE BOW AND THE ARROWS. HE WOULD GO TO THE COUNCIL CAMP OF OK07500620 THE ANIMAL PEOPLE AND HELP THEM BUILD A TRAIL TO THE UPPER WORLD OK07500630 LAND, HE SAID TO HIMSELF. HE WAS IN FINE HUMOR. HE THREW HIS OK07500640 HEAD FROM SIDE TO SIDE TO MAKE THE WAMPUM RATTLE ON HIS HAIR OK07500650 BRAIDS. HE LAUGHED AT THE PICTURE OF POOR CHICKADEE, NAKED BY THE OK07500660 TRAIL. OK07500670 PRETTY SOON COYOTE CAME TO A SMALL TEPEE. HE HEARD CHILDREN OK07500680 QUARRELING INSIDE. HE WENT IN. NO ONE WAS TO BE SEEN. BY THE FIRE OK07500690 WERE SOME RED KINNIKINNICK BERRIES. COYOTE STEPPED OUTSIDE THE OK07500700 TEPEE AND THREW A STONE ALONG THE GROUND. IT MADE A NOISE LIKE OK07500710 HIS WALKING ON THE TRAIL. THEN HE PEEKED THROUGH THE DOOR-FLAP, AND OK07500720 HE SAW A SWARM OF LITTLE CHILDREN COME OUT FROM BENEATH A BED OF OK07500730 SKIN ROBES. THE CHILDREN BEGAN TO QUARREL AGAIN, OVER THE BEST WAY OK07500740 TO ROAST THE RED BERRIES. OK07500750 COYOTE STEPPED BACK INTO THE LODGE. THE CHILDREN DOVE FOR OK07500760 THEIR HIDING PLACE. ALL BUT ONE SLIPPED UNDER THE SKIN ROBES. OK07500770 THAT ONE COYOTE CAUGHT. OK07500780 "LET ME SHOW YOU HOW TO ROAST THE BERRIES," COYOTE SAID. "COME OK07500790 OUT. I WILL NOT HURT YOU." OK07500800 THE CHILDREN BELIEVED HIM. THEY CAME OUT. COYOTE TOLD THEM OK07500810 TO BRING ALL OF THE BERRIES TO HIM. HE DUG A HOLE IN THE COALS OK07500820 OF THE FIRE, AND, WHEN THE BOYS AND GIRLS STARTED TO HAND THE OK07500830 BERRIES TO HIM, HE GRABBED THE CHILDREN, TOO. ONLY ONE CHILD GOT OK07500840 AWAY AND HID WHERE COYOTE COULD NOT FIND HIM. COYOTE SHOVED THE OK07500850 OTHERS INTO THE COALS TO ROAST ALONG WITH THE BERRIES. THERE HE OK07500860 LEFT THEM. AS SOON AS COYOTE HAD GONE, THE CHILD THAT HAD ESCAPED OK07500870 HURRIED TO DIG HIS BROTHERS AND SISTERS OUT OF THE COALS, BUT OK07500880 THEY WERE DEAD. OK07500890 THEN MOTHER AND FATHER SE-QUA'-QUELT -- PRAIRIE CHICKEN -- OK07500900 CAME TO THE TEPEE. IT WAS THEIR HOME. THEY BROUGHT BIG PACKS OF OK07500910 BUGS AND BERRIES FOR THEIR CHILDREN. WHEN THEY SAW WHAT HAD OK07500920 HAPPENED THEY SAT DOWN AND CRIED. CHICKADEE WAS COMING DOWN THE OK07500930 TRAIL. HE HEARD THE CRYING. HE WENT INTO THE TEPEE TO SEE IF HE OK07500940 COULD HELP. HE FELT SORRY FOR THE PARENTS. HE CALLED TO HIS OK07500950 MYSTERY-POWER; HE ASKED IT TO HELP HIM. THEN HE SPRINKLED ASHES OK07500960 ON THE BODIES OF THE CHILDREN AND STEPPED OVER THEM THREE TIMES, OK07500970 AND THE LITTLE BOYS AND GIRLS CAME BACK TO LIFE. AND THEY WERE AS OK07500980 WELL AND HAPPY AS IF NOTHING HAD HAPPENED TO THEM. OK07500990 THE PARENTS WANTED TO PAY CHICKADEE. HE TOLD THEM HOW COYOTE OK07501000 HAD TRICKED HIM AND TAKEN HIS FINE WEAPONS AND HIS GOOD CLOTHES. OK07501010 RIGHT AWAY MOTHER AND FATHER PRAIRIE CHICKEN GUESSED WHO HAD OK07501020 KILLED THEIR CHILDREN. THEY FLEW OUT OF THE TEPEE AND FOLLOWED OK07501030 COYOTE'S TRAIL. SOON THEY CAUGHT UP WITH HIM. THEY FLEW ON BY AND OK07501040 TO A HIGH CLIFF ABOVE THE RIVER. THERE THEY HID AND WAITED. OK07501050 SINGING, COYOTE WALKED ALONG. HE FELT GOOD. BUT HE WAS NOT OK07501060 TO FEEL GOOD VERY LONG, FOR, WHEN HE REACHED THE EDGE OF THE CLIFF, OK07501070 FATHER PRAIRIE CHICKEN FLEW AT HIS FACE, AND MOTHER PRAIRIE OK07501080 CHICKEN DARTED BETWEEN HIS LEGS. BLINDED BY THE ONE AND TRIPPED OK07501090 BY THE OTHER, COYOTE LOST HIS BALANCE AND PITCHED OFF THE CLIFF. OK07501100 AS HE FELL, THE PARENTS SWOOPED AFTER HIM AND STRIPPED OFF OK07501110 CHICKADEE'S CHOTHES AND SNATCHED AWAY THE MEDICINE-BOW AND ARROWS, OK07501120 WHICH THEY TOOK TO CHICKADEE, WHO STARTED AGAIN FOR THE COUNCIL. OK07501130 AS HE FELL, SPINNING OVER AND OVER, COYOTE CALLED TO HIS OK07501140 SQUAS-TENK'. "PESS-PESS QU-LUPE]" ("COME, COME OUT]") HE BEGGED. OK07501150 "WHAT SHALL I MAKE MYSELF INTO? A LEAF?" IMMEDIATELY HE BECAME A OK07501160 LEAF, AND THE WIND CARRIED HIM HIGH IN THE AIR AND WHIRLED HIM OK07501170 AROUND AND AROUND UNTIL HE WAS DIZZY. HE DID NOT LIKE THAT, SO OK07501180 HE SAID, "WHAT NOW SHALL I MAKE MYSELF INTO -- A PINE NEEDLE?" OK07501190 HE BECAME A PINE NEEDLE AND BEGAN TO FALL. FASTER AND FASTER OK07501200 HE FELL. HE WAS ALMOST TO THE RIVER WHEN HE GREW FRIGHTENED AND OK07501210 CHANGED INTO COTTONWOOD DUST. UP AGAIN HE WAS TAKEN BY THE WIND, OK07501220 WA-A-A-Y UP] THE WIND PUFFED HIM SO HIGH THAT HE HARDLY COULD OK07501230 BREATHE. HE DID NOT LIKE THAT. ONCE MORE HE WISHED HIMSELF INTO A OK07501240 PINE NEEDLE, AND HE FELL, FASTER AND FASTER, TOWARD THE RIVER. OK07501250 JUST ABOVE THE WATER HE WANTED TO SLOW UP. HE WANTED TO BE A LEAF OK07501260 AGAIN, BUT IN HIS EXCITEMENT HE MADE A MISTAKE. HE WISHED HIMSELF OK07501270 INTO A SPEKS'-HENE-MEN, A POUNDING-ROCK (PESTLE), AND HE PLUNGED -- OK07501280 KER-GLUMP] -- TO THE BOTTOM OF THE RIVER. OK07501290 THERE, ON THE BOTTOM OF THE RIVER, COYOTE WAS HELPLESS. HE OK07501300 COULD NOT MOVE, AND HE COULD NOT CHANGE INTO SOMETHING ELSE. HIS OK07501310 POWER WAS NO GOOD TO HIM UNDER WATER. AFTER AWHILE HE BECAME OK07501320 HUNGRY, AND HE WAS SITTING LIKE A ROCK, WHICH HE WAS, WHEN ALONG OK07501330 CAME ENSHAP'-MEN-ITQU -- WATER-BUG. OK07501340 "TAKE ME TO DRY LAND," COYOTE BEGGED. OK07501350 "I CANNOT DRAG YOU," WATER-BUG ANSWERED. "YOU ARE MUCH TOO OK07501360 HEAVY. I COULD NOT EVEN BUDGE YOU." OK07501370 "GET ALL YOUR RELATIONS," COYOTE URGED. "ALL OF YOU WORKING OK07501380 TOGETHER CAN DRAG ME OUT OF THIS PLACE. I WILL PAY YOU WELL FOR OK07501390 YOUR WORK." OK07501400 SO WATER-BUG GOT ALL OF HIS RELATIVES TO COME AND THEY OK07501410 PULLED AND TUGGED AND PUSHED COYOTE TO DRY LAND, AND THEN HE OK07501420 CHANGED HIMSELF FROM A ROCK TO HIS REGULAR FORM. HIS HEART WAS OK07501430 GLAD, AND HE GAVE ALL OF THE WATER-BUGS HARD COATS OF MANY COLORS, OK07501440 SO THAT THEY COULD HIDE AMONG THE SHARP RIVER ROCKS. FROM THAT SUN OK07501450 THE WATER-BUGS HAVE HAD AN EASIER LIFE IN THEIR ROCK HOUSES. OK07501460 AFTER HE PAID THE WATER-BUGS FOR THEIR WORK, COYOTE STARTED OK07501470 ONCE MORE FOR THE COUNCIL CAMP OF THE ANIMAL PEOPLE. OK07501480 ***OKA-026*** THE ARROW-TRAIL COYOTE WAS THE LAST TO ARRIVE AT THE COUNCIL CAMP OF THE ANIMAL PEOPLE. ALL THE OTHERS WERE THERE. MILKA-NOUPS-EAGLE, THE STRONGEST FLIER, HAD SCOUTED TO THE UPPER WORLD LAND AND TOLD OF WHAT HE HAD SEEN THERE. A FINE COUNTRY, HE SAID, FULL OF WONDERS. EAGLE'S TALK MADE ALL THE PEOPLE EAGER TO GET UP TO THAT COUNTRY HIGH IN THE SKY, WHERE THE BEST OF THE BERRIES WERE THICK ON THE BUSHES AND HUNTING WAS EASY-WITHOUT THE KILLING-AND FOOD OF ALL KINDS WAS PLENTIFUL. THE SMARTEST PERSONS FROM ALL OVER THE WORLD TALKED AND SCHEMED, TRYING TO THINK OF A WAY TO REACH THE LAND IN THE SKY. THEY TALKED AND TALKED FOR MANY SUNS. FINALLY, SOMEONE SUGGESTED THE SHOOTING OF ARROWS TO MAKE A TRAIL THROUGH THE SKY. THAT THOUGHT WAS GOOD, THE COUNCIL AGREED. SO THE WARRIORS AND HUNTERS TRIED TO MAKE AN ARROW TRAIL. THEY SHOT ARROW AFTER ARROW, BUT NONE OF THEIR BOWS WERE STRONG ENOUGH. ALL THE ARROWS DROPPED BACK TO EARTH. ALL TRIED AND FAILED-ALL BUT LITTLE CHICKADEE. BEING SMALL AND MODEST, HE WAITED UNTIL EVERYONE ELSE HAD TRIED. THEN HE STRUNG HIS ELK-RIB SHO#O-MESH BOW. EVERYBODY LOOKED AT HIM IN SURPRISE. THEY COULDN'T BELIEVE HE REALLY INTENDED TO SHOOT. CHICKADEE SAID NOTHING, BUT HE DREW HIS BOW AS FAR AS IT WOULD BEND, AND LOOSED A SHORT STUBBY ARROW, WHICH FLASED UP OUT OF SIGHT AND DID NOT FALL BACK. THEN THE LITTLE BOY SENT A SECOND ARROW AFTER THE FIRST, AND IT DID NOT COME BACK. THEN HE SHOT A THIRD AND A FOURTH AND A FIFTH AND MANY, MANY MORE WITH HIS WONDERFUL MEDICINE- EACH ARROW STUCK INTO THE ONE AHEAD OF IT, AND THE FIRST ARROW STUCK INTO THE UPPER WORLD LAND. THEY MADE A LONG, STRAIGHT LADDER FROM THE EARTH UP TO THE MYSTERIOUS COUNTRY FAR ABOVE. ONE BY ONE, THE PEOPLE CLIMBED UP THE LADDER OF ARROWS. THE LAST TO START WAS KEE-LAU-NAW--GRIZZLY BEAR--WHO HAD BEEN BUSY COLLECTING FOOD TO TAKE ALONG. SHE WAS NOT SATISFIED WITH A LITTLE; SHE WANTED TO TAKE A BIG PACK OF FOOD. SHE HAD GATHERED WILD RHUBARB, SKUNK CABBAGE, AND OTHER PLANTS SHE LIKED TO EAT. ALL THAT FOOD MADE SUCH A BIG PACK THAT SHE HARDLY COULD SWING IT ON HER BACK. BY THE TIME GRIZZLY BEAR BEGAN TO CLIMB, THE OTHERS WERE IN THE UPPER WORLD LAND. THE ARROW-TRAIL CREAKED AND GROANED UNDER THE GREAT WEIGHT OF GRIZZLY BEAR AND THE HEAVY PACK OF FOOD. THE HIGHER SHE CLIMBED, THE MORE THE LADDER CREAKED. THE STRAIN ON IT BECAME TOO MUCH, AND ALL AT ONCE THERE WAS A THUNDER-LIKE CRASH, AND THE TRAIL PULLED LOOSE FROM THE UPPER WORLD LAND. DOWN CAME THE ARROWS, AND DOWN CAME GRIZZLY BEAR. THE FALL DID NOT KILL HER, BUT IT GAVE HER A BAD SHAKING-UP, AND SHE WAS SORE AND LAME FOR A LONG TIME. GRIZZLY BEAR'S ACCIDENT WAS NOT KNOWN TO THE OTHERS. THEY DID NOT KNOW THEIR TRAIL WAS DESTROYED. AFTER THEIR HARD CLIMB, THEY RESTED AND CONGRATULATED THEMSELVES ON REACHING SUCH A WONDERFUL COUNTRY. THEY WERE PLEASED TO SEE SO MUCH FOOD. IT SEEMED TO BE EVERYWHERE. OFF IN THE DISTANCE THEY SAW A BIG CAMP. THEY STARTED TOWARD IT. THEY DID NOT NOTICE A SCOUT THAT WAS WATCHING THEM. THE SCOUT WAS A WISE BIRD. HE FLEW TO THE CAMP AND TOLD THE PEOPLE THAT ENEMIES WERE COMING, AND THE HEADMEN OF THE VILLAGE SHOUTED: "THE LOWER EARTH PEOPLE HAVE COME TO MAKE WAR. LET US GET READY FOR THEM." SO, WHEN THE ANIMAL PEOPLE GOT CLOSE TO THE CAMP THEY SAW THAT THE UPPER WORLD LAND PEOPLE WERE ARMED FOR WAR. THAT MADE THEM AFRAID. THEY DID NOT WANT TO FIGHT IN THAT STRANGE COUNTRY. THEY WANTED PEACE. THEY SENT BEAVER, THEIR WISEST PERSON, TO TALK AND MAKE PEACE. BEAVER TOOK A WATER-TRAIL, WHERE HE WAS MORE AT HOME. THE TRAIL LED CLOSE TO THE CAMP, WHERE BEAVER HEARD A WARRIOR SAY: "WHAT SHALL WE DO WITH STUN'-WHU, THE WISEST OF THE EARTH PEOPLE? HE IS COMING ALONG THE WATER-TRAIL. HE IS NEAR." THAT SCARED BEAVER. HE DID NOT WAIT TO HEAR MORE. HE SWAM BACK AS FAST AS HE COULD. THEN THE PEOPLE SENT EUT-LA-WHO--RAVEN--TO TALK PEACE. HE FLEW LOW OVER THE CAMP, BUT HE DID NOT ALIGHT, FOR HE HEARD SOMEONE SAY: "WHAT SHALL WE DO WITH EUT-LA-WHO--SHINY BACK? HE IS NOT LIKED EVEN BY HIS OWN PEOPLE. WHO WILL PIERCE HIM WITH AN ARROW?" WELL, RAVEN LEFT IN A HURRY. ONE AFTER ANOTHER, THE ANIMAL PEOPLE APPROACHED THE CAMP TO MAKE PEACE, BUT THE OTHER PEOPLE WOULD HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH THEM. AT LAST THE ANIMAL PEOPLE GAVE UP HOPE. THE FOOD THAT HAD APPEARED TO BE SO PLENTIFUL WAS GUARDED BY THEIR ENEMIES, AND, AS THE SUNS PASSED, THEY BECAME THIN FROM HUNGER. THEY BEGAN TO LONG FOR THEIR OLD HOMES ON EARTH. WITH SAD HEARTS THEY TURNED BACK TO THE PLACE WHERE THEY THOUGHT THE ARROW-TRAIL WAS FASTENED. EH-AHE] IT WAS GONE] THE ONLY WAY DOWN TO EARTH WAS TO JUMP, AND IT WAS A LONG, LONG JUMP. IT WAS SO FAR BELOW THAT NONE COULD TELL THE COLOR OF THE WATER OR THE COLOR OF THE LAND. SOME JUMPED FOR WHAT THEY THOUGHT WAS WATER, AND SOME AT WHAT THEY GUESSED WAS LAND. QHU-QUAK--SUCKER--JUMPED AT WHAT LOOKED LIKE A PATCH OF BLUE. IT WAS WATER, BUT SHE MISSED IT] SHE STRUCK ON THE ROCKY BANK OF A RIVER. AND LATER, WHEN HIGH WATER CAME, SUCKER'S BODY WAS WASHED DOWN THE RIVER. THAT RESTORED HER TO LIFE. BUT SHE WAS NOT THE SAME AS BEFORE. THE FALL TO THE ROCKY RIVER BANK BROKE ALL HER BONES--SMASHED THEM INTO SPLINTERS. THAT IS WHY THERE ARE SO MANY LITTLE BONES IN ALL SUCKERS TODAY. IT IS THOSE SPLINTER-LIKE BONES THAT MAKE SUCKERS HARD TO EAT, THAT GIVE THEM THE NAME "CHOKING-FISH." STEN-TEN'-YWA, THE WEB-WINGED--BAT--WAS SO EXCITED WHEN HE JUMPED THAT HE FORGOT TO USE HIS WINGS. HE TRAVELED TO EARTH SO FAST THAT HE WAS FLATTENED RIGHT OUT WHEN HE HIT THE GROUND. HE STILL CAN TRAVEL FAST, BUT HE IS VERY UGLY LOOKING. HE USED TO BE HANDSOME COYOTE GOT DOWN SAFELY. FIRST HE TURNED HIMSELF INTO A PINE NEEDLE, WHICH FELL FAST. THEN HE BECAME A LEAF AND FLOATED GENTLY TO THE GROUND. THEN HE RESUMED HIS OWN FORM. AFTER THAT TIME THE ANIMAL PEOPLE WERE CONTENT TO STAY ON EARTH, WHERE THEY BELONGED. THE BREAKING OF THEIR ARROW-TRAIL WAS THE WILL OF THE SPIRIT CHIEF. HE DID NOT WANT THE ANIMAL PEOPLE BOTHERING THE PEOPLE OF THE UPPER WORLD LAND AGAIN. ***OKA-027*** COYOTE IMITATES BEAR AND KINGFISHER ONE TIME DURING THE MOONS OF SNOW, COYOTE AND MOLE AND THEIR CHILDREN WERE OUT OF FOOD. THEY WERE ALMOST STARVED. THEIR THEIR NEAREST NEIGHBORS, SKENHUIST', THE CLAW-GRABBER--BEAR, AND Z-REEC#E--KINGFISHER--HAD PLENTY TO EAT. BEAR AND KINGFISHER ALWAYS HAD PLENTY. COYOTE KNEW THIS. HE SAID TO HIS WIFE: "PUL'- LAQU-WHU, I AM GOING OVER THE RIDGE AND SEE YOUR BROTHER, SKEM-HUIST'. HE MAY GIVE ME SOMETHING FOR US TO EAT." COYOTE WENT TO BEAR'S LODGE. BEAR AND HIS WIFE HAD NO CHILDREN. COYOTE NOTICED THAT THEY HAD NOTHING IN THEIR LODGE BUT SOME BEDDING AND A KLEK'-CHIN (COOKING-BASKET). THERE WERE NO SIGNS OF FOOD, WHICH MADE COYOTE WONDER. FOR AWHILE HE SAT IN SILENCE. THEN HE YAWNED. BEAR KNEW WHAT THAT MEANT. IT WAS A HUNGER YAWN. BEAR TURNED TO HIS WIFE AND SAID: "PUT THE ROCK IN THE FIRE AND BRING WATER IN THE BASKET. YOUR BROTHER IS HUNGRY." BEAR'S WIFE PLACED A ROCK IN THE FIRE AND WENT AFTER WATER. COYOTE WONDERED WHERE THE FOOD WAS TO COME FROM, AND HE YAWNED AGAIN. BEAR'S WIFE RETURNED WITH THE COOKING-BASKET NEARLY FULL OF WATER. BEAR TOOK HIS FLINT KNIFE AND CUT A PIECE OF BUCKSKIN FROM HIS WIFE'S ROBE. HE PRESSED THE PIECE INTO A LUMP, AND, WHEN THE ROCK IN THE FIRE WAS RED-HOT, HE DROPPED THE ROCK AND THE LUMP OF BUCKSKIN INTO THE COOKING-BASKET. THEN HE RUBBED ASHES ON HIS WIFE'S ROBE, AND THE ROBE BECAME WHOLE AGAIN. IT DID NOT SHOW WHERE IT HAD BEEN CUT. AS SSON AS THE WATER IN THE BASKET BOILED, BEAR EMPTIED A BAG OF PEBBLES INTO IT. COYOTE THOUGHT HE WOULDN'T CARE FOR SUCH FOOD-- BUCKSKIN AND PEBBLES] BUT WHEN THE BASKET WAS PLACED BEFORE HIM, HE TASTED THE FOOD AND QUICKLY CHANGED HIS MIND; FOR THE BUCKSKIN HAD BECOME FINE, TENDER MEAT, AND THE PEBBLES WERE JUICY HUCKLEBERRIES] COYOTE ATE ALL OF THE SOUP AND THE HUCKLEBERRIES AND SOME OF THE MEAT, BUT HE SAVED MOST OF THE MEAT FOR MOLE AND THE CHILDREN. "LET ME CARRY THIS MEAT HOME IN YOUR COOKING-BASKET," HE SAID TO BEAR. "ALL RIGHT," BEAR ANSWERED. "YOU CAN SEND IT BACK BY ONE OF YOUR CHILDREN." BUT COYOTE INSISTED THAT BEAR COME FOR THE BASKET, THAT HE SHOULD COME AND VISIT HIM. BEAR DID NOT WANT TO, BUT COYOTE KEPT INSISTING UNTIL BEAR SAID, "I WILL COME FOR THE BASKET." THE NEXT SUN BEAR WALKED TO COYOTE'S LODGE. SEEING HIM COMING DOWN THE RIDGE, COYOTE HAD MOLE HIDE ALL OF THEIR ROSE-HIPS THAT THEY HAD BEEN EATING FOR LACK OF BETTER FOOD. THE ROSE-HIPS WERE FAMINE FOOD, EATEN ONLY IN TIMES OF STARVING. COYOTE ALSO HAD MOLE CLEAN UP THE TEPEE SO IT WOULD LOOK LIKE BEAR'S LODGE, AND BESIDE THE FIRE HE HAD HER LEAVE ONLY A COOKING-BASKET, TWO STICKS AND A STONE. LOOKING IN, BEAR ASKED FOR HIS BASKET. HE DID NOT INTEND TO GO INSIDE, BUT COYOTE URGED HIM TO ENTER AND SIT DOWN. BEING POLITE, BEAR DID. THEN COYOTE TOLD MOLE TO HEAT THE STONE IN THE FIRE AND GET A BASKET OF WATER. MOLE OBEYED. WHEN THE STONE WAS HOT, COYOTE TOOK OUT HIS FLINT KNIFE AND CUT A LARGE PIECE OF BUCKSKIN FROM MOLE'S ROBE--THE ONLY ROBE SHE OWNED. HE PRESSED THE PIECE INTO A LUMP, AS HE HAD SEEN BEAR DO, AND HE TOLD MOLE TO PUT IT AND THE HOT STONE IN THE COOKING-BASKET. USING THE TWO STICKS AS TONGS, MOLE LIFTED THE STONE FROM THE FIRE AND DROPPED IT IN THE WATER ALONG WITH THE LUMP OF BUCKSKIN. AS BEAR HAD DONE TO HIS WIFE'S ROBE, COYOTE RUBBED ASHES ON MOLE'S SPOILED ROBE, BUT IT DID NOT BECOME WHOLE AGAIN. IT REMAINED AS HE HAD CUT IT. MOLE FELT BAD. THEN COYOTE POURED PEBBLES FROM A BAG INTO THE BOILING WATER. SOON ALL SAT UP TO EAT, BUT ONLY TOUGH BUCKSKIN AND HARD PEBBLES WERE TAKEN FROM THE BASKET. COYOTE SAID NOTHING. HE WAS ASHAMED. AFTER AWHILE BEAR SPOKE. "SIN-KA-LIP'," HE SAID, "THIS IS MY WAY, NOT YOURS. YOU CANNOT DO WHAT I CAN, AND I DO NOT TRY TO IMITATE PEOPLE AS YOU DO." THEN BEAR RUBBED ASHES ON MOLE'S ROBE AND IT WAS A GOOD AS EVER. BEAR PICKED UP HIS OWN COOKING-BASKET AND WENT HOME. PRETTY SOON COYOTE LOOKED INTO HIS COOKING-BASKET. WHAT HE SAW MADE HIM GRUNT WITH SURPRISE. INSTEAD OF BUCKSKIN AND PEBBLES, THERE WAS PLENTY OF GOOD MEAT AND HUCKLEBERRIES. HE LAUGHED. FOR MANY SUNS COYOTE AND MOLE AND THEIR CHILDREN LIVED ON THE MEAT AND THE BERRIES THAT BEAR HAD MADE FOR THEM WITH HIS MAGIC POWER. WHEN ALL OF THAT FOOD WAS EATEN AND THEY WERE HUNGRY ONCE MORE, COYOTE SAID: "PUL'-LAQU-WHO, I AM GOING TO SEE YOUR BROTHER, Z-REEC#E. MAYBE HE WILL GIVE US SOMETHING TO EAT," AND HE WENT TO KINGFISHER'S TEPEE. INVITED IN, HE ENTERED AND SAT DOWN. HE SAW NOTHING TO EAT IN THERE. HE YAWNED. KINGFISHER KNEW WHAT THAT MEANT, AND HE SPOKE TO THE OLDER OF HIS TWO CHILDREN. "MY SON," HE SAID, "GO AND BRING ME THREE WILLOWS." BOY KINGFISHER WENT OUT. HE RETURNED SOON WITH THREE WILLOW STICKS, WHICH KINGFISHER TOOK AND HEATED OVER THE FIRE. WHEN THEY WERE HOT, HE TWISTED THEM TO MAKE THEM STRONG AND TIED THEM TO HIS BELT. THEN HE FLEW TO THE TOP OF THE LODGE AND FROM THERE TO THE RIVER, WHERE HE DOVE THROUGH A HOLE IN THE ICE. HE CAME UP WITH THE WILLOW STICKS STRUNG WITH FISH. THESE WERE FOR HIS NEIGHBOR, COYOTE. KINGFISHER'S WIFE COOKED THE FISH. COYOTE ATE HIS FILL, BUT SOME WERE LEFT FOR HIM TO TAKE TO MOLE AND THE CHILDREN. "MAY I CARRY THESE FISH HOME IN YOUR COOKING-BASKET?" HE ASKED. "YES, TAKE THE BASKET," SAID KINGFISHER. "SEND IT BACK BY ONE OF YOUR CHILDREN." "NO, I WANT YOU TO VISIT ME," COYOTE REPLIED. "YOU COME OVER TOMORROW AND GET THE BASKET." KINGFISHER HAD NO WISH TO VISIT COYOTE, BUT COYOTE COAXED HIM AND AT LAST HE AGREED, AND THE NEXT SUN HE WALKED TO COYOTE'S LODGE. "MY SON," SAID COYOTE TO THE ELDEST OF HIS SONS, AS KINGFISHER SAT DOWN, "GO AND BRING ME THREE WILLOWS." "WHAT DO YOU WANT THEM FOR?" BOY COYOTE ASKED. "HOW WILL YOU USE THEM?" "YOU MUST KNOW WHY I WANT THREE WILLOWS," COYOTE SCOLDED. "YOU ALWAYS HAVE BROUGHT THEM TO ME." BOY COYOTE SAID NOTHING MORE. HE WENT OUT AND GOT THREE WILLOW STICKS, AND HIS FATHER HEATED THEM OVER THE FIRE AND TWISTED THEM, AS HE HAD SEEN KINGFISHER DO. HE TIED THE STICKS TO HIS BELT AND TRIED TO FLY TO THE TOP OF THE LODGE; HE HAD A HARD TIME CLIMBING THERE WITHOUT BREAKING DOWN THE WHOLE TEPEE. FROM THE LODGE-TOP HE JUMPED FOR A HOLE IN THE RIVER ICE. HE MISSED THE HOLE AND SMASHED ON THE ICE AND WAS KILLED. KINGFISHER HAD BEEN WATCHING FROM THE DOORWAY AND SMILING TO HIMSELF. HE WALKED OVER TO WHERE COYOTE LAY. TAKING THE WILLOW STICKS FROM COYOTE'S BELT, HE TIED THEM TO HIS OWN BELT AND DOVE THROUGH THE HOLE IN THE ICE. WHEN HE CAME UP HE HAD THE WILLOW STICKS HEAVY WITH FISH. THESE HE PLACED BESIDE COYOTE AND STEPPED OVER HIM THREE TIMES. THAT BROUGHT COYOTE BACK TO LIFE. THEN KINGFISHER SAID: "THIS IS MY WAY, NOT YOURS, SIN-KA-LIP'. I DO NOT TRY TO IMITATE OTHERS, AS YOU DO." KINGFISHER TOOK HIS BASKET AND WENT HOME, AND COYOTE WENT BACK TO HIS TEPEE. HE CARRIED THE FISH THAT KINGFISHER HAD CAUGHT. HE GAVE THEM TO MOLE TO COOK. "SEE] WE HAVE PLENTY TO EAT NOW," COYOTE LAUGHED. "WE HAVE PLENTY FOR MY IMITATING BEAR AND KINGFISHER. THAT IS WHY I IMITATED THEM]" ***OKA-028*** COYOTE. OK07800010 COYOTE WAS SENT BY CHIEF TO SET THE WORLD IN ORDER. CHIEF SAW OK07800020 THAT THE PEOPLE WERE HAVING A HARD TIME AND WERE PREYED UPON BY OK07800030 MANY EVIL BEINGS. THEY WERE ABOUT TO BE KILLED OFF. CHIEF DID NOT OK07800040 WANT THE PEOPLE TO BE EXTERMINATED, SO HE SENT COYOTE TO HELP THEM. OK07800050 HE ENDOWED HIM WITH GREAT MAGICAL POWER, SO THAT HE COULD SURMOUNT OK07800060 ALL OBSTACLES. HE GAVE HIM POWER TO TRANSFORM EVIL BEINGS, AND HE OK07800070 GAVE HIM WISDOM AND CUNNING. HE ALSO GAVE TO COYOTE'S EXCREMENTS OK07800080 THE POWER TO BE HIS FRIENDS AND ADVISERS. HE TOLD HIM TO TRAVEL OK07800090 ALL OVER THE WORLD AND TO SET IT RIGHT. COYOTE HAD TO TRAVEL MUCH OK07800100 AND TO WORK HARD. CHIEF SAID THAT WHEN COYOTE'S WORK WAS FINISHED, OK07800110 HE WOULD MEET HIM, SEE HIS WORK, AND THEN GIVE HIM A REST. OK07800120 ***OKA-029*** ORIGIN OF THE COLUMBIA RIVER. OK07900010 COYOTE WAS TRAVELLING, AND HEARD WATER DROPPING. HE SAID, OK07900020 "I WILL GO AND BEAT IT." HE SAT DOWN NEAR IT, AND CRIED, "HOX-HOX OK07900030 HOX-HOX]" IN IMITATION OF WATER DRIPPING. HE TRIED FOUR TIMES, OK07900040 BUT THE NOISE NEVER CEASED. HE BECAME ANGRY, AROSE, AND KICKED THE OK07900050 PLACE WHERE THE WATER DROPPED. THE NOISE CEASED. HE THOUGHT HE OK07900060 HAD BEATEN IT, AND LAUGHED, SAYING, "I BEAT YOU. NO MORE SHALL OK07900070 WATER DRIP THUS AND MAKE A NOISE." SHORTLY AFTER HE HAD GONE, THE OK07900080 WATER BEGAN TO DRIP AS BEFORE. HE BECAME ANGRY, AND SAID, "DID I OK07900090 NOT SAY WATER SHALL NOT RUN AND MAKE A NOISE?" THE WATER WAS OK07900100 COMING AFTER HIM, AND INCREASED IN VOLUME AS IT FLOWED. HE KEPT ON OK07900110 RUNNING; BUT STILL HE HEARD THE NOISE OF WATER, AND WAS MUCH OK07900120 ANNOYED. NOW HE TRAVELLED ALONG THE EDGE OF A PLATEAU. THERE WAS OK07900130 NO WATER THERE, NOR TREES. HE LOOKED DOWN INTO THE COULEE, BUT OK07900140 EVERYWHERE IT WAS DRY. IT WAS WARM, AND HE BECAME VERY THIRSTY. OK07900150 HE HEARD THE NOISE OF WATER, BUT SAW NONE. THEN HE LOOKED AGAIN OK07900160 DOWN INTO THE COULEE, AND SAW A SMALL CREEK FLOWING ALONG THE OK07900170 BOTTOM. IT SEEMED A LONG DISTANCE AWAY. HE WENT DOWN AND DRANK OK07900180 HIS FILL. HE ASCENDED AGAIN, BUT HAD BARELY REACHED THE TOP WHEN OK07900190 HE BECAME THIRSTY. HE HEARD MORE NOISE OF WATER, AND, LOOKING OVER OK07900200 THE EDGE, SAW A LARGE CREEK RUNNING. HE WENT DOWN, DRANK HIS FILL, OK07900210 AND ASCENDED AGAIN, BUT HAD NOT REACHED THE TOP WHEN HE WAS THIRSTY, OK07900220 AS BEFORE. HE THOUGHT, "WHERE CAN I DRINK?" THE WATER WAS OK07900230 FOLLOWING HIM. HE WENT TO THE EDGE OF A BENCH AND LOOKED DOWN. A OK07900240 SMALL RIVER WAS NOW RUNNING BELOW. HE DESCENDED AND DRANK. HE OK07900250 WONDERED THAT MUCH WATER WAS RUNNING WHERE THERE HAD BEEN NONE OK07900260 BEFORE. THE MORE HE DRANK, THE SOONER HE BECAME THIRSTY AGAIN. OK07900270 THE FOURTH TIME HE BECAME THIRSTY HE WAS ONLY A LITTLE WAY FROM THE OK07900280 WATER. HE WAS ANGRY, AND TURNED BACK TO DRINK. THE WATER HAD NOW OK07900290 RISEN TO A GOOD-SIZED RIVER, SO THAT HE HAD NOT FAR TO GO. HE OK07900300 SAID, "WHAT MAY BE THE MATTER? I AM ALWAYS THIRSTY NOW. THERE IS OK07900310 NO USE OF MY GOING AWAY. I WILL WALK ALONG THE EDGE OF THE WATER." OK07900320 HE DID SO; BUT AS HE WAS STILL THIRSTY, HE SAID, "I WILL WALK IN OK07900330 THE WATER." THE WATER REACHED UP TO HIS KNEES. THIS DID NOT OK07900340 SATISFY HIM; AND EVERY TIME AFTER DRINKING, HE WALKED DEEPER, FIRST OK07900350 UP TO THE WAIST, THEN UP TO THE ARMS. THEN HE SAID, "I WILL SWIM, OK07900360 SO THAT MY MOUTH WILL BE CLOSE TO THE WATER, AND I CAN DRINK ALL OK07900370 THE TIME." FINALLY HE HAD DRUNK SO MUCH THAT HE LOST OK07900380 CONSCIOUSNESS. THUS THE WATER GOT EVEN WITH COYOTE FOR KICKING IT; OK07900390 AND THUS FROM A FEW DROPS OF WATER ORIGINATED THE COLUMBIA RIVER. OK07900400 ***OKA-030*** COYOTE AND THE WATER OR RAIN. OK08000010 ONCE COYOTE WAS TRAVELLING SOMEWHERE SOUTH OF THE COLUMBIA OK08000020 RIVER. HE WAS GOING DOWN A COULEE IN WHICH THERE WAS NO WATER. OK08000030 THE WEATHER WAS VERY HOT, AND HE FELT VERY HOT AND DRY. HE SAW A OK08000040 LARGE ROCK, AND SAID, "I WILL REST IN ITS SHADE." WHEN HE DID SO, OK08000050 THE ROCK BEGAN TO CRACK AND LEAN OVER, AND COYOTE BECAME AFRAID AND OK08000060 RAN AWAY. AFTER A WHILE HE SAW A TREE, AND THOUGHT HE WOULD REST OK08000070 IN ITS SHADE. HE SAT DOWN UNDER IT; BUT IT BEGAN TO CREAK AND LEAN OK08000080 OVER, SO HE RAN AWAY. HE LOOKED AT THE SKY, BUT SAW NO CLOUDS. HE OK08000090 SAID, "I WISH A CLOUD WOULD COME]" SOON A CLOUD CAME UP AND OK08000100 SHADED HIM. HE SAID, "THAT IS NOT ENOUGH. I WANT MANY CLOUDS." OK08000110 SOON THE SKY BECAME OVERCAST, BUT IT WAS STILL HOT. THEN HE WISHED OK08000120 FOR RAIN. A LITTLE RAIN CAME. HE SAID, "I WANT MUCH RAIN." IT OK08000130 BEGAN TO POUR DOWN. HE SAID, "I WANT A CREEK, SO THAT MY FEET MAY OK08000140 BE COOL." A CREEK RAN, AND HE WALKED IN IT. HE SAID, "THAT IS OK08000150 NOT ENOUGH. I WANT A RIVER, SO THAT I MAY BE COOL AND DRINK OK08000160 EASILY." A RIVER RAN THEN. IT REACHED TO HIS CHIN, AND CARRIED OK08000170 HIM AWAY TO A DISTANT COUNTRY, WHERE HE FLOATED ASHORE QUITE OK08000180 EXHAUSTED, AND LAY ON THE BANK. THE RAVENS, CROWS, MAGPIES, AND OK08000190 BUZZARDS CAME TO FEED ON HIM, THINKING HE WAS DEAD. HE GOT UP AND OK08000200 CHASED THEM AWAY. OK08000210 ***OKA-031*** INTRODUCTION OF SALMON. OK08100010 NOW, THERE WAS A LARGE RIVER, AND COYOTE FLOATED ALONG IN IT. OK08100020 AFTER DRIFTING A LONG TIME, HE REGAINED CONSCIOUSNESS. WHEN HE OK08100030 DISCOVERED HIMSELF IN THE MIDDLE OF A LARGE, SWIFT-RUNNING RIVER, OK08100040 HE BECAME AFRAID, AND CHANGED HIMSELF INTO A SMALL CANOE. NOW, OK08100050 AWAY DOWN BELOW, SOMEWHERE ABOVE THE PLACE WHERE PORTLAND IS NOW, OK08100060 AND WHERE THERE IS A FALL IN THE RIVER, THERE LIVED THE TWO W#ELWEL OK08100070 SISTERS, WHO OWNED A WEIR THAT EXTENDED A CROSS THE STREAM. BELOW OK08100080 THE WEIR THE RIVER WAS FULL OF SALMON; WHILE ABOVE IT, IN THE OK08100090 INTERIOR, THERE WERE NONE. THE INDIANS ABOVE THE WEIR KNEW NOTHING OK08100100 OF SALMON AT THAT TIME. THEY LIVED ON GAME, ROOTS, AND BERRIES. OK08100110 COYOTE, WHO STILL HAD THE FORM OF A CONOE BOTTOM UP, STRUCK THE OK08100120 THE WEIR AND REMAINED THERE. IN THE MORNING THE TWO SISTERS CAME OK08100130 OUT TO CLEAN THE WEIR OF DRIFTWOOD WHICH HAD FLOATED AGAINST IT, OK08100140 FOR THE RIVER WAS VERY HIGH. THEY SAW THE SMALL CANOE BOTTOM UP; OK08100150 AND THE YOUNGER ONE SAID, "WE MUST SAVE IT. IT WILL MAKE A FINE OK08100160 DISH FOR US TO HOLD OUR SALMON IN." THE ELDER SISTER SAID, "DO OK08100170 NOT TOUCH IT. IT HAS BEEN MADE BY SOME ONE. POSSIBLY IT IS OK08100180 COYOTE." THE YOUNGER SISTER TOOK IT HOME AND PUT BOILED SALMON OK08100190 INTO IT. THEN THE SISTERS WENT OUT ROOT-DIGGING; AND WHEN THEY OK08100200 RETURNED, THE SALMON IN THE DISH HAD DISAPPEARED, AND ALSO SOME OF OK08100210 THE FISH THAT THEY HAD BEEN DRYING. THE ELDER SISTER SAID, "I OK08100220 TOLD YOU]" THE YOUNGER SISTER BECAME ANGRY, AND TRIED TO BREAK THE OK08100230 DISH ON A ROCK. AS SHE WAS ABOUT TO DO SO, THE DISH IN HER HANDS OK08100240 ASSUMED THE SHAPE OF A BABY, WHICH BEGAN TO CRY. SHE TOOK PITY ON OK08100250 IT, AND SAID, "OH, HE WILL MAKE A NICE YOUNGER BROTHER FOR US]" OK08100260 COYOTE GREW FAST; AND WHEN THE WOMEN WENT ROOT-DIGGING, THEY OK08100270 TIED HIM UP IN THE HOUSE. WHEN THEY WERE OUT OF SIGHT, HE OK08100280 UNFASTENED HIMSELF, AND ATE THEIR ROOTS AND THEIR DRIED SALMON. ON OK08100290 THEIR RETURN HE TIED HIMSELF UP, AND APPEARED QUIET AND MEEK. THE OK08100300 WOMEN WOULD SAY, "HOW GOOD OUR YOUNGER BROTHER IS]" OK08100310 COYOTE PLANNED TO BREAK THE WOMEN'S WEIR AND TO LET THE SALMON OK08100320 PASS UP THE RIVER. THE FOURTH DAY, WHEN THEY WERE OUT DIGGING OK08100330 ROOTS, THE ROOT-DIGGER OF THE ELDER SISTER BROKE. SHE WAS OK08100340 SURPRISED, AND SAID, "THERE IS SOMETHING WRONG. MY ROOT-DIGGER OK08100350 SHOULD NOT HAVE BROKEN. IT WAS MADE OF VERY STRONG WOOD. LET US OK08100360 GO HOME] SOMETHING HAS HAPPENED. PERHAPS OUR YOUNGER BROTHER HAS OK08100370 FALLEN INTO THE WATER." THEY HASTENED HOME. OK08100380 MEANWHILE COYOTE HAD PUT A SHEEP'S-HORN SPOON ON HIS HEAD AND OK08100390 WAS BREAKING THE WEIR. IT WAS NEARLY BROKEN WHEN THE WOMEN OK08100400 ARRIVED. THE ELDER ONE SAID, "I TOLD YOU SO] WE HAVE BEEN FOOLED OK08100410 BY COYOTE." THEY RUSHED AT HIM, AND BEAT HIM OVER THE HEAD WITH OK08100420 STICKS; BUT HE KEPT ON WORKING FASTER THAN EVER. THE HORN SPOON OK08100430 PROTECTED HIM FROM THEIR BLOWS. WHEN THE WEIR WAS BROKEN, HE RAN OK08100440 UP THE OPPOSITE BANK, AND THE KING-SALMON WERE ASCENDING THE RIVER OK08100450 IN GREAT NUMBERS. THE SISTERS SAT DOWN ON THE BANK AND WEPT. THEY OK08100460 CRIED, "YOU HAVE STOLEN OUR SALMON FOR YOUR COYOTE PEOPLE] YOU OK08100470 PEOPLE OF COYOTES] YOU ARE ALL COYOTE PEOPLE] YOU ARE BAD OK08100480 PEOPLE]" HE ANSWERED, "YOU THOUGHT YOU HAD A LITTLE BOY, A LITTLE OK08100490 BROTHER. YOU THOUGHT HE KNEW NOTHING, BUT HE WAS GREATER THAN OK08100500 YOU]" THEN HE TRANSFORMED THEM INTO BIRDS (SANDPIPERS), SAYING, OK08100510 "HENCEFORTH YOU SHALL BE W#ELWEL BIRDS, AND SHALL RUN BY THE OK08100520 WATER'S EDGE. YOU SHALL NO LONGER HAVE CONTROL OVER SALMON. OK08100530 SALMON SHALL HENCEFORTH RUN UP THE RIVER." THE PLACE WHERE THE OK08100540 WEIR WAS IS NOW A FALL IN THE RIVER. OK08100550 COYOTE WALKED ALONG THE RIVER-BANK, AND THE SALMON FOLLOWED OK08100560 HIM. HE BECAME HUNGRY, AND WANTED TO EAT SALMON. HE SAID, "I OK08100570 WISH THE KING-SALMON TO JUMP ASHORE]" A KING SALMON JUMPED OUT; OK08100580 BUT IT WAS A ROCKY PLACE, AND SMOOTH, AND THE FISH WAS SO SLIMY OK08100590 THAT HE COULD NOT HOLD IT. THUS IT SLIPPED BACK INTO THE WATER. OK08100600 AGAIN HE WISHED; BUT THE SHORE WAS CLAYEY, AND THE SAME HAPPENED. OK08100610 THE FOURTH TIME THE FISH JUMPED ON A SANDY SHORE, AND THERE HE OK08100620 MANAGED TO CATCH IT. OK08100630 HE COOKED THE SALMON, AND, AFTER EATING HIS FILL, WRAPPED THE OK08100640 REST UP AND CARRIED IT ON HIS BACK. AS HE WENT ALONG, HE ASKED A OK08100650 YOUNG GIRL AT EVERY CAMP TO MARRY HIM; BUT THEY ALL REFUSED. THEIR OK08100660 MOTHERS ADVISED THEM TO TAKE HIM, BECAUSE COYOTE HAD PLENTY OF THE OK08100670 NEW, FINE KIND OF FOOD. THEN COYOTE THOUGHT, "THE SIMILKAMEEN OK08100680 GIRLS WILL HAVE ME. THEY ARE RATHER POOR." HE LEFT THE SALMON AT OK08100690 THE MOUTH OF THE SIMILKAMEEN RIVER, AND WENT UP ALONE. HE MET THE OK08100700 PEOPLE ABOVE, AND ASKED ONE OF THEIR DAUGHTERS IN MARRIAGE. ALL OK08100710 THE OLD PEOPLE GATHERED TOGETHER TO CONSIDER HIS PROPOSAL. HE TOLD OK08100720 THEM, "IF I MARRY A GIRL HERE, I SHALL ALWAYS GIVE YOU PLENTY OF OK08100730 SALMON." THEY ASKED THE GIRLS ONE AFTER ANOTHER, BUT ALL REFUSED OK08100740 HIM BECAUSE HE WAS SO UGLY. THE OLD PEOPLE DID NOT LIKE TO OFFEND OK08100750 HIM BY TELLING HIM WHAT THE GIRLS SAID: SO THEY SAID, "YOU KNOW OK08100760 NOW IS. HERE HE FOUND A BARRIER ACROSS THE STREAM, AND BEGAN TO OK08101160 DIG IT AWAY. HE HAD DUG A LARGE HOLE, WHEN HE THOUGHT, "PERHAPS OK08101170 THAT SALMON IS NOT OUR FOOD. THE BACK OF THE HEAD OF THE OK08100770 MOUNTAIN-RAM IS OUR FOOD. WE ARE AFRAID OF STRANGE FOOD." COYOTE OK08100780 SAID, "VERY WELL, YOU SHALL HAVE PLENTY OF THAT, SHEEP SHALL BE OK08100790 NUMEROUS HERE, BUT SALMON YOU SHALL NOT HAVE. YOU WILL HAVE TO OK08100800 TRAVEL LONG DISTANCES TO OBTAIN YOUR SALMON." OK08100810 HE RETURNED, AND MADE SMALL, POOR FISH, SUCH AS SUCKERS, TO RUN OK08100820 UP THE SIMILKAMEEN RIVER. HE SAID, "NO SALMON SHALL RUN UP THIS OK08100830 RIVER." SO HE MADE A BARRIER TO PREVENT THEM FROM PASSING. THEN OK08100840 HE LED THE SALMON UP THE OKANAGON RIVER TO THE FALLS. ABOVE THIS OK08100850 PLACE HE ASKED TO MARRY A MAIDEN, BUT THE PEOPLE DID NOT WANT HIM: OK08100860 SO HE MADE A ROCK BARRIER THERE AT THE FALLS, THAT THE SALMON OK08100870 SHOULD NOT ASCEND TO THE PEOPLE ABOVE. HE RETURNED TO THE MOUTH OF OK08100880 THE OKANAGON RIVER, AND ASCENDED THE COLUMBIA. THE SALMON FOLLOWED OK08100890 WHEREVER HE WENT. HE CAME TO A PLACE CALLED KALI'TCAMEN. HERE ALL OK08100900 THE OLD PEOPLE WANTED TO MARRY THEIR DAUGHTERS TO HIM. HE WAS OK08100910 GLAD, AND MADE A FINE SALMON-FISHING PLACE BY CONTRACTING THE RIVER OK08100920 SO THAT THE ROCKS ALMOST MET IN THE MIDDLE. HE SMOOTHED AND OK08100930 FLATTENED THE TOPS OF THE ROCKS, SO THAT THE CHILDREN COULD PLAY OK08100940 THERE. HE ALSO MADE A SALMON-WEIR. WHEN HE HAD FINISHED, HE OK08100950 LEARNED THAT THE GIRLS WOULD NOT HAVE HIM. THEN HE BECAME ANGRY, OK08100960 AND KICKED THE WEIR, SO THAT IT BROKE AND DRIFTED DOWNSTREAM. THEN OK08100970 HE THOUGHT, "THE GIRL ALONE IS BAD. IT IS NOT THE OLD PEOPLE'S OK08100980 FAULT. THEY WERE GOOD TO ME." SO HE LEFT THE PLACE AS HE HAD MADE OK08100990 IT, AND PEOPLE HAVE ALWAYS BEEN ABLE TO CAPTURE SALMON THERE. OK08101000 THEN HE WENT UP NESPE'LIM CREEK. HERE THE SAME HAPPENED AS OK08101010 BEFORE. THE PEOPLE ACCEPTED HIM, AND THE GIRL REFUSED HIM. HE HAD OK08101020 PITY ON THE OLD PEOPLE, AND SAID, "THEY WERE GOOD TO ME. THERE OK08101030 SHALL ALWAYS BE SOME SALMON HERE." HIS LITTLE DAUGHTER WAS WALKING OK08101040 WITH HIM AT THIS PLACE, AND HE TRANSFORMED HER INTO A STONE. OK08101050 THEN HE WENT TO SPOKE'IN. AT A PLACE CALLED HI'TCOX THE SAME OK08101060 HAPPENED. HE MADE A CANYON, SAYING, "THE GIRL WAS BAD; BUT THE OK08101070 OLD PEOPLE WERE KIND, AND THOUGHT MUCH OF ME. PEOPLE SHALL ALWAYS OK08101080 GET SALMON HERE DURING PART OF THE SUMMER." OK08101090 THEN HE WENT TO SNUXAMI'NA. HERE HE ASKED A SALMON TO JUMP OK08101100 ASHORE. AFTER COOKING IT AND EATING HALF, HE THREW THE REST INTO OK08101110 THE RIVER. IT WAS TRANSFORMED INTO A ROCK WHICH LOOKS LIKE THE OK08101120 SIDE OF A KING-SALMON. THERE ARE OTHER ROCKS THERE WHICH WERE MADE OK08101130 FROM SCRAPS OF THE SALMON. OK08101140 COYOTE WENT ON, AND CAME TO SKI'TCO, WHERE THE TOWN OF SPOKANE OK08101150 NOW IS. HERE HE FOUND A BARRIER ACROSS THE STREAM, AND BEGAN TO OK08101160 DIG IT AWAY. HE HAD DUG A LARGE HOLE, WHEN HE THOUGHT, "PERHAPS OK08101170 THE PEOPLE ABOVE ARE BAD AND WILL NOT GIVE ME A WIFE. WHY SHOULD I OK08101180 FAVOR THEM?" HE WENT THERE AND SAW THE PEOPLE WHO REFUSED HIM. OK08101190 THEN COYOTE LEFT THE HOLE THE WAY IT WAS. IT FORMS NOW SPOKANE OK08101200 FALLS, AND NOT MANY SALMON GO UP THERE. THEREFORE THE OK08101210 COEUR D'ALENE HAVE NO SALMON. OK08101220 HE RETURNED TO A PLACE CALLED TQEMI'P. HE WAS HUNGRY, AND OK08101230 ASKED A SALMON TO JUMP ASHORE. A KING-SALMON DID SO; AND AFTER OK08101240 CATCHING AND COOKING IT, AND EATING HIS FILL, HE THREW THE LEAVINGS OK08101250 INTO THE WATER. THE PIECES OF SALMON BECAME ROCKS, WHICH FORM A OK08101260 CIRCLE AT THIS PLACE, AND MAKE AN EDDY. HE SAID, "HENCEFORTH OK08101270 PEOPLE SHALL FIND KING-SALMON DEAD AT THIS PLACE. SOME SALMON OF OK08101280 THE FIRST RUN WILL ALWAYS DIE HERE." OK08101290 HE LEFT THE SPOKANE RIVER, AND JOURNEYED UP THE COLUMBIA UNTIL OK08101300 HE REACHED COLEVILLE. HERE A STREAM ENTERS THE COLUMBIA, OK08101310 ACROSS WHICH THE PEOPLE HAD A WEIR FOR CATCHING FISH. THE LATTER OK08101320 WERE VERY SMALL. THE PEOPLE EXPECTED COYOTE TO COME, AND HAD OK08101330 ORDERED TWO OF THEIR DAUGHTERS TO MARRY HIM. THEY SAID, "HE HAS OK08101340 MUCH FINE FOOD, WHICH WILL DO US GOOD. WE SHALL GET FINE LARGE OK08101350 FISH IF YOU TAKE HIM." THEY WERE THE WOLVERINE PEOPLE. COYOTE HAD OK08101360 HEARD WHAT THEY THOUGHT, SO HE HURRIED THERE AS SOON AS HE ARRIVED. OK08101370 THE OLD PEOPLE MET HIM, AND SAID, "COME IN AND SIT BETWEEN YOUR OK08101380 WIVES]" THEY MADE ROOM FOR HIM, AND HE SAT DOWN BETWEEN THE GIRLS, OK08101390 WHO THUS ACCEPTED HIM AS THEIR HUSBAND. THE PEOPLE SAID, "WE ARE OK08101400 VERY POOR, AND HAVE NO GOOD FISH TO OFFER YOU." COYOTE EXCUSED OK08101410 HIMSELF, SAYING HE MUST DEFECATE, AND WENT OUTSIDE. HE WENT TO THE OK08101420 SALMON, AND CAUGHT TWO KING-SALMON, WHICH HE PUT INTO WOLVERENE'S OK08101430 FISH-TRAP OR WEIR. THE NEXT MORNING, WHEN WOLVERENE WENT TO LOOK OK08101440 AT THE WEIR HE FOUND THEM, AND WAS VERY GLAD. EACH MORNING MORE OK08101450 KING-SALMON WERE IN WOLVERENE'S WEIR. THE PEOPLE WONDERED. THEY OK08101460 CONSIDERED COYOTE A GREAT MAN, AND THE SALMON FINE FOOD. ALL THE OK08101470 PEOPLE GATHERED THERE TO FISH. THE OTHER PEOPLE SAID TO WOLVERENE, OK08101480 "IF YOU HAD NOT GIVEN YOUR DAUGHTERS TO COYOTE, WE SHOULD HAVE OK08101490 GIVEN HIM OURS." THEY WERE LYING. OK08101500 NEAR THIS PLACE COYOTE MADE A DAM ACROSS THE RIVER, AND THERE OK08101510 HE SHOWED THE PEOPLE THE METHODS OF FISHING WITH DIP-NETS AND OK08101520 SPEARS. OK08101530 ***OKA-032*** COYOTE INTRODUCES SALMON. OK08200010 COYOTE CAME TO SIMILKAMEEN FROM THE THOMPSON COUNTRY. HE HAD OK08200020 ALREADY INTRODUCED SALMON IN THE COLUMBIA, AND MANY OF THESE FISH OK08200030 WERE AT THAT TIME RUNNING UP THE SIMILKAMEEN RIVER. THEY COULD NOT OK08200040 GET TO ITS HEAD WATERS, HOWEVER, AS THE TWO WI'LAWIL SISTERS HAD A OK08200050 WEIR ACROSS THE RIVER AT ZU'TSAMEN (PRINCETON). COYOTE STOPPED OK08200060 WHEN HE CAME TO THE WEIR, AND SAID, "HERE I FIND YOU]" THE OK08200070 SISTERS ANSWERED, "YES, WE ARE SETTLED HERE." HE LOOKED OVER THE OK08200080 WEIR, AND SAID TO THEM, "YOU HAVE PLENTY OF FOOD. I WILL STAY OK08200090 HERE A WHILE." THE ELDER SISTER DISLIKED HIM, WHILE THE YOUNGER OK08200100 ONE LIKED HIM. THE FORMER SAID TO HER SISTER, "HAVE NOTHING TO DO OK08200110 WITH HIM. HE IS COYOTE, AND HE WILL PLAY TRICKS. PERHAPS HE OK08200120 INTENDS TO DESTROY THE WEIR THAT WE HAVE ERECTED WITH SO MUCH OK08200130 LABOR." COYOTE WAS ANGRY BECAUSE THE ELDER SISTER DISLIKED HIM: SO OK08200140 ONE DAY WHEN THEY WERE AWAY DIGGING BITTER-ROOTS ON THE FLATS NEAR OK08200150 BY, HE COVERED HIS HEAD WITH A SPOON OF SHEEP-HORN, AND BROKE THEIR OK08200160 WEIR. THE ELDER SISTER FELT THAT SOMETHING BAD WAS HAPPENING, OK08200170 THEREFORE THE SISTERS HASTENED HOME. WHEN THEY ARRIVED, COYOTE HAD OK08200180 ALMOST BROKEN DOWN THE WEIR. THEY ATTACKED HIM WITH CLUBS, AND OK08200190 BEAT HIM OVER THE HEAD TO KILL HIM OR MAKE HIM STOP; BUT HE OK08200200 CONTINUED TO DEMOLISH THE WEIR, THE PIECES OF WHICH SOON FLOATED OK08200210 DOWNSTREAM. OK08200220 COYOTE WENT OFF UNHURT, AND CONTINUED GOING DOWN ALONG THE BANK OK08200230 OF THE RIVER. HE CARRIED HIS PENIS IN A BASKET. WHEREVER HE SAW OK08200240 WOMEN ON THE OPPOSITE BANK, HE ASKED THEM IF THEY WANTED ANY OK08200250 SOXAL#I'KEN. IF THEY SAID "YES," THEN HE SENT HIS PENIS ACROSS OK08200260 THE RIVER TO ENTER THEM. IF THEY SAID "NO," HE BECAME ANGRY, AND OK08200270 DID NOT GIVE THEM ANY SALMON. WHEN HE REACHED A PLACE NEAR OK08200280 KEREMEOUS, HE SAW TWO MAIDENS BATHING ON THE OPPOSITE SIDE OF THE OK08200290 STREAM. HE SHOUTED TO THEM, "ARE YOU SMELE'QAMUX?" THEY OK08200300 ANSWERED, "YES. WHAT DO YOU CARRY?" HE SAID, "SOXAL#I'KEN. DO OK08200310 YOU WANT SOME?" THEY ANSWERED. "NO, WE DO NOT WANT ANY." HE OK08200320 ASKED, "WHAT DO YOU WANT?" THEY ANSWERED, "KOMA'PSTEN OF THE OK08200330 BIG-HORN." COYOTE WAS ANGRY BECAUSE THEY ANSWERED THUS. THEREFORE OK08200340 HE SHOUTED, "HENCEFORTH YOU SHALL HAVE PLENTY OF SHEEP, BUT NO OK08200350 SALMON. YOU SHALL WEAR OUT YOUR MOCCASINS AND YOUR HORSE'S FEET OK08200360 TRAVELLING TO BUY HUMPBACK-SALMON." THEN HE WENT ON; AND A LITTLE OK08200370 ABOVE THE MOUTH OF THE RIVER HE MADE A ROCK BARRIER ACROSS THE OK08200380 STREAM, WHICH PREVENTS SALMON FROM ASCENDING THE SIMILKAMEEN RIVER. OK08200390 ***OKA-033*** COYOTE AND THE STEELHEAD-SALMON. OK08300010 COYOTE WAS TRAVELLING ALONG THE ICE OF THE RIVER. IT WAS OK08300020 WINTER-TIME. HE SAW THE TWO STEELHEAD SISTERS ON THE ICE. HE OK08300030 SAID, "I WILL GO BACK, MEET THEM, AND FOOL THEM." WHEN THEY MET, OK08300040 THE ELDER SISTER RECOGNIZED HIM, AND SAID, "HALLOO, COYOTE] WHERE OK08300050 ARE YOU GOING? WHAT DO YOU WANT?" HE ANSWERED, "OH, I AM JUST OK08300060 TRAVELLING ALONG ON THE ICE] YES, I WANT SOMETHING. I WISH TO OK08300070 WRESTLE WITH YOU." HE THOUGHT HE WOULD THROW HER AND HAVE OK08300080 INTERCOURSE WITH HER. THEY WRESTLED, AND THE WOMAN THREW HIM UPON OK08300090 THE ICE SO HARD THAT IT KILLED HIM. HE LAY THERE A LONG TIME, AND OK08300100 DRIED UP, UNTIL ONLY HIS BONES AND SKIN REMAINED. FOX HEARD OF HIS OK08300110 DEATH, AND JUMPED OVER HIS BONES. COYOTE CAME TO LIFE, SAT UP, AND OK08300120 YAWNED. HE SAID, "I JUST LAY DOWN HERE AND HAD A NAP." FOX SAID, OK08300130 "YOU WERE DEAD A LONG TIME, AND I HAVE BROUGHT YOU TO LIFE." EVER OK08300140 SINCE THAT TIME THIS PART OF THE RIVER HAS BEEN A GOOD PLACE FOR OK08300150 STEELHEAD-FISH, AND THE INDIANS CATCH NUMBERS THERE IN THE OK08300160 SPRINGTIME. OK08300170 THIS PLACE BECAME ONE OF THE GREAT FISHING-STATIONS ON THE OK08300180 COLUMBIA. MANY PEOPLE CONGREGATED THERE TO FISH SALMON. NOT MANY OK08300190 SALMON GO ABOVE THIS PLACE, FOR COYOTE IS SAID TO HAVE TURNED BACK OK08300200 FROM THERE. MANY OF THE PEOPLE ABOVE WENT THERE TO FISH OR BUY OK08300210 SALMON. COYOTE STAID THERE FOR SOME TIME. OK08300220 ***OKA-034*** COYOTE MARRIES HIS DAUGHTER (OR NIECE). OK08400010 SOON ONE OF COYOTE'S WIVES BORE A DAUGHTER, WHO WAS A PRETTY OK08400020 CHILD, AND WHO GREW VERY RAPIDLY. COYOTE TOOK A FANCY TO HER, AND OK08400030 THOUGHT, "I WILL HAVE HER FOR MY WIFE. I WILL FEIGN SICKNESS." OK08400040 HE PRETENDED TO BE SICK AND DYING. HE CALLED HIS DAUGHTER, AND OK08400050 SAID TO HER, "IF I DIE, JUST LEAVE ME IN THE LODGE HERE. LEAVE IT OK08400060 STANDING, AND LEAVE FOOD AND WATER, AND EVERYTHING JUST AS AT OK08400070 PRESENT, SO THAT I MAY HAVE EVERYTHING WITH ME WHEN I DIE. IF YOU OK08400080 HEAR A NOISE LIKE WATER BUBBLING, YOU MAY KNOW THAT MY GHOST IS OK08400090 HERE AND WILL CHASE YOU. NOW, I AM SURE TO DIE; AND WHEN I DEPART, OK08400100 GO TO MY SISTER MOUSE, AND LIVE WITH HER. HEED YOUR DYING FATHER'S OK08400110 WISH. I HAVE A GOOD FRIEND AMONG THE UPPER KUTENAI. IF HE COMES OK08400120 ALONG AND WISHES TO MARRY YOU, DO NOT REFUSE HIM." OK08400130 HE PRETENDED TO DIE, AND HIS DAUGHTER TOLD THE PEOPLE WHAT HE OK08400140 HAD SAID. THE PEOPLE SAID, "THE WISHES OF THE DEAD SHALL BE OK08400150 RESPECTED. IT WOULD NOT BE RIGHT TO DENY HIS REQUESTS." THEY OK08400160 FILLED THE BASKETS WITH FRESH WATER, FASTENED THE DOOR OF THE OK08400170 LODGE, AND LEFT. SINCE THAT TIME PEOPLE HAVE NEVER REFUSED THE OK08400180 REQUESTS OF THE DYING AS TO WHAT THEY WANTED BURIED WITH THEM. THE OK08400190 PEOPLE MOVED SOME LITTLE DISTANCE AWAY. ONE DAY A FEW CHILDREN OK08400200 PLAYED NEAR COYOTE'S LODGE. WHEN THEY RETURNED, THEY TOLD THEIR OK08400210 PARENTS THAT THEY HAD HEARD THE SOUND OF BOILING FOOD WITHIN THE OK08400220 LODGE. THEIR PARENTS SCOLDED THEM, SAYING, "YOU MUST NOT SAY OK08400230 THAT. IT WAS NOT THE SOUND OF BOILING YOU HEARD, IT WAS OUR OK08400240 FRIEND'S GHOST." WHEN COYOTE SAID THAT THE NOISE OF BOILING WATER OK08400250 WAS PRODUCED BY HIS GHOST, HE INTENDED TO DECEIVE THE PEOPLE. OK08400260 AFTER COYOTE HAD EATEN ALL THE BERRIES, ROOTS, AND OTHER OK08400270 PROVISIONS, HE SET OUT FOR SKALSP#I'LEM (THE KALISPEL COUNTRY). OK08400280 WHEN HE ARRIVED THERE, HE DEFECATED THREE OR FOUR TIMES, AND ASKED OK08400290 HIS EXCREMENTS WHAT THEY WOULD BE. THE FIRST SAID, "I SHALL BE A OK08400300 BARK CANOE." THE NEXT ONE SAID, "I SHALL BECOME A BUFFALO-ROBE, OK08400310 CLOTHES OF EMBROIDERED BUCKSKIN, AND BLUE BLANKETS." THE LAST ONE OK08400320 SAID, "I SHALL BECOME A HEAD OF VERY LONG, FINE HAIR." COYOTE PUT OK08400330 ON THE CLOTHES AND THE HEAD OF HAIR, PUSHED THE CANOE INTO THE OK08400340 WATER, AND EMBARKED. HE PADDLED DOWNSTREAM, AND ARRIVED OPPOSITE OK08400350 MOUSE'S HOUSE. HERE HE MADE A LONG SWEEP WITH HIS PADDLE, AND OK08400360 TURNED HIS CANOE FOR THE SHORE. THIS CAUSED AN EDDY, WHICH IS OK08400370 THERE AT THE PRESENT DAY. THE CHILDREN AT THE HOUSE SAW HIM, AND OK08400380 CRIED, "A STRANGER IS APPROACHING IN A CANOE]" THE PEOPLE RAN OUT OK08400390 TO LOOK. THEY SAID, "HE LOOKS LIKE A KALISPEL." THEY HAILED HIM, OK08400400 AND HE ANSWERED, "MAL KOLENAMAL KOLEN A KOL SKALSI'ULK]" THEY DID OK08400410 NOT UNDERSTAND HIM, AND CALLED OUT MOUSE, WHO KNEW ALL LANGUAGES. OK08400420 SHE SAID, "HE SAYS HE HAS COME FROM THE UPPER KUTENAI TO SEE THE OK08400430 HOUSE IN WHICH HIS FRIEND DIED." THE PEOPLE WHISPERED, "THAT IS OK08400440 HIS FRIEND, THE KUTENAI. THE DEAD ONE SAID HE WOULD COME." THE OK08400450 MAN ASKED IF COYOTE HAD LEFT ANY CHILDREN; AND THEY SAID, "ONE OK08400460 DAUGHTER." HE ASKED TO SEE HER, SO THEY BROUGHT HER OUT. HE ASKED OK08400470 HER IF HER FATHER HAD TOLD HER ANYTHING, AND SHE TOLD HIM WHAT HE OK08400480 HAD SAID. HE THEN TOLD HER THAT HE WAS THE MAN OF WHOM HER FATHER OK08400490 HAD SPOKEN. THE PEOPLE THEN ACCEPTED HIM AS THE GIRL'S HUSBAND. OK08400500 THEY DREW UP THE CANOE, AND CARRIED ALL THE ROBES UP THE STEEP OK08400510 BANK, AND MOUSE DIVIDED THEM AMONG THE PEOPLE. OK08400520 AT NIGHT COYOTE LAY WITH THE GIRL. IN THE MORNING SHE FELT OK08400530 ITCHY AROUND THE GROINS, AND ON EXAMINING HERSELF FOUND SOME OK08400540 COYOTE-HAIR THERE. THAT NIGHT THE PEOPLE DANCED TO CELEBRATE THE OK08400550 OCCASION. THEY DANCED IN A CIRCLE AROUND THE FIRE. OK08400560 PRAIRIE-CHICKEN TALKED WHILE DANCING, AND NEARLY MENTIONED COYOTE'S OK08400570 NAME. AGAIN HE ALMOST PRONOUNCED COYOTE'S NAME, BUT CORRECTED OK08400580 HIMSELF. HE WAS REFERRING TO THE STRANGER WHO HAD MARRIED THEIR OK08400590 DAUGHTER. COYOTE CALLED OUT TO HIM, "BE CAREFUL] AND DO NOT OK08400600 MENTION THE NAME OF THE DEAD." MOST OF THE PEOPLE KNEW NOW THAT HE OK08400610 WAS COYOTE. THEY SAID, "WE SHALL DANCE THREE TIMES AROUND THE OK08400620 FIRE. THE FOURTH TIME, WHEN OPPOSITE THE DOOR, WE SHALL ALL CALL OK08400630 OUT AND RUN." THEY DID SO;AND WHEN OPPOSITE THE DOOR, THEY ALL OK08400640 CALLED OUT, "COYOTE HAS MARRIED HIS OWN DAUGHTER]" THEN THEY RAN OK08400650 OUT AND SCATTERED. COYOTE BECAME ANGRY, AND PURSUED THEM WITH A OK08400660 STICK, SAYING, "I TOLD YOU NOT TO DO THIS. I WILL TEACH YOU A OK08400670 LESSON FOR THIS." HE TRANSFORMED THEM INTO BIRDS. OK08400680 COYOTE'S DAUGHTER WAS ASHAMED. SHE RAN OUT OF THE LODGE AND OK08400690 JUMPED INTO THE MIDDLE OF THE RIVER. SHE WAS TRANSFORMED INTO A OK08400700 ROCK, WHICH RETAINS THE SHAPE THAT SHE HAD WHEN SHE FELL INTO THE OK08400710 WATER. SHE LIES THERE WITH HER LEGS SPREAD OUT, HER FACE TURNED OK08400720 UPSTREAM. COYOTE SAID, "BAD SALMON SHALL SWARM AROUND HER BELLY OK08400730 AND PRIVATES. HENCEFORTH WOMEN, WHEN ASHAMED, WILL COMMIT SUICIDE OK08400740 BY JUMPING INTO THE RIVER." OK08400750 ***OKA-035*** COYOTE AND THE ICE PEOPLE. OK08500010 COYOTE WAS TRAVELLING, AND CAME NEAR TO WHERE THE ICE PEOPLE OK08500020 LIVED. THEY KILLED INDIANS BY MEANS OF COLD WEATHER, COLD WINDS, OK08500030 AND ICE. THEY LOVED THE COLD. MANY PEOPLE HAD BEEN KILLED BY OK08500040 THEM. OK08500050 COYOTE DETERMINED TO KILL THEM, BUT DID NOT KNOW HOW TO DO IT. OK08500060 HE DEFECATED, AND ASKED HIS EXCREMENTS WHAT HE SHOULD DO. THEY OK08500070 TOLD HIM, "THE THREE ICE OR COLD PEOPLE ARE VERY POWERFUL. WHEN OK08500080 YOU REACH THEIR HOUSE, YOU MUST ADDRESS THEM AS RELATIVES. CALL OK08500090 THE MAN BROTHER-IN-LAW. WHEN YOU ADDRESS THEM, CALL THE HUSBAND OK08500100 XWEXWENS-TAKAIN, THE WIFE XWIXWEMKELLKS, AND THE DAUGHTER OK08500110 LE'LUAKEN." OK08500120 THERE WAS MUCH SNOW ON THE GROUND, AND THE WEATHER WAS VERY OK08500130 COLD. COYOTE DEFECATED THREE TIMES. THERE WERE THREE PIECES OF OK08500140 DUNG. HE ASKED THE FIRST ONE WHAT IT WOULD BE. IT ANSWERED, "I OK08500150 SHALL BE FRESH SERVICE-BERRIES. THE ICE PEOPLE GIVE BERRIES TO OK08500160 THEIR DAUGHTER." THE SECOND ONE SAID, "I SHALL BE HEAT OF THE OK08500170 SUN, WHICH WILL SOON MELT THE ICE. WHEN IT BEGINS TO DRIP, SAY OK08500180 YOUR HOUSE IS VERY HOT; THEN OPEN YOUR SHIRT AND BLOW ON YOUR OK08500190 BODY." THE LAST ONE SAID, "I SHALL BE KA'MA." OK08500200 WHEN COYOTE REACHED THE HOUSE OF THESE PEOPLE, HE WAS NEARLY OK08500210 FROZEN. COYOTE WENT IN AND ACTED AS DIRECTED. THE ICE PEOPLE OK08500220 SAID, "THIS MAN MUST BE A RELATIVE. HE KNOWS OUR NAMES AND ALL WE OK08500230 DO. BESIDES, NOBODY EVER CAME IN HERE WITHOUT DYING. HE MUST BE OK08500240 ONE OF THE ICE-PEOPLE." COYOTE SURPRISED THEM BY COMPLAINING OF THE OK08500250 HEAT. BEFORE LONG THE ICE OF THE HOUSE BEGAN TO MELT AND DRIP. OK08500260 COYOTE OPENED HIS SHIRT AND BLEW ON HIS BODY, SAYING, "WHAT A HOT OK08500270 HOUSE YOU HAVE]" THE ICE PEOPLE DANCED AND SANG AND BLEW TO MAKE OK08500280 IT COLDER, BUT THE HOUSE CONTINUED TO MELT. COYOTE SAID, "I OK08500290 CANNOT STAND THE HEAT." HE WENT OUTSIDE AND SET FIRE TO THE DEAD OK08500300 YELLOW PINE-NEEDLES WHICH, ON HIS WAY IN, HE HAD LEFT AT THE DOOR. OK08500310 HE THREW THE BURNING NEEDLES ALL OVER THE OUTSIDE OF THE HOUSE. OK08500320 MEANWHILE THE HEAT OF THE SUN WAS MELTING THE HOUSE FROM WITHIN. OK08500330 SOON IT WAS BURNED. COLD AND HIS WIFE WERE KILLED BY THE HEAT. OK08500340 THEIR DAUGHTER RUSHED OUT AND ESCAPED. HAD COYOTE SUCCEEDED IN OK08500350 CATCHING HER TOO, THERE WOULD HAVE BEEN NO COLD OR ICE IN THE WORLD OK08500360 NOW. COYOTE TRANSFORMED HER, SAYING, "HENCEFORTH YOU SHALL BE OK08500370 KNOWN AS COLD, BUT YOU SHALL NOT BE ABLE TO KILL PEOPLE, EXCEPTING OK08500380 ONCE IN A WHILE AN EXHAUSTED HUNTER." OK08500390 ***OKA-036*** COYOTE AND THE BLACKFEET. OK08600010 COYOTE'S WIFE WAS THE SHORT-TAILED MOUSE. HE SAID TO HER, OK08600020 "WIFE, I HAVE NO RELATIVES TO CRY AND FEEL SORRY, IF I DIE. I AM OK08600030 GOING TO SEE THE PEOPLE ON THE PLAINS, WHO DO MUCH FIGHTING." HE OK08600040 WENT TO THE BLACKFOOT COUNTRY. WHEN HE REACHED THE EASTERN OK08600050 FOOT-HILLS OF THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS, HE SAW FROM THE EDGE OF A HILL OK08600060 GREAT NUMBERS OF PEOPLE WITH HORSES PITCHING TENTS. HE SAID TO HIS OK08600070 WIFE, "I AM ASHAMED TO GO AMONG THESE PEOPLE ALONE." HE DEFECATED OK08600080 THREE TIMES, AND ASKED HIS EXCREMENTS WHAT TO DO. THEY SAID, "YOU OK08600090 ARE BOTHERING US AGAIN." COYOTE SPAT IN THE AIR, AND SAID, "IF OK08600100 YOU DO NOT ANSWER ME QUICKLY, YOU WILL DRY UP AND DIE." HIS OK08600110 EXCREMENTS BECAME AFRAID, AND ANSWERED AT ONCE. THEN HE ASKED THEM OK08600120 WHAT THEY WOULD BE. THE FIRST ONE SAID, "I SHALL BE A BAND OF OK08600130 TWENTY HORSES." THE SECOND SAID, "I SHALL BE FINE CLOTHES." THE OK08600140 LAST SAID, " I SHALL BE A FINE HEAD OF HAIR." COYOTE PUT ON THE OK08600150 FINE CLOTHES AND FINE HAIR, AND HE MOUNTED HIS WIFE ON A LARGE OK08600160 CLEANING HIMSELF OF THE FILTH. THEY LEFT AT THEIR STAKES THE OK08600270 HORSES WHICH HE HAD GIVEN TO THEM, AND THERE THEY BECAME EXCREMENT. OK08600280 PINTO HORSE. THE BLACKFEET SAW HIM COMING, AND SAID, "HERE IS A OK08600170 GREAT CHIEF COMING TO VISIT US." HE GAVE MOST OF HIS HORSES AS OK08600180 PRESENTS TO THE CHIEFS. HE STOPPED THERE THREE DAYS, AND WAS WELL OK08600190 ENTERTAINED. ON THE THIRD DAY HE TOLD HIS WIFE , "BE VERY CAREFUL OK08600200 NOT TO THROW ANY STONES AT OUR HORSES." THAT DAY HIS WIFE BECAME OK08600210 ANGRY. COYOTE HAD TALKED ANGRILY AND NASTILY TO HER. HE WAS OK08600220 MOUNTED AT THE TIME. SHE STRUCK HIS HORSE WITH A STONE, AND OK08600230 IMMEDIATELY IT TURNED INTO EXCREMENT. HE FELL DOWN IN THE MIDST OF OK08600240 IT, AND STUCK THERE UP TO HIS WAIST. NOW THE PEOPLE FOUND HIM OUT. OK08600250 THEY SAID, "IT IS COYOTE." THEY STRUCK CAMP, AND LEFT HIM STILL OK08600260 ***OKA-037*** COYOTE, FOX, AND PANTHER. OK08700010 COYOTE AND FOX WERE LIVING TOGETHER. THEY WERE FRIENDS, AND OK08700020 ALWAYS HAD PLENTY TO EAT. FOX USED TO PROCURE GAME, FOR HE WAS A OK08700030 GOOD HUNTER. ONCE UPON A TIME HE HAD BAD LUCK, AND COULD NOT GET OK08700040 ANY GAME. PERHAPS HE HAD BEEN BEWITCHED. THE FRIENDS BEGAN TO OK08700050 STARVE. FOX SAID TO COYOTE, "YOU ARE POWERFUL AND GIFTED. TRY TO OK08700060 BREAK OUR SPELL OF BAD LUCK, SO THAT WE MAY PROCURE GAME." COYOTE OK08700070 DID NOT ANSWER. FOR THREE DAYS, WHEN HE CAME BACK FROM HUNTING, OK08700080 FOX REPEATED HIS REQUEST. FOX THOUGHT, "COYOTE WILL DO SOMETHING OK08700090 FOOLISH." THE FOURTH NIGHT FOX SPOKE AGAIN. EARLY THE FOLLOWING OK08700100 MORNING COYOTE AROSE, AND WENT TO WASH HIMSELF AT A SPRING NEAR BY. OK08700110 HE RETURNED TO THE LODGE, WENT TO HIS PILLOW, AND DREW FROM UNDER OK08700120 IT HIS COMB AND PAINT-POUCH. HE DID NOT SPEAK, BUT DRESSED HIS OK08700130 HAIR AND PAINTED HIS FACE AFTER THE MANNER OF WOMEN. THEN HE OK08700140 DRESSED HIMSELF AND LEFT THE HOUSE WITHOUT SAYING A WORD. HE OK08700150 TRAVELLED ABOUT AIMLESSLY. AT LAST HE CAME TO THE HOUSES OF MANY OK08700160 PEOPLE, WHOSE CHIEF WAS PANTHER. COYOTE ASKED FOR PANTHER'S HOUSE, OK08700170 AND THE PEOPLE POINTED IT OUT TO HIM. HE WENT IN, AND SAT DOWN OK08700180 ALONGSIDE OF PANTHER. HE SAID, "I DO NOT COME HERE FOR NOTHING, CHIEF.OK08700190 MY FATHER AND MOTHER SENT ME HERE TO MARRY YOU." OK08700191 PANTHER ANSWERED, "I DO NOT DESIRE TO ACT CONTRARY TO THE PLEASURE OK08700200 OF YOUR PARENTS. I WILL NOT DECLINE THEIR OFFER, IF THEY HAVE OK08700210 CHOSEN ME AS THEIR SON-IN-LAW." OK08700220 NIGHT CAME, AND PANTHER ASKED COYOTE TO GO TO BED WITH HIM. OK08700230 WHEN THEY WERE IN BED, COYOTE DREW AWAY FROM HIM, SAYING, "I AM OK08700240 A MAIDEN AND HAVE NEVER KNOWN MAN. I AM AFRAID AND ASHAMED. I AM OK08700250 ALSO THINKING OF MY PARENTS. IF YOU WILL GIVE ME A PACK OF FOOD TO OK08700260 TAKE TO MY PARENTS THREE SUCCESSIVE DAYS, I WILL BE YOURS. BY THAT OK08700270 TIME MY PARENTS WILL BE SUPPLIED WITH FOOD, SO THAT I SHALL NOT OK08700280 HAVE TO WORRY ABOUT THEM, AND I SHALL HAVE BECOME USED TO YOU." OK08700290 PANTHER AGREED TO THIS, AND ON THE FOLLOWING MORNING COYOTE CARRIED OK08700300 A PACK OF FOOD TO HIS STARVING YOUNGER BROTHER. OK08700310 PRAIRIE-CHICKEN, WHO WAS A WISE PERSON, WAS LIVING AMONG THESE OK08700320 PEOPLE. HE SAID TO THE OTHERS, "OUR CHIEF IS A GREAT MAN, BUT HE OK08700330 HAS MADE A GRAVE MISTAKE. HIS WIFE IS NOT A WOMAN, SHE IS COYOTE." OK08700340 THIS WAS THE THIRD DAY, AND COYOTE RETURNED FROM CARRYING HIS THIRD OK08700350 LOAD TO HIS HOME. HE KNEW WHAT PRAIRIE-CHICKEN HAD SAID. NOW, OK08700360 PRAIRIE-CHICKEN AND OTHERS MADE A SWEAT HOUSE, AND INVITED PANTHER OK08700370 TO SWEAT WITH THEM. THEY WERE GOING TO TELL HIM WHO HIS WIFE OK08700380 REALLY WAS, AND THEY INTENDED TO PURIFY HIM. WHEN PANTHER WAS OK08700390 INSIDE, AND THEY WERE ABOUT TO TELL HIM WHO HIS WIFE WAS, COYOTE OK08700400 RAN ABOUT ABOVE THE SWEAT-HOUSE AND HOWLED LIKE A COYOTE. HE OK08700410 SHOUTED, "YOU WILL NEVER HAVE A GOOD WIFE, PANTHER, YOU BAD OK08700420 WARRIOR, YOU BAD MAN OF THE WARPATH]" PANTHER WAS ASHAMED, AND OK08700430 SAID NOTHING. OK08700440 ***OKA-038*** COYOTE AND BUFFALO. OK08800010 COYOTE WAS TRAVELLING ABOUT, AND WENT NORTHWARD FROM THE SALISH OK08800020 TO THE BLACKFOOT COUNTRY. HE FOUND THE SKELETON OF AN OLD OK08800030 BUFFALO-BULL. HE URINATED ON THE SKULL AND PASSED ON. PRESENTLY OK08800040 HE HEARD A NOISE LIKE WIND BEHIND HIM. HE LOOKED BACK, BUT SAW OK08800050 NOTHING. THE NOISE GREW LOUDER, AND HE LOOKED AGAIN. HE SAW A OK08800060 BUFFALO-BULL APPROACHING AT FULL SPEED. IT WAS THE BULL WHOSE OK08800070 SKULL HE HAD INSULTED. COYOTE RAN AWAY, BUT THE BUFFALO GAINED ON OK08800080 HIM. HE SAW A LARGE BOWLDER, AND RAN FOR IT. HE RAN ROUND AND OK08800090 ROUND THE STONE, THE BUFFALO AT HIS HEELS. COYOTE WAS EXHAUSTED, OK08800100 AND SHOUTED, "WHY DO YOU CHASE ME?" THE BUFFALO REPLIED, OK08800110 "BECAUSE YOU URINATED ON MY HEAD WHILE I WAS DEAD." COYOTE SAID, OK08800120 "WHAT KILLED YOU?" BUFFALO ANSWERED, "I BECAME OLD, AND A OK08800130 YOUNGER BULL KILLED ME. MY HORNS WERE DULL." COYOTE SAID, "IF OK08800140 YOU WILL PROMISE NOT TO HURT ME, I WILL SHARPEN YOUR HORNS AFTER I OK08800150 HAVE HAD A REST." BUFFALO STOPPED. COYOTE GATHERED PITCHY ROOTS OK08800160 OF THE YELLOW PINE, WHICH HAVE SHARP POINTS, AND ATTACHED THEM TO OK08800170 THE ENDS OF BUFFALO'S HORNS. THEN HE TOLD HIM TO GO TO AN OLD LOG OK08800180 AND TO TOSS IT. HE SAID, "GO AND TRY THAT OLD LOG; AND IF YOU CAN OK08800190 TOSS IT WITHOUT BREAKING THE POINTS OF YOUR HORNS, THEY ARE STRONG OK08800200 ENOUGH. IF THEY BREAK, I WILL MAKE THEM OVER." BUFFALO DID AS OK08800210 DIRECTED, AND HIS HORNS STOOD THE TEST. HE WAS VERY GLAD, AND OK08800220 SAID TO COYOTE, "I WILL BE YOUR FRIEND. I HAVE BEEN DEAD A LONG OK08800230 TIME. MY SN#AQ/U, WHO TOOK MY WIVES, IS SOMEWHERE AROUND. LET US OK08800240 GO AND FIND HIM] I WILL KILL HIM AND TAKE BACK THE WOMEN, AND OK08800250 WILL GIVE SOME OF THEM TO YOU." COYOTE WAS GLAD, AND AGREED TO GO OK08800260 WITH HIM. ON THE PLAIN THEY FOUND BUFFALO'S ENEMY SURROUNDED BY A OK08800270 BAND OF WOMEN. BUFFALO SAID, "THAT IS HE, AND THESE ARE ALL MY OK08800280 WIVES. HIDE HERE, AND I WILL GO AND FIGHT HIM. IF HE OVERCOMES OK08800290 ME, YOU MUST RUN AWAY, FOR HE WILL KILL YOU IF HE SEES YOU. IF I OK08800300 VANQUISH HIM, THEN COME TO ME." BUFFALO RAN FORWARD, AND ATTACKED OK08800310 THE BULL AND TORE HIM IN TWO. COYOTE WENT TO BUFFALO, WHO SAID, OK08800320 "FRIEND, PICK OUT ONE OF THESE WOMEN, WHICHEVER YOU LIKE." COYOTE OK08800330 REPLIED, "PICK OUT A FAT ONE FOR ME. MY HOME IS FAR AWAY, AND SHE OK08800340 WILL GET THIN WHILE TRAVELLING WITH ME." BUFFALO PICKED OUT A VERY OK08800350 FAT ONE, AND SAID, "THIS ONE WILL BE YOUR WIFE. YOU MUST NOT OK08800360 SLEEP WITH HER FOR THREE NIGHTS. AFTER THAT EVERYTHING WILL BE OK08800370 WELL, AND YOU MAY DO AS YOU WISH." COYOTE STARTED HOMEWARD WITH OK08800380 HIS NEW WIFE. THE SECOND NIGHT HE SAID TO HIMSELF, "THE TIME OK08800390 THAT HE NAMED IS TOO LONG. NO ONE SINCE THE BEGINNING OF THE WORLD OK08800400 HAS HAD A WIFE FOR THREE NIGHTS WITHOUT SLEEPING WITH HER." HE OK08800410 SEIZED HIS WIFE, AND WOULD HAVE HAD CONNECTION WITH HER, BUT SHE OK08800420 BECAME INVISIBLE AND RETURNED TO HER BAND. COYOTE THOUGHT SHE MUST OK08800430 HAVE GONE HOME, SO HE WENT BACK. HE FOUND BUFFALO-BULL, AND SAID OK08800440 TO HIM, "MY WIFE DID NOT LIKE ME; THE SECOND NIGHT SHE RAN AWAY." OK08800450 HE DID NOT TELL BUFFALO THAT HE HAD DISOBEYED HIS ORDERS. BUFFALO OK08800460 WAS ANGRY, AND SAID, "YOUR WIFE IS HERE. YOU DID NOT TREAT HER OK08800470 RIGHT. YOU DID NOT DO WHAT I TOLD YOU. HOWEVER, SINCE YOU ARE MY OK08800480 FRIEND, I WILL GIVE HER BACK TO YOU. NOW, YOU MUST REMEMBER, THREE OK08800490 DAYS." THIS TIME WAS SUFFICIENT TO CROSS THE MOUNTAINS. COYOTE OK08800500 WAS GOING TO THE UPPER KOOTENAI OR PEND D'OREILLE COUNTRY. HE OK08800510 ABSTAINED FOR THREE NIGHTS; THEN HE LAY WITH HIS WIFE, AND WAS OK08800520 GLAD. ON THE SUCCEEDING DAY HE WAS HUNGRY. HE LOOKED AT HIS WIFE, OK08800530 AND THOUGHT HOW FAT SHE WAS. HE SAID TO HIMSELF, "MY WIFE IS ONLY OK08800540 A TROUBLE TO ME. I WILL KILL AND EAT HER." HE SAID TO HER, "GO OK08800550 UP THAT DEFILE. I WILL GO AROUND THE OTHER WAY HUNTING." COYOTE OK08800560 RAN AROUND THE HILL, AND MET HIS WIFE AS SHE CAME UP THE DEFILE. OK08800570 FROM ABOVE HE SHOT HER TWICE, AND KILLED HER. NOW, HE CUT HER UP, OK08800580 AND FOUND THAT SHE WAS VERY FAT. HE SPREAD OUT THE SKIN, AND OK08800590 THOUGHT WHAT A FINE ROBE IT WOULD MAKE. HE FELT LIKE DEFACATING, OK08800600 AND WENT OFF SOME LITTLE DISTANCE. HE TRIED, BUT COULD NOT DO SO. OK08800610 HE TRIED HARD, AND THOUGHT HE WOULD BURST, BUT NOTHING COME. HE OK08800620 FELT OF HIMSELF, AND NOTICED THAT HIS ANUS WAS SWOLLEN. HE WAS OK08800630 SEIZED WITH VIOLENT PAINS, AND COULD NOT STAND UP. THEN MAGPIE OK08800640 CAME, AND ALIGHTED ON THE CARCASS OF THE BUFFALO-COW. COYOTE OK08800650 CALLED MAGPIE BAD NAMES, BUT HE PAID NO ATTENTION. THEN EAGLE, OK08800660 BUZZARD, AND RAVEN CAME, AND ALL THE OTHER BIRDS THAT EAT MEAT. OK08800670 WOLF CAME, AND ALL THE ANIMALS THAT EAT MEAT, AND THEY ATE THE OK08800680 BUFFALO-COW. COYOTE COULD NOT DEFEND HIMSELF. HE ONLY CALLED THEM OK08800690 NASTY NAMES. THE BIRDS AND ANIMALS PICKED THE BONES CLEAN, AND OK08800700 SCATTERED THEM. THEN WOLVERENE CAME, STUCK HIS HEAD INTO THE OK08800710 PELVIC BONES, AND RAN AWAY WITH THEM. NOW, COYOTE DEFECATED DUNG OK08800720 ABOUT ONE-THIRD THE LENGTH OF A FINGER. HE WAS ANGRY AT HIS OK08800730 EXCREMENT, PUT IT ON A ROCK, AND BEAT IT FLAT WITH A STICK. HE OK08800740 SAID, "YOU HAVE DONE THIS. YOU HAVE MADE ME LOSE ALL THE FINE OK08800750 MEAT." HE LOOKED FOR THE SKIN SCRAPS, BUT NOT A BIT WAS LEFT. HE OK08800760 LOOKED FOR BONES, BUT NONE WERE THERE. HE FOLLOWED THE ANIMALS' OK08800770 TRACKS, AND FOUND SOME BONES. THEN HE MADE A FIRE, AND COOKED AND OK08800780 BROKE THE BONES. HE HAD FOUND HIS WIFE'S BLADDER, AND PUT THE OK08800790 MARROW INTO IT. THERE WAS JUST ENOUGH TO FILL IT. HE TIED IT UP, OK08800800 AND SET IT ASIDE TO COOL OFF. HE LAY DOWN, AND SAID, "I WILL OK08800810 WATCH IT; AND WHEN IT HAS COOLED OFF, I WILL EAT IT." THREE OR OK08800820 FOUR TIMES HE GOT UP AND LOOKED AT IT, BUT IT HAD NOT COOLED OFF OK08800830 YET. HE SAID, "I WILL PUT IT INTO WATER." HE TOOK IT TO A SMALL OK08800840 LAKE, AND PUT IT INTO THE WATER, BUT IT WOULD NOT STIFFEN. HE SAW OK08800850 A MUSKRAT SWIMMING ABOUT. HE SAID TO IT, "TAKE HOLD OF THE MOUTH OK08800860 OF THIS BLADDER, AND SWIM WITH IT TO DEEP WATER, SO THAT IT COOLS, OK08800870 AND THE FAT SETS." HE PUT HIS FOOT DOWN SUDDENLY, AND SCARED OK08800880 MUSKRAT, WHO DUCKED HIS HEAD UNDER WATER. HE THOUGHT THIS WAS OK08800890 GREAT FUN, AND SAID, "WHEN HE COMES BACK, I WILL HAVE SOME MORE OK08800900 FUN." WHEN MUSKRAT RETURNED, HE STAMPED HIS FOOT AGAIN. MUSKRAT OK08800910 DUCKED HIS HEAD SUDDENLY, AND TORE THE BLADDER. ALL THE MARROW OK08800920 RAN OUT. COYOTE RAN INTO THE WATER TO CATCH THE MARROW WITH HIS OK08800930 HANDS AND EAT IT, BUT HE CAUGHT ONLY WATER. HE BECAME ANGRY, TOOK OK08800940 A STICK, AND JUMPED INTO THE WATER TO PUNISH MUSKRAT; BUT THE OK08800950 LATTER RAN INTO HIS HOUSE, AND COYOTE WOULD NOT CATCH HIM. THE OK08800960 FOOLISH COYOTE HAD LOST BOTH HIS WIFE AND HIS MEAT. HAD HE BEEN OK08800970 WISE, AND CARRIED HIS WIFE HOME, THERE WOULD NOW BE BUFFALOES ALL OK08800980 OVER THE OKANAGON COUNTRY, AND PROBABLY THROUGHOUT THE THOMPSON AND OK08800990 SHUSWAP COUNTRIES AS WELL. OK08801000 BUFFALOES DO NOT GO FARTHER WEST THAN THE PLACE WHERE COYOTE OK08801010 KILLED HIS WIFE. WHEN THE WESTERN INDIANS WANTED BUFFALO, THEY HAD OK08801020 TO GO EAST AND HUNT THEM. OTHERWISE THEY HAD TO BUY ROBES. OK08801030 BUFFALOES WERE PLENTIFUL IN THE SALISH COUNTRY, BUT HARDLY EVER OK08801040 WENT AS FAR WEST AS THE COUNTRY OF THE COEUR D'ALENE AND KALISPEL. OK08801050 SINCE THE MARROW WAS SPILLED ON THE WATER, SOME LAKES HAVE ON THEIR OK08801060 SURFACE OIL, OR SOMETHING THAT APPEARS LIKE OIL. OK08801070 ***OKA-039*** COYOTE AND OLD-ONE. OK08900010 THIS IS THE SAME STORY AS THE ONE RELATED BY THE THOMPSON OK08900020 INDIANS: OLD-ONE AND COYOTE MEET EACH OTHER, AND HAVE A CONTEST OK08900030 TRYING TO MOVE A MOUNTAIN. OK08900040 ***OKA-040*** COYOTE AND GRIZZLY-BEAR. OK09000010 COYOTE LIVED WITH HIS CHILDREN. HIS ELDEST SON SAID, OK09000020 "FATHER, I AM GOING TO SEE THE DAUGHTER OF GRIZZLY-BEAR." HE MADE OK09000030 ARROWS AND STARTED. WHEN HE ARRIVED, THE BEAR SAID, "HAVE YOU OK09000040 ARRIVED, SON-IN-LAW?" HE TOLD HIS DAUGHTER TO GO TO DIG ROOTS. OK09000050 HIS DAUGHTER LEFT, AND WENT TO A HILL. THEN THE BEAR WENT OUT AND OK09000060 STEPPED ON THE ARROW-POINTS OF THE SON-IN-LAW. HE SAID, "COME, OK09000070 SON-IN-LAW, SHOOT FOR ME THAT BEAR, THAT I MAY EAT IT]" COYOTE'S OK09000080 SON STARTED; AND THE BEAR SAID TO HIM, "STAND BELOW THE BEAR AND OK09000090 SHOOT IT." COYOTE'S SON WENT AND SHOT AT THE BEAR, WHICH PURSUED OK09000100 HIM AND KILLED HIM. COYOTE'S SECOND SON FOUND OUT WHAT HAD OK09000110 HAPPENED. HE SAID, "I AM GOING TO MAKE ARROWS." AFTER HE HAD OK09000120 DONE SO, HE WENT TO MARRY THE GRIZZLY-BEAR'S DAUGHTER, AND HE WAS OK09000130 KILLED IN THE SAME WAY AS HIS ELDER BROTHER. FINALLY THE YOUNGEST OK09000140 SON WENT. HE MADE TWO ARROWS WITH STONE POINTS. HE SAID, OK09000150 "FATHER, I SHALL GO TO FIND OUT WHAT HAPPENED TO MY BROTHERS." HE OK09000160 STARTED. WHEN HE ARRIVED, THE BEAR SAID, "HAVE YOU ARRIVED, OK09000170 SON-IN-LAW?" THEN THE BEAR SAID TO HIS DAUGHTER, "GO AND DIG OK09000180 ROOTS." THE BEAR'S DAUGHTER WENT TO A HILL. THEN THE BEAR WENT OK09000190 OUT AND STEPPED ON THE WEAPONS OF HIS SON-IN-LAW. HE SAID, "COME, OK09000200 SON-IN-LAW, SHOOT THAT BEAR FOR ME, THAT I MAY EAT IT]" THE BOY OK09000210 WENT OUT, TOOK HIS ARROWS, AND SAT DOWN IN HIS CANOE. HE CROSSED OK09000220 THE RIVER, AND TOOK HIS TWO ARROWS. THE BEAR SAID, "STAND BELOW OK09000230 THE BEAR AND SHOOT IT." THE BOY CLIMBED THE HILL AND STOOD ABOVE OK09000240 THE BEAR. HE WENT DOWN TOWARDS THE BEAR AND SHOT IT. HE SHOT IT OK09000250 AGAIN, AND THE BEAR ROLLED DOWN. HE RAN AFTER IT AND CUT OFF ITS OK09000260 HEAD. THEN HE SAT DOWN IN HIS CANOE AND WENT DOWN THE RIVER TO HIS OK09000270 FATHER'S TENT. HE THREW THE HEAD INTO THE TENT. WHEN THE BEAR CAM OK09000280 FATHER'S TENT. HE THREW THE HEAD INTO THE TENT. WHEN THE BEAR OK09000280 CAME, HE HEARD THE PEOPLE LAUGHING. THE BEAR ENTERED, AND SAW A OK09000290 STONE ON THE FLOOR. HE WAS GOING TO BITE IT, BUT SAID, "NO, MY OK09000300 TEETH WILL BREAK." THEN HE WENT OUT AGAIN. AFTER HE HAD GONE SOME OK09000310 DISTANCE, HE HEARD THE PEOPLE LAUGHING IN THE TENT. HE TURNED BACK OK09000320 AND SAW DUNG ON THE FLOOR. HE WAS GOING TO BITE IT, BUT SAID, "NO OK09000330 IT IS VERY BAD." THEN THE BEAR WENT OUT. HE WENT SOME DISTANCE, OK09000340 AND HEARD PEOPLE LAUGHING. HE TURNED BACK AND ENTERED. THERE WAS OK09000350 A LITTLE BUSH WHICH SCRATCHED HIM. THEN COYOTE JUMPED OUT LAUGHING OK09000360 AND RAN AWAY. THE BEAR PURSUED HIM. COYOTE TRANSFORMED HIMSELF OK09000370 INTO A BUSH. THE BEAR WENT ON, AND SAW THE BUSH. AFTER HE HAD OK09000380 GONE SOME DISTANCE, COYOTE LAUGHED AT HIM. COYOTE RAN AWAY AGAIN, OK09000390 AND THE BEAR PURSUED HIM. HE TRANSFORMED HIMSELF INTO A STICK. OK09000400 THE BEAR SAW IT, AND SAID, "THIS IS A NICE STICK. I WILL USE IT OK09000410 AS A WALKING-STICK." THEN THE BEAR SAID, "NO, IT IS TOO HEAVY. I OK09000420 WILL LEAVE IT." AND HE DROPPED IT. THE BEAR WENT ON SOME DISTANCE OK09000430 AND COYOTE BEGAN TO LAUGH, AND RAN AWAY. THE BEAR PURSUED HIM. OK09000440 COYOTE WALKED OVER A LOG THAT LAY ACROSS A RIVER. HE PAID THE OK09000450 WOODWORM, AND SAID, "MAKE A HOLE IN THE MIDDLE OF THIS LOG THAT OK09000460 LIES ACROSS THE RIVER." WHEN GRIZZLY-BEAR ARRIVED, HE SAID, OK09000470 "WHICH WAY DID YOU GO?" COYOTE REPLIED, "I CAME OVER THIS LOG." OK09000480 GRIZZLY-BEAR SAID, "IS IT STRONG?" - "YES, IT IS VERY STRONG. OK09000490 COME]" THE BEAR JUMPED ON THE LOG AND WAS WALKING ALONG. WHEN HE OK09000500 REACHED THE MIDDLE OF THE STREAM, THE LOG BROKE IN THE MIDDLE, AND OK09000510 HE FELL INTO THE WATER. THEN COYOTE WENT ON. OK09000520 ***OKA-041*** OLD-ONE. OK09100010 OLD-ONE, OR CHIEF, MADE THE EARTH OUT OF A WOMAN, AND SAID SHE OK09100020 WOULD BE THE MOTHER OF ALL THE PEOPLE. THUS THE EARTH WAS ONCE A OK09100030 HUMAN BEING, AND SHE IS ALIVE YET; BUT SHE HAS BEEN TRANSFORMED, OK09100040 AND WE CANNOT SEE HER IN THE SAME WAY WE CAN SEE A PERSON. OK09100050 NEVERTHELESS SHE HAS LEGS, ARMS, HEAD, HEART, FLESH, BONES, AND OK09100060 BLOOD. THE SOIL IS HER FLESH; THE TREES AND VEGETATION ARE HER OK09100070 HAIR; THE ROCKS, HER BONES; AND THE WIND HER BREATH. SHE LIES OK09100080 SPREAD OUT, AND WE LIVE ON HER. SHE SHIVERS AND CONTRACTS WHEN OK09100090 COLD, AND EXPANDS AND PERSPIRES WHEN HOT. WHEN SHE MOVES, WE HAVE OK09100100 AN EARTHQUAKE. OLD-ONE, AFTER TRANSFORMING HER, TOOK SOME OF HER OK09100110 FLESH AND ROLLED IT INTO BALLS, AS PEOPLE DO WITH MUD OR CLAY. OK09100120 THESE HE TRANSFORMED INTO THE BEINGS OF THE ANCIENT WORLD, WHO WERE OK09100130 PEOPLE, AND YET AT THE SAME TIME ANIMALS. OK09100140 THESE BEINGS HAD SOME OF THE CHARACTERISTICS THAT ANIMALS HAVE OK09100150 NOW, AND IN SOME RESPECTS ACTED LIKE ANIMALS. IN FORM, SOME WERE OK09100160 LIKE ANIMALS, WHILE OTHERS MORE NEARLY RESEMBLED PEOPLE. SOME OK09100170 COULD FLY LIKE BIRDS, AND OTHERS COULD SWIM LIKE FISHES. ALL HAD OK09100180 GREATER POWERS, AND WERE MORE CUNNING, THAN EITHER ANIMALS OR OK09100190 PEOPLE. THEY WERE NOT WELL BALANCED. EACH HAD GREAT POWERS IN OK09100200 CERTAIN WAYS, BUT WAS WEAK AND HELPLESS IN OTHER WAYS. THUS EACH OK09100210 WAS EXCEEDINGLY WISE IN SOME THINGS, AND EXCEEDINGLY FOOLISH IN OK09100220 OTHERS. THEY ALL HAD THE GIFT OF SPEECH. AS A RULE, THEY WERE OK09100230 SELFISH, AND THERE WAS MUCH TROUBLE AMONG THEM. SOME WERE OK09100240 CANNIBALS, AND LIVED BY EATING ONE ANOTHER. SOME DID THIS OK09100250 KNOWINGLY, WHILE OTHERS DID IT THROUGH IGNORANCE. THEY KNEW THAT OK09100260 THEY HAD TO LIVE BY HUNTING, BUT DID NOT KNOW WHICH BEINGS WERE OK09100270 PEOPLE, AND WHICH DEER. THEY THOUGHT PEOPLE WERE DEER, AND PREYED OK09100280 ON THEM. OK09100290 SOME PEOPLE LIVED ON THE EARTH AT THE SAME TIME. THEY HAD ALL OK09100300 THE CHARACTERISTICS THAT INDIANS HAVE NOW, BUT THEY WERE MORE OK09100310 IGNORANT. DEER ALSO WERE ON THE EARTH AT THAT TIME, AND WERE REAL OK09100320 ANIMALS AS NOW. PEOPLE HUNTED THEM. THEY WERE NEVER PEOPLE OR OK09100330 SEMI-HUMAN ANCIENTS, LIKE THE ANCESTORS OF MOST ANIMALS. SOME OK09100340 PEOPLE SAY THAT MOOSE AND CARIBOU WERE ALSO ANIMALS, LIKE THE DEER, OK09100350 AND THAT ELK, ANTELOPE, AND BUFFALO WERE ALSO ANIMALS, ALTHOUGH OK09100360 STORIES ARE TOLD OF THE LAST THREE AS THOUGH THEY WERE ANCIENTS OR OK09100370 SEMI-HUMAN. OK09100380 OLD-ONE MADE EACH BALL OF MUD A LITTLE DIFFERENT FROM THE OK09100390 OTHERS, AND ROLLED THEM OVER AND OVER. HE SHAPED THEM, AND MADE OK09100400 THEM ALIVE. THE LAST BALLS OF MUD HE MADE WERE ALMOST ALL ALIKE, OK09100410 AND DIFFERENT FROM ANY OF THE PRECEEDING ONES. THEY WERE FORMED OK09100420 LIKE INDIANS, AND HE CALLED THEM MEN. HE BLEW ON THEM, AND THEY OK09100440 BECAME ALIVE. THEY WERE INDIANS, BUT WERE IGNORANT, AND KNEW NO OK09100450 ARTS. THEY WERE THE MOST HELPLESS OF ALL THINGS CREATED; AND THE OK09100460 CANNIBALS AND OTHERS PREYED ON THEM PARTICULARLY. THE PEOPLE AND OK09100470 ANIMALS WERE MADE MALE AND FEMALE, SO THAT THEY MIGHT BREED. THUS OK09100480 EVERYTHING LIVING SPRANG FROM THE EARTH; AND WHEN WE LOOK AROUND, OK09100490 WE SEE EVERYWHERE PARTS OF OUR MOTHER. OK09100500 (HERE MY INFORMANT NARRATED THE STORY OF THE GARDEN OF EDEN OK09100510 AND THE FALL OF MAN NEARLY IN THE SAME WAY AS GIVEN IN THE BIBLE. OK09100520 THEN HE FOLLOWED BY SAYING THE PEOPLE WERE MUCH OPPRESSED AND OK09100530 PREYED ON; AND SO MUCH EVIL PREVAILED IN THE WORLD, THAT THE CHIEF OK09100540 SENT HIS SON JESUS TO SET THINGS RIGHT. AFTER TRAVELLING THROUGH OK09100550 THE WORLD AS A TRANSFORMER, JESUS WAS KILLED BY THE BAD PEOPLE, OK09100560 WHO CRUCIFIED HIM, AND HE RETURNED TO THE SKY. AFTER HE HAD OK09100570 RETURNED, THE CHIEF LOOKED OVER THE WORLD, AND SAW THAT THINGS HAD OK09100580 NOT CHANGED MUCH FOR THE BETTER. JESUS HAD ONLY SET RIGHT A VERY OK09100590 FEW THINGS. HE HAD DONE MORE TALKING THAN ANYTHING ELSE. HERE THE OK09100600 NARRATOR TRIED TO EXPLAIN THAT JESUS WORKED ONLY FOR THE PEOPLE'S OK09100610 SPIRITUAL BENEFIT; THAT HE HAD TRIED TO INDUCE THEM TO BE GOOD, AND OK09100620 TAUGHT THEM TO PRAY TO THE CHIEF. HE TAUGHT THEM NO ARTS, NOR OK09100630 WISDOM ABOUT HOW TO DO THINGS, NOR DID HE HELP TO MAKE LIFE EASIER OK09100640 FOR THEM. NEITHER DID HE TRANSFORM OR DESTROY THE EVIL MONSTERS OK09100650 WHICH KILLED THEM, NOR DID HE CHANGE OR ARRANGE THE FEATURES OF THE OK09100660 EARTH IN ANY WAY.) OK09100670 NOW, THE CHIEF SAID, "IF MATTERS ARE NOT IMPROVED ON EARTH OK09100680 SOON, THERE WILL BE NO PEOPLE." THEN HE SENT COYOTE TO EARTH TO OK09100690 DESTROY ALL THE MONSTERS AND EVIL BEINGS, TO MAKE LIFE EASIER AND OK09100700 BETTER FOR THE PEOPLE AND TO TEACH THEM THE BEST WAY TO DO THINGS. OK09100710 (THE NARRATOR HERE STATED THAT INDIANS DIFFERED IN SOME OF OK09100720 THEIR VIEWS REGARDING COYOTE AND HIS WORK. SOME THINK COYOTE OK09100730 BELONGED TO THE EARTH, LIKE OTHER PEOPLE. HE WAS AN INDIAN, BUT OF OK09100740 GREATER KNOWLEDGE AND POWER THAN THE OTHERS. SOME THINK HE WAS ONE OK09100750 OF THE SEMI-HUMAN ANCIENTS. OTHERS THINK THAT HE DID NOT BELONG TO OK09100760 THIS WORLD, BUT TO SOME OTHER SPHERE, SUCH AS THE SKY OR OK09100770 SPIRIT-LAND. STILL OTHERS THINK HE WAS A KIND OF DEITY OR CHIEF, OK09100780 HELPER OF THE CHIEF, BEFORE HE CAME TO EARTH. IN THE OPINION OF OK09100790 SOME INDIANS, COYOTE ACTED WITH A PURPOSE, AND KNEW THAT HE HAD OK09100800 BEEN SENT TO FULFIL A MISSION. OTHERS THINK HE DID NOT KNOW, BUT OK09100810 THAT HIS ACTIONS WERE PROMPTED BY SOME OTHER POWER, AND THAT HE DID OK09100820 NOT TRANSFORM THE MONSTERS OR PERFORM OTHER ACTS FOR THE PURPOSE OF OK09100830 BENEFITING MANKIND. ALL AGREE THAT HE WAS SELECTED FOR THE MISSION OK09100840 HE PERFORMED; BUT WHETHER HE WAS LIVING IN THE SKY WHEN SELECTED, OK09100850 OR ON THE EARTH, OR ELSEWHERE, IS NOT CERTAIN.) OK09100860 COYOTE THEN TRAVELLED ON THE EARTH, AND DID MANY WONDERFUL OK09100870 THINGS. HE DESTROYED THE POWERS OF ALL THE MONSTERS AND EVIL OK09100880 BEINGS THAT PREYED ON THE PEOPLE. HE TRANSFORMED THE GOOD ANCIENTS OK09100890 INTO INDIANS, AND DIVIDED THEM INTO GROUPS OR PAIRS, AND SETTLED OK09100900 THEM IN DIFFERENT PLACES; FOR THE CHIEF DESIRED THE EARTH TO BE OK09100910 INHABITED EVERYWHERE, AND NOT ONLY IN A FEW PLACES. HE GAVE EACH OK09100920 PEOPLE A DIFFERENT NAME AND A DIFFERENT LANGUAGE. THESE PAIRS WERE OK09100930 THE ANCESTORS OF ALL THE PRESENT INDIAN TRIBES; AND THAT IS WHY OK09100940 THERE ARE SO MANY INDIAN TRIBES AND LANGUAGES NOW, AND WHY INDIANS OK09100950 LIVE ALL OVER THE COUNTRY. HE TAUGHT THE PEOPLE HOW TO EAT, HOW OK09100960 TO WEAR CLOTHES, MAKE HOUSES, HUNT, FISH, ETC. COYOTE DID A GREAT OK09100970 DEAL OF GOOD, BUT HE DID NOT FINISH EVERYTHING PROPERLY. SOMETIMES OK09100980 HE MADE MISTAKES; AND ALTHOUGH HE WAS WISE AND POWERFUL, HE DID OK09100990 MANY FOOLISH THINGS. HE WAS TOO FOND OF PLAYING TRICKS FOR HIS OWN OK09101000 AMUSEMENT. HE WAS ALSO OFTEN SELFISH, BOASTFUL, AND VAIN. HE OK09101010 SOMETIMES OVERREACHED HIMSELF, AND OCCASIONALLY WAS DUPED BY OK09101020 PERSONS WHOM HE INTENDED TO DUPE. HE WAS UGLY, AND WOMEN GENERALLY OK09101030 DID NOT LIKE HIM. HE OFTEN USED CUNNING TO GAIN HIS ENDS. HE WAS OK09101040 IMMORTAL, AND DID NOT DIE AS WE DIE. OK09101050 COYOTE HAD DONE EVERYTHING HE COULD THINK OF, AND WAS OK09101060 TRAVELLING FROM PLACE TO PLACE TO LEARN OF OTHER THINGS THAT OK09101070 REMAINED TO BE DONE. CHIEF LOOKED OVER THE EARTH, AND SAID, OK09101080 "COYOTE HAS NOW DONE ALMOST EVERYTHING THAT HE IS CAPABLE OF DOING. OK09101090 I WILL RELIEVE HIM." CHIEF CAME DOWN, AND TRAVELLED IN THE SHAPE OK09101100 OF A POOR OLD MAN. HE MET COYOTE, WHO SAID TO HIM, "I AM COYOTE. OK09101110 WHO ARE YOU?" CHIEF ANSWERED, "I AM CHIEF OF THE EARTH. IT WAS I OK09101120 WHO SENT YOU TO SET THE WORLD RIGHT." COYOTE SAID, "NO, YOU NEVER OK09101130 SENT ME. I DON'T KNOW YOU. IF YOU ARE CHIEF, TAKE THAT LAKE AND OK09101140 PLACE IT YONDER." CHIEF SAID, "NO. IF YOU ARE THE WONDERFUL OK09101150 COYOTE, LET ME SEE YOU DO IT]" COYOTE DID IT. CHIEF SAID, "PLACE OK09101160 IT BACK AGAIN." COYOTE TRIED, BUT COULD NOT DO IT. HE THOUGHT OK09101170 THIS STRANGE. CHIEF PLACED IT BACK. COYOTE SAID, "NOW I KNOW YOU OK09101180 ARE CHIEF." CHIEF SAID, "YOUR WORK IS FINISHED. YOU HAVE OK09101190 TRAVELLED FAR AND LONG, AND DONE MUCH GOOD. NOW, YOU SHALL GO TO OK09101200 WHERE I HAVE PREPARED A HOME FOR YOU." COYOTE DISAPPEARED, AND NO OK09101210 ONE KNOWS WHERE HE IS. OK09101220 THE CHIEF PREPARED TO LEAVE ALSO. HE SAID, " I WILL SEND OK09101230 MESSAGES TO EARTH BY THE SOULS OF PEOPLE THAT REACH ME, BUT WHOSE OK09101240 TIME TO DIE HAS NOT COME. THEY WILL CARRY MESSAGES TO YOU FROM OK09101250 TIME TO TIME; AND WHEN THEIR SOULS RETURN TO THEIR BODIES, THEY OK09101260 WILL REVIVE, AND TELL YOU THEIR EXPERIENCES. COYOTE AND MYSELF OK09101270 WILL NOT BE SEEN AGAIN UNTIL THE EARTH-WOMAN IS VERY OLD. THEN WE OK09101280 SHALL RETURN TO EARTH, FOR IT WILL REQUIRE A NEW CHANGE BY THAT OK09101290 TIME. COYOTE WILL PRECEDE ME BY SOME LITTLE TIME; AND WHEN YOU SEE OK09101300 HIM, YOU WILL KNOW THAT THE TIME IS AT HAND. WHEN I RETURN, ALL OK09101310 THE SPIRITS OF THE DEAD WILL ACCOMPANY ME, AND AFTER THAT THERE OK09101320 WILL BE NO SPIRIT-LAND. ALL THE PEOPLE WILL LIVE TOGETHER. THEN OK09101330 WILL THE EARTH-WOMAN REVERT TO HER NATURAL SHAPE, AND LIVE AS A OK09101340 MOTHER AMONG HER CHILDREN. THEN WILL THINGS BE MADE RIGHT, AND OK09101350 THERE WILL BE MUCH HAPPINESS." OK09101360 THE EARTH-WOMAN IS NOW VERY OLD, AND EVEN HER BONES (THE OK09101370 ROCKS) ARE CRUMBLING AWAY. THEREFORE THE TIME CANNOT BE FAR AWAY OK09101390 WHEN THE EARTH WILL BE TRANSFORMED AGAIN, AND WHEN THE SPIRITS OF OK09101400 THE DEAD WILL COME BACK. THE CHIEF HAS SENT MESSAGES FROM TIME TO OK09101410 TIME. THE INDIANS HAVE LEARNED FROM THESE THAT TO BE GOOD, SPEAK OK09101420 GOOD, PRAY, AND DANCE WILL HASTEN THE RETURN OF COYOTE, AND OK09101430 THEREFORE THE INDIANS IN MANY PLACES OFTEN DANCED; AND WHEN OK09101440 DANCING, THEY PRAYED MUCH. NOWADAYS THEY PRAY DIFFERENTLY, OK09101450 ACCORDING AS THE PRIESTS HAVE TAUGHT THEM; AND THEY BUILD CHURCHES, OK09101460 AND KNEEL, PRAYING IN THEM. THEY DO NOT NOW DANCE AS THEY USED TO OK09101470 DO. THE PRIESTS SAY THE DANCING IS UNNECESSARY, AND PRAYERS MUST OK09101480 BE AS THE CHIEF'S SON JESUS TAUGHT THE WHITES. MOST INDIANS AGREE OK09101490 WITH THIS, AND THINK IT IS THE SAME THING. SOME THINK THAT THE OK09101500 WHITES MAY KNOW BETTER ABOUT THIS, BECAUSE IT SEEMS THAT THEY HAVE OK09101510 BEEN TAUGHT MORE BY THE CHIEF, AND MAY BE SURPERIOR TO THE INDIANS OK09101520 IN THIS RESPECT. THE CHIEF MUST HAVE SENT MANY WISE MESSAGES TO OK09101530 THEM. OK09101540 ***OKA-042*** OK092 THE CREATION. (FROM SIMILKAMEEN.) OK09200010 THE CHIEF ABOVE MADE THE EARTH. IT WAS SMALL AT FIRST, AND HE OK09200020 LET IT INCREASE IN SIZE. HE CONTINUED TO ENLARGE IT, AND ROLLED IT OK09200030 OUT UNTIL IT WAS VERY LARGE. THEN HE COVERED IT WITH A WHITE DUST, OK09200040 WHICH BECAME THE SOIL. HE MADE THREE WORLDS, ONE ABOVE ANOTHER,-- OK09200050 THE SKY WORLD, THE EARTH WE LIVE ON, AND THE UNDERWORLD. ALL ARE OK09200060 CONNECTED BY A POLE OR TREE WHICH PASSES THROUGH THE MIDDLE OF OK09200070 EACH. THEN HE CREATED THE ANIMALS. AT LAST HE MADE A MAN, WHO, OK09200080 HOWEVER, WAS ALSO A WOLF. FROM THIS MAN'S TAIL HE MADE A WOMAN. OK09200090 THESE WERE THE FIRST PEOPLE. THEY WERE CALLED "TAI'EN" BY THE OLD OK09200100 PEOPLE, WHO KNEW THE STORY WELL, AND THEY WERE THE ANCESTORS OF ALL OK09200110 THE INDIANS. OK09200120 ***OKA-043*** OK093 ORIGIN OF THE EARTH AND PEOPLE. (FROM OKANAGON OK09300010 OK093 LAKE.) OK09300020 THE CHIEF (OR GOD) MADE SEVEN WORLDS, OF WHICH THE EARTH IS OK09300030 THE CENTRAL ONE. THERE ARE THREE WORLDS ABOVE, AND THREE BELOW. OK09300040 MAYBE THE FIRST PRIESTS OR WHITE PEOPLE TOLD US THIS, BUT SOME OF OK09300050 US BELIEVE IT NOW. WHEN THE CHIEF MADE THE EARTH, HE STRETCHED IT OK09300060 OUT WITH ITS HEAD TO THE WEST, THEREFORE THE WEST IS THE HEAD OF OK09300070 THE EARTH. HEAVEN, OR THE PLACE OF THE DEAD, IS IN THAT DIRECTION, OK09300080 AND THE GREAT RIVERS ALL FLOW WESTWARD. WEST IS THE DIRECTION THE OK09300090 SOULS TAKE. SOME SAY THEY FOLLOW THE COURSE THE WATERS TAKE. OK09300100 PERHAPS IN THE BEGINNING THE EARTH WAS A WOMAN. SOME INDIANS SAY OK09300110 SO, AND STATE THAT THE CHIEF STRETCHED HER BODY ACROSS THE WORLD OK09300120 (PROBABLY THE WATER), AND THEAT SHE LAY WITH HER FEET EAST AND HER OK09300130 HEAD WEST. HE TRANSFORMED HER INTO THE EARTH WE LIVE ON, AND HE OK09300140 MADE THE FIRST INDIANS OUT OF HER FLESH (WHICH IS THE SOIL). THUS OK09300150 THE FIRST INDIANS WERE MADE BY HIM FROM BALLS OF RED EARTH OR MUD, OK09300160 AND THIS IS WHY WE ARE REDDISH-COLORED. OTHER RACES WERE MADE FROM OK09300170 SOIL OF DIFFERENT COLORS. AFTERWARDS SOME OF THESE DIFFERENT RACES OK09300180 MET AT CERTAIN POINTS AND INTERMINGLED, AND THUS THE INTERMEDIATE OK09300190 SHADES OF COLOR HAVE ARISEN. AS RED EARTH IS MORE NEARLY RELATED OK09300200 TO GOLD AND COPPER THAN OTHER KINDS OF EARTH, THEREFORE THE INDIANS OK09300210 ARE NEARER TO GOLD, AND FINER THAN OTHER RACES. OK09300220 ***OKA-044*** OK094 WAR WITH THE SKY PEOPLE. OK09400010 ONCE UPON A TIME THE PEOPLE WANTED TO MAKE WAR ON THE SKY OK09400020 PEOPLE. GRIZZLY-BEAR, WHO WAS CHIEF, CALLED ALL THE PEOPLE OK09400030 TOGETHER TO SHOOT ARROWS AT THE SKY. EACH ANIMAL AND BIRD SHOT, OK09400040 BUT ALL THE ARROWS FELL SHORT. THE FISH, SNAKES, AND TOADS ALSO OK09400050 TRIED. AT LAST ONLY CHICKADEE (OR WREN?) WAS LEFT, AND NO ONE OK09400060 EXPECTED THAT HE COULD HIT THE SKY. COYOTE SAID HE DID NOT NEED TO OK09400070 TRY, WHEN HE HIMSELF HAD FAILED. HOWEVER, CHICKADEE'S ARROW HIT OK09400080 THE SKY. THE OTHERS ALL SHOT IN TURN AGAIN, AND CHICKADEE SHOT AN OK09400090 ARROW WHICH STUCK IN THE NOCK OF THE FIRST ONE. THEY KEPT ON OK09400100 SHOOTING UNTIL A CHAIN OF ARROWS HAD BEEN MADE WHICH REACHED THE OK09400110 GROUND. ON THIS THEY CLIMBED TO THE SKY. GRIZZLY-BEAR AND BLACK- OK09400120 BEAR ONLY REMAINED. THEY QUARRELLED AS TO WHO SHOULD CLIMB NEXT. OK09400130 BLACK-BEAR SAID GRIZZLY WAS TOO HEAVY AND WOULD BREAK THE LADDER. OK09400140 THEY CHASED EACH OTHER AROUND THE LADDER, AND FINALLY KNOCKED IT OK09400150 DOWN. MEANWHILE THE PEOPLE WHO HAD REACHED THE SKY HAD ATTACKED OK09400160 THE PEOPLE THERE, AND HAD BEEN DEFEATED. THEY FLED; AND WHEN THE OK09400170 FIRST ONES REACHED THE HOLE IN THE SKY, THEY DESCENDED ONE AFTER OK09400180 ANOTHER. WHEN THEY REACHED HALF WAY DOWN, THEY FOUND THE LOWER OK09400190 PART GONE, AND HESITATED TO DROP SO FAR. MEANWHILE THE PEOPLE OK09400200 CROWDED SO THICKLY ON THE LADDER ABOVE, THAT THEIR WEIGHT BROKE IT, OK09400210 AND THEY ALL FELL DOWN. THOSE LEFT ABOVE THREW THEMSELVES DOWN, OK09400220 AND KILLED OR HURT THEMSELVES, WHILE THE REMAINDER WERE KILLED BY OK09400230 THE SKY PEOPLE. THE FISH, WHO HAD NO WINGS, FARED WORST. SUCKER OK09400240 BROKE ALL HIS BONES. OK09400250 ***OKA-045*** DIRTY-BOY THE PEOPLE OF A CERTAIN REGION WERE LIVING TOGETHER IN A VERY LARGE CAMP. THEIR CHIEF HAD TWO BEAUTIFUL DAUGHTERS OF MARRIAGEABLE AGE. MANY YOUNG MEN HAD PROPOSED TO THEM, BUT ALL HAD BEEN REFUSED. THE CHIEF SAID, "WHOM DO MY DAUGHTERS WISH TO MARRY? THEY HAVE REFUSED ALL THE MEN." SUN AND STAR, WHO WERE BROTHER AND SISTER, LIVED IN THE SKY, AND HAD SEEN ALL THAT HAD HAPPENED. SUN SAID TO HIS SISTER, "THE CHIEF'S DAUGHTERS HAVE REJECTED THE SUITS OF ALL OUR FRIENDS. LET US GO DOWN AND ARRANGE THIS MATTER] LET US TRY THESE GIRLS]" THEY MADE CLOTHES, AND AT NIGHT THEY DESCENDED TO EARTH. DURING THE DARKNESS THEY ERECTED A LODGE ON THE OUTSKIRTS OF THE CAMP. IT HAD THE APPEARANCE OF BEING VERY OLD, AND OF BELONGING TO POOR PEOPLE. THE POLES WERE OLD AND BADLY SELECTED. THE COVERING WAS TATTERED AND PATCHED, AND MADE OF TULE MATS. THE FLOOR WAS STREWN WITH OLD DRIED BRUSH AND GRASS, AND THE BEDS WERE OF THE SAME MATERIAL. THEIR BLANKETS CONSISTED OF OLD MATS AND PIECES OF OLD ROBES; AND THEIR KETTLES AND CUPS WERE OF BARK, POORLY MADE. STAR HAD ASSUMED THE FORM OF A DECREPIT OLD WOMAN DRESSED IN RAGS; AND SUN, THAT OF A DIRTY BOY WITH SORE EYES. ON THE FOLLOWING MORNING THE WOMEN OF THE CAMP SAW THE LODGE, AND PEERED IN. WHEN THEY RETURNED, THEY REPORTED, "SOME VERY POOR PEOPLE ARRIVED DURING THE NIGHT, AND ARE CAMPED IN AN OLD MAT LODGE. WE SAW TWO PERSONS INSIDE, -- A DIRTY, SORE-EYED BOY; AND HIS GRANDMOTHER, A VERY OLD WOMAN IN RAGGED CLOTHES." NOW, THE CHIEF RESOLVED TO FIND HUSBANDS FOR HIS DAUGHTERS. HE SENT OUT HIS SPEAKER TO ANNOUNCE THAT IN FOUR DAYS THERE WOULD BE A SHOOTING-CONTEST OPEN TO ALL THE MEN, AND THE BEST MARKSMAN WOULD GET HIS DAUGHTERS FOR WIVES. THE YOUNG MEN COULD NOT SLEEP FOR EAGERNESS. ON THE THIRD DAY THE CHIEF'S SPEAKER ANNOUNCED, "TOMORROW MORNING EVERY ONE SHALL SHOOT. EACH ONE WILL HAVE TWO SHOTS. AN EAGLE WILL PERCH ON THE TALL TREE YONDER; AND WHOEVER KILLS IT SHALL HAVE THE CHIEF'S DAUGHTERS." COYOTE WAS THERE AND FELT HAPPY. HE THOUGHT HE WOULD WIN THE PRIZE. ON THE FOLLOWING MORNING AN EAGLE WAS SEEN SOARING IN THE AIR, AND THERE WAS MUCH EXCITEMENT AS IT BEGAN TO DESCEND. IT ALIGHTED ON A TREE WHICH GREW NEAR ONE END OF THE CAMP. THEN THE YOUNG MEN TRIED TO SHOOT IT. EACH MAN HAD TWO ARROWS. THE PREVIOUS EVENING SUN HAD SAID TO STAR, "GRANDMOTHER, MAKE A BOW AND ARROWS FOR ME." SHE SAID, "WHAT IS THE USE? YOU CANNOT SHOOT. YOU NEVER USED BOW, AND ARROWS." HE REPLIED, "I AM GOING TO TRY. I SHALL TAKE PART IN THE CONTEST TO-MORROW. I HEARD WHAT THE CHIEF SAID." SHE TOOK PITY ON HIM, AND WENT TO A RED WILLOW-BUSH, CUT A BRANCH FOR A BOW, AND SOME TWIGS FOR ARROWS. SHE STRUNG THE BOW WITH A POOR STRING, AND DID NOT FEATHER THE ARROWS. COYOTE, WHO WAS AFRAID SOME ONE ELSE MIGHT HIT THE BIRD, SHOUTED, "I WILL SHOOT FIRST. WATCH ME HIT THE EAGLE." HIS ARROW STRUCK THE LOWEST BRANCH OF THE TREE AND FELL DOWN, AND THE PEOPLE LAUGHED. HE SAID, "I MADE A MISTAKE. THAT WAS A BAD ARROW. THIS ONE WILL KILL THE EAGLE." HE SHOT, AND THE ARROW FELL SHORT OF THE FIRST ONE. HE BECAME ANGRY, AND PULLED OTHER ARROWS FROM HIS QUIVER. HE WANTED TO SHOOT THEM ALL. THE PEOPLE SEIZED HIM, AND TOOK AWAY HIS ARROWS, SAYING, "YOU ARE ALLOWED TO SHOOT TWICE ONLY." ALL THE PEOPLE SHOT AND MISSED. WHEN THE LAST ONE HAD SHOT, SUN SAID, "GRANDMOTHER, LIFT THE DOOR OF THE LODGE A LITTLE, SO THAT I CAN SHOOT." SHE SAID, "FIRST GET OUT OF BED." SHE PULLED THE LODGE MAT ASIDE A LITTLE, AND HE SHOT. THE ARROW HIT THE TAIL OF THE EAGLE. THE PEOPLE SAW AND HEARD THE ARROW COMING FROM DIRTY-BOY'S LODGE, BUT SAW NO ONE SHOOTING IT. THEY WONDERED. HE SHOT THE SECOND ARROW, WHICH PIERCED THE EAGLE'S HEART. NOW, WOLF AND OTHERS WERE STANDING NEAR DIRTY-BOY'S LODGE, AND WOLF DESIRED MUCH TO CLAIM THE PRIZE. HE SHOUTED, "I SHOT THE BIRD FROM THE LODGE-DOOR]" AND RAN TO PICK IT UP; BUT THE OLD WOMAN STAR RAN FASTER THAN HE, PICKED UP THE BIRD, AND CARRIED IT TO THE CHIEF. SHE CLAIMED HIS DAUGHTERS FOR HER GRANDSON. ALL THE PEOPLE GATHERED AROUND, AND MADE FUN OF DIRTY-BOY. THEY SAID, "HE IS BEDRIDDEN. HE DEFECATES AND URINATES IN HIS BED. HE IS LOUSY, SORE-EYED, AND SCABBY-FACED." THE CHIEF WAS LOATH TO GIVE HIS DAUGHTERS TO SUCH A PERSON. HE KNEW THAT DIRTY-BOY COULD NOT WALK. THEREFORE HE SAID, "TO-MORROW THERE SHALL BE ANOTHER CONTEST. THIS WILL BE THE LAST ONE, I CANNOT BREAK MY WORD. WHOEVER WINS THIS TIME SHALL HAVE MY DAUGHTERS." HE ANNOUNCED THAT ON THE MORROW EACH MAN SHOULD SET TWO TRAPS FOR FISHERS, AN ANIMAL VERY SCARCE AT THE PLACE WHERE THE CAMP WAS LOCATED. IF ANY ONE SHOULD CATCH A FISHER ONE NIGHT, THEN HE WAS TO STAY IN THE MOUNTAINS ANOTHER DAY TO CATCH A SECOND ONE. AFTER THAT HE HAD TO COME BACK. THOSE WHO CAUGHT NOTHING THE FIRST NIGHT HAD TO COME HOME AT ONCE. ONLY TWO TRAPS WERE ALLOWED TO EACH MAN; AND TWO FISHERS HAD TO BE CAUGHT,-- ONE A LIGHT ONE, AND ONE A DARK ONE, --AND BOTH PRIME SKINS. WHEN ALL THE MEN HAD GONE TO THE MOUNTAINS, SUN SAID TO HIS SISTER, "GRANDMOTHER, MAKE TWO TRAPS FOR ME." SHE ANSWERED, "FIRST GET OUT OF BED]" HOWEVER, SHE HAD PITY ON HIM, AND MADE TWO DEAD-FALLS OF WILLOW STICKS. SHE ASKED HIM WHERE SHE SHOULD SET THEM; AND HE SAID, "ONE ON EACH SIDE OF THE LODGE-DOOR." ON THE FOLLOWING MORNING ALL THE MEN RETURNED BY NOON, NOT ONE OF THEM HAD CAUGHT A FISHER. WHEN STAR WENT OUT, SHE FOUND TWO FINE FISHERS IN THE TRAPS. NOW THE CHIEF ASSEMBLED THE MEN TO SEE IF ANY ONE HAD CAUGHT THE FISHERS. HE WAS GLAD, BECAUSE HE KNEW THAT DIRTY-BOY COULD NOT WALK; AND UNLESS HE WENT TO THE MOUNTAINS, HE HAD NO CHANCE TO KILL FISHERS. JUST THEN THE OLD GRANDMOTHER APPEARED, DRAGGING THE FISHERS. SHE SAID, "I HEAR YOU ASKED FOR TWO FISHERS; HERE ARE TWO THAT MY GRANDSON CAUGHT." SHE HANDED THEM OVER TO HIM, AND THEN LEFT. COYOTE HAD BOASTED THAT HE WOULD CERTAINLY CATCH THE FISHERS. WHEN HE WENT UP THE MOUNTAIN, HE CARRIED TEN TRAPS INSTEAD OF TWO. HE SAID," "WHOEVER HEARD OF SETTING ONLY TWO TRAPS? I SHALL SET TEN." HE SET THEM ALL, REMAINED OUT TWO NIGHTS, BUT GOT NOTHING. HE WAS VERY ANGRY, AND CALLED DIRTY-BOY "DEFECATE-IN-BED" AND "URINATE-IN-BED." THE CHIEF SAID TO HIS DAUGHTERS, "YOU MUST BECOME THE WIVES OF DIRTY-BOY. I TRIED TO SAVE YOU BY HAVING TWO CONTESTS; BUT SINCE I AM A GREAT CHIEF, I CANNOT BREAK MY WORD. GO NOW, AND TAKE UP YOUR ABODE WITH YOUR HUSBAND." THEY PUT ON THEIR BEST CLOTHES AND WENT. ON THE WAY THEY HAD TO PASS RAVEN'S HOUSE, AND HEARD THE RAVENS LAUGHING INSIDE, BECAUSE THE GIRLS HAD TO MARRY DIRTY-BOY. THE ELDER SISTER SAID, "LET US GO IN AND SEE WHAT THEY ARE LAUGHING ABOUT]" THE YOUNGER ONE SAID, "NO, OUR FATHER TOLD US TO GO STRAIGHT TO OUR HUSBAND." THE ELDER ONE WENT IN AND SAT DOWN BESIDE RAVEN'S ELDEST SON. SHE BECAME HIS WIFE. LIKE ALL THE OTHER RAVENS, HE WAS UGLY, AND HAD A BIG HEAD; BUT SHE THOUGHT IT BETTER TO MARRY HIM THAN TO BECOME THE WIFE OF A DIRTY, SICKLY BOY. THE YOUNGER ONE WENT ON, ENTERED DIRTY-BOY'S LODGE, AND SAT DOWN BY HIS SIDE. THE OLD WOMAN ASKED HER WHO SHE WAS, AND WHY SHE HAD COME. WHEN THE OLD WOMAN HAD BEEN TOLD, SHE SAID, "YOUR HUSBAND IS SICK, AND SOON HE WILL DIE. HE STINKS TOO MUCH. YOU MUST NOT SLEEP WITH HIM. GO BACK TO YOUR FATHER'S LODGE EVERY EVENING; BUT COME HERE IN THE DAYTIME, AND WATCH HIM AND ATTEND HIM." NOW, THE RAVEN FAMILY THAT LIVED CLOSE BY LAUGHED MUCH AT THE YOUNGER DAUGHTER OF THE CHIEF. THEY WERE ANGRY BECAUSE SHE HAD NOT ENTERED THEIR HOUSE AND MARRIED THERE, AS HER ELDER SISTER HAD DONE. TO HURT HER FEELINGS, THEY DRESSED THEIR NEW DAUGHTER-IN-LAW IN THE FINEST CLOTHES THEY HAD. HER DRESS WAS COVERED WITH BEADS, SHELLS, ELK'S TEETH, AND QUILL-WORK. THEY GAVE HER NECKLACES, AND HER MOTHER-IN-LAW GAVE HER A FINELY POLISHED CELT OF GREEN STONE (JADE) TO HANG AT HER BELT. THE YOUNGER SISTER PAID NO ATTENTION TO THIS, BUT RETURNED EVERY MORNING TO HELP HER GRANDMOTHER-IN-LAW TO GATHER FIRE-WOOD, AND TO ATTEND TO HER SICK HUSBAND. FOR THREE DAYS MATTERS REMAINED THIS WAY. IN THE EVENING OF THE THIRD DAY SUN SAID TO HIS SISTER, "WE WILL RESUME OUR TRUE FORMS TO-NIGHT, SO THAT THE PEOPLE MAY SEE US TO- MORROW." THAT NIGHT THEY TRANSFORMED THEMSELVES. THE OLD MAT LODGE BECAME A FINE NEW SKIN LODGE, SURPASSING THOSE OF THE BLACKFEET AND OTHER TRIBES, RICHLY DECORATED WITH ORNAMENTS, AND WITH STREAMERS TIED TO THE TOP AND PAINTED. THE OLD BARK KETTLE BECAME A BRIGHT COPPER KETTLE; AND NEW PRETTY WOVEN BASKETS, AND EMBROIDERED AND PAINTED BAGS, WERE IN THE HOUSE. THE OLD WOMAN BECAME A FINE-LOOKING PERSON OF TALL FIGURE, WITH CLOTHES COVERED WITH SHINING STARS. DIRTY-BOY BECAME A YOUNG, HANDSOME MAN OF LIGHT COMPLEXION. HIS CLOTHES WERE COVERED WITH SHINING COPPERS. HIS HAIR REACHED TO THE GROUND, AND SHONE LIKE THE RAYS OF THE SUN. IN THE MORNING THE PEOPLE SAW THE NEW LODGE, AND SAID, "SOME RICH CHIEF HAS ARRIVED, AND HAS CAMPED WHERE THE POOR PEOPLE WERE. HE HAS THROWN THEM OUT." WHEN THE GIRL ARRIVED, SHE WAS MUCH SURPRISED TO SEE THE TRANSFORMATION. SHE SAW A WOMAN IN THE DOOR, WEARING A LONG SKIN DRESS COVERED WITH STAR PENDANTS, WITH BRIGHT STARS IN HER HAIR. SHE ADDRESSED HER IN A FAMILIAR VOICE, SAYING, "COME IN AND SIT WITH YOUR HUSBAND]" THE GIRL THEN KNEW WHO SHE WAS. WHEN SHE ENTERED, SHE SAW A HANDSOME MAN RECLINING, WITH HIS HEAD ON A BEAUTIFUL PARFLECHE. HIS GARMENTS AND HAIR WERE DECORATED WITH BRIGHT SUNS. THE GIRL DID NOT RECOGNIZE HIM, AND LOOKED AROUND. THE WOMAN SAID, "THAT IS YOUR HUSBAND; GO AND SIT BESIDE HIM." THEN SHE WAS GLAD. SUN TOOK HIS WIFE TO THE COPPER KETTLE WHICH STOOD AT THE DOOR. IT CONTAINED A SHINING LIQUID. HE PUSHED HER HEAD INTO IT, AND WHEN THE LIQUID RAN DOWN OVER HER HAIR AND BODY, LINES OF SPARKLING SMALL STARS FORMED ON HER. HE TOLD HER TO EMPTY THE KETTLE. WHEN SHE DID SO, THE LIQUID RAN TO THE CHIEF'S LODGE, FORMING A PATH, AS OF GOLD-DUST. HE SAID, "THIS WILL BE YOUR TRAIL WHEN YOU GO TO SEE YOUR FATHER." NOW, THE PEOPLE HAD EATEN MOST OF THEIR WINTER PROVISIONS, AND THE HUNTERS COULD KILL NO GAME. SUN SAID TO HIS WIFE, "GO TELL YOUR FATHER TO MAKE MANY PITS, FOR CAPTURING GAME." AS SHE WALKED ALONG THE SHINING TRAIL TO HER FATHER'S LODGE, HER SISTER, WHO INTENDED TO PASS OFF BEFORE HER FATHER AS THE OTHER WIFE OF DIRTY-BOY, RAN OUT OF RAVEN'S HOUSE, AND SAID, "I WILL GO WITH YOU." AS SOON AS SHE STEPPED ON THE TRAIL, SHE FELL DOWN. FOUR TIMES SHE TRIED TO WALK ON IT, BUT EACH TIME SHE FELL. HER YOUNGER SISTER PASSED ON QUICKLY, AND LEFT HER. AS SOON AS SHE HAD GONE, SUN WENT OUT ON THE PLAIN AND GATHERED UP THE EXCREMENT OF GAME. HE TURNED EACH ONE OVER, AND IT BECAME ALIVE. HE DID THIS WITH SEVERAL HUNDRED. FINALLY HE CAME TO A VERY LARGE ONE, AND TURNED IT OVER. HE SAID, "THIS WILL BE THE LAST ONE." THEN HE TOOK A WHIP AND DROVE ALL THE GAME. AT NOON THE PEOPLE SAW HIM COMING. THE CHIEF SAID, "SEE]" SOME GREAT CHIEF IS COMING, DRIVING MANY CATTLE AND HORSES." NOW, THE CHIEF HAD A DEEP PIT DUG, INTO WHICH THE GAME WAS TO BE DRIVEN, FOR THERE WERE NO CLIFFS NEAR BY, AND INTO THIS SUN DROVE THE GAME. THE ANIMALS WERE KILLED AS THE FELL INTO IT. THE HOLE WAS NEARLY FULL. THE LAST ANIMAL HAD ORIGINATED FROM THE LARGE DROPPINGS THAT SUN HAD TURNED OVER. IT WAS A LARGE, LEAN STEER. IT FELL ON TOP OF ALL THE OTHERS, AND FILLED THE PIT. SUN SAW HIS WIFE STANDING AT THE LODGE-DOOR, AND CALLED TO HER TO BRING SOME WATER, FOR HE WAS VERY THIRSTY. HIS WIFE TOOK THE COPPER KETTLE AND WENT TO DRAW WATER. AS SHE PASSED RAVEN'S HOUSE, HER SISTER SAID "YOU ARE IN A GREAT HURRY. IF YOUR HUSBAND IS SUFFERING SO MUCH FROM THIRST, GET SOME WATER FROM US. YOU CAN BRING IT TO HIM SO MUCH THE QUICKER." FOUR TIMES SHE SAID THIS, BUT THE WOMAN WENT ON TO THE SPRING. THEN THE RAVEN MOTHER GAVE A HORN FULL OF WATER TO HER DAUGHTER-IN-LAW, AND TOLD HER TO HASTEN. SHE GAVE IT TO HER BROTHER- IN-LAW; BUT HE THREW IT DOWN, SAYING, "I DO NOT DRINK FROM THINGS LIKE THAT." THEN SHE CRIED, AND RUED THE MISTAKE SHE HAD MADE IN NOT FOLLOWING HER FATHER'S DIRECTIONS. SUN ASKED HIS WIFE TO TELL HER FATHER TO DIVIDE THE GAME, AND GIVE ONE TO EACH HOUSE, BUT TO KEEP THE LARGE, LEAN STEER FOR HIMSELF. HE ADDED, "HE MUST ALSO PLUCK ONE HAIR FROM THE BACK OF EACH ANIMAL, AND FOUR HAIRS FROM THE BACK OF THE STEER." WHEN THEY CUT UP THE GAUNT STEER, THEY FOUND THAT IT WAS NEARLY ALL FAT. THERE WERE ONLY THREADS OF FLESH RUNNING THROUGHT THE FAT. SUN TOOK THE HAIRS WHICH THE CHIEF HAD SAVED, AND TURNED THEM INTO GAME AGAIN. THUS GAME BECAME PLENTIFUL. THE FOUR STEER-HAIRS BECAME CATTLE, AND THEREFORE CATTLE ARE MORE PLENTIFUL THAN GAME AT THE PRESENT DAY. SINCE THIS TIME SOME CHIEFS' DAUGHTERS HAVE BEEN WISE, OTHERS FOOLISH. (A VARIANT OF THIS STORY IS AS FOLLOWS: SUN GOES OUT HUNTING WITH THE PEOPLE. ALL THE HUNTERS HAD BEEN OUT, BUT COULD FIND NO GAME. THEY SAW ONLY OLD DROPPINGS AND OLD TRACKS. SUN SEPARATED FROM THE OTHERS, AND SOON FOUND PLENTY OF GAME, CHASED IT TO A DEEP HOLLOW, AND KILLED IT. THE OTHER HUNTERS RETURNED EMPTY-HANDED, BUT SUN WAS LOADED WITH MEAT. THE PEOPLE WERE STARVING. THEN SUN TOLD HIS WIFE TO LET HER FATHER GO TO THE HOLLOW AND DIVIDE THE GAME. ACCORDING TO SOME INFORMANTS, SUN RETURNED TO THE SKY WITH HIS SISTER AND WIFE.) ***OKA-046*** OK096 THE BEAR-WOMAN. (FROM SIMILKAMEEN.) OK09600010 IT WAS LATE FALL, AND PEOPLE WERE IN THE MOUNTAINS HUNTING. OK09600020 SIX PEOPLE WERE LIVING TOGETHER,--A MAN AND HIS WIFE, HIS PARENTS, OK09600030 AND HIS TWO SISTERS. ONE DAY WHEN OUT HUNTING, THE MAN CAME ON A OK09600040 PATCH OF LILY-ROOTS. ON HIS RETURN HOME, HE SAID TO HIS WIFE, "I OK09600050 SAW A FINE PATCH OF LARGE LILIES. TO-MORROW MORNING WE SHALL MOVE OK09600060 THERE, AND STAY FOR A FEW DAYS, SO THAT YOU CAN DIG THEM." THEY OK09600070 SET UP A LODGE NEAR THE PLACE; AND ON THE FOLLOWING MORNING EARLY, OK09600080 ON HIS WAY TO HUNT, HE SHOWED HIS WIFE THE PLACE, AND LEFT HER OK09600090 THERE TO DIG. IN THE AFTERNOON A LARGE GRIZZLY-BEAR APPEARED AT OK09600100 THE PLACE. THE WOMAN WAS INTENT ON HER WORK, AND DID NOT NOTICE OK09600110 THE BEAR UNTIL HE WAS CLOSE TO HER. HE SAID TO HER, "I WANT YOU TO OK09600120 BE MY WIFE." SHE AGREED, FOR SHE KNEW HE WOULD KILL HER IF SHE OK09600130 REFUSED. HE TOOK HER ON HIS BACK AND CARRIED HER TO HIS HOUSE. OK09600140 TOWARDS EVENING THE HUNTER RETURNED, CARRYING A LOAD OF DEER-MEAT. OK09600150 HIS WIFE WAS NOT THERE. HE THOUGHT, "SHE IS LATE, AND WILL COME OK09600160 SOON." HE ROASTED MEAT FOR BOTH OF THEM. HE ATE, AND THEN TOOK OK09600170 HIS BOW AND ARROWS AND WENT IN SEARCH OF HIS WIFE. HE SAW WHERE OK09600180 SHE HAD BEEN DIGGING ROOTS. HE CALLED, BUT RECEIVED NO ANSWER. IT OK09600190 GREW DARK, AND HE RETURNED TO HIS CAMP. HE COULD NOT SLEEP. AT OK09600200 DAYBREAK HE WENT OUT AGAIN. HE SAW THE TRACKS OF THE GRIZZLY-BEAR OK09600210 GOING AWAY, BUT NO TRACKS OF HIS WIFE LEAVING THE SPOT. HE THOUGHT OK09600220 SHE MIGHT HAVE GONE TO HIS PARENTS' CAMP, OR THE BEAR MIGHT HAVE OK09600230 KILLED HER, BUT HE SAW NEITHER HER TRACKS NOR SIGNS OF A STRUGGLE OK09600240 WITH THE BEAR. HE WENT TO THE CAMP. HIS FATHER TOLD HIM THAT SHE OK09600250 HAD NOT ARRIVED. HE RELATED WHAT HE HAD SEEN; AND HIS FATHER SAID, OK09600260 "THE GRIZZLY-BEAR HAS NOT KILLED HER: HE HAS MARRIED HER." THE MAN OK09600270 COULD NEITHER SLEEP NOR EAT. AT LAST THE FOURTH NIGHT HE SLEPT, OK09600280 FOR HE WAS VERY TIRED. HIS WIFE APPEARED TO HIM IN A DREAM AND OK09600290 SAID, "THE GRIZZLY HAS TAKEN ME." SHE TOLD HIM WHERE THE BEAR'S OK09600300 HOUSE WAS. SHE SAID, "EVERY MORNING AT DAYBREAK HE TAKES ME TO DIG OK09600310 ROOTS AT A CERTAIN PLACE. IF YOU ARE STRONG, YOU CAN KILL HIM; BUT OK09600320 HE IS VERY FIERCE AND ENDOWED WITH MAGIC POWER. YOU MUST FIX YOUR OK09600330 ARROWS AS I DIRECT YOU, AND SIT WHERE I TELL YOU. I HAVE PREPARED OK09600340 A HIDING-PLACE FOR YOU, WHERE YOU MAY SIT ON A BOWLDER. PREPARE OK09600350 MEDICINE TO WASH ME WITH, FOR OTHERWISE, WHEN THE BEAR DIES, I OK09600360 SHALL DIE TOO THROUGH HIS POWER. IF HE KILLS YOU, I SHALL KILL OK09600370 MYSELF. GET YOUNG FIR-TOPS AND KONELP, AND SOAK THEM IN WATER. OK09600380 WITH THESE YOU MUST RUB ME. PREPARE ONE ARROW BY RUBBING IT WITH OK09600390 FAT OF SNAKES, AND THE OTHER ARROW ANOINT WITH RATTLESNAKE-POISON. OK09600400 SIT DOWN ON THE ROCK IN THE PLACE THAT I HAVE PREPARED; AND ON THE OK09600410 FOURTH MORNING, WHEN I BRING THE BEAR PAST CLOSE TO THE ROCK, SHOOT OK09600420 HIM IN THE THROAT." THE HUNTER PREPARED EVERUTHING AS DIRECTED. OK09600430 HE MADE TWO NEW ARROWS WITH DETACHABLE FORESHAFTS. HE MADE THEM OK09600440 VERY CAREFULLY, AND PUT GOOD STONE HEADS ON THEM. HE SEARCHED FOR OK09600450 SNAKES, AND ANOINTED THE FORESHAFTS OF HIS ARROWS AND THE POINTS. OK09600460 EARLY IN THE MORNING HE WAS AT THE PLACE INDICATED. THE GRIZZLY- OK09600470 BRAR'S HOUSE WAS A CAVE IN A CLIFF, AND AT DAYBREAK THE MAN SAW THE OK09600480 SMOKE FROM HIS FIRE COMING OUT THROUGH A HOLE IN THE TOP OF THE OK09600490 CLIFF. SOON HE SAW HIS WIFE AND THE BEAR EMERGE FROM THE ENTRANCE. OK09600500 HER FACE WAS PAINTED, AND SHE CARRIED HER ROOT-DIGGER. SHE DUG OK09600510 ROOTS, AND THE BEAR GATHERED THEM. THE MAN RETURNED HOME AND TOLD OK09600520 WHAT HE HAD SEEN TO HIS FATHER, WHO SAID, "I HAVE A STRONG OK09600530 GUARDIAN-SPIRIT, AND I SHALL PROTECT YOU. DO NOT BE AFRAID. ACT OK09600540 ACCORDING TO THE DIRECTIONS YOUR WIFE HAS GOVEN TO YOU IN YOUR OK09600550 DREAM, AND KILL THE BEAR." ON THE FOURTH MORNING AT DAYBREAK HE OK09600560 WAS SITTING ON THE ROCK. HIS WIFE AND THE BEAR DREW NEAR. SHE WAS OK09600570 DIGGING IN CIRCLES, AND THE GRIZZLY-BEAR FOLLOWED HER. WHEN SHE OK09600580 MADE THE FOURTH CIRCLE, SHE PASSED QUITE CLOSE TO THE ROCK. HE OK09600590 AIMED AN ARROW AT HIS WIFE, AND SHE CRIED, "HUSBANDS NEVER KILL OK09600600 THEIR WIVES]" HE LOWERED HIS BOW AND LAUGHED. THE BEAR STOOD UP OK09600610 AND WAS ANGRY. HE ABUSED THE WOMAN, CALLING HER BAD NAMES. JUST OK09600620 THEN HE WAS CLOSE TO THE ROCK. THE HUNTER SPOKE TO HIM, AND THE OK09600630 BEAR TURNED TO LOOK AT THE HUNTER, WHO SHOT HIM RIGHT IN THE OK09600640 THROAT. THE GRIZZLY-BEAR TRIED TO PULL OUT THE ARROW, BUT HE COULD OK09600650 REMOVE ONLY THE SHAFT. HE RUSHED AT THE HUNTER, BUT COULD NOT OK09600660 REACH HIM. THE HUNTER SHOT HIS SECOND ARROW WITH SUCH GREAT FORCE OK09600670 THAT THE SHAFT FELL OFF. THE BEAR FELL OVER AND DIED. THEN HIS OK09600680 WIFE SWOONED, AND WOULD HAVE DIED THROUGH THE BEAR'S POWER, HAD NOT OK09600690 HER HUSBAND RUBBED HER WITH FIR-TOPS AND VERATRUM. SHE REVIVED AND OK09600700 STOOD UP. SHE SAID, "I WARN YOU NOT TO HAVE CONNECTION WITH ME. OK09600710 THE INFLUENCE OF THE BEAR IS STILL OVER ME. BUILD A LODGE OF FIR- OK09600720 BRUSH FOR ME SOME DISTANCE AWAY FROM THE PEOPLE. LET YOUR SISTERS OK09600730 FEED ME, AND WASH ME WITH FIR AND VERATRUM-LEAVES. YOU MAY SPEAK OK09600740 TO ME FROM A DISTANCE. NEXT SPRING, WHEN THE SNOW IS ALMOST GONE, OK09600750 I SHALL BE YOUR WIFE AGAIN." IN THE SPRING SHE WASHED AT A STREAM, OK09600760 USING HOT WATER, AND HER SISTERS-IN-LAW RUBBED HER WITH FIR-BOUGHS. OK09600770 THE HUNTER ALSO WASHED. THEN SHE WENT INTO HIS LODGE, AND LIVED OK09600780 WITH HIM AS BEFORE. OK09600790 ***OKA-047*** OK097 EAGLE AND BEAVER OK09700010 THE EAGLE SAID, "GO TO THE FISH-WEIR AND PRETEND TO BE DEAD, OK09700020 SO THAT THEY WILL CARRY YOU INTO THE HOUSE. I WILL GO, AND YOU OK09700030 SHALL TAKE SOME OF THE FIRE. THEN RUN AWAY. WE WILL TAKE IT BACK OK09700040 TO OUR HOME." THE BEAVER WENT TO THE FISH-WEIR. THEY CAUGHT HIM OK09700050 AND CARRIED HIM INTO THE HOUSE. THEY SKINNED HIM. THEN ONE MAN OK09700060 SAID, "LOOK HERE] THERE IS AN EAGLE. SHOOT THAT EAGLE." ALL THE OK09700070 MEN WENT OUT, AND THE BEAVER TOOK THE FIRE AND RAN AWAY WITH IT. OK09700080 THE BEAVER JUMPED INTO THE WATER AND SWAM BACK. THE EAGLE FLEW OK09700090 ABOVE HIM, AND THEY ARRIVED IN THEIR COUNTRY. OK09700100 ***OKA-048*** OK098 THE MOUSE. OK09800010 THE MOUSE LIVED WITH HER CHILDREN. SHE SWAM ACROSS THE RIVER OK09800020 TO STEAL. SHE WAS DROWNED. HER CHILDREN TOOK THE BODY BACK INTO OK09800030 THE HOUSE AND CRIED OVER IT. AFTER SOME TIME A MAN CAME, WHO SAID, OK09800040 "WHY ARE YOU CRYING?" THE CHILDREN REPLIED, "OH, WE HAVE BEEN OK09800050 CRYING ABOUT WHAT HAPPENED IN THE DISTANT PAST." THEN THE CHILDREN OK09800060 OF MOUSE LAUGHED. OK09800070 ***OKA-049*** OK099 SKWOTILKWOLA'NA. (FROM SIMILKAMEEN.) OK09900010 AN OLD MAN, HIS WIFE, AND THEIR INFANT SON LIVED NEAR A LAKE. OK09900020 THEY WERE POOR, AND FOOD WAS HARD TO OBTAIN. THEY WERE ALMOST OK09900030 STARVING. EVERY DAY THE MAN WENT FISHING, AND THE WOMAN DUG SXAIE' OK09900040 EN-ROOTS. SHE FOUND A FEW ONLY, AND HER HUSBAND CAUGHT ONLY A FEW OK09900050 SMALL FISH ABOUT FOUR FINGER-WIDTHS IN LENGTH. THEY GAVE A FEW OK09900060 ROOTS AND ONE FISH TO THEIR SON FOR A MEAL, AND THEY THEMSELVES ATE OK09900070 EACH A FISH AND A HALF AND A FEW ROOTS. EVERY DAY THE MOTHER OK09900080 WASHED HER SON WITH WATER IN A BASKET, AND SHE CARRIED HIM ON HER OK09900090 BACK WHEN SHE WENT ROOT-DIGGING. THE BOY GREW VERY FAST, AS ALL OK09900100 CHILDREN OF THE ANCIENTS DID. WHEN FOUR YEARS OLD, THE BOY SAID, OK09900110 "I WILL NO LONGER BE CARRIED BY MY MOTHER. I WILL ACCOMPANY MY OK09900120 FATHER WHEN HE GOES FISHING." HIS FATHER MADE A LINE AND HOOKS FOR OK09900130 HIM, AND TOOK HIM TO THE LAKE TO FISH. WHEN THEY REACHED THERE, OK09900140 THE BOY SAID, "DO YOU NEVER USE THE CANOE THAT IS HERE ON THE LAKE- OK09900150 SHORE WHEN YOU ARE FISHING?" HIS FATHER SAID HE HAD NEVER SEEN ANY OK09900160 CANOE, AND LOOKED AROUND. THE BOY POINTED OUT AN OLD CANOE WHICH OK09900170 HAD ALMOST ROTTED AWAY ON THE LAKE-SHORE. HE SAID, "SIT IN THE OK09900180 BOW, AND I SHALL SIT IN THE STERN, THEN WE WILL FISH." THEY JUST OK09900190 SAT DOWN IN THE CANOE, WHICH WAS NEAR THE SHORE, AND FISHED. AS OK09900200 USUAL, THE FATHER CAUGHT FOUR SMALL FISH, WHILE THE BOY GOT NONE. OK09900210 HE ASKED HIS FATHER TO GO HOME, SAYING THAT HE WOULD CONTINUE TO OK09900220 FISH ALONE. HE CAUGHT A FISH ABOUT HALF A FINGER IN LENGTH. WHEN OK09900230 HE CAME HOME, HIS PARENTS WERE GLAD TO SEE THAT HE HAD CAUGHT A OK09900240 FISH. ON THE FOURTH DAY HE TOLD HIS FATHER AGAIN TO GO HOME. OK09900250 AFTER HIS FATHER HAD GONE, THE BOY CAUGHT A SMALL FISH, AS HE HAD OK09900260 DONE ON THE PREVIOUS DAYS. IT WAS NEAR EVENING, AND HE THOUGHT HE OK09900270 WOULD TRY ONCE AGAIN BEFORE GOING HOME. HE CAST HIS LINE, AND FELT OK09900280 A GREAT WEIGHT ON IT. AT LAST HE MANAGED TO PULL IT UP, AND A OK09900290 LARGE TSOQENNU'S-FISH CAME TO THE SURFACE. ITS HEAD WAS VERY LARGE OK09900300 AND ITS BODY VERY LEAN. THE FISH SAID, "LET ME GO]" BUT THE BOY OK09900310 ANSWERED, "I CANNOT. WE ARE STARVING. WE NEED YOU." THE FISH OK09900320 REPEATED THE REQUEST FOUR TIMES. FINALLY IT SAID, "IF YOU LET ME OK09900330 GO, YOU MAY HAVE ANYTHING YOU WISH. AS SOON AS YOU WISH, THE OK09900340 OBJECT OF YOUR DESIRE WILL APPEAR BY YOUR SIDE." THE BOY SAID, OK09900350 "TRUE?" AND THE FISH ANSWERED, "TRUE]" THEY REPEATED THIS FOUR OK09900360 TIMES, THEN THE BOY LET THE FISH GO, WHICH SAID, "ALL YOU HAVE TO OK09900370 DO IS TO WISH AND CALL MY NAME, WHICH IS SKWOTILKWOLA'NA. IN TEN OK09900380 DAYS I SHALL SEE YOU AGAIN." OK09900390 ON THE FOLLOWING MORNING THE BOY SAID TO HIS PARENTS, "YOU OK09900400 NEED NOT FISH OR DIG ROOTS ANY MORE. I SHALL FISH ALONE, AND OK09900410 PROVIDE FOOD FOR US ALL." HE WENT TO THE LAKE AND CALLED HIS OK09900420 HELPER'S NAME, AT THE SAME TIME WISHING FOR MANY PI'SUL-FISH. OK09900430 GREAT NUMBERS APPEARED ON THE SURFACE OF THE LAKE. HE FISHED THEM OK09900440 OUT, AND THEN WENT HOME TO ASK HIS PARENTS TO CARRY THEM AWAY AND OK09900450 DRY THEM. HE DID SO EVERY DAY; AND EACH SUCCEEDING DAY THE FISH OK09900460 BECAME MORE PLENTIFUL, AND EASIER TO CATCH. ON THE TENTH DAY HE OK09900470 CAUGHT SO MANY THAT HE FILLED THE OLD CANOE. NOW THEY HAD ENOUGH OK09900480 FISH TO LAST THEM A LONG TIME. OK09900490 ON THE TENTH DAY, TOWARDS EVENING, THE OLD FISH PUT ITS HEAD OK09900500 ON THE GUNWALE OF THE CANOE, AND SAID, "IF YOU HAD NOT LET ME GO, OK09900510 YOU WOULD NEVER HAVE CAUGHT ANY FISH. I WILL GIVE YOU MY NAME AND OK09900520 MY HORSE. YOU WILL FIND IT TEN DAYS FROM TO-DAY STANDING ON THE OK09900530 FAR SIDE OF THE MOUNTAIN BEHIND YOUR CAMP. DO NOT THINK IT IS BAD. OK09900540 YOU WILL NEVER SEE ME AGAIN, BUT THE HORSE WILL GIVE YOU ADVICE OK09900550 WHEN YOU NEED IT. WHEN YOU WANT ANYTHING, CALL MY NAME AS BEFORE. OK09900560 TELL NO ONE OUR NAME. I HAVE THUS HELPED YOU BECAUSE I PITIED YOU. OK09900570 MEANWHILE WASH YOURSELF IN THE WATER, AND RUN EVERY DAY FOR TEN OK09900580 DAYS. DO NOT SLEEP IN YOU PARENTS' LODGE, BUT BUILD A SMALL LODGE OK09900590 NEAR BY, AND MAKE YOUR BED IN IT." THE BOY DID AS HE HAD BEEN OK09900600 TOLD. EARLY THE NEXT MORNING HE CROSSED THE HILL TO WHERE THE OK09900610 HORSE WAS. BEYOND, THERE WAS A PLAIN. AT THE FOOT-HILL HE SAW AN OK09900620 OLD BAY MARE STAKED OUT. SHE HAD A SKOLTAPI'S COLT. THE MARE OK09900630 SEEMED ALMOST READY TO DIE. HER EARS HUNG DOWN, AND HER JAW-BONE OK09900640 WAS LOOSE. THE MARE RECOGNIZED HIM, HOWEVER, AND CALLED HIM BY OK09900650 NAME. SHE SAID, "SO YOU HAVE COME. YOU WILL FIND MY HALTER IN THE OK09900660 BUSH YONDER. LEAD ME TO WATER. WATER ME SIX TIMES, AT INTERVALS OK09900670 OF SEVEN DAYS. AFTER THIS THE COLT WILL SPEAK TO YOU IN MY PLACE." OK09900680 THE COLT WAS VERY SMALL, AND LONG-HAIRED. WHEN HE HAD WATERED THE OK09900690 MARE AND RESTAKED HER, THE COLT SAID, "YOU WILL FIND MY BRIDLE ON OK09900700 THE BUSH YOUNDER. BRIDLE ME. PLUCK FOUR MALE STALKS OF GRASS. OK09900710 TAKE OFF YOUR CLOTHES EXCEPT YOUR BELT AND APRON. PUT THE GRASS- OK09900720 STEMS IN YOUR BELT. HIT ME WITH THEM WHEN I TELL YOU TO DO SO. OK09900730 AFTER HITTING ME, LET THE GRASS FALL FROM YOUR HAND, BACK OVER MY OK09900740 TAIL. MOUNT ME, AND RIDE ME IN A SMALL CIRCLE FOUR TIMES." HE DID OK09900750 AS DIRECTED. THE COLT SAID TO HIM, "WHIP ME WITH THE GRASS." HE OK09900760 DID SO, AND THE COLT WENT FASTER. FOR EACH CIRCLE HE USED ANOTHER OK09900770 BLADE OF GRASS, AND THE COLT WENT FASTER EACH TIME. HE DISMOUNTED, OK09900780 AND HUNG THE BRIDLE ON A TREE TO KEEP IT FROM ALL CONTAMINATON. OK09900790 WHEN HE RETURNED, AFTER SEVEN DAYS, HE FOUND THAT THE OLD MARE HAD OK09900800 GIVEN BIRTH TO A LARGE, FAT BAY COLT, AND THE OLD COLT LOOKED THIN. OK09900810 THE LATTER SAID TO HIM, "KILL THE NEW COLT. HE KICKS ME, AND I OK09900820 CANNOT GET A SUCK. I AM GETTING WEAK." THE LAD DISLIKED TO KILL OK09900830 THE COLT, BUT OBEYED. HE DID THE SAME AS ON THE FIRST VISIT,-- OK09900840 WATERED THE MARE, AND RODE THE COLT, BUT EACH TIME IN WIDER OK09900850 CIRCLES; AND THE COLT WENT FASTER AND FASTER. EACH TIME HE OK09900860 RETURNED HE FOUND A NEW COLT BORN, WHICH HE KILLED. THE FIFTH TIME, OK09900870 WHEN HE WAS ABOUT TO RETURN, THE COLT SAID TO HIM, "NEXT TIME WHEN OK09900880 YOU COME, BRING A TINY COMB, A THORN FROM A BUSH, A LITTLE CLAY OK09900890 WRAPPED UP, AND A LITTLE WATER." THE LAD DID NOT KNOW HOW TO GET OK09900900 THESE THINGS; SO HE WENT TO THE OLD CANOE AT THE LAKE-EDGE, AND OK09900910 CALLED TO HIS HELPER, "GRANDFATHER, YOU PROMISED ME YOUR HELP] I OK09900920 WISH A COMB, A THORN, SOME CLAY, AND SOME WATER." IMMEDIATELY OK09900930 THESE THINGS APPEARED UNDER THE SIDE OF THE CANOE. THE WATER WAS OK09900940 IN A BLADDER THE SIZE OF THE POINT OF ONE'S FINGER, AND THE MUD OR OK09900950 CLAY WAS WRAPPED IN A PIECE OF SKIN. HE WRAPPED UP ALL FOUR THINGS OK09900960 AND ATTACHED THEM TO HIS BODY. THEN HE WENT HOME, AND SAID TO HIS OK09900970 PARENTS, "YOU HAVE PLENTY TO EAT. NEVER FEAR THAT YOU WILL STARVE, OK09900980 AND NEVER FEAR FOR ME IF I GO FAR AWAY. I SHALL COME BACK." HE OK09900990 BATHED IN THE CREEK FOUR TIMES, AND RAN RACES FOUR TIMES, UNTIL HE OK09901000 WAS TIRED. THE NIGHT BEFORE HE WAS GOING TO LEAVE, HE COULD NOT OK09901010 SLEEP. HE AROSE EARLY IN THE MORNING, WASHED HIMSELF, AND RAN. OK09901020 HE REACHED THE HORSES, WATERED THE MARE, KILLED THE NEW COLT, LET OK09901030 THE OLD COLT HAVE A SUCK, AND RODE HIM IN FOUR WIDE CIRCLES. THE OK09901040 COLT SAID, "IF I DO NOT FALL OR LOSE MY WIND ON THE FOURTH RUN, I OK09901050 SHALL BE ABLE TO TRAVEL; BUT IF I DO, WE MUST NOT START." ON THE OK09901060 FOURTH RUN HE SAT NEAR THE COLT'S TAIL, BENT FORWARD, WITH HIS HEAD OK09901070 AT ITS WITHERS. HE HELD ON TIGHT BY BRIDLE AND MANE. THE COLT WAS OK09901080 GOING LIKE THE WIND. ITS MANE AND TAIL STOOD STRAIGHT OUT. THE OK09901090 NOISE OF ITS RUNNING WAS LIKE A GALE OF WIND IN THE MOUNTAINS. THE OK09901100 COLT TOLD HIM TO HIT IT WITH THE LAST BLADE OF GRASS; BUT THEY WERE OK09901110 GOING SO FAST, THAT HIS ARM COULD NOT REACH DOWN TO THE COLT'S OK09901120 SIDE, AND THE GRASS STOOD OUT STRAIGHT. THE COLT WAS NOW A GOOD- OK09901130 SIZED HORSE, VERY FAST, AND STRONG. HE RAN THE WHOLE COURSE OK09901140 WITHOUT GETTING WINDED, FALLING, OR STUMBLING. THE COLT SAID, "NOW OK09901150 I KNOW I AM STRONG. LET US START ON OUR TRAVELS] YOU WILL FIND A OK09901160 SADDLE HANGING ON YOUNDER TREE. SADDLE ME, AND WE WILL LEAVE." OK09901170 THEY TRAVELLED FAST ALL DAY, AND DID NOT STOP TO REST UNTIL LATE AT OK09901180 NIGHT. THE COLT SAID, "WE HAVE COVERED NEARLY HALF WAY. WE ARE OK09901190 GOING A LONG DISTANCE TO ANOTHER COUNTRY WHERE A CANNIBAL CHIEF OK09901200 LIVES. HE STAYS AT THE TOP OF A TALL TOWER, FROM WHICH HE CAN OK09901210 WATCH THE WHOLE COUNTRY. HIS MAIDEN DAUGHTER STAYS IN THE SAME OK09901220 HOUSE BELOW HIM. MANY HAVE SOUGHT HER, BUT THE PLAIN IS WHITE WITH OK09901230 THEIR BONES. THE CANNIBAL KILLS THEM WITH AN ELK-HORN CLUB, AND OK09901240 CUTS OFF THEIR HEADS. SOMETIMES THEY ESCAPE; BUT HE PURSUES THEM OK09901250 ON HIS SWIFT HORSES, AND KILLS THEM. NO ONE HAD EVER RETURNED. OK09901260 THE CHIEF HAS A SERVANT WHO ATTENDS TO HIS HORSES. ONE HORSE IS OK09901270 BAY, AND THE OTHER BLACK. THE BAY IS A FINE HORSE, BUT THE BLACK OK09901280 IS SWIFTER. TSOQEMU'S HAS ALREADY WARNED THE SERVANT IN A DREAM OK09901290 THAT HE WILL DIE IF HE DOES NOT OVERFEED THE BAY HORSE, AND STARVE OK09901300 THE BLACK ONE. THE CHIEF HAS NOTICED THAT THE BLACK HORSE IS OK09901310 GETTING POOR, AND HAS ASKED THE SERVANT ABOUT IT. THE LATTER HAS OK09901320 SAID THAT THE BLACK HORSE MUST BE SICK, FOR HE FED AND WATERED HIM OK09901330 THREE TIMES A DAY, AS USUAL. THE CHIEF'S DAUGHTER IS VERY FOND OF OK09901340 MUSIC, AND SPENDS MOST OF HER TIME PLAYING A FLUTE." OK09901350 IN DUE TIME THEY CAME IN SIGHT OF THE CHIEF'S HOUSE, WHICH OK09901360 TOWERED UP LIKE A PILLAR OF SMOKE. THE CHIEF SAW THEM. THE COLT OK09901370 PRETENDED TO BE A POOR, LAME TRAVELLER. HE WENT ALONG SLOWLY. OK09901380 WHEN HE CAME NEAR THE HOUSE, HE BEGAN TO CIRCLE AROUND. WHEN HE OK09901390 CAME VERY NEAR, THE CHIEF'S DAUGHTER'S FLUTE PLAYED BY ITSELF; WHEN OK09901400 HE WENT A DISTANCE OFF, IT STOPPED. BOTH THE GIRL AND HER FATHER OK09901410 NOTICED IT. THE FATHER WAS VERY CURIOUS, AND CAME DOWN TO SEE THE OK09901420 VISITORS. HE INVITED THE LAD IN, AND WENT OUT TO LOOK AT THE COLT. OK09901430 THE LAD SAID, "MY HORSE IS ALWAYS THAT WAY. HE HAS MAGIC POWER. OK09901440 WHEN HE COMES NEAR ANY FLUTE, IT PLAYS BY ITSELF." FOUR TIMES THE OK09901450 CHIEF OFFERED TO BUY THE HORSE, BUT THE LAD REFUSED. HE SAID, "THE OK09901460 MUSIC IS LOUDER AND BETTER, THE NEARER THE HORSE COMES. IF HE OK09901470 SHOULD RUN IN A CIRCLE INSIDE THE HOUSE, THE FLUTE WOULD PLAY VERY OK09901480 NICELY." THE CHIEF SAID, "BRING HIM IN." HE BROUGHT THE HORSE IN, OK09901490 AND RODE HIM AROUND, AND THE FLUTE PLAYED BY ITSELF LOUDER THAN OK09901500 BEFORE. THE LAD SAID, "IF I RIDE HIM AROUND FOUR TIMES, THE MUSIC OK09901510 WILL PLAY SO NICELY THAT YOUR DAUGHTER WILL FALL ASLEEP." THE OK09901520 CHIEF TOLD HIM TO DO IT. HE RODE AROUND FOUR TIMES, AND THE GIRL OK09901530 FELL ASLEEP. THEN THE LAD SAID, "IF THE DOOR SHOULD BE OPEN, THE OK09901540 MUSIC WOULD BE STILL SWEETER." SO THE CHIEF OPENED THE DOOR. THE OK09901550 LAD SAID, "IF THE GIRL SHOULD RIDE ON THE HORSE BEHIND ME, THE OK09901560 FLUTE WOULD PLAY SO BEAUTIFULLY THAT YOU ALSO WOULD FALL ASLEEP." OK09901570 THE CHIEF PUT HIS DAUGHTER ON THE HORSE BEHIND THE LAD. HE WAS NOT OK09901580 AFRAID, FOR HE KNEW THAT HIS BLACK HORSE COULD CATCH ANYTHING. THE OK09901590 CHIEF FELL ASLEEP. THEN THE LAD RODE OUT OF THE HOUSE, AND RAN HIS OK09901600 HORSE LIKE THE WIND. WHEN THEY HAD GONE QUITE A DISTANCE, THE GIRL OK09901610 SAID, "NOW MY FATHER AWAKES. NOW HE TAKES OUT HIS HORSE. NOW HE OK09901620 MOUNTS THE BAY. NOW HE CHASES US." AFTER A WHILE SHE SAID, "NOW OK09901630 THE BAY IS EXHAUSTED, AND HE MOUNTS THE BLACK. HE WILL SURELY OK09901640 OVERTAKE US AND KILL US." THE LAD SAID, "YES, IF MY HORSE AND I OK09901650 ARE NOT STRONGER THAN HE AND HIS HORSE." AFTER A TIME SHE SAID, OK09901660 "MY FATHER IS IN SIGHT. HE IS GETTING NEAR. HE WAVES HIS CLUB. OK09901670 HE IS CLOSE TO OUR HORSE'S TAIL, AND CAN ALMOST TOUCH US." THE LAD OK09901680 PULLED A GRASS-STALK OUT OF HIS BELT, AND STRUCK HIS HORSE, WHICH OK09901690 NOW BOUNDED FAR AHEAD. AGAIN THE CHIEF DREW NEAR. HE STRUCK HIS OK09901700 STEED WITH THE SECOND GRASS-STALK, AND THEY LEFT THE CHIEF BEHIND. OK09901710 HE HAD USED UP HIS FOUR STALKS, AND THE CHIEF WAS CLOSE ON THEM OK09901720 AGAIN. NOW HE THREW THE COMB DOWN BEHIND HIM, AND THERE APPEARED A OK09901730 TRACT OF GULCHES SEPARATING THEM FROM THEIR PURSUER. THE CHIEF OK09901740 SURMOUNTED THESE, AND WAS CLOSE AT THEIR HEELS AGAIN. THE LAD OK09901750 THREW DOWN THE CLAY, AND IT BECAME A TRACT OF MUD. AFTER A LONG OK09901760 TIME THE CHIEF PASSED THROUGH IT, AND CAUGHT UP AGAIN. THEN THE OK09901770 LAD THREW DOWN THE THORN, AND IT BECAME A THICKET OF HAW-BUSHES. OK09901780 WHEN THE CHIEF HAD PASSED THROUGH IT, AND CAUGHT UP, HIS HORSE AND OK09901790 HIMSELF WERE SEEN TO BE TORN AND BLEEDING. THEN THE LAD THREW DOWN OK09901800 THE WATER, AND IT BECAME A LARGE LAKE. THE BLACK HORSE BECAME OK09901810 EXHAUSTED IN THE WATER, AND THE CHIEF HAD TO TURN BACK. HE OK09901820 CALLED OUT, "NOW I KNOW THAT YOU ARE SKWOTILKWOLA'NA; NO OTHER OK09901830 COULD HAVE OVERCOME ME." THE GIRL SAID, "WE ARE SAFE. MY FATHER OK09901840 HAS RETURNED. I WILL NOW BE YOUR WIFE." WHEN THEY REACHED THE OK09901850 LAD'S HOME, HE WAS ASHAMED OF THE POOR HOUSE, SO HE WENT TO HIS OK09901860 HELPER IN THE LAKE, AND WISHED FOR A WOODEN HOUSE AND A GARDEN, OK09901870 SUCH AS THE WHITES HAVE. HE WAS GIVEN THESE, AND HE AND HIS WIFE OK09901880 TOOK UP THEIR ABODE THERE. HE WAS KNOWN AFTERWARDS AS OK09901890 SKWOTILKWOLA'NA, AND BECAME A POWERFUL MAN. HE HAD THE TSOQEMU'S- OK09901900 FISH AS HIS GUARDIAN-SPIRIT. THE COLT DISAPPEARED WHEN THEY OK09901910 REACHED HOME. HE WAS ONLY A MANIFESTATION OF THE TSOQEMU'S. OK09901920 ***OKA-050*** OK100 KELAUNA. OK10000010 A MAN HAD BEEN KILLED BY HIS ENEMIES. WHEN HIS TWO SONS WERE OK10000020 GROWN UP, THEY DECIDED TO TAKE REVENGE. THEIR NAMES WERE GRIZZLY- OK10000030 BEAR (KELAUNA) AND KETSINSILTIN. THEIR UNCLE, MO'LSKI, TOOK THEM OK10000040 IN HIS CANOE TO THE CAMP OF THEIR ENEMIES. THE YOUNG MEN HID THEIR OK10000050 BOWS AND POISENED ARROWS AT THE BANK OF THE RIVER. AT MIDNIGHT OK10000060 THEIR UNCLE GAVE THEM THEIR WEAPONS, AND THEY STOLE INTO THE TENT OK10000070 OF THE MAN WHO HAD KILLED THEIR FATHER. THEY HIT HIM IN THE OK10000080 FOREHEAD, THE CHEST, AND THE BACK, AND MADE THEIR ESCAPE. WHEN THE OK10000090 YOUNG MEN WERE ATTACKED BY THE FRIENDS OF THE PERSON WHOM THEY HAD OK10000100 KILLED, GRIZZLY-BEAR WAS HIT IN THE FOREHEAD WITH A WHITE ARROW. OK10000110 HE WAS CARED FOR BY THE GRIZZLY-BEAR, HIS HELPER. HIS BROTHER OK10000120 CONTINUED TO FIGHT, AND KILLED ALL THE ENEMIES EXCEPT ONE, WHO WAS OK10000130 SENT BACK TO TELL THE TALE. OK10000140 ***OKA-051*** OK101 LEFT-ARM. OK10100010 LEFT-ARM (TCATCI'KO) WAS TAKING A SWEAT-BATH, AND A DENSE OK10100020 CLOUD OF STEAM WAS ESCAPING THROUGH THE TOP OF THE LODGE. A SHORT OK10100030 DISTANCE AWAY SOME ENEMIES SAW THE CLOUD OF STEAM, AND SURMISED OK10100040 THAT LEFT-ARM WAS TAKING HIS BATH. THEY STOLE UP TO HIS HOME AND OK10100050 KILLED HIS PARENTS. HIS SISTER WAS CARRIED AWAY CAPTIVE. LEFT-ARM OK10100060 AND HIS BROTHERS, WHO HAD BEEN OUT HUNTING, FOLLOWED THE ENEMIES, OK10100070 AND OVERTOOK THE WAR-PARTY WHILE THEY WERE SITTING AROUND A CAMP- OK10100080 FIRE. THE YOUNG WOMAN WAS IN THE CENTRE OF THE CIRCLE. OK10100090 LEFT-ARM HAD CHANGED HIMSELF AND HIS BROTHERS INTO THREE OK10100100 WOLVES. THEIR BOWS AND ARROWS HAD BECOME WOLF-TAILS. THEY HOWLED; OK10100110 AND THEIR SISTER, WHO RECOGNIZED THEIR VOICES, REPLIED BY SINGING. OK10100120 THIS MADE HER CAPTORS SUSPICIOUS, AND THEY MOVED ON, ALL THE TIME OK10100130 WATCHING HER CLOSELY. THE WOLVES FOLLOWED THEM NORTHWARD UNTIL THE OK10100140 ENEMIES CAMPED AGAIN. THEY COVERED THE GIRL WITH A BUFFALO ROBE. OK10100150 FINALLY THE BROTHERS LOST THE TRAIL OF THE ENEMIES, AND OK10100160 RESUMED HUMAN FORM. ONE OF THEM PUT ON HIS GRIZZLY-BEAR CAPE, AND OK10100170 WAS THUS ENABLED TO SCENT THE TRAIL. SOON THEY CAME IN SIGHT OF OK10100180 THE CAMP. OK10100190 THE ENEMIES WERE ASLEEP, AND HAD PILED THEIR WEAPONS TOGETHER. OK10100200 BEFORE DAWN THE BROTHERS STOLE INTO THE CAMP, SELECTED WEAPONS, AND OK10100210 THREW THE OTHERS INTO THE RIVER. THEN THEY ATTACKED THE ENEMIES, OK10100220 AND KILLED THEM WITH THEIR OWN SPEARS. THE OLDEST BROTHER (NOT OK10100230 LEFT-ARM) TOOK THE WOMAN AND ESCAPED WITH HER ACROSS THE RIVER. OK10100240 WHEN THE FIGHT WAS OVER, ALL BUT ONE MAN WAS KILLED. HE WAS OK10100250 SPARED TO RETURN AND TELL HIS TRIBE WHAT HAD HAPPENED. OK10100260 LEFT-ARM AND HIS BROTHER SET OUT TO FIND THEIR BROTHER AND OK10100270 SISTER WHO HAD CROSSED THE RIVER. LEFT-ARM JUMPED INTO THE WATER OK10100280 TO SWIM ACROSS. HE WAS WEARING HIS BEAR-SKIN ROBE. IT CAUGHT ON A OK10100290 SNAG, FROM WHICH HE COULD NOT DISENGAGE IT, SO THAT HE WAS IN OK10100300 DANGER OF BEING DROWNED. SUDDENLY THE THOUGHT CAME TO HIM, "WHY AM OK10100310 I SO FOOLISH? I CAN TURN INTO A FROG, AND THE WATER WILL NOT HURT OK10100320 ME." HE DID SO, AND REMAINED IN THE WATER, CALLING FOR HIS OK10100330 BROTHERS. THEY HEARD HIM, BROUGHT THE CANOE, AND TOOK HIM IN. OK10100340 LATER ON LEFT-ARM FELL IN LOVE WITH A MAIDEN NAMED RING- OK10100350 AROUND-THE-ANKLE (KINPA'TCINTEN). SHE WAS CARRIED AWAY BY ENEMIES OK10100360 FROM THE COLUMBIA RIVER COUNTRY TO A PLACE NEAR KETTLE FALLS. OK10100370 LEFT-ARM SET OUT TO SEARCH FOR HER, AND WANDERED ABOUT A LONG TIME. OK10100380 HE OWNED A BONE CHARM COVERED WITH RATTLESNAKE-POISON. INSTEAD OF OK10100390 CARRYING IT ON HIS PERSON, HE HAD EMBEDDED IT UNDER THE NECK-SKIN OK10100400 OF HIS WOLF-DOG. THEREFORE HIS LUCK TURNED. OK10100410 RING-AROUND-THE-ANKLE CARVED A ROCK NEAR THE FALLS SO THAT IT OK10100420 RESEMBLED A CANOE. FINALLY LEFT-ARM FOUND HER AND TRIED TO ESCAPE OK10100430 WITH HER. HOWEVER, THEY WERE OVERTAKEN AND CAPTURED. OK10100440 LEFT-ARM WAS BOUND HAND AND FOOT, AND BEATEN WITH SWITCHES OF OK10100450 THE SERVICE-BUSH. THEY WERE KEPT PRISONERS FOR FIVE YEARS. OK10100460 FINALLY THEY SUCCEEDED IN MAKING THEIR ESCAPE. THEY LIVED ON THE OK10100470 MOUNTAINS, HUNTING MOOSE AND OTHER GAME. OK10100480 ONE DAY LEFT-ARM WAS WOUNDED WHILE HUNTING, AND HE KNEW THAT OK10100490 HE WAS GOING TO DIE. HE TOLD HIS WIFE TO TAKE THE WOLF-DOG AND TO OK10100500 RETURN TO HER PEOPLE. THEN HIS SPIRIT PASSED AWAY. OK10100510 RING-AROUND-THE-ANKLE DID AS LEFT-ARM HAD TOLD HER. THE DOG OK10100520 RAN AWAY AND JOINED THE WOLVES. AS IT WAS STILL CARRYING THE BONE OK10100530 CHARM, RING-AROUND-THE-ANKLE TRIED TO PERSUADE IT TO RETURN, BUT OK10100540 SHE DID NOT SUCCEED. OK10100550 ***OKA-052*** OK102 THE WARRIOR AND HIS FAITHLESS WIFE. OK10200010 IN EARLY DAYS THERE WERE PLENTY OF BUFFALO. ONCE A YEAR THE OK10200020 OKANAGON, SANPOIL, SPOKANE, MOSES, AND COLVILLE TRIBES JOINED, AND OK10200030 CROSSED THE MOUNTAINS TO HUNT. OK10200040 ONE WHITE MOON (JANUARY) THE SIOUX PURSUED AND CAPTURED A OK10200050 CHIEF'S DAUGHTER. THEY KEPT HER CAPTIVE FOR THREE YEARS. ONE OK10200060 NIGHT THE YOUNG WOMAN DREAMED THAT A SPIRIT TOLD HER TO TAKE THE OK10200070 CHIEF'S SHARP KNIFE, AND THE BUCKSKIN DRESS OF THE CHIEF'S WIFE. OK10200080 SHE OBEYED AND FLED, TAKING ALSO THREE HORSES. OK10200090 THE NEXT MORNING THE FLEETEST BRAVES WERE CALLED ON TO PURSUE OK10200100 HER. THE MAID FLED SWIFTLY. AFTER A WHILE SHE CAME TO A RIVER. OK10200110 SHE SAW THE BRAVES COMING. THEN SHE TOOK OFF HER ROBE, TIED IT OK10200120 INTO A BUNDLE ON HER BACK, AND SWAM THE RIVER. THE BRAVES DID NOT OK10200130 OVERTAKE HER. OK10200140 SHE REACHED HER HOME AND TOLD HER STORY. HER BROTHER WANTED OK10200150 TO REVENGE HER CAPTURE. HE TOOK HIS BAND OF BRAVES AND HIS WIFE, OK10200160 AND STARTED. ON THE WAY HIS BRAVES DESERTED HIM. STILL HE WENT OK10200170 ON. AFTER A WHILE THEY SAW THE SIOUX CHIEF'S SON. THE OKANAGON OK10200180 WARRIOR SAID TO HIS WIFE, "WHEN I TRY TO CAPTURE HIM, TAKE HOLD OF OK10200190 HIS FEET." HIS WIFE LOOKED AT THE SIOUX, AND SAW THAT HE WAS VERY OK10200200 HANDSOME. SHE TURNED TRAITOR AND CAUGHT HER HUSBAND'S FEET. THEN OK10200210 THE SIOUX CUT HIS THROAT AND LEFT HIM. HE CARRIED THE WOMAN OFF AS OK10200220 HIS SLAVE. OK10200230 THE HUSBAND RECOVERED, AND LINGERED IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD FOR A OK10200240 WHILE. HE KILLED ALL THE SIOUX WHO CAME IN HIS WAY. HE WAS OK10200250 DISCOVERED BY A BLACKFOOT TRIBE WHO HAD BEEN HELD PRISONERS BY THE OK10200260 SIOUX. THEY TREATED HIM KINDLY. OK10200270 AFTER A WHILE HE RETURNED HOME AND RAISED A LARGE WAR-PARTY, OK10200280 WHICH WAS JOINED BY BLACKFOOT WARRIORS. THERE WAS A PITCHED OK10200290 BATTLE, IN WHICH HE WAS CAPTURED AND KILLED. THE SIOUX BURNED HIS OK10200300 BODY, BUT HIS HEART COULD NOT BE BURNT. SOME FRIENDLY INDIANS OK10200310 WRAPPED HIS HEART IN A BUFFALO-SKIN. THE SPIRIT OF THE BUFFALO OK10200320 RESUSCITATED HIM. OK10200330 THEN HE WENT TO THE CHIEF'S TENT. HE SAW HIS WIFE SITTING AT OK10200340 THE FEET OF THE CHIEF. HE DREW HIS DAGGER, PULLED HER HEAD BACK BY OK10200350 HER BRAIDS, AND CUT IT OFF. THEN HE WENT AWAY TO HIS OWN PEOPLE. OK10200360 ***OKA-053*** COYOTE BECOMES CHIEF OF THE SALMON IN THE BEGINNING COYOTE HAD GREAT POWER. HE SAID TO HIMSELF, "WHY REMAIN IN SECLUSION WHEN I HAVE SO MUCH POWER?" HE BECAME RESTLESS AND WANTED TO TRAVEL. HE JOURNEYED DOWN THE COLUMBIA RIVER, AND THERE HE MET SPARROW (CHIS-KA-KA-NAR). SPARROW WAS A WARRIOR, DRESSED IN HIS BEAUTIFUL BEADED WARHEAD- DRESS, OF WHICH HE WAS VERY PROUD. AS SOON AS COYOTE SAW HIM, HE THOUGHT, "I WILL KILL HIM AND TAKE HIS HEAD-DRESS." SO HE KILLED SPARROW, AND TOOK HIS QUIVER OF ARROWS AND HIS BEADED HEAD-DRESS. HE PUT THEM ON, AND FELT VERY BRAVE AND PROUD. HE THOUGHT HIMSELF VERY HANDSOME, --MUCH HANDSOMER THAN SPARROW EVER HAD BEEN. HE STEPPED ABOUT, SHAKING HIS HEAD FROM SIDE TO SIDE, AND RESOLVED TO TRAVEL CLOSE TO THE RIVER, THAT HE MIGHT SEE HIS REFLECTION. AS HE CAME AROUND A BEND OF THE RIVER, HE SAW BLUE SMOKE IN THE DISTANCE RISING FROM A TENT WHICH SEEMED WARM AND COMFORTABLE. HE THOUGHT, "I WILL CALL AND SEE IF THERE IS A BEAUTIFUL MAIDEN TO ADMIRE ME." TO HIS DISAPPOINTMENT, HE SAW ONLY TWELVE CHILDREN. THEY ALL SPOKE AT ONCE IN REPLY TO HIS QUESTIONS, AND HE COULD NOT UNDERSTAND THEM. THEY WERE THE WILLOW-GROUSE (SARSARWAS) FAMILY, WHO SPOKE THEIR OWN LANGUAGE. THEY WERE TRYING TO TELL HIM THAT THEIR PARENTS WERE GATHERING BERRIES. THEN COYOTE BECAME ANGRY, AND THOUGHT THEY WERE CALLING HIM NAMES. HE WENT OUT, GATHERED PITCH, AND PUT A PIECE ON THE EYES OF THE CHILDREN. WHEN THEIR PARENTS RETURNED, THEY WERE ALL BLIND. THEN THE MOTHER DETERMINED TO HAVE REVENGE. SHE SUSPECTED WHO HAD DONE IT, AS THEY HAD SEEN COYOTE TRACKS NEAR BY. SHE SAID TO HER HUSBAND, "DO YOU REMEMBER THE HIGH CLIFF BY THE RIVER? WE WILL HIDE BEHIND SOME BUSHES AND SCARE HIM AS HE COMES ALONG THE EDGE OF THE CLIFF." AS COYOTE WAS GOING ALONG THE TRAIL, HE WAS SINGING HIS WAR-CHANT. ALL AT ONCE THERE WAS A ROAR THAT SCARED HIM. HE GAVE A JUMP AND FELL OVER THE CLIFF. HE KNEW THAT HE WAS IN DANGER OF DEATH. QUICKLY HE TURNED HIMSELF INTO A BASKET, WHICH FLOATED LIGHTLY ON THE WATER BELOW. IT DRIFTED DOWN WITH THE CURRENT. AT THAT TIME THERE WERE TWO SISTERS WHO LIVED BY THE RIVER. NEAR BY WAS A SOLID ROCK DAM, WHICH THEY GUARDED WITH JEALOUS CARE. NO ONE WAS ALLOWED TO COME NEAR. SILVER-SALMON WERE KEPT WITHIN THE DAM AS THEIR FOOD. COYOTE KNEW OF THESE SALMON, AND MADE UP HIS MIND TO RELEASE THEM. HE WAITED UNTIL MORNING. THE YOUNGER SISTER (STENEECHKEN) WENT DOWN TO GET A SALMON FOR BREAKFAST. SHE SAW THE BASKET-DISH FLOATING ON THE WATER. SHE LANDED IT, AND TOOK IT TO HER TENT. THE ELDER SISTER (WISWISKIN) SAID, "NO, SISTER, DO NOT KEEP THE DISH. THROW IT INTO THE RIVER. IT MAY BRING US MISFORTUNE." THE YOUNGER ONE WOULD NOT GIVE IT UP. SHE ATE OUT OF IT. EACH DAY AFTER HER MEAL SHE LEFT SOME SALMON IN IT WHEN SHE PUT IT AWAY. EVERY DAY AT THIS TIME OF THE YEAR THEY WENT TO PICK BERRIES. WHEN THEY RETURNED, THEY WOULD FIND THE DISH EMPTY. THE ELDER SISTER BECAME ALARMED, AND INSISTED THAT THE DISH BE THROWN INTO THE FIRE. WHEN SHE DID SO, IT MADE A LOUD REPORT, AND A LITTLE BOY CAME OUT OF THE FIRE. THE YOUNGER SISTER WAS DELIGHTED, AND KEPT HIM, ALTHOUGH THE ELDER SISTER OBJECTED. THEY MADE A BOW AND ARROWS FOR HIM, SO THAT HE COULD AMUSE HIMSELF WHILE THEY WERE AWAY. EACH MORNING AFTER THE SISTERS HAD LEFT HOME, THE BOY WORKED AT THE DAM WITH A HARD ROCK INSTRUMENT HE HAD MADE. AFTER HE HAD BEEN THERE ONE MONTH, THE GIRLS DID NOT FIND HIM WHEN THEY CAME HOME IN THE EVENING. THEY RAN TO THE DAM, AND FOUND THAT HE HAD TAKEN THE FORM OF A MAN. HE WAS DIGGING AT A HOLE THAT HE HAD MADE IN THE DAM. THEY TRIED TO CRUSH HIM, BUT HE HAD A PIECE OF HORN ON HIS HEAD. JUST THEN THE WATER BROKE THROUGH AND SEPARATED HIM FROM THEM. HE CALLED TO THE GIRLS, WHO WERE WEEPING ON THE BANK, "WOMEN WERE NEVER INTENDED TO GUARD SALMON." HE STARTED UP THE STREAM, AND THE SALMON FOLLOWED HIM. AS HE WENT AWAY, HE TURNED ONE SISTER INTO A WATER-SNIPE, THE OTHER INTO A KILDEE. THEY ALWAYS LIVE NEAR THE WATER AND EAT FISH. COYOTE TRAVELLED UP THE RIVER WITH THE SALMON. WHENEVER COYOTE MET PEOPLE, HE MADE A SALMON JUMP OUT OF THE WATER INTO HIS ARMS. THEN HE COOKED IT AND ASKED THE PEOPLE TO EAT. AT ONE PLACE HE MET A NUMBER OF GIRLS PICKING BERRIES. THEY WERE VERY BEAUTIFUL, AND HE DECIDED TO SELECT ONE OF THEM FOR HIS WIFE. HE WINKED HIS EYE, BROUGHT SALMON FROM THE WATER, AND FEASTED THE GIRLS. THEY WERE PLEASED, AND THEIR PARENTS WANTED HIM TO TAKE ONE OF THE MAIDENS, SO THAT THEY MIGHT ALWAYS HAVE SALMON TO EAT. HE FELL IN LOVE WITH ONE OF THE GIRLS, WHO HAD A FINE VOICE, AND WHO WAS IN THE HABIT OF USING IT TO HEAR HER WORDS REPEATED BY THE ECHO. WHEN COYOTE ASKED HER TO BE HIS WIFE, SHE REFUSED HIM WITH SCORN. HE BECAME ANGRY, AND STARTED BACK DOWN THE RIVER, TAKING THE SALMON WITH HIM. HE STOPPED AT THE FORKS OF THE SIMILKAMEEN, ABOUT FIVE MILES FROM THE OKANAGON. THERE HE FORMED FALLS TO KEEP THE SALMON FROM GOING UP. THEN HE MADE FALLS IN THE OKANAGON, KETTLE, AND COLUMBIA RIVERS, BECAUSE IN ALL THESE PLACES THE MAIDENS REFUSED HIM. ***OKA-054*** OK104 MOUSE AND HER FAMILY OK10400010 THERE WAS ONCE A MOUSE AND HER FAMILY THEN ACROSS THE RIVER TO OK10400020 STEAL SOME FOOD. AS SHE WAS CROSSING SHE WAS DROWNED. THEN TOOK OK10400030 HER UP HER CHILDREN, THEN BROUGHT HER TO THE HOUSE, THEN THEY OK10400040 BEGAN TO CRY. THEN A MAN CAME THERE OUTSIDE-THE-HOUSE, HE SAID TO OK10400050 THEM,"WHAT ARE YOU CRYING FOR?" THEY SAY, "NOTHING." "IT IS OK10400060 SOMETHING WHICH HAPPENED LONG AGO." THEN THEY BEGAN LAUGHING TO OK10400070 DECEIVE-THEY THE MAN. OK10400080 ***OKA-055*** OK 105 COYOTE'S LESSON. OK10500010 HE WAS TRAVELLING COYOTE, THEN HE SAW A HOUSE. THEN HE WENT TO THE OK10500020 PLACE. THEN HE ENTERED THE HOUSE. THEN HE SAW ALL THE THINGS OK10500030 GOOD. THEN HE SAW THE COMB, THEN HE THOUGHT THAT HE WOULD TAKE OK10500040 THE COMB. THEN HE TOOK IT. THEN HE WENT AWAY. NOT GONE FAR, OK10500050 BEFORE IT BEGAN COMBING HIM ONE WAY AND THE OTHER THAT COMB. THEN OK10500060 HE THOUGHT: "I WILL RUN AWAY (FROM THE COMB)." BUT NOT ABLE-TO- OK10500070 ESCAPE. THEN HE TOLD THE COMB: "VERY-GOOD, I WILL TAKE YOU OK10500080 BACK." THEN HE DID SO. THEN HE SAW THE AWL. THEN HE SEIZED IT, OK10500090 THEN HE RAN AWAY. BUT NOT VERY FAR, IT BEGAN PIERCING HIM. THEN OK10500100 HE QUICKER TO RUN AWAY FROM IT. THEN VERY BAD HIS-AGONY WHERE HE OK10500110 WAS PIERCED. THEN HE SAID TO THE AWL: "VERY-GOOD I WILL TAKE-YOU- OK10500120 BACK." THEN HE DID SO. THEN HE SAW THE BLADDER FULL OF THE FISH- OK10500130 OIL, THEN HE TOOK IT, THEN HE DRANK IT, THEN HE WENT ALONG BY THE OK10500140 SHORE OF THE LAKE. THEN VERY THIRSTY HE BECAME. THEN PRESENTLY OK10500150 HE DRANK. THEN IN LITTLE WHILE HE DRANK AGAIN. THEN HE THOUGHT, OK10500160 "IT WERE BETTER TO WADE IN THE WATER, AND EASIER DRINK." THEN HE OK10500170 PROCEEDED, THEN WITH THE MOUTH-HIS ON A LEVEL WITH THE SURFACE OF OK10500180 THE WATER. THEN HE DRANK TILL HE DIED. THEN SOON AFTER HE FOUND OK10500190 HIM THE FOX. THEN HE MADE HIM AGAIN TO BECOME ALIVE. THEN COYOTE OK10500200 SAID: "SOMETIME I MUST HAVE BEEN ASLEEP HERE. TO HIM SAID THE OK10500210 FOX: "DID YOU FIND OUT YOUR STUPIDITY?" OK10500220 ***OKA-056*** OK 106 THE OWL. OK10600010 OK106 HOW THE CHIPMONK GOT ITS STRIPES. OK10600010 WHILE SHE WAS PICKING BERRIES THERE CAME TO HER THE OWL, AND HE OK10600020 SAID: "LITTLE GIRL COME DOWN, YOUR FATHER WANTS-YOU," THEN LITTLE OK10600030 GIRL SAID: "HA] HA] NOT I HAVE A FATHER LONG AGO HE DIED." THEN OK10600040 TO HER HE SAID: "WELL-THEN, COME DOWN, YOUR MOTHER WANTS YOU." OK10600050 THEN SHE SAID, "HA] HA] NOT I HAVE ANY MOTHER." "THEN NOT ANY OK10600060 MOTHER WHAT RELATIONS HAVE YOU?" SAID THE OWL. THEN SAID THE OK10600070 LITTLE GIRL: "JUST ONLY I HAVE A GRANDMOTHER." "ALL-RIGHT THEN OK10600080 COME YOU DOWN, YOUR GRANDMOTHER WANTS YOU TO GO HOME." "WELL THEN OK10600090 COVER UP YOUR EYES THEN I WILL COME DOWN." SO THE OWL COVERED HIS OK10600100 EYES BUT NOT VERY CLOSE AND SEE HIM COULD THE LITTLE GIRL NOT VERY OK10600110 TIGHT COVERING HIS EYES WITH HIS HANDS. THEN SAID TO HIM THE OK10600120 LITTLE GIRL: "CLOSER COVER UP YOUR EYES, THEN I WILL COME DOWN." OK10600130 THEN HE DID SO. THEREUPON SHE CAME DOWN THE LITTLE GIRL. WHEN OK10600140 SHE PASSED BY HIM HE GRASPED-AT-HER, BUT ONLY-JUST SCRATCHED HER OK10600150 BACK. THEN OWL LICKED THE CLAWS-HIS, AND SAID: "LITTLE GIRLS ARE OK10600160 NICE-TASTING." THEN SHE RAN TO GRANDMOTHER-HER VERY FRIGHTENED. OK10600170 WHEN SHE GOT HOME SAID TO HER THE GRANDMOTHER-HER: "WHAT'S OK10600180 HAPPENED?" THEN SHE TRIED TO SAY, "OWL," BUT SHE COULD ONLY SAY: OK10600190 "OW," "OW," "OW." THEN SHE WAS HIDDEN BY THE GRANDMOTHER-HER IN A OK10600200 BLANKET, BUT ALL THE TIME SHE WAS SAYING: "OW," "OW," "OW." THEN OK10600210 SHE PUT HER INTO AN OYSTER-SHELL. THEN SHE STUCK HER UPON A OK10600220 RAFTER. THEN NOT LONG AFTER CAME OWL AND SAID: "HAVE YOU SEEN OK10600230 MY-WOUNDED PREY?" THEN SAID THE OLD-WOMAN: "NO, I HAVEN'T SEEN OK10600240 IT." THEN THE LARK LIT ABOVE, AND SAID: "CLOSED UP, IN THE SHELL OK10600250 OF THE OYSTER." THEN SAID THE OWL: "DID YOU HEAR WHAT IT SAID?" OK10600260 "HE SAID IT IS CLOSED UP IN THE SHELL OF THE OYSTER." THEN HE OK10600270 LOOKED AROUND THEN HE FOUND IT IN THE OYSTER. THEN HE KILLED HER. OK10600280 THEN HE CUT HER INTO PIECES. THEN ALWAYS WHEN HE CUT A PIECE SHE OK10600290 WOULD BEG IT THE OLD-WOMAN. THEN SHE ALL GOT IT THE BODY-HER THE OK10600300 LITTLE GIRL EXCEPT ONLY THE HEART. THEN SAID THE OWL: "I WILL OK10600310 TAKE THE HEART." THEN HE ATE IT. THEN HE WENT AWAY. THEN ALL OK10600320 (THE BODY) SHE PUT TOGETHER IN THEIR PLACES. THEN SHE-MADE THE OK10600330 MEDICINE-HER. THEN SHE MADE-HER-COME-TO-LIFE. NOW THESE ARE THE OK10600340 STRIPES-HER OF THE CHIPMONK, THE SCRATCHINGS OF THE OWL. OK10600350 ***OKA-057*** OK107 MYTH OF SINKELEP THE COYOTE. OK10700010 COYOTE WAS ONCE ON HIS TRAVELS, AND CAME AT THE CLOSE OF DAY TO OK10700020 THE HOUSE OF A GIANT, WHOSE NAME WAS 'SWANAITEM. HE DETERMINED TO OK10700030 SPEND THE NIGHT HERE. HE WENT IN AND FOUND THE GIANT LYING ON HIS OK10700040 BACK. HE DID NOT SPEAK TO, OR TAKE ANY NOTICE OF, COYOTE. SOME OK10700050 OF THE OTHER INMATES OF THE HOUSE ACCOSTED HIM, BUT SWANAITEM OK10700060 NEVER MOVED. THERE WAS NO FIRE IN THE HOUSE WHEN COYOTE ENTERED. OK10700070 PRESENTLY SWANAITEM GOT UP AND TOOK TWO ROUND BOULDERS THAT LAY AT OK10700080 HIS RIGHT SIDE, AND KNOCKED THEM TOGETHER. IMMEDIATELY THEY BEGAN OK10700090 TO BURN LIKE A FIRE. HE NOW TOLD HIS PEOPLE TO PREPARE SUPPER FOR OK10700100 THEIR UNCLE, MEANING COYOTE. THEY DID SO, AND COYOTE MADE A HEARTY OK10700110 MEAL. THEY THEN GAVE HIM A BLANKET TO SLEEP IN. NOW, HE HAD BEEN OK10700120 MUCH STRUCK BY THE WAY IN WHICK SWANAITEM HAD MADE HIS FIRE, AND OK10700130 THEREUPON HAD DETERMINED TO POSSESS HIMSELF OF THESE WONDERFUL OK10700140 FIRE-STONES. AT BED-TIME SWANAITEM TOOK THE FIRE-STONES FROM THE OK10700150 FIRE-PLACE, AND PUT THEM BACK BY HIS BED-SIDE AGAIN. COYOTE OK10700160 WAITED TILL ALL WERE ASLEEP, THEN GOT UP AND TOOK THE TWO FIRE- OK10700170 STONES FROM THE GIANT'S SIDE, AND GOT AWAY WITH THEM. HE WENT UP OK10700180 THE LADDER, AND AS SOON AS HE GOT OUTSIDE, BEGAN TO RUN AS FAST AS OK10700190 HE COULD. HE KEPT ON THUS TILL BREAK OF DAY, AND PRESENTLY HE OK10700200 PERCEIVED A LARGE TREE BEFORE HIM WITH MANY SPREADING BRANCHES. OK10700210 "I WILL GO UP THERE AND REST," SAID HE. HE CLIMBED THE TREE AND OK10700220 LAY DOWN AS HE THOUGHT ON A BROAD BRANCH AND SLEPT. IN HIS SLEEP OK10700230 HE HEARD SWANAITEM'S VOICE SAYING TO HIM, "WHAT ARE YOU DOING WITH OK10700240 MY FIRE-STONES UP THERE? MY CHILDREN WANT A FIRE." COYOTE WOKE OK10700250 UP, SAYING TO HIMSELF, "I THINK SOMEBODY MUST HAVE OVERTAKEN ME." OK10700260 WHEN HE LOOKED ABOUT HIM, HE FOUND THAT HE WAS NOT IN A TREE AT OK10700270 ALL, BUT ONLY HALF-WAY UP THE LADDER OF THE GIANT'S HOUSE. HE CAME OK10700280 DOWN AND THREW THE FIRE-STONES AT THE GIANT'S SIDE, IN DEEP OK10700290 DISGUST. SWANAITEM THEN TOOK UP THE STONES, KNOCKED THEM OK10700300 TOGETHER, AND IMMEDIATELY THEY BEGAN TO GLOW, AS BEFORE. OK10700310 SWANAITEM'S PEOPLE NOW COOKED THEIR BREAKFAST, GIVING COYOTE HIS OK10700320 PORTION. AS COYOTE OBSERVED AGAIN THE MAGIC POWER OF THE FIRE- OK10700330 STONES, HE SAID TO HIMSELF, "I MUST HAVE THOSE STONES AT ALL COSTS; OK10700340 BESIDES, I DON'T LIKE BEING FOOLED. I WILL WAIT TILL NIGHT AGAIN, OK10700350 AND WHEN I GET THE STONES I WILL KEEP ON GOING AND NOT STOP AT OK10700360 ALL." SO HE WAITED TILL NIGHT CAME; BUT SWANAITEM KNEW WHAT WAS IN OK10700370 COYOTE'S MIND. SAID COYOTE TO HIMSELF, "I WILL KEEP ON TALKING, OK10700380 AND THAT WILL KEEP ME AWAKE." NIGHT CAME, AND WHEN COYOTE THOUGHT OK10700390 ASLEEP HE GOT UP. SAID HE TO HIMSELF, "NOW, I AM GETTING UP; NOW, OK10700400 I AM STARTING TO WALK; NOW, I HAVE TAKEN THE FIRE-STONES; NOW, I OK10700410 HAVE GOT TO THE FOOT OF THE LADDER, NOW, I AM CLIMBING UP; NOW, I OK10700420 AM AT THE TOP; NOW, I AM OUTSIDE; NOW, I AM STARTING TO RUN." OK10700430 THUS, HE KEPT ON GOING, AND AS HE KNEW THE COUNTRY THEREABOUT QUITE OK10700440 WELL, HE WOULD SAY TO HIMSELF, "I AM HERE, OR I AM THERE." ALL OK10700450 NIGHT HE WENT ON IN THIS WAY, THINKING HE WAS GETTING FARTHER AND OK10700460 FARTHER AWAY WITH HIS PLUNDER. AT DAYBREAK, WHEN SWANAITEM'S OK10700470 PEOPLE WOKE UP, THEY SAW COYOTE RUNNING ROUND AND ROUND THE OK10700480 FIREPLACE, TALKING TO HIMSELF. HE WAS SWEATING WITH HIS EXERTIONS. OK10700490 SWANAITEM CALLED OUT TO HIM, AND TOLD HIM HE WANTED HIS STONES TO OK10700500 LIGHT THE FIRE FOR BREAKFAST. COYOTE WOKE UP, AND FOUND HIMSELF OK10700510 STILL IN THE HOUSE. HE THREW DOWN THE ROCKS AND SAT HIMSELF DOWN. OK10700520 "I HAVE BEEN BADLY BEATEN," THOUGHT HE, "AND I HAD BETTER GIVE UP OK10700530 THE GAME." AFTER HE HAD EATEN HIS BREAKFAST, HE LEFT AND WENT ON OK10700540 HIS WAY. OK10700550 ***OKA-058*** OK108 THE MAKING OF THE SUN OK10800010 A LONG TIME AGO THE WORLD WAS ALL DARK; THERE WAS NO SUN. SO ALL OK10800020 THE PEOPLE CAME TOGETHER TO MAKE A SUN. SOMEBODY PROPOSED THAT OK10800030 QUILQUILAKEN, THE REDHEADED WOODPECKER, SHOULD BE PUT IN THE OK10800040 HEAVENS FOR A SUN. HE WAS ACCORDINGLY PUT UP, BUT WAS FOUND TO BE OK10800050 TOO HOT; AND OBJECTIONS BEING MADE, HE WAS TAKEN DOWN AGAIN. THEN OK10800060 SKWIRHAN, THE CRANE, WAS CHOSEN, BUT OBJECTIONS WERE MADE TO HIM OK10800070 ALSO. HE WAS SO LONG IN THE LEGS THAT NOON ARRIVED BEFORE HE WAS OK10800080 PROPERLY UP. THIS MADE THE DAY SO SHORT, THAT IT WAS ADVISABLE TO OK10800090 TRY SOMEONE ELSE. SO THEY TOOK DOWN CRANE, AND PUT UP SINKELEP, OK10800100 THE COYOTE, IN HIS PLACE. NOW, EVERY TIME COYOTE ROSE, HE CALLED OK10800110 OUT AND TOLD EVERYBODY WHAT HE SAW GOING ON. THIS SO GREATLY OK10800120 DISPLEASED THE PEOPLE, THAT HE WAS SPEEDILY CALLED DOWN. THE OK10800130 PEOPLE THEN CHOSE SLUKWACTILT, ONE OF COYOTE'S SONS, AND PLACED HIM OK10800140 IN THE HEAVENS. HE GAVE GREAT SATISFACTION, AND SO WAS ALLOWED TO OK10800150 REMAIN. HAIYACENUQ IS THE PRESENT NAME OF THE SUN. OK10800160 ***OKA-059*** OK109 STEALING THE FIRE FROM THE UPPER WORLD. OK10900010 ONCE THERE WAS NO FIRE, SO ALL THE PEOPLE MET TOGETHER TO DISCUSS OK10900020 THE PROBLEM OF PROCURING THE FIRE. THEY WONDER HOW THEY CAN BEST OK10900030 GET UP INTO THE UPPER WORLD. AT LAST, IT IS DETERMINED TO MAKE A OK10900040 CHAIN OF ARROWS. ACCORDINGLY, AN ARROW IS SHOT INTO THE SKY, BUT OK10900060 IT WOULD NOT STICK FAST. THEY ALL TRY ONE AFTER ANOTHER, TO MAKE OK10900070 THEIR ARROWS STICK, BUT FAIL TILL TSISKAKENA, A CERTAIN BIRD, SHOT OK10900080 HIS ARROWS HOME, AND LEFT HIS LAST ARROW SUSPENDED IN SUCH A WAY OK10900090 THAT THE OTHERS COULD ATTACH THEIRS TO IT. PRESENTLY, THE CHAIN OF OK10900100 ARROWS IS COMPLETE, AND THEY ALL CLIMB UP. WHEN SKOKAWELHAQ, THE OK10900110 SNAKE, GOT UP, THEY ASK HIM WHAT HAS HAPPENED TO HIS FRIEND OK10900120 SWARAKHEN, THE FROG. HE POINTED WITH HIS HAND TO HIS STOMACH, AND OK10900130 THEY CONCLUDE HE MUST HAVE SWALLOWED HIM COMING UP THE ARROW CHAIN. OK10900140 THEY NOW CONSULT TOGETHER AS TO THE BEST METHOD OF PROCURING THE OK10900150 FIRE. IT IS DETERMINED THAT STONUQ, THE BEAVER, SHOULD GET INTO OK10900160 THE WATER AND BE CAUGHT BY THE FIRE-PEOPLE WHO WERE FISHING AT THAT OK10900170 TIME CLOSE BY; AND THAT WHEN HE WAS BEING SKINNED MILAKENOPS, THE OK10900180 EAGLE, SHOULD FLY OVER AND ATTRACT THE PEOPLE'S ATTENTION AND DRAW OK10900190 THEM AWAY FROM BEAVER, WHO WAS THEN TO SEIZE THE OPPORTUNITY AND OK10900200 MAKE OFF WITH A PORTION OF THE FIRE. ACCORDINGLY, BEAVER ENTERED OK10900210 THE STREAM WHERE THE FIRE-PEOPLE WERE FISHING, AND ALLOWED HIMSELF OK10900220 TO BE CAUGHT BY THEM. THEY IMMEDIATELY TOOK HIM HOME, AND BEGAN TO OK10900230 SKIN HIM. THEY HAD JUST CUT OPEN THE SKIN AT THE BREAST WHEN EAGLE OK10900240 FLEW OVER AND ATTRACTED ATTENTION. EVERYBODY SEIZED HIS BOW AND OK10900250 ARROWS, AND FOLLOWED AFTER EAGLE TO TRY AND BRING HIM DOWN. OK10900260 BEAVER, SEIZING HIS OPPORTUNITY, IMMEDIATELY JUMPED UP, AND PLACING OK10900270 SOME OF THE FIRE INSIDE HIS SKIN, WHERE IT HAD BEEN CUT OPEN, MADE OK10900280 OFF BACK TO HIS COMPANIONS, WHERE HE WAS PRESENTLY JOINED BY EAGLE. OK10900290 THERE WAS GREAT EXCITEMENT NOW AT THE TOP OF THE LADDER, AS TO WHO OK10900300 SHOULD GET DOWN FIRST. IN THEIR PUSHING AND STRIVING THE CHAIN OF OK10900310 ARROWS BROKE BEFORE THEY ALL GOT DOWN, AND SOME OF THEM HAD TO JUMP OK10900320 FOR IT. CATFISH FELL INTO A HOLE AND BROKE HIS JAW ALL TO PIECES. OK10900330 KAIKQILUQ, THE SUCKER, STRUCK HIS HEAD AND SMASHED ALL THE BONES, OK10900340 IN CONSEQUENCE OF WHICH ALL THE OTHER ANIMALS HAD EACH TO OK10900350 CONTRIBUTE A BONE TO GIVE HIM A NEW HEAD. THUS IT IS THAT THE OK10900360 CATFISH HAS SUCH A PECULIAR MOUTH, AND THE SUCKER SUCH A PECULIAR OK10900370 HEAD. OK10900380 ***OKA-060*** OK110 HOW COYOTE BROUGHT THE SALMON UP THE COLUMBIA AND OK11000010 ITS TRIBUTARY RIVERS AND STREAMS. OK11000020 COYOTE WAS ONCE GOING DOWN THE RIVER (COLUMBIA) WHEN HE WAS OK11000030 OVERTAKEN BY A GREAT WIND STORM, WHICH NEARLY BLEW HIM OFF HIS OK11000040 FEET. THEREUPON HE BEGAN TO WISH THAT THE WIND WOULD COME STILL OK11000050 STRONGER AND CARRY HIM ALONG. PRESENTLY A GREAT BLAST TOOK HIM OFF OK11000060 HIS FEET AND CARRIED HIM UP INTO THE AIR. WHEN THE WIND BEGAN TO OK11000070 SLACKEN AND HE FOUND HIMSELF FALLING HE SAW THAT HE WAS OVER THE OK11000080 MIDDLE OF THE RIVER. HE IMMEDIATELY WISHED TO BECOME A WOODEN OK11000090 DISH, WHICH HE DID, AND FLOATED DOWN THE STREAM. HE CAME AT LENGTH OK11000100 TO A PLACE WHERE THERE WAS A SALMON WEIR (STEMOS). NOW THE PEOPLE OK11000110 WHO OWNED THIS WEIR WERE BIRDS (UWITLAWITLT). THERE WERE TWO OF OK11000120 THEM, BOTH WOMEN. IN THE MORNING WHEN THEY WENT TO THE WEIR TO GET OK11000130 THEIR SALMON THEY SAW THIS DISH LODGED AGAINST THE FRAMEWORK. THE OK11000140 YOUNGER WOMAN CRIED OUT AND SAID, "WHAT A NICE LITTLE DISH] I WILL OK11000150 TAKE IT HOME, IT WILL JUST DO FOR ME." SO SHE TOOK IT HOME AND OK11000160 USED IT FOR EATING HER SALMON OUT OF. SHE LEFT A LARGE PIECE OF OK11000170 SALMON ON THE DISH, WHILE SHE AND HER SISTER WENT INTO THE WOODS. OK11000180 WHEN THEY CAME BACK IT WAS ALL GONE. THEY WONDERED WHAT HAD OK11000190 HAPPENED TO IT. SAID THE ELDER, "I THINK YOU SHOULD THROW THAT OK11000200 DISH INTO THE FIRE; IT MAY BE COYOTE." THE YOUNGER SISTER THEN OK11000210 THREW IT INTO THE FIRE, WHEREUPON IT CRIED OUT LIKE A CHILD. THE OK11000220 CRIES SO WRUNG THE TENDER HEART OF THE YOUNGER WOMAN THAT SHE TOOK OK11000230 IT OUT AGAIN, SAYING, "HE SHALL BE MY YOUNGEST BROTHER." THEY TAKE OK11000240 HIM UP AND FEED HIM, AND WHENEVER THEY WENT AWAY THEY TIED HIM UP OK11000250 FOR SAFETY WITH A LINE. AS SOON AS THEY HAD GONE AWAY COYOTE WOULD OK11000260 UNTIE HIMSELF AND GO DOWN TO THE WEIR AND TRY TO BREAK IT DOWN. OK11000270 THIS STATE OF THINGS WENT ON FOR SEVERAL DAYS, TILL AT LAST COYOTE OK11000280 HAD SO WEAKENED THE WEIR THAT HE COULD EASILY BREAK IT OPEN OK11000290 WHENEVER HE DESIRED. OK11000300 ONE DAY WHEN THE WOMEN HAD GONE AWAY AND LEFT HIM TIED AS OK11000310 USUAL, HE DETERMINED TO BREAK THE WEIR AND GET AWAY. BUT THE TASK OK11000320 TOOK HIM LONGER THAN HE THOUGHT IT WOULD, AND THE WOMEN RETURNED OK11000330 BEFORE HE HAD FINISHED. WHEN THE WOMEN GOT HOME THEY SAW THAT THE OK11000340 CHILD HAD UNTIED HIMSELF AND GOT AWAY, AND THEY WENT DOWN TO THE OK11000350 WEIR TO LOOK FOR HIM. WHEN THEY GOT THERE THEY SAW THAT HE HAD OK11000360 NEARLY DESTROYED THEIR WEIR. THEY TRIED TO STOP HIM BUT COULD NOT. OK11000370 THEY STRUCK AT HIM WITH THEIR DIGGING STICKS, BUT HE COVERED HIS OK11000380 HEAD AND SHOULDERS WITH THEIR BIG HORN SPOON (ILAKOT), WHICH HE HAD OK11000390 TAKEN WITH HIM, SO THAT WHEN THEY STRUCK HIM HE DID NOT FEEL THE OK11000400 BLOWS, AND WENT ON WITH HIS WORK OF DEMOLITION. IN A SHORT TIME OK11000410 THE WEIR WAS BROKEN DOWN AND THE SALMON CAME UP THE RIVER. HE OK11000420 WALKED ALONG THE BANKS OF THE RIVER AND THE SALMON FOLLOWED HIM IN OK11000430 THE WATER. WHENEVER HE CAMPED HE STOPPED THE SALMON BY MOTIONING OK11000440 TO THEM. HE TOOK THEM UP THE RIVER (COLUMBIA) AND CAME AT LENGTH OK11000450 TO THE FALLS. HERE WOLVERINE LIVED WITH HIS DAUGHTERS. COYOTE OK11000460 TOOK ONE OF THESE TO WIFE, AND STOPPED THE SALMON HERE BY MAKING OK11000470 THE FALLS. HE STAYED HERE WITH WOLVERINE FOR SOME TIME, THEN HE OK11000480 CAME UP THE OKANAGAN RIVER AND BROUGHT THE SALMON WITH HIM. HE OK11000490 ALSO WENT SOME WAY UP THE SIMILKAMEEN RIVER TO THE CAMP OF THE OK11000500 MOUNTAIN SHEEP (ELEKWILUQKEN). THEY KNEW WHAT HE WAS DOING BUT OK11000510 DID NOT WANT THE SALMON, AND TOLD COYOTE THEY DID NOT WANT HIM OR OK11000520 HIS SALMON. THIS MADE HIM ANGRY, AND HE SAID, "YOU WILL ALWAYS OK11000530 HAVE A GOOD RIVER, BUT NO SALMON WILL EVER COME UP IT." THUS IT IS OK11000540 THAT NO SALMON GO UP THIS RIVER. COYOTE THEN RETRACED HIS STEPS OK11000550 AND TOOK THE SALMON UP THE OKANAGAN RIVER TO THE FALLS AND INTO ALL OK11000560 THE STREAMS OF THAT PART. THUS CAME THE SALMON. OK11000570 ***OKA-061*** OK111 MYTH OF SKUNK (CNIKSTIA) AND FISHER (TCIRTOPS). OK11100010 SKUNK AND FISHER LIVED TOGETHER IN THE SAME HOUSE, AND WENT OK11100020 OUT HUNTING DAILY IN THE MOUNTAINS. NOW CHIPMONK (KOKOTSAWEYA) AND OK11100030 KING-BIRD (STETAK) LIVED WITH THEIR GRANDMOTHER IN THE SAME OK11100040 LOCALITY. SAID THEIR GRANDMOTHER TO THEM ONE DAY, "GO YOU NOW TO OK11100050 THE DWELLING OF SKUNK AND FISHER AND HIDE YOURSELVES UNDER FISHER'S OK11100060 BED, BUT DON'T HAVE ANY DEALINGS WITH SKUNK; KEEP AWAY FROM HIM OK11100070 ALTOGETHER." SO THE TWO GIRLS WENT TO THE HOUSE OF SKUNK AND OK11100080 FISHER AS THEIR GRANDMOTHER HAD DIRECTED, AND HID THEMSELVES UNDER OK11100090 THE LATTER'S BED. THEY HAD NO DIFFICULTY IN DISTINGUISHING BETWEEN OK11100100 THE TWO BEDS. ONE WAS SWEET AND CLEAN, THE OTHER WAS FOUL AND OK11100110 YELLOW-STAINED. THIS LATTER THEY KNEW MUST BE SKUNK'S, SO THEY OK11100120 AVOIDED IT. UNDER EACH BED THERE WAS A KIND OF CUPBOARD. THEY HID OK11100130 THEMSELVES IN THE ONE UNDER FISHER'S AND WAITED THERE FOR THE OK11100140 HUNTERS TO COME HOME. NOW IT HAPPENED THAT SKUNK CAME HOME FIRST. OK11100150 THE GIRLS KNEW THAT IT WAS SKUNK BY HIS SMELL AND BECAUSE HE OK11100160 REPEATEDLY DISCHARGED WIND. THE YOUNGER GIRL BEGAN TO LAUGH. THE OK11100170 ELDER SISTER CHIDED HER, TELLING HER NOT TO LAUGH AT SKUNK'S VULGAR OK11100180 NOISES. BUT SHE COULD NOT CONTROL HERSELF AND LAUGHED ALOUD. OK11100190 SKUNK HEARD THE LAUGHING AND LOOKED ABOUT TO SEE WHO WAS THERE. HE OK11100200 SEARCHED ALL ROUND THE DWELLING BUT FOUND NO ONE. HE WENT OUTSIDE OK11100210 AGAIN AND DISCHARGED WIND A SECOND TIME. AGAIN THE YOUNGER SISTER OK11100220 LAUGHED ALOUD, AND FROM THE DIRECTION OF THE SOUND SKUNK KNEW THAT OK11100230 THE LAUGHTER WAS INSIDE THE DWELLING. HE RETURNED TO THE HOUSE AND OK11100240 MADE A CAREFUL SEARCH ABOUT HIS PARTNER'S BED AND PRESENTLY OK11100250 DISCOVERED THE GIRLS IN THE CUPBOARD BENEATH IT. SAID HE: "WHICH OK11100260 OF US TWO MEN DO YOU WISH FOR HUSBAND?" THEY REPLIED, "WE WANT OK11100270 FISHER." WHEN SKUNK HEARD THIS HE SAID: "WHY DON'T YOU TAKE ME? OK11100280 I AM THE HEADMAN." AFTER SOME PERSUASION THE TWO GIRLS WERE OK11100290 INDUCED TO ACCEPT SKUNK AS THEIR HUSBAND. SKUNK PLACED THEM IN HIS OK11100300 CUPBOARD. PRESENTLY THEY HEARD FISHER COMING HOME. AS HE WALKED OK11100310 HE MADE A NOISE WHICH DISTINGUISHED HIM FROM SKUNK. SAID THE OK11100320 ELDER SISTER TO THE YOUNGER, "THAT IS THE MAN WE SHOULD HAVE OK11100330 CHOSEN, BUT BECAUSE OF YOUR LAUGHING WE HAVE GOT THE WRONG OK11100340 HUSBAND." FISHER CAME IN AND SAW SKUNK LYING ON HIS BACK DOING OK11100350 NOTHING INSTEAD OF COOKING THE SUPPER. SAID FISHER TO HIM, "WHY OK11100360 HAVEN'T YOU GOT SUPPER READY AS USUAL?" OK11100370 SKUNK REPLIED: "YOU MISTAKE; I AM NOT THE COOK; I AM THE OK11100380 CHIEF." FISHER TRIED TO COAX HIM TO COOK THE SUPPER, BUT HE OK11100390 STEADILY REFUSED, AND FISHER HAD TO PREPARE IT HIMSELF. WHEN THE OK11100400 FOOD WAS READY SKUNK SAID TO FISHER: "LET US PUT SOME FOOD IN OUR OK11100410 CUPBOARDS AND SEE WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO IT." FISHER THOUGHT THIS A OK11100420 STRANGE TRICK, BUT AGREED TO DO AS SKUNK SUGGESTED. ACCORDINGLY OK11100430 EACH PUT A PLATTER OF FOOD IN HIS CUPBOARD BENEATH THE BED. AFTER OK11100440 A LITTLE WHILE THEY OPENED THE CUPBOARDS AND TOOK OUT THE PLATTERS. OK11100450 SKUNK'S PLATTER WAS EMPTY, BUT FISHER'S CONTAINED THE FOOD HE HAD OK11100460 PLACED ON IT. WHEN FISHER SAW SKUNK'S EMPTY PLATE HE WAS CERTAIN OK11100470 THERE WAS SOMETHING WRONG AND MADE UP HIS MIND TO INVESTIGATE. SO OK11100480 NEXT MORNING FISHER LOITERED ABOUT THE HOUSE INSTEAD OF GOING OFF OK11100490 HUNTING AS USUAL. SKUNK DID THE SAME, AND FISHER WAS SURE FROM OK11100500 THIS THAT HE WAS TRYING TO HIDE SOMETHING FROM HIM. FISHER NOW OK11100510 TRIED TO INDUCE SKUNK TO START. SAID FISHER TO HIM, "I WISH YOU OK11100520 WOULD GO AND BRING HOME THE MEAT I KILLED YESTERDAY. I AM GOING OK11100530 TO HUNT IN ANOTHER DIRECTION TO-DAY." NOW SKUNK WAS EQUALLY OK11100540 DETERMINED TO STAY BEHIND, SO HE SAID, "ALL RIGHT, YOU GO AHEAD; OK11100550 I'LL START PRESENTLY. I HAVE SOMETHING I WANT TO DO FIRST." BUT OK11100560 FISHER WAS NOT TO BE TRICKED IN THIS WAY. MAKING AS IF TO START, OK11100570 HE TOOK A BIG STONE AND ROLLED IT AWAY FROM THE HOUSE IN SUCH A WAY OK11100580 THAT IT SOUNDED LIKE A MAN WALKING OFF AND HID HIMSELF BETWEEN THE OK11100590 LAYERS OF MATTING OF THE LODGE. WHEN SKUNK THOUGHT FISHER WAS GONE OK11100600 HE TOOK THE GIRLS OUT OF HIS CUPBOARD AND BEGAN TO LAUGH AND SPORT OK11100610 WITH THEM. AFTER A WHILE HE BADE THEM GO BACK INTO THE CUPBOARD OK11100620 AGAIN AND STARTED OUT TO GET THE DEER FISHER HAD KILLED THE DAY OK11100630 BEFORE. WHEN HE WAS OUT OF SIGHT FISHER LEFT HIS HIDING PLACE AND OK11100640 WENT INTO THE HOUSE. HE TOOK THE GIRLS OUT OF SKUNK'S CUPBOARD AND OK11100650 ASKED THEM WHICH OF THE TWO THEY HAD COME FOR, HE OR SKUNK. THEY OK11100660 TELL HIM FOR HIMSELF AND RELATE HOW THE LAUGHTER OF THE YOUNGER HAD OK11100670 LED TO THEIR DISCOVERY BY SKUNK. SAID FISHER: "NEVER MIND, WE'LL OK11100680 TRICK HIM YET." HE NOW ASKS THEM WHERE THEY LIVED. THEY TELL HIM OK11100690 THEIR DWELLING WAS IN A CERTAIN ROCK. SAID HE: "WE'LL GO THERE, OK11100700 BUT FIRST WE'LL BURN DOWN THE LODGE AND GO UP THROUGH THE SMOKE SO OK11100710 THAT SKUNK WILL NOT BE ABLE TO TRACE US, FOR IF SKUNK SHOULD FIND OK11100720 OUR TRAIL IT WILL BE ALL UP WITH US." THEY FIRED THE LODGE AND OK11100730 PASSED UP INTO THE AIR WITH THE SMOKE AND PRESENTLY ALIGHTED ON A OK11100740 GREAT BOULDER ON THE SIDE OF THE RIVER. NOW SKUNK HAD MET WITH OK11100750 VERY BAD LUCK THAT DAY. HE HAD CUT UP THE DEER AND MADE UP HIS OK11100760 PACK OF MEAT AND STARTED TO CLIMB THE MOUNTAIN ON HIS WAY HOMEWARD, OK11100770 BUT WHEN HE WAS ABOUT HALF-WAY UP HIS PACKING STRAPS BROKE, AND OK11100780 BEFORE HE COULD RECOVER HIS PACK IT HAD ROLLED TO THE BOTTOM OF THE OK11100790 MOUNTAIN AGAIN. THIS HAPPENED TO HIM SEVERAL TIMES, AND HE BEGAN OK11100800 TO THINK THERE WAS SOMETHING WRONG, AND LEFT HIS PACK BEHIND HIM OK11100810 AND CLIMBED THE MOUNTAIN WITHOUT IT. WHEN HE REACHED THE TOP AND OK11100820 LOOKED IN THE DIRECTION OF HIS LODGE HE SAW NOTHING BUT A CLOUD OF OK11100830 SMOKE. HE RUSHED TOWARD THE SPOT ONLY TO FIND A HEAP OF SMOKING OK11100840 ASHES. OK11100850 NOW IT WAS HIS CUSTOM WHEN HE WENT HUNTING TO LEAVE HIS OK11100860 SPATZ BEHIND HIM. THIS HAD NEARLY BEEN ALL BURNED; ONLY A SMALL OK11100870 PORTION WAS LEFT FROM THE FIRE. HE SEARCHED ALL ROUND FOR TRACKS OK11100880 BUT COULD FIND NONE. BEING THIRSTY HE WENT DOWN TO THE RIVER TO OK11100890 QUENCH HIS THIRST. AS HE STOOPED TO DRINK HE SAW THE REFLECTION OF OK11100900 FISHER AND THE TWO GIRLS, WHO WERE SEATED ON THE BOULDER, IN THE OK11100910 WATER BEFORE HIM. HE STRAIGHTWAY SQUIRTED A STREAM OF SPATZ AT OK11100920 THEM IN THE WATER. HE DOES THIS AGAIN AND AGAIN, BUT TO HIS OK11100930 SURPRISE IT TAKES NO EFFECT UPON THEM. PRESENTLY HE PERCEIVES THAT OK11100940 IT IS THEIR REFLECTION IN THE WATER THAT HE HAS BEEN SQUIRTING AT. OK11100950 HE NOW STEALS UP TO THE UPPER SIDE OF THE BOULDER AND SQUIRTS HIS OK11100960 SPATZ AT FISHER. IT STRUCK HIM ON THE TOE AND KILLED HIM. OK11100970 THEREUPON HE TAKES THE GIRLS DOWN FROM THE ROCK, AND THEY PRETEND OK11100980 TO BE PLEASED TO SEE HIM AGAIN. HE NOW TAKES THEM TO WIFE. HE OK11100990 COPULATED WITH THEM ALL THAT DAY AND INTO THE NIGHT, WHEN HE SLEPT OK11101000 SOUNDLY FROM EXHAUSTION. THE GIRLS NOW LEAVE HIM AND CAUSE THE OK11101010 ROCKS TO RISE UP AND ENCIRCLE HIM; THEN THEY LEAVE HIM AND GO HOME OK11101020 TO THEIR GRANDMOTHER. WHEN SKUNK AWOKE AND TRIED TO GET OUT HE OK11101030 FOUND THE HOLE SO SMALL THAT IT WAS IMPOSSIBLE FOR HIM TO GET OK11101040 THROUGH. THE ONLY WAY HE COULD POSSIBLY GET OUT WAS TO TAKE OK11101050 HIMSELF TO PIECES AND PUT OUT ONE BIT AT A TIME. THIS HE DID AND OK11101060 PUT HIMSELF OUT PIECE BY PIECE TILL NOTHING BUT HIS SINHAHOPS (THE OK11101070 BAG IN WHICH HE CARRIED HIS SPATZ) REMAINED. NOW RAVEN (YUELTELOQ) OK11101080 HAD BEEN WATCHING HIM, AND WHEN HE SAW THE SINHAHOPS COMING THROUGH OK11101090 THE HOLE HE TRIED TO STEAL IT. BUT SKUNK WITHDREW IT IN TIME TO OK11101100 SAVE IT. THEN HE THOUGHT: "IF I DON'T WANT RAVEN TO STEAL IT I OK11101110 MUST THROW IT OUT AND RUSH AFTER IT QUICKLY." HE TRIED TO DO THIS, OK11101120 BUT RAVEN WAS TOO SMART AND GOT AWAY WITH THE SINHAHOPS BEFORE HE OK11101130 COULD GET OUT. SKUNK NOW PUT HIMSELF TOGETHER AGAIN AND WENT AFTER OK11101140 RAVEN. AFTER TRAVELLING A LONG WAY HE CAME UPON A GREAT GATHERING OK11101150 OF PEOPLE WHO WERE HAVING GREAT FUN PLAYING WITH HIS SINHAHOPS. OK11101160 WHEN IT ROLLED IT LOOKED LIKE A GREAT BALL OF FIRE. SKUNK WATCHED OK11100170 HIS CHANCE TO GET NEAR THE BALL, AND PRESENTLY WHEN IT CAME NEAR OK11101180 WHERE HE WAS WAITING HE RUSHED OUT AND SAT DOWN QUICKLY UPON IT AND OK11101190 THE SINHAHOPS FELL INTO ITS PLACE. HE NOW WENT TO THE PEOPLE'S OK11101200 HOUSES AND SQUIRTED THE SPATZ EVERYWHERE AND KILLED MANY OF THE OK11101210 PEOPLE. FROM HERE HE WENT ON TO ANOTHER SETTLEMENT, AND TOLD THE OK11101220 PEOPLE THERE THAT HE WAS TRAVELLING ROUND WITH GOOD NEWS, AND THAT OK11101230 IF THEY WOULD ALL COME TOGETHER AND FASTEN THE HOUSE UP TIGHT HE OK11101240 WOULD TELL THEM THE NEWS. THEY DID SO AND ASSEMBLED TOGETHER IN OK11101250 GREAT NUMBERS AND CLOSED THE HOUSE UP TIGHT EVEN TO THE ROOF. THEN OK11101260 SKUNK SQUIRTED HIS SPATZ OVER THEM AND KILLED THEM ALL IN REVENGE. OK11101270 THIS HAPPENED A LONG TIME AGO ON THE OKANAGAN RIVER, WHERE THE OK11101280 ROCK UPON WHICH FISHER AND THE TWO GIRLS ALIGHTED NOW STANDS. OK11101290 ***OKA-062*** OK112 COYOTE, HIS FOUR SONS AND THE GRIZZLY BEAR. OK11200010 COYOTE HAD FOUR SONS, AND THE GRIZZLY BEAR (KELAUNA) HAD OK11200020 SEVERAL DAUGHTERS. COYOTE'S ELDEST SON SAID TO HIS FATHER, "I OK11200030 THINK I WOULD LIKE TO GO AND ASK KELAUNA FOR HIS ELDEST DAUGHTER." OK11200040 "VERY GOOD," SAID COYOTE, "YOU CAN GO." SO THE SON PUT ON HIS OK11200050 QUIVER OF ARROWS, TOOK HIS BOW AND STARTED OFF. WHEN HE GOT TO OK11200060 KELAUNA'S CAMP, THE MOTHER BEAR SAID TO HIM, "I AM VERY GLAD TO SEE OK11200070 YOU. COME IN, AND GO AND SIT DOWN WITH YOUR WIFE." BEFORE HE OK11200080 ENTERED, HE TOOK OFF HIS QUIVER AND LAID IT ON THE GROUND AT THE OK11200090 ENTRANCE. WHILE THE YOUNG MAN WAS INSIDE WITH HIS WIFE THE MOTHER OK11200100 BEAR WENT OUTSIDE, AND STEPPING ON THE POINTS OF HIS ARROWS, BROKE OK11200110 THEM OFF. PRESENTLY SHE RETURNED TO THE HOUSE AND TOLD THE YOUTH OK11200120 THAT A GRIZZLY BEAR WAS ON THE HILL ACROSS THE RIVER, AND SUGGESTED OK11200130 THAT HE SHOULD GO AND SHOOT IT. ACTING ON HER SUGGESTION HE LEFT OK11200140 HIS WIFE, ENTERED HIS CANOE AND CROSSED THE RIVER AFTER THE BEAR. OK11200150 BEFORE HE STARTED THE MOTHER SPOKE TO HIM IN THIS WISE:--"WHEN YOU OK11200160 GET ACROSS BE SURE TO ATTACK HIM FROM THE BASE OF THE HILL; DON'T OK11200170 CLIMB THE HILL, AND GO BEYOND HIM." HE PROMISED TO FOLLOW HER OK11200180 INSTRUCTIONS, AND WHEN HE GOT NEAR THE BEAR, TOOK OUT HIS ARROWS, OK11200190 AND BEGAN TO SHOOT AT HIM. THE BEAR FELL DOWN, AND BEGAN ROLLING OK11200200 DOWN THE HILL TOWARDS THE YOUTH, WHO CONTINUED SHOOTING, THINKING OK11200210 HIS ARROWS WERE PIERCING THE BEAR EACH TIME. WHEN THE BEAR WAS OK11200220 CLOSE TO THE YOUNG MAN, HE SPRANG UP SUDDENLY AND KILLED HIM. HE OK11200230 HAD MERELY FEIGNED DEATH, AS NONE OF THE ARROWS HAD PIERCED HIM, OK11200240 THEIR HEADS HAVING BEEN BROKEN OFF BY THE OLD WOMAN. SOME TIME OK11200250 AFTER THE SECOND SON ASKED HIS FATHER'S PERMISSION TO GO AND MARRY OK11200260 ONE OF KELAUNA'S DAUGHTERS. RECEIVING HIS FATHER'S CONSENT HE SET OK11200270 OUT FOR KELAUNA'S CAMP. HE MET WITH THE SAME FATE AS HIS ELDER OK11200280 BROTHER, AS DID LIKEWISE THE THIRD AND FOURTH SON. EACH WAS OK11200290 TRICKED AND KILLED IN THE SAME MANNER. OK11200300 NOW, COYOTE HAD A FIFTH SON NAMED SEANEUQ (MUSKRAT). HE HAD OK11200310 BEEN AWAY FROM HOME FOR A LONG TIME UNDERGOING HIS STCUENTCUT (THAT OK11200320 IS, SEEKING HIS PERSONAL TOTEM). HE WAS AWARE OF HIS BROTHERS' OK11200330 FATE, HAVING BEEN INFORMED THEREOF BY HIS SCOMEQ (PERSONAL TOTEM). OK11200340 HE WAS MAKING HIMSELF POWERFUL TO RESIST AND OVERCOME KELAUNA, AND OK11200350 AVENGE HIS BROTHERS. WHEN HE HAD FINISHED HIS COURSE AND RETURNED OK11200360 HOME HE SAID TO HIS FATHER, "I WILL GO AND VISIT KELAUNA, TOO. I OK11200370 DON'T THINK SHE WILL TRICK ME." HE TOOK WITH HIM SOME EXTRA ARROW OK11200390 HEADS AND FASTENING THREADS, AND HID THEM ON HIS PERSON. WHEN HE OK11200400 ARRIVED HE LAID ASIDE HIS QUIVER, AND HAVING ENTERED WAS BIDDEN OK11200410 WELCOME BY KELAUNA AND TOLD TO GO AND SIT WITH HIS WIFE. PRESENTLY OK11200420 THE OLD WOMAN CAME RUNNING IN, AND ASKED HIM TO GO ACROSS THE RIVER OK11200430 AND SHOOT A BEAR THAT WAS ON THE HILL OPPOSITE. SHE GAVE HIM THE OK11200440 SAME INSTRUCTIONS AS SHE HAD GIVEN HIS BROTHERS, BUT HE HAD NO OK11200450 INTENTION OF FOLLOWING THEM. WHEN HE GOT ACROSS THE RIVER HE OK11200460 REFIXED THE POINTS OF HIS ARROWS WITH THE SPARE HEADS HE HAD OK11200470 BROUGHT WITH HIM, AND INSTEAD OF ATTACKING THE BEAR FROM THE LOWER OK11200480 SIDE AS HIS BROTHERS HAD DONE, HE CLIMBED BEYOND THE BEAR AND BEGAN OK11200490 TO SHOOT HIM FROM ABOVE. EVERY ONE OF HIS ARROWS WENT HOME, AND OK11200500 THE BEAR WAS KILLED. HE ROLLED DOWN THE HILL AND LAY AT THE BOTTOM OK11200510 DEAD. KELAUNA HAD WATCHED THE WHOLE PROCEEDINGS, AND SAW THE BEAR OK11200520 ROLL DOWN THE HILL, FOLLOWED BY THE YOUTH. OK11200530 SHE WAS MUCH DISTURBED BY THE FAILURE OF HER STRATAGEM, AND OK11200540 DETERMINED TO ATTACK THE YOUNG MAN HERSELF AS SOON AS HE GOT ACROSS OK11200550 THE RIVER. MEANWHILE SHE SHOUTED TO HIM TO CUT OFF THE BEAR'S HEAD OK11200560 AND BRING IT ACROSS TO HER. THE YOUNG MAN DID SO, AND PUT THE HEAD OK11200570 IN HIS CANOE, AND STARTED ACROSS. AS HE NEARED THE BANK KELAUNA OK11200580 PRETENDED TO BE VERY PLEASED TO SEE HIM COMING BACK SAFE AND SOUND, OK11200590 AND WENT DOWN TO THE EDGE OF THE WATER. WHEN THE CANOE WAS NEAR OK11200600 ENOUGH, SHE PUT OUT HER HAND TO SEIZE IT, BUT MUSKRAT UPSET IT, AND OK11200610 GRASPING THE HEAD OF THE BEAR, SWAM DOWN THE RIVER WITH IT, TO HIS OK11200620 FATHER'S CAMP. OK11200630 ARRIVING THERE, HE THREW THE HEAD IN THE HOUSE, AND CONTINUED OK11200640 ON DOWN THE RIVER. COYOTE NOW PERCEIVED WHAT HAD HAPPENED TO HIS OK11200650 SONS, AND BEGAN TO JEER AT AND TAUNT THE BEAR'S HEAD. KELAUNA HAD OK11200660 FOLLOWED AFFER MUSKRAT AND PRESENTLY CAME NEAR COYOTE'S HOUSE, AND OK11200670 HEARD HIM INSULTING AND MAKING FUN OF HER HUSBAND'S HEAD. SAID SHE OK11200680 TO HERSELF, "I WILL PAY YOU OUT FOR THIS, MY FRIEND." COYOTE HAD OK11200690 PREPARED FOR THE CONFLICT HE KNEW AWAITED HIM WITH THE BEAR, AND OK11200700 WHEN KELAUNA CAME IN EXPECTING TO FIND COYOTE, SHE SAW NOTHING BUT OK11200710 HER HUSBAND'S HEAD, AND A HEAP OF WRIGGLING MAGGOTS. SHE DID NOT OK11200720 CARE TO DISTURB THIS. SHE LOOKED AROUND EVERYWHERE FOR THE PERSON OK11200730 WHO HAD BEEN REVILING HER HUSBAND'S HEAD, BUT COULD SEE OR FIND OK11200740 NOBODY. PRESENTLY SHE TOOK THE HEAD AND WENT AWAY WITH IT. SHE OK11200750 HAD GONE BUT A LITTLE WAY, WHEN COYOTE APPEARED AT HIS DOOR AND OK11200760 BEGAN TO MISCALL AND ABUSE HER. SAID HE, "YOU THINK YOURSELF A OK11200770 VERY SMART WOMAN, NO DOUBT, WHEN DEALING WITH MERE BOYS, BUT YOU OK11200780 ARE NO MATCH FOR A MAN LIKE ME." SHE INSTANTLY DROPPED THE HEAD, OK11200790 AND RAN AT COYOTE. OK11200800 HE SPRANG ASIDE, AND RUSHED AWAY AS FAST AS HE COULD, SHE OK11200810 AFTER HIM. WHEN HE HAD GOT OUT OF HER SIGHT HE CHANGED HIMSELF OK11200820 INTO A BOULDER, AND WHEN KELAUNA CAME UP TO WHERE SHE THOUGHT SHE OK11200830 HAD HIM, SHE COULD SEE NOTHING BUT A BOULDER, WHICH IN HER RAGE SHE OK11200840 SNAPPED AND BIT AT SO SAVAGELY THAT SHE BROKE OFF SOME OF HER OK11200850 TEETH. IN A LITTLE WHILE SHE GAVE UP THE HUNT, AND STARTED OK11200860 HOMEWARDS AGAIN. SHE HAD GONE BUT A LITTLE WAY WHEN COYOTE, OK11200870 ASSUMING HIS PROPER SHAPE, BEGAN TO REVILE AND ABUSE HER AGAIN. OK11200880 SHE STARTED AFTER HIM A SECOND TIME. HE RAN ON TILL HE CROSSED THE OK11200890 BROW OF THE HILL, WHEN HE CHANGED HIMSELF INTO A ROSE BUSH (SKOQ(E) OK11200900 WITLP). KELAUNA WAS RUNNING SO FAST THAT WHEN SHE CAME UP TO THE OK11200910 ROSE BUSH SHE COULD NOT STOP HERSELF, BUT RAN RIGHT OVER IT, AND OK11200920 SCRATCHED HER BODY RATHER BADLY. SHE STILL KEPT ON, BUT HAD ONLY OK11200930 GOT A LITTLE FARTHER WHEN COYOTE, ASSUMING HIS PROPER FORM, BEGAN OK11200940 TO JEER AND MOCK HER AGAIN. HE REPEATED THESE TRICKS AGAIN AND OK11200950 AGAIN UNTIL HE HAD THOROUGHLY EXHAUSTED HER, AND SHE GAVE UP THE OK11200960 CHASE IN DISGUST AND RETURNED TO HER OWN HOME. OK11200970 ***OKA-063*** OK113 COYOTE AND FOX. OK11300010 COYOTE AND FOX WERE ONCE TRAVELLING TOGETHER IN WINTER ON OK11300020 THE ICE. NOW FOX HAD A TASSEL AT THE END OF HIS TAIL WHICH RANG OK11300030 LIKE A BELL AS HE MOVED. COYOTE VERY MUCH DESIRED TO POSSESS THIS OK11300040 TASSEL FOR HIMSELF AND BEGGED FOX TO GIVE IT TO HIM. FOX AT FIRST OK11300050 REFUSED TO PART WITH IT, BUT COYOTE BEGGED SO PERSISTENTLY THAT FOX OK11300060 IN THE END GAVE HIM THE BELL-TASSEL. SAID FOX, "YOU MUST NOT OK11300070 FORGET YOU ARE CARRYING IT, AND MUST FOLLOW THE LINE OF THE RIVER OK11300080 AND NOT TRY TO GO ACROSS COUNTRY WITH IT." THEN THEY PARTED. OK11300090 COYOTE TRAVELLED A LONG DISTANCE FOLLOWING THE WINDINGS AND OK11300100 TURNINGS OF THE RIVER WITHOUT STRIKING ANYTHING WITH THE BELL- OK11300110 TASSEL. PRESENTLY HE PERCEIVED SOME HAWS A LITTLE WAY UP THE BANK, OK11300120 AND BEING HUNGRY DETERMINED TO STOP AND GET SOME. SO HE MADE FOR OK11300130 THE BUSHES AND FILLED HIS STOMACH WITH THE HAWS, BUT IN MOVING OK11300140 AMONG THE BUSHES HE DROPPED THE BELL-TASSEL. WHEN HE HAD FINISHED OK11300150 HIS MEAL HE STARTED ON HIS JOURNEY AGAIN, BUT THE BELL-TASSEL BEING OK11300160 FASTENED TO HIS INTESTINES THESE WERE DRAGGED FROM HIM TILL HE FELL OK11300170 DEAD. NOW FOX SOON BECAME AWARE OF HIS CONDITION AND WENT AFTER OK11300180 HIM. HE PRESENTLY FOUND HIM AND REPLACING THE INTESTINES RESTORED OK11300190 HIM TO LIFE. COYOTE ENDEAVOURED TO PERSUADE FOX THAT HE HAD MERELY OK11300200 BEEN ASLEEP. "THAT'S A LIE," SAID FOX, "YOU LOST THE BELL-TASSEL OK11300210 AND HAD YOUR INTESTINES DRAWN FROM YOU, AND I HAD TO REPLACE THEM OK11300220 AND RESTORE YOU TO LIFE." COYOTE WANTED THE BELL-TASSEL AGAIN, BUT OK11300230 FOX WOULD NOT LET HIM HAVE IT, WHEREUPON COYOTE GOT ANGRY AND WENT OK11300240 OFF BY HIMSELF. OK11300250 ***OKA-064*** OK114 THE LAZY BOY OK11400010 THERE WAS ONCE A BOY WHO WAS VERY LAZY AND CAUSED HIS FATHER OK11400020 MUCH TROUBLE. ONE MORNING THE FATHER DETERMINED TO MOVE HIS CAMP OK11400030 AND LEAVE THE BOY BEHIND. NOW THE BOY HAD A BOW AND SOME ARROWS, OK11400040 AND WHEN HE SAW HIS PARENTS PREPARING TO MOVE CAMP HE PLACED HIS OK11400050 BOW AND ARROWS IN THE CANOE. THE FATHER PERCEIVED THE ACT, AND OK11400060 WHEN ABOUT TO START HE TOOK THE BOW AND ARROWS AND PLACED THEM ON OK11400070 THE BANK WITHOUT THE BOY'S KNOWLEDGE. AS THEY BEGAN TO PADDLE THE OK11400080 FATHER ASKED THE BOY, "WHERE ARE YOUR BOW AND ARROWS?" "I PUT THEM OK11400090 IN THE CANOE," REPLIED THE BOY. HE THEN LOOKED FOR THEM BUT COULD OK11400100 NOT FIND THEM. SAID THE FATHER TO HIM, "I SAW THEM JUST NOW ON THE OK11400110 BANK BY THE CAMP; YOU HAD BETTER GO BACK AND GET THEM." THE BOY OK11400120 JUMPED ASHORE AND WENT BACK TO THE CAMP. THE FATHER THEREUPON OK11400130 PADDLED OFF AND LEFT THE BOY BEHIND. PRESENTLY WHEN HE HAD FOUND OK11400140 HIS BOW AND ARROWS AND GOT BACK TO THE RIVER'S EDGE HE SAW THAT HIS OK11400150 PARENTS HAD PURPOSELY GONE AWAY WITHOUT HIM. HE SAT DOWN AND OK11400160 CRIED, WONDERING WHAT HE WOULD DO. PRESENTLY HE DETERMINED TO OK11400170 WANDER ABOUT TILL HE DIED FROM STARVATION OR TILL A GRIZZLY BEAR OK11400180 FOUND AND DEVOURED HIM. HE SET OUT TO CLIMB THE MOUNTAIN, AND HAD OK11400190 NOT GONE FAR WHEN HE MET A SHE-BEAR WITH CUBS. HE LAY DOWN IN HER OK11400200 PATH AND WAITED FOR HER TO COME AND KILL HIM, BUT SHE TURNED ASIDE OK11400210 AND TOOK ANOTHER PATH. SEEING THIS HE JUMPED UP AND RAN AND LAID OK11400220 HIMSELF DOWN AGAIN IN THE DIRECTION SHE WAS TRAVELLING. AGAIN THE OK11400230 BEAR AND HER CUBS TURNED ASIDE, AND HE HAD TO REPEAT THE MANOEUVRE OK11400240 MANY TIMES BEFORE THE BEAR CAME HIS WAY. THE CUBS DISCOVERED HIM OK11400250 FIRST AND CRIED OUT TO THE OLD BEAR, "OH, MOTHER, WE HAVE FOUND A OK11400260 LITTLE BROTHER." SAID THE OLD BEAR, "LEAVE HIM ALONE, IT IS ONLY A OK11400270 WORTHLESS BOY; THAT IS WHY HIS PARENTS HAVE DESERTED HIM." BUT THE OK11400280 CUBS BEGGED AND COAXED THEIR MOTHER TO TAKE THE BOY ALONG WITH OK11400290 THEM. SHE CONSENTED TO THIS CONDITIONALLY. SAID SHE, "IF I LET OK11400300 YOU TAKE HIM HOME YOU MUST PROMISE TO CARRY WATER AND WASH HIM AND OK11400310 KEEP HIM CLEAN." THEY PROMISED TO DO THIS AND TOOK THE BOY HOME OK11400320 WITH THEM. WHEN THEY ARRIVED THE OLD BEAR TOOK THE BOY AND WITH OK11400330 HER LITTLE FINGER RIPPED OPEN HIS STOMACH, WITHIN WHICH ARE SEEN OK11400340 ALL OK11400341 KINDS OF THINGS, POTS AND PANS AND STONES. SAID THE OLD BEAR TO OK11400350 HER CUBS, "SEE, THIS BOY HAS BEEN IN THE HABIT OF LICKING THE OK11400360 COOKING POTS AND PANS AND STONES, AND THIS IS THE RESULT. GO NOW, OK11400370 AND GET SOME WATER AND WASH HIM OUT." THEY FETCH THE WATER BUT HAD OK11400380 TO GO SEVERAL TIMES. THE OLD BEAR THEN CLOSED UP HIS STOMACH, AND OK11400390 HE WAS WELL AGAIN. SHE THEN TOOK HIS ARROWS, AND HAVING FIXED THEM OK11400400 TO HER LIKING GAVE THEM BACK TO THE BOY AND BADE HIM GO FORTH AND OK11400410 SHOOT GAME FOR HIS LITTLE SISTERS. SO HE WENT OUT AND SHOT OK11400420 SQUIRRELS AND CHIPMUNKS FOR THE CUBS. OK11400430 THE BOY REMAINED WITH THE BEARS ALL THAT SUMMER AND FOLLOWING OK11400440 WINTER. DURING THE WINTER THEY LIVED IN A HOUSE WHERE THEY HAD OK11400450 PLENTY OF FOOD. IN THE SPRING WHEN THEY WERE ABOUT TO GO OUT THE OK11400460 BEAR SPOKE THUS TO THE BOY: "YOU HAD BETTER GO BACK NOW TO YOUR OK11400470 PARENTS; YOU WILL FIND THEM IN SUCH AND SUCH A DIRECTION." SO THE OK11400480 BOY SET OUT AND PRESENTLY CAME UPON THE CAMP OF HIS PARENTS. THEY OK11400490 WERE VERY SURPRISED TO SEE HIM. NOW BEFORE HE LEFT THE OLD BEAR OK11400500 SHE TOLD HIM HE WOULD BE A GREAT BEAR HUNTER AND THAT THE BEAR OK11400510 PEOPLE WOULD PERMIT HIM TO HUNT AND KILL THEM SO LONG AS HE AVOIDED OK11400520 KILLING ANY CUBS; THAT IF HE DISOBEYED HER INSTRUCTIONS AND KILLED OK11400530 YOUNG BEAR THEY WOULD KILL HIM. FROM THIS TIME ON HE BECAME A OK11400540 GREAT BEAR HUNTER AND COULD ALWAYS GET FRESH BEAR MEAT ANY TIME OK11400550 DURING THE WINTER, FOR HE HAD POWER TO PERCEIVE THE SMOKE AS IT OK11400560 ASCENDED FROM THE WINTER QUARTERS OF BOTH BLACK AND GRIZZLY BEARS. OK11400570 BUT HE WAS CAREFUL NEVER TO TILL A CUB. NOW HIS PEOPLE NOTICED OK11400580 THIS, AND ONCE WHEN THEY WERE OUT HUNTING AND HAD KILLED A GREAT OK11400590 MANY MATURE BEARS, THEY SAID TO HIM, "WHY DON'T YOU KILL US A CUB- OK11400600 BEAR SOMETIMES? THEY ARE MORE TENDER THAN THE OLD BEAR." OK11400610 MANY TIMES THEY SAID THIS TO HIM, AND TRIED TO INDUCE HIM TO OK11400620 KILL CUBS FOR THEM. ONE DAY BEING OVER-PERSUADED HE PROMISED TO OK11400630 KILL THEM SOME CUBS. NOT LONG AFTER HE CAME UPON A BEAR WITH TWO OK11400640 CUBS. HE SHOT AT THE CUBS AND KILLED THEM, INTENDING TO LET THE OK11400650 OLD BEAR ESCAPE, BUT SHE STRAIGHTWAY ATTACKED HIM AND QUICKLY OK11400660 KILLED HIM, FOR HE HAD LOST HIS MYSTIC POWER BY KILLING YOUNG BEAR OK11400670 CONTRARY TO THE INSTRUCTIONS HE HAD RECEIVED. OK11400680 ***OKA-065*** OK115 THE GRAND-CHILDREN OF THE MOUNTAIN SHEEP. OK11500010 THERE WAS ONCE A YOUTH WHO HAD TWO SISTERS. NOW HE HAD OK11500020 REACHED THE AGE OF PUBERTY AND WAS UNDERGOING HIS STCUENTCUT, THAT OK11500030 IS HIS PREPARATION FOR THE ACQUISITION OF HIS MANITOU. HE USED TO OK11500040 GO TO A CERTAIN LAKE, STRIP FIR BRANCHES OFF THE FIR TREES, AND DIP OK11500050 THEM IN THE WATER AND THEN DRAW THEM OUT AGAIN. WHEN HE DREW THEM OK11500060 OUT THERE DRIPPED FROM THE TIPS NOT WATER BUT BEADS, STUNELSTCUT OK11500070 (DENTALIA), OF GREAT VALUE. THE YOUTH DID THIS FOR SEVERAL OK11500080 SUCCESSIVE DAYS AND GATHERED IN THIS MANNER A GREAT QUANTITY OF OK11500090 BEADS. HE TOLD NO ONE WHAT HE WAS DOING, NOT EVEN HIS PARENTS, WHO OK11500100 THOUGHT HE WAS UNDERGOING HIS STCUENTCUT. HIS TWO SISTERS WERE OK11500110 ACCUSTOMED TO PLAY A LITTLE WAY FROM THE HOUSE, AND HAD BEEN OK11500120 INSTRUCTED BY THEIR PARENTS NOT TO FOLLOW THEIR BROTHER OR WORRY OK11500130 HIM IN ANY WAY. BUT THEY GREW CURIOUS TO KNOW WHERE HE WENT AND OK11500140 WHAT HE DID, AND DETERMINED TO FIND OUT FOR THEMSELVES. SO ONE OK11500150 MORNING THEY FOLLOWED HIM. THEY HID THEMSELVES AND WATCHED TILL HE OK11500160 WENT HOME. THEN THEY WENT TO HIS STORE OF BEADS AND TOOK SOME OF OK11500170 THEM AND TRIMMED THEIR DOLLS WITH THEM. NEXT DAY WHEN THE BROTHER OK11500180 WENT BACK TO THE LAKE HE DISCOVERED THAT SOME ONE HAD BEEN THERE OK11500190 AND HAD TAKEN SOME OF HIS BEADS. HE CAME HOME EARLY AND WATCHED OK11500200 HIS SISTERS GO TO THE LAKE AND TAKE SOME MORE OF HIS BEADS. HE OK11500210 THEN WENT TO HIS MOTHER AND TOLD HER THAT HIS SISTERS HAD FOLLOWED OK11500220 HIM AND PRIED UPON HIS ACTIONS. HE ADVISED MOVING THE CAMP AND OK11500230 LEAVING THE GIRLS BEHIND AS A PUNISHMENT FOR THEIR DISOBEDIENCE. OK11500240 THE WHOLE CAMP THEN MOVED BEFORE THE GIRLS RETURNED, FIRST OK11500250 DESTROYING ALL THE FIREPLACES AND PUTTING OUT ALL THE FIRES. IN OK11500260 THE EVENING WHEN THE GIRLS GOT BACK THEY FOUND THE CAMP DESERTED, OK11500270 THE PEOPLE ALL GONE, AND THE FIRES DEAD OUT; NOTHING WAS LEFT BUT OK11500280 ONE SMALL DOG TIED TO A BOULDER AT WHICH IT SCRATCHED FROM TIME TO OK11500290 TIME. THE GIRLS REALISING THEIR FORSAKEN CONDITION WERE GREATLY OK11500300 DISTRESSED AND CRIED MUCH, BUT PRESENTLY, OBSERVING THE ACTION OF OK11500310 THE LITTLE DOG, BEGAN TO WONDER WHY HE SCRATCHED AT THE BOULDER. OK11500320 FINALLY ONE OF THEM WENT OVER AND ROLLED THE BOULDER ASIDE. AS SHE OK11500330 DID SO A LARGE HOLE WAS DISCLOSED. SHE LOOKED DOWN THIS AND OK11500340 PERCEIVED HER PEOPLE FAR DOWN. BUT THE GIRLS COULD NOT FOLLOW OK11500350 AFTER THEM BECAUSE THERE WAS NOTHING BY WHICH THEY COULD CLIMB OK11500360 DOWN. THEY CRY AND CRY TO THEIR PARENTS TO TAKE THEM DOWN. OK11500370 FINALLY THE MOTHER TELLS THEIR BROTHER TO TAKE PITY ON THEM AND GO OK11500380 AND FETCH THEM DOWN. HE SAID HE WOULD IF THEY WOULD BE OBEDIENT OK11500390 FOR THE FUTURE. THEY PROMISE. HE THEN WENT UP TO FETCH THEM. OK11500400 SAID HE: "YOU COME WITH ME; I WILL CARRY YOU DOWN, ONE UNDER EACH OK11500410 ARM, BUT YOU MUST BE SURE TO KEEP YOUR EYES SHUT." WHEN PARTLY OK11500420 DOWN THEY OPENED THEIR EYES AND IMMEDIATELY THEY WERE PULLED BACK OK11500430 TO THE TOP AGAIN. SAID HE: "IF YOU WANT TO GET DOWN YOU MUST KEEP OK11500440 YOUR EYES CLOSED UNTIL I TELL YOU TO OPEN THEM." TWICE AND THRICE OK11500450 HE ENDEAVOURS TO TAKE THEM DOWN, BUT EACH TIME THEY OPEN THEIR EYES OK11500460 AND ARE BROUGHT BACK TO THE TOP AGAIN. AFTER THE THIRD TIME HE OK11500470 SAID TO THEM: "IT IS NO USE TO TRY AND TAKE YOU DOWN, YOU WILL NOT OK11500480 KEEP YOUR EYES CLOSED; YOU HAD BETTER GO AND LIVE WITH YOUR OK11500490 GRANDMOTHER." HE THEN INSTRUCTS THEM IN WHAT DIRECTION THEY SHOULD OK11500500 TRAVEL. SAID HE: "IT WILL TAKE YOU SOME DAYS TO GET THERE AND YOU OK11500510 MUST BE CAREFUL NOT TO EAT ANY STALE FOOD THAT MAY BE OFFERED TO OK11500520 YOU ON THE WAY." THEY SET OUT ON THEIR JOURNEY AND PRESENTLY COME OK11500530 TO A RIVER, ON THE OPPOSITE SIDE OF WHICH THEY PERCEIVE A CAMP. OK11500540 THEY CRY OUT FOR SOME ONE TO COME AND FERRY THEM OVER. A MAN CAME OK11500550 OUT AND CALLED TO THEM SAYING: "MY BARK CANOE IS BROKEN, BUT YOU OK11500560 WILL FIND A FORDING PLACE A LITTLE WAY DOWN THE RIVER." NOW THIS OK11500570 MAN WAS SEAGULL (SNUSPEPASAS) AND HE KNEW THAT THE GIRLS WERE OK11500580 COMING AND WAS INTENDING TO TRICK THEM. HE HAD BY HIM AN OLD DEER- OK11500590 HIDE, AND BY MAKING HIS NOSE BLEED AND SMEARING THE BLOOD OVER THE OK11500600 HIDE HE MADE IT LOOK LIKE A GREEN HIDE. THE GIRLS, FOLLOWING HIS OK11500610 INSTRUCTIONS, SOON FOUND THE FORD AND CROSSED OVER THE RIVER. THEY OK11500620 GO BACK TO THE HOUSE OF SEAGULL AND ASK HIM WHICH ROAD THEY SHOULD OK11500630 TAKE TO REACH THEIR GRANDMOTHER. WHEN THEY ARRIVE SEAGULL INVITES OK11500640 THEM IN AND INSTRUCTS THEM AS TO THEIR COURSE. HE ALSO SETS BEFORE OK11500650 THEM A LARGE HORN-SPOON FULL OF GREASE. THE ELDER SISTER POKED OK11500660 THE YOUNGER WITH HER ELBOW AND TOLD HER NOT TO EAT ANY. BUT WHILE OK11500670 THE ELDER SISTER TALKED WITH THE MAN THE YOUNGER DIPPED HER FINGER OK11500680 IN THE SPOON AND TOOK SOME OF THE GREASE. PRESENTLY THEY LEFT AND OK11500690 WENT ON THEIR COURSE. WHEN THEY HAD GONE A LITTLE WAY THE MAN OK11500700 CALLED AFTER THEM AND SAID: "IF IT BE A BOY SAVE IT, IF A GIRL OK11500710 DROWN IT." BY THIS REMARK THE ELDER SISTER KNEW THAT THE YOUNGER OK11500720 HAD TAKEN SOME OF THE GREASE. AFTER THEY HAD TRAVELLED SOME TIME OK11500730 THEY CAME TO A LEVEL PIECE OF LAND. SAID THE ELDER SISTER TO THE OK11500740 YOUNGER, "I WILL JUMP FOUR OR FIVE TIMES AND YOU MUST FOLLOW, AFTER OK11500750 TAKING CARE TO STEP IN MY TRACKS." SHE DID SO, BUT THE YOUNGER OK11500760 SISTER FAILED TO TREAD IN HER TRACKS, AND GAVE BIRTH TO A CHILD OK11500770 BEFORE SHE HAD COVERED THE DISTANCE; IT WAS A BOY. THE ELDER OK11500780 SISTER NOW SHOUTED BACK TO THE MAN AND REVILED HIM AND BADE HIM OK11500790 COME AND FETCH HER SISTER. SHE WENT ON ALONE. THE MAN NOW TOOK OK11500800 THE YOUNGER SISTER AND HER CHILD BACK WITH HIM. NOW THE ELDER OK11500810 CARRIED WITH HER A BASKET (PENA) AND A ROOT DIGGER (PITCA). SHE OK11500820 HUNG THE BASKET ON A TREE AND SAT DOWN TO REST. OK11500830 NOW LYNX (WAPWOPHEN) KNEW THAT THE GIRL WAS TRAVELLING THAT OK11500840 WAY AND SENT HIS BROTHER RABBIT (S'PEPELINA) WITH A PIECE OF FAT OK11500850 TO GIVE THE GIRL SOMETHING TO EAT; THIS FAT WAS REAL DEER'S FAT. OK11500860 WHEN RABBIT CAME UP TO HER HE FOUND HER ASLEEP. HE PUT THE FAT IN OK11500870 HER BASKET AND RETURNED BEFORE SHE HAD ANY KNOWLEDGE OF HIS OK11500880 PRESENCE. WHEN SHE GOT UP NEXT MORNING AND HAD WASHED HERSELF SHE OK11500890 TOOK DOWN HER BASKET TO GET SOMETHING TO EAT. SHE IMMEDIATELY OK11500900 DETECTED THE LUMP OF FAT THE RABBIT HAD PUT IN THE BASKET. SHE OK11500910 EXAMINED AND COMPARED IT WITH THE GREASE SHE HAD BROUGHT WITH HER. OK11500920 SHE THEN TOOK A PIECE OF THE NEW FAT AND THREW IT ON THE FIRE TO OK11500930 SEE HOW IT WOULD BURN. SHE DID THE SAME WITH A PIECE OF HER OWN OK11500940 FAT, AND FOUND THAT BOTH BURNT ALIKE. SHE SAT DOWN DEBATING WITH OK11500950 HERSELF WHETHER SHE SHOULD EAT THE NEW FAT OR NOT, BUT RECALLING OK11500960 WHAT HAD HAPPENED TO HER SISTER SHE DETERMINED TO TAKE NO CHANCES OK11500970 IN THE MATTER AND THREW THE WHOLE LUMP INTO THE FIRE. SHE THEN OK11500980 MADE HER BREAKFAST FROM HER OWN PIECE OF FAT AND WENT ON HER WAY. OK11500990 NOW WHEN LYNX HAD GIVEN THE LUMP OF FAT TO RABBIT HE HAD TOLD OK11501000 HIM IT WAS FOR HIS SISTER-IN-LAW. WHEN RABBIT WAS ON HIS WAY BACK OK11501010 HE THOUGHT HE WOULD LLKE TO SEE WHAT KIND OF A WOMAN HIS SISTER-IN- OK11501020 LAW WAS. SO HE HID UNDER A LOG AND WAITED FOR THE GIRL TO COME UP. OK11501030 WHEN THE GIRL STEPPED OVER THE LOG RABBIT LAUGHED AND SAID: "I SAW OK11501040 SOMETHING WHITE." THE GIRL TOOK HER ROOT DIGGER AND STRUCK RABBIT OK11501050 WITH IT BUT ONLY JUST BRUSHED HIS NOSE. RABBIT THEN RAN OFF HOME. OK11501060 WHEN HE ARRIVED HE HELD HIS NOSE IN HIS HAND. "WHAT'S THE MATTER OK11501070 WITH YOU?" SAID LYNX. "OH] I FELL DOWN," SAID RABBIT, "AND HURT OK11501080 MY NOSE." BUT LYNX SUSPECTED HE WAS LYING AND SAID: "I TOLD YOU OK11501090 TO DELIVER THE FAT AND COME STRAIGHT BACK." OK11501100 IN THE MEANTIME THE GIRL HAD CONTINUED ON HER WAY, AND ALL AT OK11501110 ONCE SHE HEARD SOMETHING KNOCKING. GOING TOWARDS THE SOUND SHE OK11501120 CAME UPON HER GRANDMOTHER, WHO WAS SPLITTING FIREWOOD. THE GIRL OK11501130 ADVANCED SLOWLY AND SAT DOWN ON THE LOG. THE OLD WOMAN DID NOT SEE OK11501140 THE GIRL, BUT HER WEIGHT ON THE LOG MADE A DIFFERENCE IN THE SOUND OK11501150 OF THE BLOWS. SHE LOOKED UP TO SEE WHAT CAUSED IT, AND SAW THE OK11501160 GIRL SITTING ON THE LOG, AND KNEW HER FOR HER GRANDCHILD. THE GIRL OK11501170 TOLD HER GRANDMOTHER ALL THAT HAD BEFALLEN HER. OK11501180 NOW THE OLD WOMAN DESIRED TO GET HER GRANDDAUGHTER HOME OK11501190 WITHOUT ANY OF THE PEOPLE OF THE VILLAGE KNOWING OF HER ARRIVAL. OK11501200 SO SHE TOOK A QUANTITY OF WOOD, AND, PLACING THE GIRL IN THE MIDDLE OK11501210 OF IT, THUS MANAGED TO GET HER TO HER HOUSE. BUT IT WAS NOT VERY OK11501220 LONG BEFORE HER PRESENCE IN THE VILLAGE BECAME KNOWN, AND WHENEVER OK11501230 THE OLD WOMAN LEFT HER HOUSE IT BECAME NECESSARY FOR HER TO OK11501240 SECURELY FASTEN THE ENTRANCE. EVERY YOUNG MAN IN THE VILLAGE OK11501250 WANTED TO SECURE THE MAID, AND THE OLD GRANDMOTHER HAD THE GREATEST OK11501260 DIFFICULTY IN PUTTING THEM OFF. THE OLD WOMAN KEPT HER THUS OK11501270 SECLUDED FOR SOME TIME. ONE DAY, HOWEVER, SHE HAD TO GO TO A OK11501280 DISTANT POINT, AND IN HER ABSENCE THAT CRAFTY YOUTH LYNX STOLE OK11501290 ROUND TO HER DWELLING AND, CLIMBING ON TO THE ROOF, PEEPED IN AND OK11501300 SAW THE GIRL LYING ASLEEP. HER MOUTH WAS AGAINST ONE OF THE OK11501310 RAFTERS, AND PERCEIVING THIS HE URINATED ON THE RAFTER, AND A DROP OK11501320 OF THE URINE RAN DOWN THE RAFTER AND FELL INTO HER MOUTH. OK11501330 THEREUPON HE LEFT AND WENT AWAY. AS TIME PASSED BY THE GIRL FOUND OK11501340 HERSELF WITH CHILD, AND WHEN THE OLD WOMAN PERCEIVED HER CONDITION OK11501350 SHE WAS VERY ANGRY, AND REPROACHED THE GIRL BITTERLY. THE GIRL OK11501360 DENIED ALL KNOWLEDGE OF THE AFFAIR, DECLARING SHE HAD NEVER KNOWN OK11501370 ANY MAN, AND HAD NO KNOWLEDGE OF THE MAN RESPONSIBLE FOR HER OK11501380 CONDITION. IN DUE TIME SHE GAVE BIRTH TO A MAN CHILD. SOME TIME OK11501390 AFTER THE GRANDMOTHER GAVE A GREAT FEAST TO CELEBRATE HIS BIRTH, OK11501400 AND INVITED THE WHOLE VILLAGE TO BE PRESENT. AFTER THEY HAD EATEN OK11501410 THEIR FILL, THE CHILD WAS PASSED ROUND AMONG THEM, EACH ONE TAKING OK11501420 HIM IN HIS ARMS AND FONDLING HIM. THE LAST TO TAKE HIM WAS OWL OK11501430 (SNENA). AS SOON AS HE TOOK HIM, HE PUT HIM INTO HIS BASKET AND OK11501440 STOLE OFF HOME WITH HIM. WHEN THE CHILD WAS MISSED THEY FOLLOWED OK11501450 OWL'S TRAIL, AND AFTER MANY DAYS THEY CAME TO WHERE HE ABODE. NOW OK11501460 OWL WAS A VERY POWERFUL MAN, AND THE PEOPLE WERE AFRAID TO GO TO OK11501470 HIS HOUSE. THE CHILD HAD NOW GROWN TO A BIG BOY, AND DAILY WENT OK11501480 OUT HUNTING. THEY DETERMINED, THEREFORE, TO WATCH WHICH WAY HE OK11501490 WENT, AND WHEN HE WAS ALONE TO ACCOST AND REVEAL THEMSELVES TO HIM. OK11501500 THIS THEY DID, AND CALLED TO HIM ONE DAY. WHEN HE HEARD HIMSELF OK11501510 CALLED HE STOPPED IN HIS TRACKS, AND TURNED SIDEWAYS TO SEE WHO OK11501520 CALLED HIM. THEY BID HIM COME TO THEM, BUT HE ANSWERS: "NOT SO; OK11501530 OWL IS A VERY STRONG MAN, AND WE MUST FOOL HIM IF I AM TO ESCAPE. OK11501540 TO-MORROW I WILL SEND HIM FAR OFF AFTER SOME DEER I HAVE KILLED, OK11501550 AND WHILE HE IS AWAY WE MUST MAKE OFF." OK11501560 THE PLAN WAS THUS CARRIED OUT; BUT WHEN OWL WAS RETURNING WITH OK11501570 THE MEAT HE NOTICED THE BOY'S TRACKS OF THE DAY BEFORE, AND OK11501580 WONDERED WHY HE HAD STOPPED AND TURNED SIDEWAYS, AND SUSPECTED THAT OK11501590 SOMETHING WAS WRONG AND HASTENED HOME. NOT FINDING THE BOY THERE OK11501600 HE SEARCHED FOR HIS TRACKS, AND HAVING FOUND THEM SET OUT HASTILY OK11501610 AFTER HIM. OK11501611 NOW NOT FAR FROM THE OWL'S HOUSE WAS A RIVER WHICH WAS CROSSED OK11501620 BY A LOG. AFTER THE BOY AND HIS FRIENDS HAD CROSSED THE RIVER BY OK11501630 MEANS OF THE LOG THEY MADE AN ARRANGEMENT WITH THE WOODWORMS TO EAT OK11501640 INTO THE LOG SO THAT WHEN OWL PASSED OVER IT WOULD GIVE WAY BENEATH OK11501650 HIM AND THROW HIM INTO THE WATER. THEY ALSO ARRANGED WITH THE OK11501660 CRABS THAT WHEN HE FELL INTO THE RIVER THEY WOULD HOLD HIM DOWN OK11501670 UNDER WATER TILL HE WAS DROWNED. THEN THEY WAITED TO SEE WHAT OK11501680 WOULD HAPPEN. PRESENTLY OWL CAME TO THE RIVER, AND ASKED THEM HOW OK11501690 THEY HAD GOT OVER. THEY SAY, "ON THE LOG." OWL THEN JUMPED ON THE OK11501700 LOG, AND STAMPED ON IT TO SEE THAT IT WAS SAFE. THEY ASSURE HIM OK11501710 IT IS QUITE SAFE; THAT THEY HAVE JUST PASSED OVER THEMSELVES. OK11501720 THINKING IT ALL RIGHT, HE ATTEMPTED TO CROSS THE LOG; BUT WHEN HE OK11501730 REACHED THE MIDDLE IT BROKE UNDER HIM, AND HE WAS THROWN INTO THE OK11501740 WATER, WHERE HE WAS SEIZED BY THE CRABS AND HELD UNDER. HIS OK11501750 STRUGGLES COULD BE SEEN FROM THE BANK, AND FOR A MOMENT HIS HAND OK11501760 APPEARED ABOVE THE WATER, BUT THE CRABS HELD HIM DOWN TILL HE WAS OK11501770 DROWNED. EVERYBODY IS NOW VERY GLAD, AND THEY CONTINUE ON THEIR OK11501780 JOURNEY TILL THEY COME TO A LAKE. NOW THE WEATHER WAS VERY WARM, OK11501790 AND THE BOY WANTED TO TAKE A SWIM IN THE LAKE. HIS MOTHER WARNED OK11501800 HIM NOT TO GO FAR OUT; BUT WHEN HE WAS ONCE IN THE WATER HE ENJOYED OK11501810 IT SO MUCH THAT HE BEGAN TO SWIM FAR OUT. THEY CALL TO HIM TO COME OK11501820 BACK. HE REPLIED: "NO, I DON'T WANT TO; I LOVE TO SWIM." OK11501830 PRESENTLY HE DIVED, AND WHEN HE CAME UP HE WAS CHANGED TO A LOON. OK11501840 ***OKA-066*** OK116 FISHER AND MARTIN OK11600010 FISHER AND MARTIN WERE BROTHERS AND LIVED TOGETHER. FISHER OK11600020 WAS THE ELDER AND ALWAYS WENT OUT HUNTING DAILY. SAID HE TO HIS OK11600030 YOUNGER BROTHER: "YOU GO AND HUNT SQUIRRELS AND CHIPMONKS IN THIS OK11600040 DIRECTION ONLY; I WILL TAKE THE OTHER." MARTIN DID AS HE WAS TOLD OK11600050 FOR SOME TIME. BUT ONE DAY HE WONDERED WHY HIS BROTHER HAD TOLD OK11600060 HIM NOT TO GO UP THE HILL BUT HAD INSTRUCTED HIM ALWAYS TO GO DOWN. OK11600070 HE DETERMINED TO CHANGE HIS ROUTE AND ONE DAY TAKE THE UP-HILL OK11600080 COURSE. SO ONE MORNING HE SET OFF UP-HILL TO LEARN WHAT THE OK11600090 COUNTRY WAS LIKE UP THERE. PRESENTLY HE CAME UPON A CAMP AND WAS OK11600100 GREATLY SURPRISED, NOT KNOWING THAT OTHER PEOPLE LIVED SO CLOSE TO OK11600110 THEM. HE WENT FORWARD TO FIND OUT WHO IT WAS WHO LIVED THERE. OK11600120 WHEN HE GOT INSIDE HE PERCEIVED A WOMAN SITTING DOWN BUSILY SEWING. OK11600130 SHE INVITED HIM TO SIT ON THE OPPOSITE SIDE OF THE FIRE. NOW OVER OK11600140 THE FIRE HUNG A QUANTITY OF DRIED MEAT. WHEN HE HAD BEEN SEATED A OK11600150 LITTLE WHILE SHE GOT UP AND STIRRED THE FIRE, AND THEN REACHED UP OK11600160 AND TOOK DOWN SOME OF THE DRIED MEAT AND PASSED IT OVER THE FIRE TO OK11600170 THE BOY, BIDDING HIM TO EAT AS MUCH AS HE WISHED. MARTIN NOW ROSE OK11600180 UPON HIS FEET AND HELD OUT BOTH HIS HANDS ACROSS THE FIRE TO TAKE OK11600190 THE MEAT. THE WOMAN THEREUPON GRASPED HIS HANDS IN HERS AND PULLED OK11600200 HIM INTO THE FIRE, AND HELD HIM THERE TILL HIS FACE WAS BADLY OK11600210 SCORCHED, AND THEN THRUST HIM OUT OF THE DWELLING, SAYING: "I OK11600220 DON'T WANT ANY OF YOUR KIND VISITING HERE." MARTIN LAY AWHILE OK11600230 WHERE SHE HAD THROWN HIM, THEN PICKED HIMSELF UP AND WENT BACK OK11600240 HOME. OK11600250 HE HID HIMSELF FROM HIS ELDER BROTHER BETWEEN THE MATS OF THE OK11600260 LODGE, AND WHEN FISHER CAME HOME HE WAS SURPRISED TO FIND HIS OK11600270 BROTHER ABSENT AND NO FIRE READY FOR HIM. HE CALLED ALOUD AND OK11600280 SAID, "MARTIN, WHERE ARE YOU?" THE YOUNGER BROTHER REPEATED THE OK11600290 WORDS SOFTLY LIKE AN ECHO. FISHER HEARING THIS LOOKED ABOUT HIM TO OK11600300 SEE WHERE THE SOUND CAME FROM. "WHERE ARE YOU?" CALLED HE AGAIN. OK11600310 "WHERE ARE YOU?" MARTIN ECHOED BACK. CALL AND ECHO THUS WENT ON OK11600320 FOR SOME TIME TILL FISHER HAD LOCATED THE SOUND AND DISCOVERED HIS OK11600330 YOUNGER BROTHER HIDDEN BETWEEN THE MATS AND PULLED HIM OUT. OK11600340 HE CAUGHT SIGHT OF THE BURNT FACE AND KNEW IN A MOMENT WHAT OK11600350 HAD HAPPENED. SAID HE TO MARTIN, "DID I NOT WARN YOU NOT TO GO UP OK11600360 THE HILL TO HUNT? SEE WHAT TROUBLE YOUR DISOBEDIENCE HAS BROUGHT OK11600370 UPON YOU." OK11600380 THEN FISHER SPAT UPON HIS BROTHER'S FACE AND WITH HIS HANDS OK11600390 ENDEAVOURED TO SMOOTH OUT THE SKIN BUT MANY OF THE WRINKLES OK11600400 REMAINED IN SPITE OF HIS EFFORTS, AND THUS IT IS THAT THE MARTIN'S OK11600410 FACE IS CREASED AND WRINKLED TO THIS DAY. OK11600420 SOME DAYS LATER FISHER SAID TO MARTIN, "WE'LL GO AND PUNISH OK11600430 THAT WOMAN FOR BURNING YOUR FACE." SO THEY WENT UP THE HILL OK11600440 TOGETHER TO HER LODGE. FISHER ASKED THE WOMAN TO COME TO THEIR OK11600450 LODGE WITH THEM; SHE WAS DELIGHTED AT THE OFFER AND MADE READY TO OK11600460 GO AT ONCE PRESENTLY SHE RETURNED WITH THEM, AND THEY ALL LIVED OK11600470 TOGETHER FOR SOME TIME. NOW SHE WAS A DEER-WOMAN. IN COURSE OF OK11600480 TIME A CHILD WAS BORN TO HER. NOW SHE WAS FOND OF SWIMMING AND OK11600490 BATHING AND HAD HER OWN BATHING PLACE. FISHER INSTRUCTED HER NEVER OK11600500 TO SWIM FAR FRON THE SHORE AS IT WAS DANGEROUS. NOW NOT FAR FROM OK11600510 WHERE SHE USED TO BATHE THERE WAS A LOG STICKING UP OUT OF THE OK11600520 WATER, AND ONE DAY THE WOMAN THOUGHT SHE WOULD SWIM OUT TO THIS OK11600530 LOG AND REST UPON IT. SO SHE SWAM TO THE LOG AND CLIMBED UPON IT, OK11600540 FORGETTING THE WARNING FISHER HAD GIVEN HER. SHE HAD NO SOONER GOT OK11600550 UPON THE LOG THAN IT SANK BELOW THE WATER, TAKING HER DOWN WITH IT. OK11600560 THAT NIGHT WHEN FISHER AND MARTIN CAME HOME FROM THEIR HUNTING OK11600570 THEY SAW THE WOMAN WAS ABSENT AND SET OFF TO LOOK FOR HER. THEY OK11600580 CAME PRESENTLY TO HER BATHING PLACE AND FOUND HER CHILD CRYING ALL OK11600590 ALONE ON THE BEACH. THEY TRY TO COMFORT THE CHILD AND STOP ITS OK11600600 CRYING, BUT ALL WITH NO EFFECT. FINALLY THEY TAKE IT TO A POPLAR OK11600610 GROVE NEAR BY AND LAY IT ON ITS BACK. THE WIND PLAYED AMONG THE OK11600620 LEAVES, MOVING THEM IN SUCH A MANNER AS ATTRACTED THE CHILD'S OK11600630 ATTENTION AND STOPPED ITS CRYING. THEN SAID FISHER TO THE INFANT, OK11600640 "HEREAFTER THE YOUNG OF YOUR PEOPLE WILL BE BORN IN A POPLAR OK11600650 GROVE." AND THUS IT IS THAT THE DEER ALWAYS RETIRE TO THE POPLAR OK11600660 GROVES TO GIVE BIRTH TO THEIR YOUNG. OK11600670 FISHER NOW SAID TO HIS BROTHER MARTIN, "WE MUST GO AND LOOK OK11600680 FOR MY WIFE." SO THEY TOOK A WHITE PINE BARK CANOE AND PADDLED OK11600690 ALONG THE LAKE FOR SOME DISTANCE TILL THEY MET ANOTHER CANOE COMING OK11600700 TOWARDS THEM. IN THIS CANOE WERE TWO FISH-BOYS NAMED RESPECTIVELY OK11600710 TCUKTEIN AND NENKUTCIN. FISHER ASKED THE BOYS WHERE THEY HAD COME OK11600720 FROM. THEY REPLIED, "FROM THE GREAT CHIEF'S HOUSE, AND WE ARE OK11600730 GOING TO GET SOME FOOD FOR THE CHIEF'S NEW WIFE." WHEN FISHER OK11600740 HEARD THIS HE QUESTIONED THE BOYS PARTICULARLY OF THEIR MODE OF OK11600750 LIFE, AND WHAT THEY DID AND HOW THEY LIVED. THE BOYS TOLD THEM OF OK11600760 THE CHIEF'S HOME AND HOW THEY LIVED AND THAT THEY THEMSELVES WERE OK11600770 THE WOOD AND WATER GATHERERS, AND HAD NOW BECOME THE CARETAKERS OF OK11600780 THE CHIEF'S NEW WIFE. WHEN SHE TOOK HER EXERCISE IN THE EVENING OK11600790 THEY WENT WITH HER SO THAT SHE MIGHT NOT GET LOST OR RUN AWAY, AND OK11600800 THAT IT WAS THEIR CUSTOM TO LEAVE THEIR CANOE SOME LITTLE DISTANCE OK11600810 FROM THE SHORE AND JUMP TO LAND FROM IT. WHEN FISHER HAD GATHERED OK11600820 ALL THE INFORMATION HE DESIRED HE PROMPTLY KILLED THE TWO BOYS, OK11600830 STRIPPED THEM OF THEIR CLOTHING, AND PUT UT UPON HIMSELF AND HIS OK11600840 BROTHER. THEN THEY WENT TO THE CAMP OF THE CHIEF OF THE FISHES AND OK11600850 BEGAN TO PERFORM THE DUTIES OF THE TWO FISH-BOYS WHOSE CHARACTERS OK11600860 AND DRESS THEY HAD ASSUMED. THE FIRST TIME THEY WENT ASHORE THEY OK11600870 TIED THE CANOE A LITTLE DISTANCE FROM THE BANK AND ESSAYED TO JUMP OK11600880 ASHORE AS THE FISH-BOYS DID. FISHER LANDED ALL RIGHT BUT MARTIN OK11600890 JUMPED SHORT AND DRAGGED ONE LEG THROUGH THE WATER. THE FISH OK11600900 PEOPLE, WHO WERE LOOKING ON, LAUGHED AT HIS MISHAP AND SAID, "WHAT OK11600910 IS THE MATTER WITH YOU THIS MORNING? YOU SEEM TO HAVE FORGOTTEN OK11600920 HOW TO JUMP." REPLIED MARTIN, "I HAVE A CRAMP IN MY LEG TO-DAY." OK11600930 THEY MANAGED, HOWEVER, TO PASS THEMSELVES OFF AS THE FISH-BOYS AND OK11600940 PERFORMED THEIR ALLOTTED TASKS WITHOUT EXCITING SUSPICION. IN THE OK11600950 EVENING THEY WERE BIDDEN TO TAKE THE WOMAN OUT FOR AN AIRING. SAID OK11600960 THEY TO HER AT THE FIRST OPPORTUNITY, "WHERE ARE YOUR HUSBAND AND OK11600970 BROTHER." "YES," REPLIED SHE,"I KNOW; I RECOGNIZED YOU OK11600980 IMMEDIATELY." THEY THEN PLANNED TO ESCAPE. SAID THE WOMAN, "THE OK11600990 FISH-CHIEF IS A VERY POWERFUL MAN AND WE MUST BE CAREFUL." "I KNOW OK11601000 THAT QUITE WELL," REPLIED FISHER, "YOU ONLY DO WHAT I INSTRUCT YOU OK11601010 AND WE SHALL BEAT HIM. YOU MUST KEEP HIM AWAKE TILL MIDNIGHT AND OK11601020 THEN HE WILL SLEEP VERY SOUNDLY AND WILL NOT EASILY WAKE." SO THAT OK11601030 NIGHT SHE KEPT THE CHIEF FROM GOING TO SLEEP TILL FAR INTO THE OK11601040 NIGHT, AND WHEN AT LENGTH HE FELL ASLEEP FROM PURE EXHAUSTION, IT OK11601050 BECAME A SAFE AND SIMPLE MATTER FOR MARTIN AND FISHER TO CREEP UP OK11601060 AND CUT HIS HEAD OFF WITHOUT DISTURBING THE REST OF THE CAMP. THEN OK11601061 THEY STOLE OUT OF THE CAMP TAKING THE CHIEF'S HEAD WITH THEM. THEY OK11601070 CONTINUED ON THEIR WAY WITHOUT STOPPING FOR THE REST OF THE NIGHT. OK11601080 AT DAYBREAK THE FISH PEOPLE AWOKE AND PRESENTLY PERCEIVED THE BLOOD OK11601090 AND DEAD BODY OF THEIR CHIEF. FOR A TIME THEY WONDERED WHAT COULD OK11601100 HAVE HAPPENED, BUT WHEN THEY PERCEIVED THAT THE WOMAN AND THE TWO OK11601110 BOYS WERE MISSING AND ALSO THE CHIEF'S HEAD, THEY GUESSED WHAT HAD OK11601120 OCCURED AND SET OUT IMMEDIATELY IN PURSUIT OF THE FUGITIVES. OK11601130 FISHER AND HIS BROTHER WERE PADDLING ALONG STEADILY WITH THE WOMAN OK11601140 WHEN THEY DISCOVERED THAT A LARGE CANOE WAS QUICKLY OVERHAULING OK11601150 THEM. ALL THREE SET TO WORK TO PADDLE AS HARD AS THEY COULD, BUT OK11601160 PADDLE AS THEY WOULD THEY COULD MAKE NO HEADWAY AGAINST THE LARGER OK11601170 CANOE, AND THE WATER, MOREOVER, WAS GETTING ROUGHER EACH MOMENT AND OK11601180 THREATENED OK11601181 TO SWAMP THEIR CANOE. SAID FISHER, "WE MUST GIVE UP THE HEAD OF OK11601190 THE CHIEF OR WE SHALL BE DROWNED OR TAKEN." WITH THAT HE THREW THE OK11601200 HEAD OVERBOARD. IMMEDIATELY THE WATER BECAME CALM AND QUIET, AND OK11601210 WHEN THE PURSUING CANOE ARRIVED AT THE SPOT WHERE THE HEAD HAD BEEN OK11601220 THROWN IN THEY STOPPED AND TRIED TO RECOVER IT. THEY SELECTED OK11601230 TURTLE (ARCIKQ) AND FROG (SWARAHEN) TO DIVE FOR IT. BOTH DIVED OK11601240 DOWN AND REMAINED AT THE BOTTOM FOR SOME TIME BUT CAME BACK WITHOUT OK11601250 THE HEAD. TURTLE COMPLAINED OF THE COLD AND SAID HE WAS CHILLED OK11601260 BOTH BACK AND FRONT AND COULD NOT GO ANY DEEPER, AND FROG SAID HE OK11601270 COULD NOT STAND IT ANY LONGER HIS LEGS WERE SO BENUMBED. SO THE OK11601280 OTHERS GOT SOME PAINT AND SOME BONE. WITH THE PAINT THEY PAINTED OK11601290 FROG'S LEGS AND WITH THE BONE THEY COVERED TURTLE'S BACK AND FRONT OK11601300 SO THAT THEY COULD WITHSTAND THE COLD. FROG AND TURTLE THEN WENT OK11601310 DOWN AGAIN AND AFTER A WHILE RETURNED TO THE SURFACE WITH THE OK11601320 CHIEF'S HEAD. THUS IT IS THAT THE TURTLE WEARS ARMOUR TO THIS DAY OK11601330 AND THE FROG'S LEGS ARE PAINTED RED. OK11601340 ***OKA-067*** OK117 THE LEGEND OF SHUSWAP FALLS OK11700010 A LONG, LONG TIME AGO, WHEN THE WORLD WAS YOUNG AND FRESH, OK11700020 BEFORE HATRED, GREED AND STRIFE ENTERED, AND ALL WAS PEACE AND OK11700030 HAPPINESS, AND ALL THE ANIMALS LIVED HARMONIOUSLY TOGETHER, THE OK11700040 BEAR, ELK, FOX, COYOTE AND ALL ANIMALS AND BIRDS WERE ANCESTORS OF OK11700050 HUMAN BEINGS. OK11700060 COYOTE LIVED IN A LOVELY BUT VERY LONELY PLACE FAR AWAY FROM OK11700070 EVERYONE, WHERE HE HAD NO ONE WITH WHOM TO SPEAK OR PLAY OR FEAST. OK11700080 AT LAST HE BECAME VERY LONESOME AND MADE UP HIS MIND EVER OK11700090 AFTERWARDS TO BREAK THE MONOTONY AND INVITE ALL HIS FRIENDS ONCE A OK11700100 YEAR TO A GREAT FEAST AND JOLLIFICATION. OK11700110 SO HE SET HIMSELF TO WORK AND BUILT A GREAT RAPID AND GAVE IT OK11700120 THE NAME OF SHUSWAP FALLS. THEN HE MADE A BIG KETTLE OUT OF STONE OK11700130 WITH LEGS UNDER IT AND HUNG IT OVER THE FALLS. OVER THIS HE OK11700140 CONSTRUCTED A FISH TRAP, ALSO OUT OF STONE, WHERE HE COULD CATCH OK11700150 MANY SALMON AND BOIL THEM IN THE BIG KETTLE. THEN COYOTE MADE A OK11700160 SEAT FOR HIMSELF OUT OF STONE BESIDE THE FALLS WHERE HE COULD WATCH OK11700170 THE FISH BEING CAUGHT AND BEING COOKED, AND ALSO WHERE HE COULD OK11700180 TALK WITH HIS OLD CRONIES AND AT THE SAME TIME SEE THE SPORTS AND OK11700190 WATCH THE FEASTING. OK11700200 WHEN HE GOT ALL THIS FINISHED TO HIS SATISFACTION, THE BUDS ON OK11700210 THE FIR TREES WERE JUST BURSTING OUT. BY THIS SIGN HE KNEW THE OK11700220 SALMON RUN WAS DUE. SO HE CALLED ALOUD FOR HIS FRIENDS TO COME AND OK11700230 FEAST. HIS VOICE COULD BE HEARD AFAR AND NEAR AS IT CAN EVEN TO OK11700240 THIS DAY; SO IT SOUNDED IN THE LONG, LONG AGO ON EVERY HILL, IN OK11700250 EVERY VALE AND ALL COYOTE'S FRIENDS SAID, 'HARK] THERE IS COYOTE OK11700260 CALLING. LET US GO.' OK11700270 COYOTE COULD DISTINGUISH WHO WAS COMING AS HIS FRIENDS CALLED OK11700280 OUT TO HIM ON THEIR WAY, ACCEPTING HIS INVITATION. HE WAS OVER- OK11700290 JOYED, RUNNING ROUND AND ROUND TO CATCH HIS TAIL, AS HE HEARD THE OK11700300 BAWL OF THE GRIZZLY, THE HOWL OF THE TIMBER WOLF, THE SNORT OF THE OK11700310 ELK, THE HOOT OF THE HORNED OWL, THE CHATTER OF THE KING-FISHER AND OK11700320 AND ALL THE OTHER VOICES HE KNEW. OK11700321 SOON THEY WERE ALL ASSEMBLED AND GREAT WAS THE ASTONISHMENT OK11700330 AND REJOICING WHEN THEY BEHELD THE WONDER COYOTE HAD WROUGHT AND OK11700340 THE PROVISIONS HE HAD MADE FOR THEIR ENTERTAINMENT. IT WAS A BUSY OK11700350 TIME, WHAT WITH THE FEASTING AND THE SPORTS WHICH LASTED A OK11700360 FORTNIGHT WITH CAMP-FIRES BURNING BRIGHTLY BY DAY AND BY NIGHT, OK11700370 UNTIL ALL WERE DEAD TIRED, AND THE TIME CAME TO DEPART. THEN ALL OK11700380 SHOOK OLD OK11700390 COYOTE BY THE HAND WITH GRATEFUL HEARTS FOR HIS HOSPITALITY. THEY OK11700400 ALL PROMISED TO COME AGAIN WHEN NEXT THE FIR TREES WERE BURSTING OK11700410 OUT INTO BUD. SO ALL WENT HOME HAPPY. OK11700420 NOW ALL THIS HAPPENED A VERY LONG, LONG TIME AGO. NOW TO THIS OK11700430 DAY WHEN THE FIRS ARE IN BUD EACH SPRING, THE HILLS AROUND SHUSWAP OK11700440 FALLS STILL RE-ECHO THE INVITATION CALL OF COYOTE AND THE ANSWERING OK11700450 CALL OF COYOTE'S FRIENDS, AND THE CAMP-FIRE LIGHTS RE-APPEAR. OK11700460 WISE PEOPLE SAY THIS IS ONLY FANCY, BUT WE KNOW BETTER. OK11700470 ***OKA-068*** OK118 WHEN THE COYOTE CHANGED THE LIVES OF THE VALLEY OK11800010 OK118 INDIANS OK11800020 IN THE DAYS OF LONG AGO WHEN THE COYOTE WAS A YOUNG MAN, WHEN OK11800030 HE OK11800031 SETTLED DOWN, HE BROUGHT THE SALMON FROM THE GREAT BLUE WATERS OF OK11800040 THE PACIFIC UP THE COLUMBIA RIVER. OK11800050 HE CAME AS FAR AS OMAK, WHERE HE FED ALL THE PEOPLE WITH A OK11800060 GREAT SALMON FEAST. THERE HE MET A LOVELY MAIDEN WHOSE HAND HE OK11800070 REQUESTED IN MARRIAGE. HE WAS REFUSED, SO THE NEXT DAY HE OK11800080 GATHERED HIS SALMON TOGETHER AND CONTINUED ON HIS JOURNEY. OK11800090 AT OSOYOOS HE SAW ANOTHER BAND ENCAMPED. WITH A GIFT OF FINE OK11800100 SALMON HE ASKED THAT ONE OF THEIR MAIDENS BE GIVEN HIM, BUT THE OK11800110 PEOPLE SCOFFED AT HIS OFFER. ONCE MORE HE GATHERED HIS SALMON OK11800120 TOGETHER AND WENT ON UP THE RIVER. OK11800130 AT OKANAGAN FALLS THE RIVER SWEPT OVER THE GREAT ROCKS WITH A OK11800140 VOICE OF THUNDER AND A SPRAY AS WHITE AS THE WILD CHERRY BLOSSOMS. OK11800150 THE WATERFALL WAS FAR TOO HIGH FOR THE FISH TO LEAP. OK11800160 THE COYOTE MADE CAMP WITH THE PEOPLE THERE, AND AGAIN HE TRIED OK11800170 TO BARTER HIS SALMON FOR AN ATTRACTIVE MAIDEN. OK11800180 ANGRY AT BEING MET WITH A THIRD REFUSAL, HE DECIDED TO GO OK11800190 FARTHER NORTH. ONE MORNING WHEN ALL THE MEN WERE OUT HUNTING AND OK11800200 ALL THE WOMEN WERE PICKING BERRIES HE STARTED TO MAKE THE FALLS OK11800210 LOWER SO THAT HIS SALMON MIGHT SWIM ON TO THE LAKE. WORKING AS OK11800220 HARD AS HE COULD, HE TORE DOWN THE ROCKS TILL THE GREAT WATERFALL OK11800230 WAS HARDLY MORE THAN A RAPID, AS IT HAS REMAINED TO THIS DAY. OK11800240 THE COYOTE WAS A QUEER CHAP IN THOSE TIMES, EVEN AS HE IS IN OK11800250 THESE. HE COULD NEVER BEAR TO HAVE ANYONE SEE HIM WORKING. WHEN OK11800260 ONE OF THE RETURNING BERRY-PICKERS CAUGHT SIGHT OF HIM HE STOPPED OK11800270 DIGGING. OK11800280 "I GO BACK FROM WHENCE I CAME," HE SAID, "WITH MY SALMON." OK11800290 AS HE TOOK THEM DOWN THE RIVER, OTHER FISH DARTED FROM EVERY POOL. OK11800300 "I LEAVE YOU ONLY THE POOR FISH FOR EVER AFTER," HE CALLED OK11800310 BACK TO THEM. AND TO THIS DAY, THOUGH YOU FISH FROM SUNRISE TILL OK11800320 SUNSET IN THE RIVER BELOW THE FALLS, YOU ARE UNLIKELY TO GET EVEN A OK11800330 NIBBLE FROM ANY FISH BUT CARP OR SUCKER. OK11800340 THE COYOTE LEFT HIS SPEAR LEANING AGAINST A ROCKY CLIFF NEAR OK11800350 THE NORTHERN END OF VASEUX LAKE, ON THE WESTERN SIDE, WHERE YOU MAY OK11800360 SEE IT, IF YOU CARE TO LOOK. OK11800370 AT KELLER, THE COYOTE AGAIN MADE UNSUCCESSFUL PROPOSALS OF OK11800380 MARRIAGE. HE TOLD THE PEOPLE THAT BECAUSE THEY HAD REFUSED HIM, OK11800390 THEY WOULD NEVER BE ABLE TO CURE THEIR FISH. OK11800400 "EACH YEAR WHEN THE SALMON RUN," HE INFORMED THEM, "YOU MAY OK11800410 HOLD A GREAT FEAST, BUT NONE WILL KEEP FOR THE MONTHS OF WINTER." OK11800420 AND EVERY YEAR AT KELLER DURING THE LAST WEEK IN MAY AND THE FIRST OK11800430 WEEK IN JUNE THEY STILL KEEP THE FEAST OF THE SALMON, AND TO THIS OK11800440 DAY THEY CANNOT CURE THEM. OK11800450 THE COYOTE TOOK THE SALMON ON BELOW THE FALLS AT COLVILE, OK11800460 WHERE YOU CAN YET GO DOWN IN THE PROPER SEASON TO CATCH ALL THE OK11800470 FISH YOU DESIRE. THERE HE MARRIED A CHEERFUL MAIDEN AND WAS HAPPY OK11800480 AMONG HER PEOPLE. WORKING TOGETHER, THEY CAUGHT AND DRIED SALMON OK11800490 ENOUGH FOR A LONG WINTER. OK11800500 BEFORE MANY MOONS, HOWEVER, THE COYOTE BEGAN TO WATCH THE OK11800510 TRAVELERS PASSING THROUGH THE VALLEY, AND TO LOOK WITH LONGING ON OK11800520 THE FAR BLUE MOUNTAINS. HE TOLD HIS BRIDE THAT HE WAS GOING TO OK11800530 LEAVE HER. SHE WISHED TO GO WITH HIM, AND HER FATHER CAME AND OK11800540 TOLD THE COYOTE HE MUST TAKE HER. OK11800550 "IT IS NOT SO," THE COYOTE REPLIED. "I SHALL DESERT HER, AND OK11800560 WHAT I DO NOW SHALL BE DONE IN DAYS AFTER." OK11800570 SO SAYING, HE WENT ON HIS WAY. OK11800580 ***OKA-069*** OK119 STENWYKEN OK11900010 STENWYKEN, THE HAIRY GIANT WHO SMELT AS OF BURNING HAIR, LEFT OK11900020 LARGE TRACKS NEAR THE INDIAN CACHES FROM WHICH HE HELPED HIMSELF TO OK11900030 THE DRIED MEAT, FISH, ROOTS AND BERRIES STORED FOR THE WINTER. OK11900040 HE WAS OFTEN SEEN AT THE MOUTHS OF CREEKS CATCHING FISH. HE OK11900050 WAS A PEACEFUL MAN AND NEVER HARMED THE INDIANS. OK11900060 HOWEVER, ONE DAY IN THE LONG AGO AT BERRY TIME A YOUNG INDIAN OK11900070 MAIDEN DISAPPEARED; IT WAS FEARED THAT STENWYKEN HAD CARRIED HER OK11900080 AWAY. AFTER A LONG TIME SHE RETURNED TO HER TRIBE AND TOLD THE OK11900090 FOLLOWING TALE. STENWYKEN HAD SEIZED HER AND CARRIED HER TO A OK11900100 LARGE CAVE, THE FLOOR OF WHICH WAS COVERED WITH SKINS OF BEAR, DEER OK11900110 AND MOUNTAIN SHEEP. SHE WAS GIVEN ROOTS, BERRIES, DRIED FISH AND OK11900120 MEAT TO EAT AND WAS NOT MOLESTED OR HARMED IN ANY WAY, BUT A LARGE OK11900130 STONE WAS ROLLED ACROSS THE MOUTH OF THE CAVE MAKING HER A OK11900140 PRISONER. OK11900150 WHEN ALONE SHE MADE MOCCASINS OF SOME OF THE HIDES, HOPING OK11900160 SOMEHOW, SOMETIME, TO ESCAPE. ONE NIGHT WHEN THE MOON SHONE BRIGHT OK11900170 SHE NOTICED THAT THE STONE WAS NOT QUITE TIGHT AT THE CAVE MOUTH OK11900180 AND SHE SLIPPED OUT. AFTER TRAVELLING MANY MILES AND FOR A LONG OK11900190 TIME SHE FOUND HER PEOPLE. OK11900200 SOME YEARS AFTER THIS EPISODE, A MAIDEN OF A NORTH OKANAGAN OK11900210 TRIBE VANISHED FROM THE CAMP. THREE YEARS LATER SHE RETURNED AND OK11900220 RELATED THE STORY OF HER CAPTURE. STENWYKEN HAD SEIZED HER, PUT OK11900230 PITCH ON HER EYELIDS AND CARRIED HER TO A LARGE CAVE. SOMETIMES OK11900240 AFTERWARDS SHE GAVE BIRTH TO A BABY BUT IT DIED. IN DUE TIME PITCH OK11900250 WAS AGAIN PUT OVER HER EYES AND SHE WAS CARRIED BACK TO A SPOT NEAR OK11900260 HER PEOPLE'S CAMP. THERE THE PITCH WAS REMOVED AND SHE WAS OK11900270 RELEASED. STENWYKEN REMAINED HIDDEN AND WATCHED HER SAFE ARRIVAL. OK11900280