***SQU-001*** SQ001 QA'LQALI SQ00100010 IN THE OLD DAYS THEY USED TO WARN THE CHILDREN TO BE CAREFUL SQ00100020 NOT TO ACCEPT ANYTHING FROM ANYONE THEY DIDN'T KNOW. THE CHILDREN SQ00100030 WERE AT HOME, AND THEY WERE CRYING. A BIG WOMAN CAME IN, CARRYING SQ00100040 A LARGE BASKET ON HER BACK. THE CHILDREN DIDN'T KNOW THAT IT WAS SQ00100050 QALQALI. THEN QALQALI SAID: "WHAT IS THE MATTER WITH YOU, SQ00100060 CHILDREN?" QALQALI HAD SOME CEDAR-BARK WITH HER. THEN SHE FOOLED SQ00100070 THE CHILDREN. QALQALI SAID: "THERE YOU ARE, KIDDIES, TAKE THIS SQ00100080 DRIED SLAMON]" THEN SHE HELD IT OUT TO THEM, AND THE CHILDREN SQ00100090 REACHED FOR IT. THEN QALQALI CAUGHT THEM BY THE HANDS, AND SHE SQ00100100 THREW THE CHILDREN IN THE BASKET, T'IT'KI?CTN AMONG THEM. NOW THIS SQ00100110 T'IT'KI?CTN WAS AN EXCELLENT CARVER. THEN QALQALI WENT UP (THE SQ00100120 MOUNTAIN), CARRYING ON HER BACK HER BASKET WITH THE CHILDREN IN IT, SQ00100130 T'IT'KI?CTN INCLUDED. THEN T'IT'KI?CTN CUT THE BASKET UNTIL HE HAD SQ00100140 MADE A HOLE IN IT BIG ENOUGH TO PUSH THROUGH HIS COMRADES. WHEN SQ00100150 THE CHILDREN DROPPED (TO THE GROUND) THEY MADE A THUMPING NOISE. SQ00100160 NOW QALQALI ASKED: "WHAT'S THAT, T'IT'KI?CTN?" "NOTHING, GRANNY, SQ00100170 THOSE ARE YOUR HEELS THUMPING". T'IT'KI?CTN FREED MANY OF HIS SQ00100180 COMRADES, ONLY THE BIGGER CHILDREN WERE LEFT IN THE BASKET. THEN SQ00100190 QALQALI REACHED HER HOUSE. QALQALI PUT DOWN HER BASKET AND TOOK SQ00100200 OUT THE CHILDREN ONE AFTER THE OTHER; ONLY FEW OF THEM WERE LEFT. SQ00100210 THEN QALQALI PREPARED SOME PITCH TO SEAL UP THE EYES OF THE SQ00100220 CHILDREN. THEN T'IT'KI?CTN TOLD HIS COMRADES: "SQUEEZE YOUR EYES SQ00100230 VERY TIGHTLY SHUT, THEN THEY WON'T BE SO TIGHTLY SEALED UP (BY THE SQ00100240 PITCH)". THEN QALQALI HAD HER PITCH READY, AND SHE SEALED UP THE SQ00100250 EYES OF THE CHILDREN. THEN SHE WENT AND PAINTED HERSELF, AND THEN SQ00100260 QALQALI DANCED. THEN T'IT'KI?CTN SAID: "COME A LITTLE CLOSER, SQ00100270 GRANNY, DOING YOUR DANCE]" SHE CONSENTED AND CAME DANCING CLOSER SQ00100280 BY. IN THE MEANTIME THE FIRE HAD BECOME QUITE BIG. SHE CAME IN SQ00100290 FRONT OF THE CHILDREN. THEN THEY PUSHED HER INTO THE FIRE. THEN SQ00100300 HER HAIR WAS SET ABLAZE. THEN QALQALI'S LICE FLEW AWAY. (THOSE SQ00100310 ARE THE SWARMS OF BIRDS YOU SEE FLYING AROUND). THEN QALQALI SQ00100320 HOLLERED: "COME AND HELP ME, T'IT'KI?CTN." NOW T'IT'KI?CTN HAD SQ00100330 THE FIRE-TONGS IN HIS HAND. THEN HE SAID: "I AM HELPING YOU, SQ00100340 GRANNY", BUT IN THE MEANTIME HE WAS PUSHING HER DEEP INTO THE FIRE. SQ00100350 THEN T'IT'KI?CTN TOOK HIS COMRADES DOWN AND GOT THEM ALL (SAFELY) SQ00100360 HOME. SQ00100370 ***SQU-002*** SQ002 SME'Q'.A'? SQ00200010 CRANE WAS A MAN. HE HEARD THAT THOSE THREE MEN CAME (THEY SQ00200020 WERE TRANSFORMERS). HE SAW THEM (BUT) HE DIDN'T KNOW THEY WERE SQ00200030 TRANSFORMERS. HE HAD A SPEAR. "WHAT HAVE YOU GOT THERE?" THEN HE SQ00200040 SAID: "THAT IS WHAT I AM GOING TO STAB THOSE THREE MEN WITH THAT SQ00200050 ARE COMING HITHER". "HAND IT OVER, I'LL HAVE A LOOK]" HE GAVE IT SQ00200060 TO THEM. "THAT'S A NICE THING YOU HAVE". THEY BROKE IT AND STUCK SQ00200070 (A PIECE) ONTO HIS NOSE. THEY BROKE IT ONCE MORE AND ATTACHED (THE SQ00200080 PIECES) TO HIS LEGS. THAT'S WHY THE CRANE IS LONG-LEGGED. "FLY SQ00200090 AWAY, YOU ARE READY]" (HE HAD BECOME A CRANE.) "YOU'LL BE A SQ00200100 LAUGHING-STOCK OF FUTURE GENERATIONS". SQ00200110 ***SQU-003*** SQ003 SI'NUQAI? AND X.E'C'TA'L? SQ00300010 X.EC'TAL? CAME FROM THE VILLAGE ST'A?MES. HE WAS NEWLY WED. SQ00300020 HE WAS JUST MARRIED AND WAS IN THE HOUSE OF HIS PARENTS. NEWS WAS SQ00300030 RECEIVED THAT A MONSTER NAMED SINUQAI? WAS COMING. THAT'S WHY SQ00300040 X.EC'TAL? WAS STILL LYING IN BED TOGETHER WITH HIS WIFE. NOW YOU SQ00300050 COULD HEAR IT COMING, THEY SAID THEY HEARD IT HOWLING. IT WASN'T SQ00300060 LONG UNTIL SINUQAI? APPEARED, COMING UP AND CROSSING THE MOUNTAIN SQ00300070 OF ST'A?MES. THEN X.EC'TAL?'S FATHER SPOKE: "THIS WILL BE IT"--HE SQ00300080 SAID TO HIS SON--"GO AND CHASE THE MONSTER THAT IS COMING]" BUT SQ00300090 ALL HE DID WAS LIE IN BED. "HOW BADLY YOU SMELL]"--HE TOLD HIS SQ00300100 SON. THEN HE TOOK A CONTAINER WITH WATER. THEN HE POURED IT OVER SQ00300110 HIS SON. X.EC'TAL? AND HIS WIFE SAID NOTHING, THEY JUST SPREAD SQ00300120 OUT THEIR BED-COVER UNTIL THE WATER HAD RUN AWAY THROUGH A HOLE IN SQ00300130 IT. X.EC'TAL? TOLD HIS WIFE: "DON'T GET IMPATIENT, I SHALL BE SQ00300140 GONE FOR MAYBE FOUR DAYS". THEN X.EC'TAL? LEFT AND CHASED (THE SQ00300150 MONSTER) THAT WAS GOING ABOUT. THEN RIGHT AWAY HE STARTED TO BATHE SQ00300160 AND CLEANSE HIMSELF IN ORDER TO CHASE SINUQAI?, BUT IT WAS SQ00300170 IMPOSSIBLE TO FOLLOW CLOSELY ON THE TRAIL OF HIS PREY. SINUQAI? SQ00300180 REACHED A LAKE AND SUBMERGED. SHE DID NOT SUBMERGE COMPLETELY; ONE SQ00300190 OF HER HEADS STUCK OUT OF THE WATER, AND AGAIN SHE ADVANCED. THEN SQ00300200 S.EC'TAL? FOLLOWED, AND HE KEPT ON BATHING. THEY CAME TO A RIVER, SQ00300210 AND AGAIN HE CONTINUED BATHING. A YEAR WENT BY AS X.EC'TAL? KEPT SQ00300220 ON THE PURSUIT; AGAIN SINUQAI? REACHED ANOTHER LAKE AND AGAIN SHE SQ00300230 SUBMERGED. JUST AS BEFORE, SHE DID NOT SUBMERGE COMPLETELY, BUT SQ00300240 ONE OF HER HEADS STUCK OUT ABOVE WATER. AGAIN SHE DEPARTED AND SQ00300250 ADVANCED, AND IN THE SAME WAY AGAIN X.EC'TAL? KEPT FOLLOWING AS A SQ00300260 YEAR WENT BY. WHO KNOWS HOW MANY WERE THE LAKES THAT SINUQAI? SQ00300270 TRIED; FINALLY SHE REACHED A BIG LAKE AND AT LAST SHE SUBMERGED SQ00300280 COMPLETELY. AGAIN X.EC'TAL? ADVANCED, BATHING, BATHING, BATHING, SQ00300290 UNTIL HE HAD A REAL DREAM-VISION ABOUT HER. IT WAS SHE HERSELF, SQ00300300 HIS QUARRY, WHO TOLD HIM: "LOOK FOR SOME GOOD PITCH, AND THEN MAKE SQ00300310 FOUR PIECES". X.EC'TAL? OBEYED. HE PREPARED THE PITCH, WHILE HE SQ00300320 CONTINUED BATHING UNTIL HE MUST HAVE BECOME REALLY PURIFIED. THEN SQ00300330 HIS QUARRY TOLD HIM: "MAKE A RAFT, THEN I SHALL STICK MY ONE HEAD SQ00300340 OUT OF THE WATER, AND THEN YOU SPEAR IT WITH TWO OF THE PIECES OF SQ00300350 PITCH. WHEN YOU ARE READY YOU GO TO THE OTHER END, AND I SHALL SQ00300360 STICK MY OTHER HEAD OUT OF THE WATER; THEN RIGHT AWAY YOU SPEAR IT SQ00300370 WITH THE REMAINING TWO PIECES OF PITCH YOU HAVE". X.EC'TAL? SQ00300380 OBEYED, HE WENT ACROSS, SHE STUCK HER HEAD OUT OF THE WATER, RIGHT SQ00300390 AWAY HE SPEARED IT WITH THE TWO PIECES OF PITCH HE HAD LEFT. HE SQ00300400 FINISHED DOING THAT, AND THEN HE MUST HAVE FAINTED, HIS BREATH GAVE SQ00300410 OUT. THEN X.EC'TAL? FELL INTO THE WATER. THEN THE LAKE MUST HAVE SQ00300420 RISEN, BECAUSE HE FOUND HIMSELF HIGH UP WHEN HE CAME TO. THEN THE SQ00300430 LAKE MUST HAVE DRIED UP. THEN X.EC'TAL? WAITED UNTIL SINUQAI? HAD SQ00300440 DECAYED, WHO KNOWS HOW MANY MONTHS. FINALLY HE APPROACHED HER AND SQ00300450 LOOKED FOR A BONE SHE HAD TOLD HIM ABOUT, AND WHICH HE WOULD USE SQ00300460 AGAINST ENEMIES AND FOR FINDING FOOD. WHEN HE HAD FOUND THE BONE SQ00300470 HE RIGHT AWAY WENT OVER THE MOUNTAIN. HE CAME TO A SPOT UPSTREAM SQ00300480 FROM SQUAMISH WHEN HE DESCENDED. THE VILLAGERS CAME OUT AND LOOKED SQ00300490 ACROSS CURIOUSLY. THEN HE BRANDISHED HIS WEAPON AT THEM AND THEY SQ00300500 ALL BECAME LIFELESS. THEN HE WENT ACROSS AND TOUCHED THEM, AND SQ00300510 THEY CAME BACK TO LIFE. HE TOUCHED ONE, AND THAT ONE SAT UP. SQ00300520 AGAIN HE TOUCHED ANOTHER ONE, AND THAT ONE,TOO, SAT UP, UNTIL ALL SQ00300530 OF THEM HAD RECOVERED. THEN HE GOT READY TO LEAVE. THEN THE CHIEF SQ00300540 SAID: "TAKE ALONG MY DAUGHTER (AS YOUR WIFE)". THEN HE WAS GIVEN SQ00300550 A CANOE TOGETHER WITH THE GIRL, THE DAUGHTER OF THE CHIEF. THEN HE SQ00300560 CAME DOWNSTREAM AND REACHED ANOTHER VILLAGE. AGAIN HE WAVED AT SQ00300570 THEM WITH HIS WEAPON, AND THE SAME THING LHAPPENED TO THEM, THEY SQ00300580 WERE SEIZED BY CONVULSIONS; AGAIN HE TOUCHED THEM AND THEY ALL SQ00300590 RECOVERED. AGAIN HE GOT READY, AND AGAIN THE CHIEF GAVE HIS SQ00300600 DAUGHTER AWAY. HE CONTINUED DOING SO UNTIL HE CAME HOME TO SQ00300610 ST'A?MES. WHAT HE HAD THOUGHT TO BE FOUR DAYS, THAT MUST HAVE BEEN SQ00300620 FOUR YEARS. HIS FORMER WIFE HAD BECOME IMPATIENT WHEN FOUR DAYS SQ00300630 HAD PASSED, STILL SHE WAITED, UNTIL SHE BECAME TIRED OF WAITING AND SQ00300640 TOOK A HUSBAND. HE CAME HOME WITH HIS WIVES, COMING DOWNSTREAM; SQ00300650 THOSE WHO WAITED FOR HIM CAME OUT TO LOOK, AND AGAIN HE WAVED AT SQ00300660 THEM, HIS FRIENDS. AGAIN THEY BECAME SENSELESS AND FELL INTO SQ00300670 CONVULSIONS; THEN HE WENT ASHORE, ONCE MORE HE TOUCHED HIS FRIENDS SQ00300680 AND AGAIN THEY ALL RECOVERED. ONLY HIS FORMER WIFE AND HER PRESENT SQ00300690 HUSBAND HE DID NOT REVIVE. THAT IS WHY THE PEOPLE SAY WE ARE OF SQ00300700 ONE COMMON EXTRACTION, FROM ABOVE SQUAMISH DOWN TO ST'A?MES, ALL ON SQ00300710 ACCOUNT OF THAT X.EC'TAL?. SQ00300720 ***SQU-004*** SQ004 THE FLOOD. SQ00400010 LONG AGO, WHEN THE PEOPLE HAD JUST COME INTO EXISTENCE, THERE SQ00400020 WERE MANY THINGS THAT BEFELL THEM, THERE WAS NO MORE FISH AND THEY SQ00400030 STARVED; MANY MORE THINGS BEFELL THEM, THERE CAME AN EPIDEMIC, SQ00400040 UNTIL THE PEOPLE PERISHED. WHEN THAT WAS OVER A HEAVY RAIN CAME, SQ00400050 THE NEXT DAY THAT RAIN CONTINUED, AND THE RAIN KEPT COMING, THE SQ00400060 WATER ROSE AND THE LOWER LAND DISAPPEARED. FINALLY THEY BOARDED SQ00400070 THEIR CANOES AND WENT UP TOWARDS THE MOUNTAINS, WHILE THE FLOOD SQ00400080 KEPT RISING. THEN THE K'CI'C TOOK ACTION AND PUT A MARK ON THE SQ00400090 MOUNTAINSIDE WANTING TO BRING THE WATER TO A HALT. THAT DID NOT SQ00400100 HAPPEN, THE WATER KEPT COMING, AND AGAIN THEY WENT UP, WHILE THE SQ00400110 K'CI'C KEPT PUTTING MARKS ON THE MOUNTAINSIDE. AT LONG LAST THE SQ00400120 WHOLE LAND DISAPPEARED, WHILE THEY KEPT MOVING UPWARDS WHERE THEY SQ00400130 WERE, UNTIL THE TOP OF THE PLACE WHERE THEY WERE HANGING ON SQ00400140 DISAPPEARED UNDER THE WATER. ONLY GARIBALDI PEAK REMAINED VISIBLE. SQ00400150 THEN THEY PADDLED TO GARIBALDI PEAK, AN INDEFINITE NUMBER OF SQ00400160 CANOES. THEY GOT ACROSS AND HUNG ONTO IT. SUCH WAS THE SITUATION SQ00400170 WHEN ONE CANOE BROKE LOOSE, AND THAT DRIFTED TO THE ONLY OTHER SQ00400180 MOUNTAIN THAT WAS VISIBLE. IT IS SAID THAT IT WAS NOOTSAK. THAT SQ00400190 IS WHY THEIR LANGUAGE IS SAID TO BE CLOSELY SIMILAR TO OURS. BUT SQ00400200 THE PEOPLE OVER THERE SAY IT IS WE WHO WENT ADRIFT. UNTIL TODAY THE SQ00400210 MARKS OF THE K'CI'C REMAIN VISIBLE ON THE MOUNTAIN CALLED SQ00400220 SX'L'CQ'U!'. SQ00400230 ***SQU-005*** SQ005 A MIGRATION. SQ00500010 IN THE STORY I AM GOING TO TELL I SHALL DEAL WITH EVENTS THAT SQ00500020 OCCURED WHEN THERE WERE FEW SETTLEMENTS YET, LONG AGO, WHEN THE SQ00500030 PEOPLE HAD JUST COME INTO EXISTENCE. THERE WERE TWO BROTHERS AT SQ00500040 C'Q'EYP. THEY WERE YET PRESENT IN THEIR HOUSE WHEN THERE WAS A SQ00500050 A SOUND OF KNOCKING ON THE TOP OF THEIR HOUSE. THE BROTHERS WENT SQ00500060 OUTSIDE AND SAW A MAN DANCING WITH A SX'A'IX'I MASK ON. THEY SQ00500070 INVITED HIM TO COME DOWN; HE REFUSED AND CONTINUED DANCING. AFTER A SQ00500080 LONG TIME HE DESCENDED; HE GOT DOWN AND SAID: "I AM THE ELDEST." SQ00500090 THE BROTHERS SAID: "NO, WE ARE THE ELDER ONES, YOU HAVE JUST SQ00500100 ARRIVED, YOU ARE THE YOUNGEST." THE OTHER DID NOT ACCEPT THIS, HE SQ00500110 WAS VERY STUBBORN ABOUT WANTING TO BE THE ELDEST. THEY THEN SQ00500120 INVITED HIM INTO THE HOUSE, BUT HE CONTINUED DANCING AND WOULDN'T SQ00500130 STOP. THEN THE BROTHERS HAD ENOUGH OF HIM, THEY REMOVED HIM TO A SQ00500140 BAY BELOW AND TOLD HIM: "YOU CAN STAY HERE AND DANCE." THEN FROM SQ00500150 SOMEWHERE HE ACQUIRED A WIFE, AND THEY BECAME A POPULOUS COMMUNITY. SQ00500160 THEY WERE VERY KEEN, THEY HAD AN ENERGETIC WAY ABOUT THEM. NOW SQ00500170 THERE WAS THIS REEF IN FRONT OF THEIR HOUSE, WHERE SEALS AND SEA- SQ00500180 LIONS USED TO COME OUT OF THE WATER. NOW, WHEN THE SEA-LIONS SQ00500190 BELLOWED, THOSE FROM THE ORIGINAL SETTLEMENT WOULD COME DOWN TO NO SQ00500200 PURPOSE, AS THOSE FROM BELOW, WHOM THEY HAD REMOVED TO A SPOT RIGHT SQ00500210 CLOSE TO THE REEF, WOULD ALREADY HAVE KILLED THEM. THE PEOPLE FROM SQ00500220 THE ORIGINAL SETTLEMENT HAD NO SUCCESS AT ALL. ON THE LONG RUN IT SQ00500230 GOT SO THAT THE PEOPLE WENT HUNGRY. AT LONG LAST THE PEOPLE OF THE SQ00500240 ORIGINAL SETTLEMENT SORT OF BECAME ANNOYED AND EXASPERATED WITH THE SQ00500250 OTHERS. THEN A K'CI'C WENT TO WORK, HE WENT UP TO A LAKE AT SQ00500260 SCEN'Q. HE DID NOT TELL HIS FRIENDS WHAT HE WAS DOING. COUNTLESS SQ00500270 MONTHS OR YEARS HE SPENT IN THE PREPARATION OF HIS WORK. AFTER A SQ00500280 LONG TIME HE HAD FINISHED MAKING A REPLICA OF A SEA-LION; HE HAD SQ00500290 MADE ONE OF CEDAR-WOOD, WHICH WAS TOO LIGHT, IT DID NOT GO DOWN IN SQ00500300 THE WATER. THEN HE MADE ONE OF ROTTEN WOOD, BUT IT WAS TOO HEAVY, SQ00500310 IT DID GO DOWN, BUT IT COULDN'T SURFACE. FINALLY HE MADE ONE OF SQ00500320 FIR-WOOD, AND AT LAST IT WAS JUST RIGHT. THEN HE ENDOWED IT WITH SQ00500330 LIFE: IT DIVED AND CAME UP, IT EVEN SNORTED AND THEN BELLOWED LIKE SQ00500340 A REAL LIVE SEA-LION. THEN FINALLY THE OLD MAN CAME DOWN AND TOLD SQ00500350 HIS SONS ABOUT HIS WORK. HE WARNED HIS SONS: "WHATEVER YOU DO, DO SQ00500360 NOT TAKE YOUR CUE FROM THE PEOPLE DOWN BELOW." THE NEXT DAY, SQ00500370 INDEED, HIS ACHIEVEMENT BECAME APPARENT: THE SEA-LION APPEARED AND SQ00500380 BELLOWED; THEN THE PEOPLE FROM THE ORIGINAL SETTLEMENT CAME INTO SQ00500390 ACTION AND DECEIVED THEIR FRIENDS, THEY MADE A SHOW OF FURIOUS SQ00500400 ACTIVITY. THEN THOSE LIVING BELOW BECAME EXCITED, AND THEY SPEARED SQ00500410 THE SEA-LION; HOWEVER, IT DIDN'T GO DOWNSTREAM, INSTEAD IT WENT SQ00500420 UPSTREAM, PASSING ON ITS WAY THE ORIGINAL SETTLEMENT. THEN THE OLD SQ00500430 MAN SAID: "YOU KEEP STILL, MY SONS, WHATEVER YOU DO, DON'T DO WHAT SQ00500440 YOUR BROTHERS, YOUR FRIENDS ARE DOING. SHE (THE SEA-LION) WENT SQ00500450 UPSTREAM AND SUBSEQUENTLY RETURNED, WHILE THE K'CI'C CONTINUED HIS SQ00500460 WORK (AS A RESULT OF WHICH) THE WOMEN CAME INTO ACTION, THEY PACKED SQ00500470 THEIR BELONGINGS AND WENT DOWN WITH THEIR CHILDREN, BOARDING THEIR SQ00500480 CANOES AND SETTING OUT TO SEA. THE SEA-LION SWAM SLOWLY ON HER WAY SQ00500490 BACK; THEN THE WOMEN SET OUT AND GRABBED HOLD OF THE HARPOON-LINES SQ00500500 (TO WHICH THEIR MENFOLK WERE OF COURSE STILL HOLDING ON), AND THEN SQ00500510 THE SEA-LION WENT ACROSS TO THE BIG ISLAND ON THE OTHER SIDE. FOR SQ00500520 AN INDEFINITE TIME THEY WERE ON THEIR WAY. SOME ARE SAID TO HAVE SQ00500530 LET GO (OF THE LINES), AND THESE LANDED ON PNA''LXEC' (KUPER SQ00500540 ISLAND). THOSE THAT WERE STILL HANGING ON WENT ON UNTIL THEY SQ00500550 REACHED SNE'U.NEUS (NANOOSE). THAT IS WHY WE ARE ON FRIENDLY TERMS SQ00500560 WITH THOSE FROM THE OTHER SIDE. SQ00500570 ***SQU-006*** SQ006 THE WILD PEOPLE (ORIGIN). SQ00600010 LONG AGO THERE WAS A CHIEF AT ST'A!'MES WHO HAD A SINGLE SQ00600020 DAUGHTER. THE CHIEF ALSO HAD A SLAVE. THE SLAVE USED TO SLEEP SQ00600030 LYING CROSSWISE AT THE FOOT-END OF THE GIRL'S BED. ON A CERTAIN SQ00600040 NIGHT THE SLAVE APPROACHED THE GIRL. HE RAVISHED THE GIRL, WITH SQ00600050 THE RESULT THAT SHE FOUND HERSELF PREGNANT. SHE DIDN'T KNOW WHO SQ00600060 THE MAN WAS THAT HAD BEEN COMING TO HER. SHE HAD NO IDEA IT WAS SQ00600070 THE SLAVE. THE CHIEF FOUND OUT THAT HIS DAUGHTER WAS PREGNANT, AND SQ00600080 HE WAS OVERWHELMED WITH SHAME. THE GIRL WANTED TO FIND OUT WHO HAD SQ00600090 BEEN COMING TO HER. SHE PUT SOME PAINT ON HER HANDS. HER PLAN SQ00600100 WAS, IF THE MAN WHO HAD BEEN COMING TO HER WOULD COME AGAIN, TO PUT SQ00600110 HER ARMS AROUND HIM AND MARK HIS BACK (WITH THE PAINT). WHEN IT SQ00600120 BECAME DAY SHE SAW THAT IT WAS THE SLAVE WHOSE BACK WAS MARKED. SQ00600130 WHEN THE FATHER HEARD IT WAS THE SLAVE WHO WAS RESPONSIBLE FOR HIS SQ00600140 DAUGHTER'S CONDITION, HE TOOK IT VERY HARD; HE PUT HIS DAUGHTER SQ00600150 TOGETHER WITH THE SLAVE IN HIS CANOE. THEN THEY PADDLED AWAY UNTIL SQ00600160 THEY REACHED A SHEER CLIFF; HE PUT HIS DAUGHTER AND THE SLAVE SQ00600170 ASHORE AND LEFT THEM THERE (TO PERISH). NO ONE KNOWS HOW THEY SQ00600180 MANAGED TO CLIMB UP. BUT THEY MUST HAVE MANAGED TO CLIMB UP, AND SQ00600190 THEN THEY WALKED INLAND UNTIL THEY REACHED A LAKE. THEN THEY BUILT SQ00600200 A HOUSE, AND (HERE) THEIR CHILD WAS BORN. SO THEY LIVED UNTIL THEY SQ00600210 BECAME A LARGE FAMILY. THEN THEIR CHILDREN INTERMARRIED, AND THEY SQ00600220 BECAME A NUMEROUS TRIBE. THEY DID NOT GIVE UP THEIR LANGUAGE. SQ00600230 THEY WERE TALL MEN, AND VERY KEEN OF SCENT, JUST AS ANIMALS ARE. SQ00600240 THEY DRESS IN ANIMAL SKINS. THAT IS WHY THEY GOT THE NAME OF SQ00600250 "WILD PEOPLE". SQ00600260 ***SQU-007*** SQ007 HOW THE EAGLE SAVED THE SQUAMISH. SQ00700010 MANY, MANY CENTURIES AGO, THE SQUAMISH PEOPLE DISOBEYED THEIR SQ00700020 GOD, HAIS, AND TO PUNISH THEM HE SENT A GREAT FLOOD. THE ONLY SQ00700030 SURVIVOR WAS SAVPUMKIN, A GOOD CHIEF, WHO HAD BEEN INSTRUCTED TO SQ00700040 TAKE HIS PROVISIONS AND CLIMB TO THE PEAK OF MOUNT CHUCKIGH, THE SQ00700050 HIGHEST MOUNTAIN IN ALL SQUAMISH. SQ00700060 THE FLOOD CONTINUED FOR 40 DAYS, THEN A RAINBOW APPEARED IN SQ00700070 THE SKY, A SIGN FROM HAIS THAT THE EARTH WOULD NEVER AGAIN BE SQ00700080 DESTROYED BY FLOOD. AS THE WATERS RECEDED, SAVPUMKIN WAS ABLE TO SQ00700090 DESCEND. BUT WHEN HE REACHED THE BOTTOM, HIS HEART WAS VERY SAD, SQ00700100 FOR THERE WAS NO OTHER LIVING CREATURE AROUND, NOTHING IN SIGHT BUT SQ00700110 A DESOLATION OF SAND. BESIDES, HE WAS VERY HUNGRY, HAVING LONG SQ00700120 SINCE EATEN UP ALL HIS PROVISIONS. SQ00700130 WHILE HE WAS SOBBING IN HIS DESPAIR, HE FELT SOMETHING TOUCH SQ00700140 HIM ON HIS SHOULDER. HE TURNED AROUND AND SAW A GOLDEN EAGLE WITH A SQ00700150 FISH IN ITS BEAK, WHICH IT DROPPED ON THE GROUND IN FRONT OF HIM. SQ00700160 SAVPUMKIN WAS SO GRATEFUL FOR THIS FOOD THAT HE WENT DOWN ON HIS SQ00700170 KNEES AND THANKED HAIS. SQ00700180 THIS GAVE HIM STRENGTH TO CONTINUE HIS JOURNEY. ONE MORNING, SQ00700190 AFTER WAKING FROM A LONG SLEEP, HE SAW COMING TOWARD HIM FROM THE SQ00700200 MOUTH OF THE SQUAMISH RIVER A WOMAN. AS SHE CAME CLOSER, HE SAW SQ00700210 THAT SHE WAS CARRYING DRIED SALMON. HE ALSO SAW THAT SHE WAS VERY SQ00700220 BEAUTIFUL. WHEN SHE FINALLY CAME UP CLOSE TO HIM, SHE DROPPED TO SQ00700230 HER KNEES AND OFFERED HIM THE FOOD TO EAT. THEY FELL IN LOVE WITH SQ00700240 EACH OTHER AND PLEDGED TO SPEND THE REST OF THEIR LIVES TOGETHER. SQ00700250 THIS COUPLE STARTED THE GENERATIONS GROWING, AND EVER SINCE SQ00700260 THEN THEIR DESCENDANTS HAVE WORN THE FIGURE OF THE GOLDEN EAGLE SQ00700270 ON THEIR COSTUMES AS A REMINDER OF THE GOOD DEED PLAYED BY THE BIRD SQ00700280 IN SUPPLYING SAVPUMKIN WITH THE FIRST FOOD AFTER THE GREAT FLOOD. SQ00700290