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  Speaker 1: Preface of Myths and Legends of Alaska. This is a
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  Speaker 1: LibriVox recording. All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain.
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  Speaker 1: Recording by Larry Wilson. Myths and Legends of Alaska by
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  Speaker 1: Catherine Barry Judson Preface. Long ago, even before the days
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  Speaker 1: of the animal people, the world was only a great ocean,
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  Speaker 1: wherein was no land nor any living thing except a
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  Speaker 1: great bird. The bird, after a long long time, flew
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  Speaker 1: down to the surface of the water and dipped his
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  Speaker 1: great black wings into the flood. The earth arose out
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  Speaker 1: of the waters. So began the creation. While the land
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  Speaker 1: was still soft. The first man burst from the pod
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  Speaker 1: of the beach pea and looked out upon the endless
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  Speaker 1: plain behind him and the great salt sea before him.
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  Speaker 1: He was the only man. Then Raven appeared to him,
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  Speaker 1: and the creation of other things began. Raven made also
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  Speaker 1: animal for food and clothing. Later, because the earth plane
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  Speaker 1: was so bare, he planted trees and shrubs and grass,
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  Speaker 1: and set the green things to growing. With creation by
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  Speaker 1: a great spirit. There came dangers from evil spirits. Such
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  Speaker 1: spirits carried away the sun and moon and hung them
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  Speaker 1: to the rafters of the dome shaped Alaskan huts. The
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  Speaker 1: world became cold and cheerless, and in the land of darkness,
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  Speaker 1: white skins became blackened by contact with the darkness. So
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  Speaker 1: it became necessary to search for the sun and hang
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  Speaker 1: it again in the dome shaped sky above them. Darkness
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  Speaker 1: in the land of long night was the cause, through magic,
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  Speaker 1: of the bitter winds of winter, winds which came down
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  Speaker 1: from the north, bringing with them ice and cold and snow.
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  Speaker 1: This was the work of some great spirit which had
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  Speaker 1: loosened the side of the gray cloud tint under which
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  Speaker 1: they lived, letting in the bitter winds of another world.
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  Speaker 1: Spirits blow the mists over the cold North Sea, so
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  Speaker 1: the canoes lose sight of their home land. Spirits also
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  Speaker 1: drive the ice floes with their fishermen far over the
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  Speaker 1: horizon of ocean into the still colder North. Spirits governed
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  Speaker 1: the run of the salmon, the catching of whales, and
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  Speaker 1: all the life of the people of the North. Who
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  Speaker 1: wage such a terrific struggle for existence, So there must
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  Speaker 1: needs be those who have power over the evil spirits,
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  Speaker 1: those who by incantations and charms of magic. By ceremonial
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  Speaker 1: dancing in symbolic dress, can control the designs of those
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  Speaker 1: who work, ever against these children of the North. Thus
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  Speaker 1: there arose the Shamans and all their ceremonies. The myths
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  Speaker 1: in this volume are authentic. The original collections were made
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  Speaker 1: by government ethnologists, by whose permission this compilation is made,
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  Speaker 1: and no effort has been made in the telling of
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  Speaker 1: them to change them from the terse directness of the natives.
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  Speaker 1: The language of all Indian tribes is very simple, and
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  Speaker 1: to the extent that an effort is made to put
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  Speaker 1: myths and legends into more polished form, to that extent
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  Speaker 1: is their authenticity impaired. Only the quaintest and purest of
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  Speaker 1: the myths have been selected. Many Alaskan myths are very
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  Speaker 1: long and tiresome, rambling from one subject to another. Besides
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  Speaker 1: revealing low moral conditions, these have been omitted, as have
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  Speaker 1: also those which deal with the intermarriage of men and
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  Speaker 1: birds and men and animals. Such myths are better left
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  Speaker 1: among government documents, where they can be readily consulted by
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  Speaker 1: those making a special study of the subject. They are
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  Speaker 1: hardly suitable for any collection intended for general reading the
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  Speaker 1: leading myth of the North. However, the Raven myth is
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  Speaker 1: given with a fair degree of completeness. It would not
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  Speaker 1: be possible, nor would it be wise, to attempt a
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  Speaker 1: compilation of all the fragments of this extensive myth. Especial
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  Speaker 1: thanks are due to doctor Franz Boas for the sets
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  Speaker 1: Out and Shimshian myths, to John R. Swanton for the
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  Speaker 1: Lincoln myths, to Edward Russell Nelson for the Eskimo myths,
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  Speaker 1: to Ferdinand Schnitter, and to others. Thanks are also due
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  Speaker 1: for courtesies in securing photographs to mister B. B. Dobbs,
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  Speaker 1: and particularly to mister Clarence L. Andrews, both of whom
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  Speaker 1: have spent many years in Alaska. K. B. G. University
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  Speaker 1: of Washington, Seattle, Washington, July nineteen eleven.
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  Speaker 2: End of preface, Chapter one of Myts and Legends of Alaska.
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  Speaker 2: This is a LibriVox recording. All LibriVox recordings are in
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  Speaker 2: the public domain. For more information or to volunteer, please
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  Speaker 2: visit LibriVox dot org. Recording by Audrey Gigger. Mets and
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  Speaker 2: Legends of Alaska by Catherine Barry Judson. Chapter one the
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  Speaker 2: Raven myth. It was in the time when there were
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  Speaker 2: no people on the earth plane. The first man, for
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  Speaker 2: four days lay coiled up in the pod of the
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  Speaker 2: beach Pea. On the fifth day, he stretched out his
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  Speaker 2: feet and burst the pod. He fell to the ground,
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  Speaker 2: and when he stood up he was a full grown man.
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  Speaker 2: Man looked all around him, and then at himself. He
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  Speaker 2: moved his hands and arms, his neck and legs. When
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  Speaker 2: he looked back, he saw still hanging to divine the
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  Speaker 2: pod of the beach Peace, with a hole in the
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  Speaker 2: lower end, out of which he had dropped. When he
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  Speaker 2: looked about him again, he saw that he was getting
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  Speaker 2: farther from his starting place. The ground seemed to move
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  Speaker 2: up and down under his feet. It was very soft.
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  Speaker 2: After a while, he had a strange feeling in his stomach,
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  Speaker 2: so he stooped down to drink some water from a
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  Speaker 2: small pool at his feet. Then he felt better. When
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  Speaker 2: man looked up again, he saw coming toward him with
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  Speaker 2: a fluttering motion, something dark. He watched a dark thing
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  Speaker 2: until it stopped just in front of him. It was Raven.
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  Speaker 2: As soon as Raven stopped, he raised one of his
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  Speaker 2: wings and pushed up his beak as though it wore
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  Speaker 2: a mask to the top of his head. Thus Raven
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  Speaker 2: changed at once into a man. Raven stared hard at Man,
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  Speaker 2: moving from side to side to see him better. Raven said,
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  Speaker 2: what are you? Where did you come from? I have
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  Speaker 2: never seen anything like you. Raven still stared at Man,
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  Speaker 2: surprised to find this new thing so much like himself.
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  Speaker 2: He made Man walk around a little while he broked
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  Speaker 2: his head from side to side to see him better.
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  Speaker 2: Then Raven said, again, in astonishment, where did you come from?
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  Speaker 2: I have never seen anything like you before? Man said,
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  Speaker 2: I came from the pea pod. He pointed to the
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  Speaker 2: plant from which she came. Ah. I made it fine,
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  Speaker 2: said Raven. But I did not know that anything like
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  Speaker 2: you would come from it. Come with me to the
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  Speaker 2: high ground over there. It is thicker and harder. This
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  Speaker 2: ground I made later, and it is soft and thin.
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  Speaker 2: So Man and Raven walked to the higher ground, which
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  Speaker 2: was firm and hard. Raven asked Man if he had
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  Speaker 2: eaten anything. Man said he had taken some of the
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  Speaker 2: soft stuff from one of the pools. Ah, you drank
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  Speaker 2: some water, said Raven. Now wait for me here. Raven
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  Speaker 2: drew down his beak as though it were a mask
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  Speaker 2: over his face. He at once became a bird and
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  Speaker 2: flew far up into the sky, far out of sight.
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  Speaker 2: Man waited until the fourth day. Then Raven returned, bringing
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  Speaker 2: four berries in his claws. He pushed up his beak
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  Speaker 2: and so became a man again. Then he gave to
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  Speaker 2: Man two salmon berries and two heathed berries, saying, here
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  Speaker 2: is something I made for you to eat. I wish
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  Speaker 2: them to be plentiful on earth. Eat them. Man put
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  Speaker 2: the berries into his mouth, one after the other and
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  Speaker 2: ate them. Then he felt better. Then Raven left Man
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  Speaker 2: near a small creek while he went to the edge
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  Speaker 2: of the water. He did two pieces of clay at
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  Speaker 2: the water's edge and shaped them like a pair of
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  Speaker 2: mountain sheep. He held them in his hand until they
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  Speaker 2: were dry, and then he called Man to come and
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  Speaker 2: see them. Man said they were pretty, so Raven told
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  Speaker 2: him to close his eyes. Man closed his eyes tightly.
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  Speaker 2: Then Raven pulled down his beak mask and raved his
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  Speaker 2: wings four times over the pieces of clay. At once
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  Speaker 2: they bounded away as full grown mountain sheep. Raven told
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  Speaker 2: Man to look. Man was so much pleased that Raven said,
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  Speaker 2: if these animals were plentiful. Perhaps people will try to
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  Speaker 2: kill them. Man said yes. Then Raven said, well, it
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  Speaker 2: will be better for them to live among his steep rocks,
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  Speaker 2: so everyone cannot kill them. There, only shall they be found.
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  Speaker 2: Raven took two more pieces of clay and shaped them
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  Speaker 2: like tame reindeer. He held them in his hand until
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  Speaker 2: they were partly dry, then told men to look at them.
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  Speaker 2: Raven again drew down his beak mask and rave his
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  Speaker 2: swings four times over them. Thus they became alive, but
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  Speaker 2: they were only dry in spots while Raven held them.
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  Speaker 2: Therefore they remained brown and white with mottled coat. Raven
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  Speaker 2: told man these tame reindeer would be very few in number. Again,
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  Speaker 2: Raven took two pieces of clay and shaped them like
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  Speaker 2: the caribou or wild reindeer. But he held them in
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  Speaker 2: his hands only a little while, so that only the
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  Speaker 2: bellies of the reindeer became dry and white. Then Raven
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  Speaker 2: drew down his beak mask and raved his swings over them,
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  Speaker 2: and they bound the way. But because only their bellies
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  Speaker 2: were dry and white while Raven held them, Therefore, the
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  Speaker 2: wild reindeer is brown except its white belly. Raven said
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  Speaker 2: the man, these animals would be very common. People will
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  Speaker 2: kill many of them. Thus Raven began to create the animals.
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  Speaker 2: Raven said one day to Man, you are lonely by yourself.
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  Speaker 2: I will make you a companion. He went to some
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  Speaker 2: white clay at a spot distance from the clay which
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  Speaker 2: he had made the animals, and made the clay a
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  Speaker 2: figure almost like man. Raven kept looking at Man while
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  Speaker 2: he shaped the figure. Then he took fine water grass
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  Speaker 2: from the creek and fastened it on the back of
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  Speaker 2: the head for hair. When the clay was shaped, Raven
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  Speaker 2: drew down his beak mask and waved his swings over it.
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  Speaker 2: The clay became a beautiful girl. The girl was white
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  Speaker 2: and fair because Raven let the clay dry entirely before
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  Speaker 2: he waved his swings over it. Raven took the girl
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  Speaker 2: to Man. There is a companion for you, said. Now.
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  Speaker 2: In the days of the first people on the earth plane,
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  Speaker 2: there were no mountains far or near, no rain ever fell,
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  Speaker 2: and there were no winds. The sun shone always very brightly.
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  Speaker 2: Then Raven showed the first people on the earth plane
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  Speaker 2: how to sleep warmly and the dry moss. When they
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  Speaker 2: were tired, Raven himself drew down his beak mask and
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  Speaker 2: went to sleep like a bird. When Raven awakened, he
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  Speaker 2: went back to the creek. Here he made two sticklebacks,
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  Speaker 2: to graylynx and to blackfish. When these were swimming about
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  Speaker 2: in the water, he called Man to see them. Man
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  Speaker 2: raised his hand in surprise, and the sticklebacks started away.
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  Speaker 2: Raven told him the graylings would be found in the
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  Speaker 2: clear mountain streams, while the sticklebacks would live along the coast,
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  Speaker 2: and that both would be good for food. Raven next
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  Speaker 2: made the shrew mouse. He said, the shrew mouse will
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  Speaker 2: not be good for food, it'll prevent the earth plane
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  Speaker 2: from looking bare and cheerless. In this way, Raven was
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  Speaker 2: busy for several days making birds and fishes and animals.
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  Speaker 2: He showed each of them to Man and explained what
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  Speaker 2: they were good for. Then Raven flew into the sky,
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  Speaker 2: far far away, and was gone four days. When he
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  Speaker 2: came back, he brought a salmon to Man. But Raven
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  Speaker 2: noticed that the ponds and lakes were silent and lonely,
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  Speaker 2: so he made water bugs to float upon the surface
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  Speaker 2: of the water. He also made the beaver and the
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  Speaker 2: muskrat to live around the borders of the ponds. Raven
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  Speaker 2: told man that the beavers would live along the streams
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  Speaker 2: and build strong houses, so man must build a strong house. Also,
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  Speaker 2: Raven said the beavers would be very cunning, and only
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  Speaker 2: good hunters could catch them. He also told man how
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  Speaker 2: to catch the muskrat and how to use its skin
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  Speaker 2: for clothing. Raven also made flies and mosquitoes and other
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  Speaker 2: insects to make the ear the plain more cheerful. At first,
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  Speaker 2: mosquitoes were like flies, they did not bite. One day,
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  Speaker 2: Man killed a deer. After he had cut it up
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  Speaker 2: and played the fat on a bush. He fell asleep.
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  Speaker 2: When he awoke, he found the mosquitoes had eaten all
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  Speaker 2: of it. Then Man was very angry and scolded the mosquitoes.
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  Speaker 2: He said, never eat meat again eat men. Before that,
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  Speaker 2: mosquitoes never bid people. When the first baby came on
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  Speaker 2: the earth plane, Raven rubbed it all over with white clay.
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  Speaker 2: He told man it would grow into a man like himself.
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  Speaker 2: The next morning, the baby was a big boy. He
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  Speaker 2: ran around pulling up grass and flowers that Raven had planted.
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  Speaker 2: By the third day, the baby was a full grown man.
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  Speaker 2: Then another baby was born on the earth plane, she
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  Speaker 2: was rubbed over with white clay. The next day, the
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  Speaker 2: baby was a big girl walking around. On the third day,
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  Speaker 2: she was a full grown woman. Now Raven began to
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  Speaker 2: be afraid that men would kill all the creatures he
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  Speaker 2: had made. He was afraid they would kill them for
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  Speaker 2: food and clothing. Therefore, Raven went to a creek nearby.
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  Speaker 2: He took white clay and shaped it like a bear.
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  Speaker 2: He waved his wings over it, and the clay became
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  Speaker 2: a bear. But Raven jumped very quickly to one side
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  Speaker 2: when the bear became alive, because it looked fiercely around
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  Speaker 2: and growled. Then Raven showed the bear to man and
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  Speaker 2: told him to be careful. He said the bear was
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  Speaker 2: very fierce and would tear him to pieces if he
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  Speaker 2: disturbed it. Then Raven made the seals and taught man
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  Speaker 2: how to catch them. He also taught man how to
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  Speaker 2: make strong lines from sealskin and snares for the deer.
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  Speaker 2: Then Raven went away to the place of the pea vine.
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  Speaker 2: When he reached the peavine, he found three other men
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  Speaker 2: had just fallen from the same pot that Man had
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  Speaker 2: fallen from. These men were looking about them and wonder.
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  Speaker 2: Raven led them away from the pea vine, but in
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  Speaker 2: a different direction from the first man. He brought them
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  Speaker 2: close to the sea. Raven stayed with these three men
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  Speaker 2: a long time. He taught them how to take wood
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  Speaker 2: from the bushes and small trees he planted in hollows
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  Speaker 2: and sheltered places, and to make a fire drill, and
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  Speaker 2: also a bow. He made many more plants and birds,
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  Speaker 2: which like the sea coast, but he did not make
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  Speaker 2: so many as in the land where Man lived. He
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  Speaker 2: taught these men how to make bows and arrows, spears
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  Speaker 2: and nets, and how to use them, and also how
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  Speaker 2: to capture the seals, which were now plentiful in the sea.
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  Speaker 2: Then he taught them how to make kayaks, and how
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  Speaker 2: to build houses of drift logs and of bushes covered
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  Speaker 2: with earth. Then he made wives for these men and
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  Speaker 2: went back to Man. When Raven reached the land where
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  Speaker 2: man lived, he thought the earth plane still looked bare.
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  Speaker 2: So while the other slept, Raven planted birch and spruce
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  Speaker 2: and cotton with trees to grow in the low places.
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  Speaker 2: Then he woke up the people, who were pleased with
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  Speaker 2: the trees. Then Raven taught man how to make fire
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  Speaker 2: with a fire drill, and to place a spark of
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  Speaker 2: tinder and a bunch of dry grass, and to wave
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  Speaker 2: it about until it placed, and then to put dry
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  Speaker 2: wood upon it. He showed them how to roast fish
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  Speaker 2: on a stick, and how to make fish traps of
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  Speaker 2: splints and willow bark, and how to dray salmon for
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  Speaker 2: winter use. Where Man lived there was now a large
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  Speaker 2: village because the people did everything as Raven told them. Therefore,
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  Speaker 2: all the babies grew up in three days. When day,
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  Speaker 2: Raven came back and sat down by Man by the creek,
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  Speaker 2: and they talked of many things. Man as Raven about
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  Speaker 2: the skyland. Man wanted to see the skyland, which Raven
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  Speaker 2: had made. Therefore Raven took Man to the land in
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  Speaker 2: the sky. Man found that the skyland was a very
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  Speaker 2: beautiful country, and that it had a much better climate
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  Speaker 2: than his land. But the people who lived there were
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  Speaker 2: very small. Their heads did not reach to man's hips.
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  Speaker 2: The people wore fur clothing with beautiful patterns, such as
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  Speaker 2: people on Earth now wear, because Man showed his people
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  Speaker 2: how to make them. And the lakes were strange animals
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  Speaker 2: which would have killed Man if he had tried to
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  Speaker 2: drink the water. In a dry lake bed thickly covered
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  Speaker 2: with tall grass, Man saw a wonderful animal resting upon
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  Speaker 2: the tips of the grasses. It had a long head
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  Speaker 2: and six legs. It had fine, thick hair, and on
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  Speaker 2: the back of the head were two thick short horns
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  Speaker 2: which bent forward and then curved back at the hips.
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  Speaker 2: Raven told Nan it took many people to kill this animal.
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  Speaker 2: Then they came to a round hole in the sky,
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  Speaker 2: and around the edge of the hole was short grass
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  Speaker 2: glowing like fire. Raven said, this is a star called
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  Speaker 2: the Moondog. Some of the grass had been pulled up.
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  Speaker 2: Raven said he had taken some to start the first
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  Speaker 2: fire on Earth. Then Raven said to man, shut your eyes.
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  Speaker 2: I will take you to another country. Man climbed upon
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  Speaker 2: Raven's back and they dropped down through the star hole.
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  Speaker 2: They floated a long long time through the air. Then
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  Speaker 2: they floated through something else. When they stopped, Raven saw
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  Speaker 2: he was at the bottom of the sea. Man could
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  Speaker 2: breathe there, but it seemed foggy. Raven said that was
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  Speaker 2: the appearance of the water. Then Raven said, I want
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  Speaker 2: to make some new animals here. But you must not
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  Speaker 2: walk about. You lie down, and if you get tired,
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  Speaker 2: turn over on the other side. Man went to sleep,
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  Speaker 2: lying on his side and slept a long while. When
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  Speaker 2: he waked up, he wanted to turn over, but he
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  Speaker 2: could not. Then Man thought, I wish I could turn over,
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  Speaker 2: and at once he turned. As he turned, he was
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  Speaker 2: surprised to see that his body was covered with long
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  Speaker 2: white hairs, and his fingers were long claws. Then he
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  Speaker 2: went to sleep again. This he did three times more.
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  Speaker 2: Then when he woke up, Raven stood by him. Raven said,
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  Speaker 2: I have changed you into a white bear. How do
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  Speaker 2: you like it? Man could not make a sound until
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  Speaker 2: Raven waved his wings over him. Then he said he
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  Speaker 2: did not like it. If he was a bear, he
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  Speaker 2: would have to live on the sea while his son
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  Speaker 2: lived on land, so Man should feel badly. And then
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  Speaker 2: Raven struck the white skin with his wings and it
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  Speaker 2: fell off, so Man became himself again. But Raven took
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  Speaker 2: the empty bear skin and placed one of his own
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  Speaker 2: tail feathers inside it for a spine. Then he waved
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  Speaker 2: his swing over it and a white bear arose. Ever
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  Speaker 2: since then, white bears have been found on the frozen
• 19:18
  Speaker 2: sea Raven said, how many times did you turn over?
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  Speaker 2: Man said four. Raven said you slept four years. Then
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  Speaker 2: Raven made other animals. He made the ami cook, a large,
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  Speaker 2: slimy animal with thick skin and with four long, white
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  Speaker 2: spreading arms. This is a fierce animal that lives in
• 19:41
  Speaker 2: the sea. It wraps its four long arms around a
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  Speaker 2: man or a kayak, and it drags it under the water.
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  Speaker 2: A man cannot escape it. If he climbs out of
• 19:50
  Speaker 2: his kayak on the ice, the ami cook will dart
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  Speaker 2: underneath and break the eyes. If man runs away on shore,
• 19:59
  Speaker 2: the amy cook pursues him by burying through the earth.
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  Speaker 2: No man can escape from it when once it pursues him.
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  Speaker 2: Then Raven showed man the walrus and the dog. Walrus
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  Speaker 2: with head and teeth like a dog. It always swam
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  Speaker 2: with large herds of walrus, and with a stroke of
• 20:16
  Speaker 2: its tail could kill a man. He showed him whales
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  Speaker 2: and the grampus. Raven told man that only good hunters
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  Speaker 2: could kill a whale, but when one was killed, an
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  Speaker 2: entire village could feast on it. He showed him also
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  Speaker 2: the sea fox, which is so fierce it kills men,
• 20:32
  Speaker 2: and the sea otter which is like the land otter,
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  Speaker 2: but has finer fur tipped with white and other fishes
• 20:39
  Speaker 2: and animals. As they rose to the surface of the water,
• 20:42
  Speaker 2: then Raven said, close your eyes, hold fast to me.
• 20:46
  Speaker 2: Then Man found himself on the shore near his home.
• 20:49
  Speaker 2: The village was very large, his wife was very old,
• 20:52
  Speaker 2: and his son was an old man. The people gave
• 20:54
  Speaker 2: him place of honor in the cashin and made him
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  Speaker 2: their headsmen. So Man thought the young men many things.
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  Speaker 2: Now Man wanted again to see the skyland. So Raven
• 21:05
  Speaker 2: and Man went up among the dwarf people and lived
• 21:08
  Speaker 2: there a long time. But on earth, the village people
• 21:10
  Speaker 2: grew very large. The men killed many animals. Now, in
• 21:15
  Speaker 2: those days the sun shone always very brightly, no rain
• 21:18
  Speaker 2: ever fell, and no winds blew. Raven and Man were
• 21:22
  Speaker 2: angry because the people killed many animals. They took a
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  Speaker 2: long line in a grass basket one night and caught
• 21:29
  Speaker 2: ten reindeer, which they put into the basket. Now, in
• 21:32
  Speaker 2: those days, reindeer had sharp teeth like dogs. The next night,
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  Speaker 2: Raven took the reindeer and let them down on the
• 21:39
  Speaker 2: earth close to Man's village. Raven said, break down the
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  Speaker 2: first house to see and kill the people. Men are
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  Speaker 2: becoming too many. The reindeer did as Raven commanded. They
• 21:50
  Speaker 2: stamped on the house and broke it down. They ate
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  Speaker 2: up the people with their sharp, wolf like teeth. The
• 21:56
  Speaker 2: next night Raven let the reindeer down again. They broke
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  Speaker 2: down a house and ate up the people with a
• 22:01
  Speaker 2: sharp teeth. The village people were much frightened. The third night,
• 22:06
  Speaker 2: they covered the third house with a mixture of deer
• 22:08
  Speaker 2: fat and berries. On the third night, when the reindeer
• 22:11
  Speaker 2: began to tear down the third house, their mouths were
• 22:14
  Speaker 2: filled with the fat and sour berries. Then the reindeer
• 22:17
  Speaker 2: ran away, shaking their head so violently that all their long,
• 22:20
  Speaker 2: sharp teeth fell out. Ever since then, reindeer have had
• 22:24
  Speaker 2: small teeth and cannot harm people. After the reindeer ran away,
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  Speaker 2: Raven and Man returned to the skyland. Man said, if
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  Speaker 2: the people did not stop killing so many animals, they
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  Speaker 2: will kill everything you have made. It would be better
• 22:38
  Speaker 2: to take the sun away from them. Then it will
• 22:40
  Speaker 2: be dark and people will die. Raven said, though it
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  Speaker 2: is right you stay here, I will go and take
• 22:47
  Speaker 2: away the sun. So Raven went away and took the
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  Speaker 2: sun out of the sky. He put it in a
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  Speaker 2: skin bag and carried it far away to a distant
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  Speaker 2: part of the skyland. Then it became dark on Earth.
• 22:59
  Speaker 2: The people on Earth were frightened when the sun vanished.
• 23:01
  Speaker 2: They offered Raven presents of food and furs if he
• 23:04
  Speaker 2: would bring back the sun. Raven said no. After a while,
• 23:09
  Speaker 2: Raven felt sorry for them, so he let them have
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  Speaker 2: a little light. He held up the sun in one
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  Speaker 2: hand for two days so people could hunt and secure food.
• 23:18
  Speaker 2: Then he put the sun in the skin bag again,
• 23:20
  Speaker 2: and the earth was dark. Then, after a long time,
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  Speaker 2: when the people made him many gifts, he would let
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  Speaker 2: them have a little light again. Now Raven had a
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  Speaker 2: brother living in the village. He was sorry for the
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  Speaker 2: Earth's people. So Raven's brother thought a long time. Then
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  Speaker 2: he died. The people put him in a grave box
• 23:39
  Speaker 2: and had a burial feast. Then they left the grave box.
• 23:42
  Speaker 2: At once. Raven's brother slipped out of the box and
• 23:45
  Speaker 2: went away from the village. He had his Raven mask
• 23:48
  Speaker 2: and coat in a tree. Soon Raven's wife came for water.
• 23:52
  Speaker 2: When she took up a dipperfol to drink, Raven's brother,
• 23:56
  Speaker 2: by magic, became a small leaf, He fell into the
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  Speaker 2: water and Raven's wife swallowed him. When Raven Boy was born,
• 24:04
  Speaker 2: he grew very rapidly. He was running about when he
• 24:08
  Speaker 2: was only a few days old. He cried for the sun,
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  Speaker 2: which was in the skin bag hanging on the rafters.
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  Speaker 2: Raven was fond of the boy, so he let him
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  Speaker 2: play with the sun. Yet he was afraid Raven Boy
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  Speaker 2: would lose the sun, so he watched him. When Raven
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  Speaker 2: Boy began to play out of doors, he cried and
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  Speaker 2: begged for the sun. Raven said no. Then Raven Boy
• 24:31
  Speaker 2: cried more than ever. At last, Raven gave him the
• 24:34
  Speaker 2: sun and the house. Raven Boy played with it a
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  Speaker 2: long while. When no one was looking, he ran quickly
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  Speaker 2: out of the house. He ran to the tree, put
• 24:44
  Speaker 2: on his Raven Masakin coat, and flew far away with
• 24:47
  Speaker 2: the sun in the skin bag. When Raven Boy was
• 24:50
  Speaker 2: far up in the sky, he heard Raven call, do
• 24:53
  Speaker 2: not hide the sun. Let it out of the bag,
• 24:55
  Speaker 2: do not keep it always dark. Raven thought the boy
• 24:59
  Speaker 2: had stolen in it for himself. Raven Boy flew to
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  Speaker 2: the place where the sun belonged. He torved the skin
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  Speaker 2: covering and put the sun in its place. Then he
• 25:09
  Speaker 2: saw a broad path leading far away. He followed it
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  Speaker 2: to the side of a whole french with short bright grass.
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  Speaker 2: He remembered that Raven had said, do not keep it
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  Speaker 2: always dark. Therefore he made a sky turn with all
• 25:23
  Speaker 2: the stars in the sun. Thus it is now sometimes
• 25:27
  Speaker 2: dark and sometimes light. Raven Boy picked some of the
• 25:30
  Speaker 2: short bright grass by the edge of the sky hole
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  Speaker 2: and stuck it into the sky. This is the morning star.
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  Speaker 2: A raven boy went down to the earth. The people
• 25:39
  Speaker 2: were glad to see him. They said, what has become
• 25:43
  Speaker 2: of man who went into the skyland with raven Now
• 25:46
  Speaker 2: this was the first time that raven boy had heard
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  Speaker 2: of man. He started to fly up into the sky,
• 25:51
  Speaker 2: but he could get only a small distance above the earth.
• 25:55
  Speaker 2: When he found he could not get back to the sky,
• 25:57
  Speaker 2: Raven Boy wandered to the second village, where lived the
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  Speaker 2: men who had come from the pod of the beach peak.
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  Speaker 2: Raven Boy there married the wife, and he had many children.
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  Speaker 2: But the children could not fly to the guy. They
• 26:10
  Speaker 2: had lost their magic power. Therefore, the raven stuff fluttered
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  Speaker 2: over the undress like other birds and of Chapter one
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  Speaker 2: recording by Audrey Gigger.
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  Speaker 3: Chapter two of Myths and Legends of Alaska, edited by
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  Speaker 3: Catherine Barry Judson. This LibriVox recording is in the public domain.
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  Speaker 3: Chapter two, the flood from the Tlingt long long ago,
• 26:41
  Speaker 3: in the days of the animal people, Raven at the
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  Speaker 3: head of Nas became angry. He said, let rain pour
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  Speaker 3: down all over the world. Let people die of starvation.
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  Speaker 3: At once it became so stormy. People could not get food,
• 26:57
  Speaker 3: so they began to starve. The news were also broken up.
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  Speaker 3: Their houses fell in upon them, and they suffered very much.
• 27:05
  Speaker 3: Then Naska Kayelle, Raven at the head of Nass, asked
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  Speaker 3: for his jointed dance hat. When he put it on,
• 27:13
  Speaker 3: water began pouring out of the top of it. It
• 27:15
  Speaker 3: is from Raven that the Indians obtained this kind of
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  Speaker 3: a hat. When the water rose to the house floor,
• 27:22
  Speaker 3: Raven and his mother climbed upon the lowest retaining timber.
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  Speaker 3: This house we are speaking of, although it looked like
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  Speaker 3: a house to them, was really part of the world.
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  Speaker 3: It had eight rows of retaining timbers. When Raven and
• 27:36
  Speaker 3: his mother climbed to a higher timber, the people of
• 27:39
  Speaker 3: the world were climbing into the hills. Then Raven and
• 27:42
  Speaker 3: his mother climbed to the fourth timber. By that time
• 27:46
  Speaker 3: the water was half way up the mountains. When the
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  Speaker 3: house was nearly full of water, Raven's mother got into
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  Speaker 3: the skin of a CAx. To this very day, tlingketts
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  Speaker 3: do not eat the cacks because it was Raven's mother.
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  Speaker 3: Then Raven got into the skin of a white bird
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  Speaker 3: with copper colored bill. Now the cacks is a diver
• 28:06
  Speaker 3: and stayed upon the surface of the water. But Raven
• 28:09
  Speaker 3: flew to the very highest cloud and hung there by
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  Speaker 3: his bill, but his tail was in the water. After
• 28:17
  Speaker 3: Raven had hung in the cloud for days and days,
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  Speaker 3: nobody knows how long, he pulled his bill out and
• 28:23
  Speaker 3: prayed to fall on a piece of kelp. He thought
• 28:26
  Speaker 3: the water had gone down. When Raven fell upon the
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  Speaker 3: kelp and flew away, he found the waters just half
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  Speaker 3: way down the mountains. Raven flew around until he met
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  Speaker 3: a shark which had been swimming around with a long stick.
• 28:41
  Speaker 3: Raven took the stick and climbed down it as a
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  Speaker 3: ladder to the bottom of the ocean, but Raven had
• 28:46
  Speaker 3: set eagle to watch the tide. Raven wandered around the
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  Speaker 3: bottom of the ocean until he came to an old woman.
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  Speaker 3: He said to her, how cold I am after eating
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  Speaker 3: those sea urchins. He repeated this over and over again.
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  Speaker 3: At last the woman said, what low tide is this
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  Speaker 3: Raven talking about. Raven did not answer. The woman kept repeating,
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  Speaker 3: what low tide are you talking about? Then Raven became angry.
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  Speaker 3: He said, I will stick these sea urchins into you
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  Speaker 3: if you don't keep quiet. At last, he did so.
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  Speaker 3: Then the woman began singing, don't Raven, the tide will
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  Speaker 3: go down if you don't stop. But the water was
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  Speaker 3: receding as Raven had told it to in his magic words.
• 29:33
  Speaker 3: Raven asked Eagle, who was watching the tide, how far
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  Speaker 3: down is the tide now? The tide is as far
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  Speaker 3: down as half a man. How far down is the tide?
• 29:43
  Speaker 3: He asked again. The tide is very low, said Eagle.
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  Speaker 3: Then the old woman started singing her magic song again.
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  Speaker 3: Raven said, let it get dry all around the world.
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  Speaker 3: After a while, Eagle said, the tide is very low now,
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  Speaker 3: you can hardly see any water. Raven said, let it
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  Speaker 3: get still drier. At last everything was dry. This is
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  Speaker 3: the lowest tide there ever was. All the salmon and
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  Speaker 3: whales and seals lay on the sands because the water
• 30:14
  Speaker 3: was so low. Then the people killed them for food.
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  Speaker 3: They had enough food to last them a long time.
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  Speaker 3: When the tide began to rise again, the people were frightened.
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  Speaker 3: They feared there would be another flood, so they carried
• 30:28
  Speaker 3: their food back a long distance. Afterward, Raven returned to
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  Speaker 3: nas River and found that people there had not changed
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  Speaker 3: their ways. They were dancing and feasting. They asked Raven
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  Speaker 3: to join them. End of chapter two, Chapter three of
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  Speaker 3: Myths and Legends of Alaska, edited by Catherine Barry Judson.
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  Speaker 3: This LibriVox recording is in the public domain. Chapter three,
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  Speaker 3: the Origin of the tides from the sets out. A
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  Speaker 3: long time ago, a man wandered down the Nass River.
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  Speaker 3: Wherever he camped, he made rocks of curious shapes. Now
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  Speaker 3: his name was Ka, the raven. The Tlingett call him Yell.
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  Speaker 3: Ka wandered all over the world. At last he traveled westward. Now,
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  Speaker 3: at that time the sea was always high in the
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  Speaker 3: middle of the world. Ka discovered a rock in the sea.
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  Speaker 3: He built a house under the rock. Then he made
• 31:34
  Speaker 3: a hole through it and through the earth, and fitted
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  Speaker 3: a lid to it. Raven put a man in charge
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  Speaker 3: of the hole. Twice a day he opens the lid,
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  Speaker 3: and twice each day he closes it. When the hole
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  Speaker 3: is open, the water rushes down through it into the depths.
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  Speaker 3: Then it is ebb tide. When he closes the lid,
• 31:53
  Speaker 3: the water rises again, then it is flood tide. Once
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  Speaker 3: upon a time, Tail, a Tilicket chief, while hunting sea otters,
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  Speaker 3: was carried out to Cause Rock by the tide. The
• 32:06
  Speaker 3: current was so strong he could not escape. When Tail
• 32:10
  Speaker 3: was drawn toward the rock, he saw a few small
• 32:13
  Speaker 3: trees growing on it. Tail threw his canoe line over
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  Speaker 3: one of the trees. Thus he escaped, being carried down
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  Speaker 3: by the water into the hole under the rock. After
• 32:24
  Speaker 3: some time, he heard a noise the man was putting
• 32:27
  Speaker 3: the lid on the hole. Then the water began to rise.
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  Speaker 3: Tail paddled rapidly away. He paddled away until the tide
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  Speaker 3: began to ebb again. Then he fastened his canoe to
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  Speaker 3: a large stone near by, and waited until flood time
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  Speaker 3: came again. Thus Tail escaped. End of chapter three.
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  Speaker 2: Chapter four of mids and Legends of Alaska. This is
• 32:58
  Speaker 2: a leap of oxercrit All LibriVox recordings are in the
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  Speaker 2: LibriVox dot org. Recording by Audrey Gigger. Myths and Legends
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  Speaker 2: of Alaska by Catherine Barry Judson, Chapter four, How the
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  Speaker 2: Rivers were formed. Petrol was the first person created by Raven.
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  Speaker 2: At the head of Nass. He was keeper of the
• 33:23
  Speaker 2: fresh water. No one else might touch it. Now. The
• 33:26
  Speaker 2: spring he owned was on a rocky island called the
• 33:29
  Speaker 2: Kino Forth, far out where the well may still be seen.
• 33:33
  Speaker 2: Raven stole a great mouthful of water, but as he
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  Speaker 2: flew over the country, drops pilled out of his beak.
• 33:40
  Speaker 2: These drops made the rivers the nasts, Skina, Stickeen, and chilcat.
• 33:46
  Speaker 2: Raven said, the water that I dropped down upon the
• 33:49
  Speaker 2: earth here and there will whirl all the time. There
• 33:53
  Speaker 2: will be plenty of water, but it will not flood
• 33:55
  Speaker 2: the world. Now, before this time, Raven was pure. But
• 34:01
  Speaker 2: when he stole the water from Petrol, he tried to
• 34:03
  Speaker 2: fly out of the smoke coal. Petrol cried. Spirits of
• 34:07
  Speaker 2: the smoke coal hold him fast. So the smoke hole
• 34:11
  Speaker 2: spirits held Raven until the smoke blackened his white coat.
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  Speaker 2: End of chapter four recording by Audrey Gigger.
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  Speaker 3: Chapter five of Myths and Legends of Alaska edited by
• 34:29
  Speaker 3: Catherine Barry Judson. This LibriVox recording is in the public domain.
• 34:35
  Speaker 3: Chapter five The Origin of Fire from the Tlingt. Long
• 34:41
  Speaker 3: ago in the days of the animal people, Raven saw
• 34:44
  Speaker 3: a fire far out at sea. He tied a piece
• 34:47
  Speaker 3: of pitch to Chickenhawk's bill. He said, go out to
• 34:51
  Speaker 3: the fire, touch it with the pitchwood, and bring it back.
• 34:54
  Speaker 3: Chickenhawk did so. The fire stuck to the pitch wood,
• 34:58
  Speaker 3: and he brought it back to Raven. Then Raven put
• 35:01
  Speaker 3: the fire into the rock and into the red cedar.
• 35:04
  Speaker 3: Then he said, thus shall you get your fire from
• 35:08
  Speaker 3: this rock and from this red cedar. The tribes did
• 35:11
  Speaker 3: as he told them. End of chapter five. Chapter six
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  Speaker 3: of Myths and Legends of Alaska edited by Catherine Barry Judson.
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  Speaker 3: This LibriVox recording is in the public domain. Chapter six,
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  Speaker 3: Duration of Winter from the Tlingtt. Once Raven went to
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  Speaker 3: Groundhog's house for the winter. Now, groundhogs go into their
• 35:42
  Speaker 3: holes in September. At home, they lived like people. People
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  Speaker 3: to them are animals. So Raven spent the winter with
• 35:50
  Speaker 3: Groundhog and became very tired of it, but he could
• 35:53
  Speaker 3: not get out. Groundhog enjoyed himself, but Raven acted like
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  Speaker 3: a prisoner. Raven kept shouting, Winter comes on, Winter comes on.
• 36:03
  Speaker 3: Raven thought the groundhog had power to shorten the winter. Now,
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  Speaker 3: at that time, groundhog had to stay in his hole
• 36:09
  Speaker 3: for six months. At that time, groundhog had six toes,
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  Speaker 3: one for each month of winter. Then Raven pulled one
• 36:18
  Speaker 3: toe off each foot so that the winter would be shorter.
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  Speaker 3: That is why the groundhog now has but five toes.
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  Speaker 3: End of chapter six.
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  Speaker 2: Chapter seven of Myts and Legends of Alaska. This is
• 36:37
  Speaker 2: the LibriVox recording. All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain.
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  Speaker 2: For more information or to volunteer, please visit LibriVox dot org.
• 36:46
  Speaker 2: Recording by Audrey Gigger. Myts and Legends of Alaska by
• 36:50
  Speaker 2: Katherine Barry Judson. Chapter seven Raven's feast. Raven's mother died,
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  Speaker 2: so he gave a great feast. But first he went
• 36:58
  Speaker 2: to the groundhog people to get Now, the groundhog people
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  Speaker 2: know when slides ascend from the mountains, and they know
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  Speaker 2: that spring is then near had so they throw all
• 37:07
  Speaker 2: of their winter food out of their burrows. Raven wanted
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  Speaker 2: them to do this. He said, there was going to
• 37:14
  Speaker 2: be a world snowslide. Groundhog chief answered, well, nobody in
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  Speaker 2: this town knows about it. In the spring, when the
• 37:22
  Speaker 2: snowslides did come, the groundhowks threw out all their green
• 37:25
  Speaker 2: herbs and their roots from their burrows. Therefore, Raven said
• 37:29
  Speaker 2: to the people, I am going to have a feast.
• 37:32
  Speaker 2: I am going to invite the whole world. Raven was
• 37:35
  Speaker 2: going to invite everyone because he had heard that the
• 37:38
  Speaker 2: ganaka Det had a chilcat blanket and a chilcat hat,
• 37:41
  Speaker 2: and he wanted to see them. First. He invited the
• 37:44
  Speaker 2: Ganakadet and afterward the other chiefs of all the tribes
• 37:48
  Speaker 2: in the world at the right time, they came. When
• 37:51
  Speaker 2: the Ganakadet came in, he had on his ChIL cat
• 37:54
  Speaker 2: hat with many crowns in his chilcat blanket. But he
• 37:57
  Speaker 2: was surrounded by a fog inside of the house. However,
• 38:00
  Speaker 2: the fog melted away because Raven had this feast. People
• 38:05
  Speaker 2: now have to have feasts because Raven had this burial feast.
• 38:09
  Speaker 2: When a man is going to have a burial feast,
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  Speaker 2: he has a MANI crowned, had carved on the top
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  Speaker 2: of the dead man's gravepost end of Raven's Feast. Recording
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  Speaker 2: by Augi Gigger.
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  Speaker 3: Chapter eight of Myths and Legends of Alaska, edited by
• 38:31
  Speaker 3: Catherine Barry Judson. This LibriVox recording is in the public domain.
• 38:37
  Speaker 3: Chapter eight, Creation of the Porcupine from the tlingt. Raven
• 38:43
  Speaker 3: went into the woods and set out to make porcupines
• 38:47
  Speaker 3: for quills. He took pieces of yellow cedar bark. These
• 38:50
  Speaker 3: he sat all the way up and down the porcupines back,
• 38:53
  Speaker 3: so that the bears would be afraid of it. That
• 38:56
  Speaker 3: is why bears never eat porcupines, Raven said to the porcupine.
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  Speaker 3: Whenever anyone comes near, you throw your tail about. That
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  Speaker 3: is why people are afraid to go near or porcupine.
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  Speaker 3: End of chapter eight.
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  Speaker 2: Chapter nine of Myths and Legends of Alaska. This is
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  Speaker 2: Recording by Audrey Gigger. Myts and Legends of Alaska by
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  Speaker 2: Katherine Barry Judson. Chapter nine. How Raven thought the chilcats.
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  Speaker 2: Raven thought the chilcats that there were Athapascan Indians. He
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  Speaker 2: went back into their country, so the Chilcat people to
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  Speaker 2: this day make their money by going there. Raven also
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  Speaker 2: thought the Chilcats how to make secret storehouses outside of
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  Speaker 2: their villages, and he taught them how to put salmon
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  Speaker 2: into the storehouses and keep them frozen over winter. That
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  Speaker 2: is how the Chilcats got their name from toil storehouse
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  Speaker 2: and sat salmon or even also showed the Chilcats the
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  Speaker 2: first seeds of Indian tobacco and taught them how to
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  Speaker 2: plant it. After the tobacco was grown, he dried it
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  Speaker 2: and pounded it up with burned clampshaws. The Chilcats made
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  Speaker 2: a great deal of money by trading tobacco with the Athapascans. Afterward,
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  Speaker 2: Raven went beyond Copper River to Yukatat. There he showed
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  Speaker 2: the people how to make canoes out of skins. End
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  Speaker 2: of chapter nine. Recording by Audrey Giger, Chapter ten of
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  Speaker 2: by Audrey Giger Mytz and Legends of Alaska by Katherine
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  Speaker 2: Barry Judson, Chapter ten, Raven's marriage. After Raven had left
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  Speaker 2: alone a long while, he decided to get married. It
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  Speaker 2: was late in the fall and the birds were flying southward,
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  Speaker 2: so Raven flew away in the path of the geese
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  Speaker 2: and the birds on their way to summerland. Raven stopped
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  Speaker 2: directly in the path. Soon, Raven saw young goose coming near.
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  Speaker 2: He looked down at his feet and called, who will
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  Speaker 2: marry me? I am a very nice man. The goose
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  Speaker 2: flew on. Soon a black brand appeared. Raven looked down
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  Speaker 2: at his feet and called, who will marry me? I
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  Speaker 2: am a very nice man. The black brand flew on.
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  Speaker 2: Raven looked after her. He said, what kind of people
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  Speaker 2: are these? They do not even stop to listen. A
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  Speaker 2: duck came near. Raven hid his face and called, who
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  Speaker 2: will marry me? I am a very nice man. The
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  Speaker 2: duck looked toward him, then flew on. Raven said, ah,
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  Speaker 2: I came very near it. Then I shall succeed this time.
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  Speaker 2: Soon a whole family of white front geese came along.
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  Speaker 2: There were the parents, four brothers, and a sister. Raven
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  Speaker 2: called out, who wants to marry me. I am a
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  Speaker 2: fine hunter. I am young and handsome. The geese alighted
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  Speaker 2: just beyond him. Raven thought, now I will get a wife.
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  Speaker 2: Raven saw near him a pretty white stone with a
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  Speaker 2: hole in it. He picked it up, strung it on
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  Speaker 2: a long grass stem, and hung it about his neck.
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  Speaker 2: Then he pushed up his beak so that it slid
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  Speaker 2: to the top of his head like a mask, so
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  Speaker 2: he became a dark colored young man. Then he walked
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  Speaker 2: up to the geese. Each of the geese pushed up
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  Speaker 2: its bill in the same manner. They became nice looking people.
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  Speaker 2: Raven like the girl. He gave her the stone, thus
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  Speaker 2: choosing her first wife, and she hung it about her
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  Speaker 2: own neck. They all pushed down their bills again and
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  Speaker 2: became birds. So they flew south toward the summer land.
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  Speaker 2: The geese flapped their wings heavily and flew slowly. Raven,
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  Speaker 2: on outspread wing, glided on ahead. The geese looked after him,
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  Speaker 2: saying how light and graceful he is. When Raven became tired,
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  Speaker 2: said we had better stop early and look for a
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  Speaker 2: place to sleep. Soon they were all asleep. The next morning,
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  Speaker 2: the geese were awake early, they wanted to be off.
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  Speaker 2: Raven was sound asleep. Father who's wakened him? He said,
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  Speaker 2: we must make haste. It will snow here soon. We
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  Speaker 2: cannot wait. So the geese flapped their wings and flew
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  Speaker 2: slowly and heavily along. Raven let the others with outspread wings.
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  Speaker 2: He was always above or ahead of the others. They said,
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  Speaker 2: see how light and graceful he is. Thus they traveled
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  Speaker 2: until they came to the seashore. They feasted upon the
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  Speaker 2: berries on the bushes around it. Soon they were asleep.
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  Speaker 2: Early the next morning, the geese made ready to go
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  Speaker 2: without breakfast. Raven was hungry, but the geese would not wait.
• 43:49
  Speaker 2: As they flapped their wings and started, Father Goo said,
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  Speaker 2: we will stop once and a way to rest. Then
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  Speaker 2: our next flight will bring us to the other shore.
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  Speaker 2: Raven began to be afraid, but he was ashamed to
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  Speaker 2: say so. The geese flapped through wings slowly and flew
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  Speaker 2: steadily heavily along. Raven, with outspread wings, glided ahead. After
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  Speaker 2: a long time, Raven began to fall behind. His wings ached.
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  Speaker 2: The geese flew steadily on. Raven flapped heavily along, then
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  Speaker 2: glided on his outstretched wings. But he grew more and
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  Speaker 2: more tired. He fell further and further behind. At last
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  Speaker 2: the keys look back, father who said he must be tired.
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  Speaker 2: I thought he was slight and active.
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  Speaker 1: We will wait.
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  Speaker 2: The geese settled close together in the water. Raven flew
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  Speaker 2: slowly up, gasping for breath. He sat down upon their backs.
• 44:42
  Speaker 2: When Raven had his breath again, he put his hand
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  Speaker 2: on his breast. He said, I have an arrow here
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  Speaker 2: from an old war. It paints me greatly. That is
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  Speaker 2: why I fell behind. After resting, the geese rose from
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  Speaker 2: the water. They flapped slowly along. Raven flew with them.
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  Speaker 2: After a while, Raven began to fall behind. He grew
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  Speaker 2: more and more tired. At last the geese looked back.
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  Speaker 2: Father Goo said he must be tired.
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  Speaker 1: We will wait.
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  Speaker 2: So the geese sang down together in the water, while
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  Speaker 2: Raven flew slowly up to them and sank down upon
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  Speaker 2: their backs. Raven said, I have an arrow head which
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  Speaker 2: pierced my heart in an old war. That is why
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  Speaker 2: I fell behind. Raven's wife put her hand on his breast.
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  Speaker 2: She could feel it beating like a hammer. She said
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  Speaker 2: she could not feel an arrow head, so the geese
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  Speaker 2: rose again from the water. They flapped slowly along, but
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  Speaker 2: Raven's wings were very tired. Before long he fell behind again.
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  Speaker 2: Again the geese waited for him. Then the geese brothers
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  Speaker 2: began to talk among themselves. They said, we do not
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  Speaker 2: believe he has an arrow head in his heart. How
• 45:48
  Speaker 2: could he live now this last time? When they rested,
• 45:52
  Speaker 2: they could see the far off shore. Father Goo said
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  Speaker 2: to Raven, we will not wait for you again. We
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  Speaker 2: will not rest until we reached the shore. So the
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  Speaker 2: geese rose from the water and flapped slowly along. Raven's
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  Speaker 2: wings seemed very heavy that he flew nearer and nearer
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  Speaker 2: the shore. But Raven flew nearer and nearer the waves.
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  Speaker 2: As he came close to the water, he shrieked to
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  Speaker 2: his wife, leave me the white stone. Throw the white
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  Speaker 2: stone back to me. It was a magic stone. Thus
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  Speaker 2: Raven cried. Then he sank down into the water, but
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  Speaker 2: the geese had reached the land. Raven tried to rise
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  Speaker 2: from the water. His swings were not spread. Raven drifted
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  Speaker 2: back and forth with the waves. The white caps of
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  Speaker 2: the surf buried him. Only once in a while could
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  Speaker 2: he get his beak above the water to breathe. Then
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  Speaker 2: a great wave cast him on the shore. Then he
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  Speaker 2: struggled up the beach. He reached some bushes where he
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  Speaker 2: pushed up his beak. Thus he became a small, dark
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  Speaker 2: colored man. Then he took off his raven coat and mask.
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  Speaker 2: He hung them on a bush to dry. Raven made
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  Speaker 2: a fire drill out of dry wood and made a fire.
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  Speaker 2: Thus he dried himself. End of chapter ten recording by
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  Speaker 3: Chapter eleven of Myths and Legends of Alaska, edited by
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  Speaker 3: Chapter eleven Raven and the Seals from the Simchien. As
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  Speaker 3: Raven traveled along, he came to a house where a
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  Speaker 3: man lived near the edge of the water. Raven said
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  Speaker 3: to him, I will be your friend. The man said
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  Speaker 3: that is good. Now the beach in front of the
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  Speaker 3: house was full of seals. Raven ate them all. During
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  Speaker 3: two nights, he ate all the seals in front of
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  Speaker 3: the house. Then he was hungry again. Raven killed the man.
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  Speaker 3: Then he used his canoe and harpoon. Raven used those
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  Speaker 3: he speared four seals. Then he returned to the shore.
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  Speaker 3: He took the seals out of the canoe and began
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  Speaker 3: cutting wood. Then he built a fire and placed stones
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  Speaker 3: in it in order to heat them. Afterwards, he put
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  Speaker 3: the seals on a pile of hot stones. He cooked
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  Speaker 3: the four seals and covered them with skunk cabbage leaves.
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  Speaker 3: Raven then raised the cover and took out a seal.
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  Speaker 3: He ate it. Then he stretched out his hand and
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  Speaker 3: took another seal. Now there was Stump sitting near by.
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  Speaker 3: Raven held the seal in his hands and said to
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  Speaker 3: the stump, don't you envy me, Stump. Then he went
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  Speaker 3: into the woods. At once Stump arose and sat down
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  Speaker 3: in the hole in which the seals were steaming. The
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  Speaker 3: seals were right under Stump. Then Raven returned carrying leaves
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  Speaker 3: of skunk cabbage. When he saw Stump sitting on his seals,
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  Speaker 3: he cried. He was much troubled because he was hungry.
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  Speaker 3: Then he took a stick and dug the ground. He
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  Speaker 3: cried all the time he was digging. He found a
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  Speaker 3: little bit of meat and ate them, but he could
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  Speaker 3: not do anything. He cried all the time because he
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  Speaker 3: was so hungry. End of chapter eleven.
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  Speaker 4: Chapter twelve of Myths and Legends of Alaska. This is
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  Speaker 4: Recording by Verne Seward. Myths and Legends of Alaska by
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  Speaker 4: Catherine Barry Johnson. Chapter twelve, Raven and Pitch Semshen. Raven
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  Speaker 4: went traveling through the woods until he came to the
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  Speaker 4: house of Little Pitch. Little Pitch was rich and invited
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  Speaker 4: him in. When Raven had eaten enough, he slept. When
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  Speaker 4: he awakened, he said they would go catch halibit. Little
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  Speaker 4: Pitch was willing, but said, it is not good for
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  Speaker 4: me to be out after sunrise. I must return while
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  Speaker 4: it is still chilly. I shall have enough by that time.
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  Speaker 4: Raven said, I shall do whatever you say, Chief. Little
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  Speaker 4: Pitch said. Well. Then they started for the fishing place.
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  Speaker 4: They fished all night. When the sun rose, little Pitch
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  Speaker 4: wanted to go ashore. Raven said, I enjoy fishing. Lie
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  Speaker 4: down in the bow of the canoe and cover yourself
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  Speaker 4: with a mat. Little Pitch did so. After a while
• 50:34
  Speaker 4: Raven called little Pitch. He answered hey. After a while
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  Speaker 4: Raven called again, little Pitch, He answered again in a
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  Speaker 4: loud voice. Again, after some time, Raven called again Little Pitch.
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  Speaker 4: Then Little Pitch's answer was very weak because the sun
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  Speaker 4: was getting warm. Now Raven hauled up his line and
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  Speaker 4: paddled home. He pretended to paddle hard, but he only
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  Speaker 4: put his paddle into the water edgewise. Again, he called
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  Speaker 4: little Pitch. Hey, Little Pitch replied, but his voice was
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  Speaker 4: very weak. The sun was still hotter. Then Raven knew
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  Speaker 4: Little Pitch was melting. Behold, pitch came out and ran
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  Speaker 4: over the halibate in the boat. Therefore halibate are black
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  Speaker 4: on one side. Then Raven took the pitch and mended
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  Speaker 4: his boat with it. End of Chapter twelve. Recording by
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  Speaker 4: Vern Seward. Chapter thirteen of Myths and Legends of Alaska.
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  Speaker 4: Legends of Alaska by Catherine Barry Judson, thirteen. Raven's Dancing
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  Speaker 4: Blanket Simschen. One day Raven put on the shaman's blanket
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  Speaker 4: of his grandfather then he went away. He strayed off.
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  Speaker 4: He was very poor, and he tore his dancing blanket.
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  Speaker 4: Then he caught ravens. He used anything to kill the ravens.
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  Speaker 4: Then he took the skins of the ravens and tied
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  Speaker 4: them together. Then he walked around in them, dressed very well.
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  Speaker 4: Now he saw a good shaman's blanket, like the one
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  Speaker 4: he had before he tore the raven's blanket. He took
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  Speaker 4: the shaman's blanket that hung before him. Behold, it was
• 52:38
  Speaker 4: not a shaman's blanket. It was only the lichens on
• 52:41
  Speaker 4: a tree. Now he saw it was only lichens. He
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  Speaker 4: sat down and wept. He took his old raven's blanket
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  Speaker 4: and tied it together. Then once more he went on
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  Speaker 4: weeping with hunger. End of chapter thirteen. Recording by Verne Seward,
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  Speaker 4: Chapter fourteen of Myths and Legends of Alaska. This is
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  Speaker 4: Catherine Barry Judson, Chapter fourteen, Raven and the gulls simshen
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  Speaker 4: Raven did another thing. He induced the Olachin to come
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  Speaker 4: up to Nas River. He said to them go up
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  Speaker 4: on both sides of the river. They did so. Then
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  Speaker 4: Raven's canoe was quite full of fish. He had not
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  Speaker 4: used his rake, but the whole shoal of olachin jumped
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  Speaker 4: into his canoe. Then he camped at crab Apple place.
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  Speaker 4: He clamped on the top of the stone. Then very
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  Speaker 4: slippery became the top of that stone, that the olacchin
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  Speaker 4: could not be lost. He then put the olecchin on
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  Speaker 4: spits to roast them. Raven called little Gull. Then many
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  Speaker 4: gulls came. They all ate the olecchin of Raven. They said,
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  Speaker 4: Kana Kana, Kana kana. They talked much while they ate
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  Speaker 4: all of the olectionin of Raven. Then Raven was sad.
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  Speaker 4: Therefore he took the gulls and threw them into the fireplace.
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  Speaker 4: So the tips of their wings have been black ever
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  Speaker 4: since that day. End of chapter fourteen, Chapter fifteen of
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  Speaker 4: by Verne Seward. Myths and Legends of Alaska by Katherine
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  Speaker 4: Barry Judson, Chapter fifteen, The land Otter tlingit Rangel. Raven
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  Speaker 4: said to land Otter, you will live in the water
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  Speaker 4: just as well as on land. Raven and Lanotter were
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  Speaker 4: good friends, so they went Halibit fishing together. Lan Arter
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  Speaker 4: was a good fisherman. Raven said to lan Otter, you
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  Speaker 4: will always have your house on a point where there
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  Speaker 4: are breezes from all sides. Whenever a canoe with people capsizes,
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  Speaker 4: you will save the people and make them your friends.
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  Speaker 4: This is how the land Otter man was created, because
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  Speaker 4: Raven told this to land Otter. If people who are
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  Speaker 4: taken away by land Otters are brought back by their friends,
• 55:45
  Speaker 4: they become Shamans. It is through the land Otters that
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  Speaker 4: shamans were first known. Shamans by means of land Otter,
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  Speaker 4: spirits can see each other even though others cannot. End
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  Speaker 4: of chapter fifteen. Chapter sixteen of Myths and Legends of Alaska.
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  Speaker 4: Legends of Alaska by Katherine Barry Judson, Chapter sixteen, Raven
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  Speaker 4: and Kot a Fappinskan Upper Yukon a long time ago.
• 56:39
  Speaker 4: Raven wanted all the birds to look well, so he
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  Speaker 4: painted them. Raven painted Coot last, than Kot began to
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  Speaker 4: paint Raven, who wanted many bright colors. So Kot painted
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  Speaker 4: Raven with bright colors with one hand, but in the
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  Speaker 4: other hand he hid charcoal. When Raven looked away, Koot
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  Speaker 4: blackened all the bright with charcoal. Then Raven was angry
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  Speaker 4: and chase Coot, but Coot ran too quickly, so Raven
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  Speaker 4: threw white mud at him, white mud which splattered Overcoot.
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  Speaker 4: Therefore Coot had all white spots on his head and back.
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  Speaker 4: But Kot flew away and left Raven all black. End
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  Speaker 4: of chapter sixteen, Chapter seventeen of Myths and Legends of Alaska.
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  Speaker 4: Legends of Alaska by Catherine Barry Judson, Chapter seventeen. Raven
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  Speaker 4: and Marmott Eskimo bearing strait. Once, Raven was flying over
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  Speaker 4: over a reef near the seashore, near seabirds that were
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  Speaker 4: perched on the rocks. The sea birds cried to him,
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  Speaker 4: Oh you off ol eater, Oh you carry an eater.
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  Speaker 4: Oh you black one. Raven turned and flew far away,
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  Speaker 4: crying ca ca co. He flew far away across the
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  Speaker 4: great water until he came to a mountain on the
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  Speaker 4: other side. Raven saw just in front of him the
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  Speaker 4: whole of the Marmot. Then Raven stood by the door,
• 58:28
  Speaker 4: watching until Marmot came home bringing food. But Marmot could
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  Speaker 4: not enter his hold because Raven stood in the way.
• 58:37
  Speaker 4: Marmot asked Raven to stand to one side. Raven said, no,
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  Speaker 4: they called me carry an eater. Now I will show
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  Speaker 4: them that I am not. I will eat you. Marmot said,
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  Speaker 4: all right, but I have heard that you are a
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  Speaker 4: very fine dancer. Now, if you will dance, I will sing.
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  Speaker 4: Then you can eat me. But let me see you
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  Speaker 4: dance before you eat me. Raven agreed to dance. Then
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  Speaker 4: Marmot sang, oh, Raven. Raven, Raven, how well you dance?
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  Speaker 4: Oh Raven, Raven, Raven, how well you dance? Raven danced.
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  Speaker 4: Then they stopped to rest. Marmott said, I like your dancing.
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  Speaker 4: Now I will sing again, So shut your eyes and
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  Speaker 4: dance your best. Raven shut his eyes and danced clumsily
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  Speaker 4: around Marmott sang, Oh, Raven, Raven, Raven, what a graceful dancer,
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  Speaker 4: Oh Raven, Raven, Raven, What a fool you are? Because Marmott,
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  Speaker 4: with a quick run, had darted between Raven's legs and
• 59:40
  Speaker 4: was safe in his hole. When Marmott was safe in
• 59:43
  Speaker 4: his hole, he put out the tip of his nose
• 59:46
  Speaker 4: to mock Raven. He said, Chi kick kick, Chi kick kick,
• 59:50
  Speaker 4: Chi kick kick. You are the greatest fool I ever saw.
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  Speaker 4: What a comical figure you cut when dancing. I could
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  Speaker 4: hardly keep from laughing. Just look at me, See how
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  Speaker 4: fat I am? Don't you wish you could eat me?
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  Speaker 4: Raven Enrage flew far away. End of chapter seventeen. Chapter
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  Speaker 4: Catherine Barry Judson, Chapter eighteen, The Bringing of the Light
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  Speaker 4: by raven Eskimo Loria Yukon. In the first days, the
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  Speaker 4: sun and the moon were in the sky. Then the
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  Speaker 4: sun and the moon were taken away, and the people
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  Speaker 4: had only the light of the stars. Even the magic
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  Speaker 4: of the sharmans failed to bring back the light. Now
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  Speaker 4: there was an orphan in the village who sat with
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  Speaker 4: the humble people over the entrance of the kashim. He
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  Speaker 4: was despised by everyone. When the magic of the shamans
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  Speaker 4: failed to bring back the sun and the moon into
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  Speaker 4: the sky, the boy mocked them. He said, what fine
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  Speaker 4: shamans you must be. You cannot bring back the light,
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  Speaker 4: but I can. Then the shamans were angry and beat
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  Speaker 4: that boy and drove him out of the kashim. Now
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  Speaker 4: this boy was like any other boy until he put
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  Speaker 4: on a raving coat he had then he became raven.
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  Speaker 4: Now the boy went to his aunt's house. He told
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  Speaker 4: her the shamans had failed to bring back the light
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  Speaker 4: and they had beaten him. When he mocked them. The
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  Speaker 4: boy said, where is the sun in the moon. The
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  Speaker 4: aunt said, I do not know. The boy said, I
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  Speaker 4: am sure you know. Look what a finely sown coat
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  Speaker 4: you wear. You could not sow it that way if
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  Speaker 4: you did not know where the light is. Thus they argued.
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  Speaker 4: Then the aunt said, if you wish to find the light,
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  Speaker 4: go far to the south. Go on snow shoes. You
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  Speaker 4: will know the place when you get there. The boy
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  Speaker 4: put on his snow shoes and set off toward the south.
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  Speaker 4: Many days he traveled, and the darkness was always the same.
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  Speaker 4: When he had gone a very long way, he saw
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  Speaker 4: far in front of him a ray of light. Then
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  Speaker 4: the boy hurried on. As he went farther, the light
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  Speaker 4: showed again, plainer than before. Then it vanished for a time.
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  Speaker 4: Thus it kept appearing and vanishing. At last the boy
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  Speaker 4: came to a large hill. One side was brightly lighted,
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  Speaker 4: the other side was black as night. Close to the
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  Speaker 4: hill was a hut. A man was shoveling snow from
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  Speaker 4: in front of it. The man tossed the snow high
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  Speaker 4: in the air. Then the light could not be seen
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  Speaker 4: until the snow fell. Then the man tossed the snow again,
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  Speaker 4: so the light kept appearing and disappearing. Close to the
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  Speaker 4: house was a large ball of fire. The boy stopped
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  Speaker 4: and began to plan how to steal the ball of light.
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  Speaker 4: Then the boy walked up to the man. He said,
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  Speaker 4: why do you throw up the snow? It hides the
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  Speaker 4: light from our village. The man said, I am not
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  Speaker 4: hiding the light. I am cleaning away the snow. Who
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  Speaker 4: are you? Where do you come from? The boy said,
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  Speaker 4: it is so dark in our village. I do not
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  Speaker 4: want to stay there. I came here to live with
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  Speaker 4: you all the time. The man asked, yes, said the boy.
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  Speaker 4: The man said, all right, come into the house with me.
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  Speaker 4: Then he dropped his shovel on the ground. He stooped
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  Speaker 4: down to lead the way through the underground passage into
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  Speaker 4: the house. He let the curtain fall in front of
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  Speaker 4: the door as he passed, because he thought the boy
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  Speaker 4: was close beside him. The boy caught up the ball
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  Speaker 4: of light and put it in the upturned flap of
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  Speaker 4: his fur coat. Then he picked up the shovel and
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  Speaker 4: ran away toward the north. He ran until his feet
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  Speaker 4: were tired. Then he put on his raven coat and
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  Speaker 4: flew away. He flew rapidly to the north. Raven could
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  Speaker 4: hear the man shriek behind him. The man was pursuing him,
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  Speaker 4: but Raven flew faster. Then the man cried, keep the light,
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  Speaker 4: but give me my shovel. Raven said, no, you cannot
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  Speaker 4: have your shovel. You made our village dark. So Raven
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  Speaker 4: flew faster. Now as Raven flew, he broke off a
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  Speaker 4: little piece of the light. This made day. Then he
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  Speaker 4: went on for a long time in darkness until he
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  Speaker 4: broke off another piece of light. Thus it was day again.
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  Speaker 4: So as Raven flew to the village, he broke off
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  Speaker 4: pieces of light. When Raven reached to cashim of his
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  Speaker 4: own village, he threw away the last piece. He went
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  Speaker 4: into the cashim and said to the shamans, I have
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  Speaker 4: brought back the light. It will be light and then dark,
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  Speaker 4: so as to make day and night. After this, Raven
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  Speaker 4: went out upon the ice, because his home was on
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  Speaker 4: the sea coat. Then a great wind arose and the
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  Speaker 4: ice drifted with him across the sea to the land
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  Speaker 4: on the other side. Thus Raven brought back the light.
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  Speaker 4: It is night and day as he said it would be.
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  Speaker 4: But sometimes the nights are very long because Raven traveled
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  Speaker 4: a long way without throwing away a piece of the light.
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  Speaker 4: End of chapter eighteen, Chapter nineteen of Myths and Legends
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  Speaker 4: and Legends of Alaska by Catherine Barry Judson, Chapter nineteen,
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  Speaker 4: Daylight on the Nas River, linget Rangel. When Raven had
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  Speaker 4: grown quite large, he walked down to the bank of
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  Speaker 4: the Nas River one day until he heard the noise
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  Speaker 4: people were making in the darkness as they fished for Olachan.
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  Speaker 4: Now all the people in the world lived in one
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  Speaker 4: place on the Nas River. They had heard that Raven
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  Speaker 4: at the head of the Nass had something called daylight.
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  Speaker 4: They were afraid of it and talked about it a
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  Speaker 4: great deal. Raven shouted to the fisherman, why do you
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  Speaker 4: make so much noise. If you make so much noise,
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  Speaker 4: I will bring daylight here. Eight canoe loads of people
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  Speaker 4: were fishing there. They said, you are not nasky Kyo.
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  Speaker 4: You are not Raven at the head of Nass how
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  Speaker 4: can you bring daylight? They kept making much noise. Then
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  Speaker 4: Raven opened the box, and daylight shot over the world
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  Speaker 4: like lightning. They made still more noise, So Raven opened
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  Speaker 4: the box wide, and there was daylight everywhere. Then the
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  Speaker 4: people became frightened. Some ran into the woods, and some
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  Speaker 4: jumped into the water. Those that had clothes of fur
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  Speaker 4: sealed skins jumped into the water. They became seals. Those
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  Speaker 4: that had clothing of bear skins, martin skins, and wolfskins
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  Speaker 4: ran into the woods and turned into grizzly bears, martins,
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  Speaker 4: and wolves. End of chapter nineteen, Chapter twenty of Myths
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  Speaker 4: Chapter twenty, the naming of the birds flinget Rangel. Now
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  Speaker 4: Raven went around among the merds, teaching them. He said,
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  Speaker 4: to grouse, you are to live in a place where
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  Speaker 4: it is wintry. You will always live in a place
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  Speaker 4: high up, so you will have plenty of breezes. Then
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  Speaker 4: Raven gave Grouse four white pebbles. He said, you will
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  Speaker 4: never starve as long as you have these four pebbles.
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  Speaker 4: Raven said to Ptarmigan, you will be the maker of snowshoes.
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  Speaker 4: You will know how to travel in snow. It is
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  Speaker 4: from these birds that the Athapaskans learn how to make
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  Speaker 4: snowshoes and how to put the lacings on. Raven camee
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  Speaker 4: next to wild canary that lives all year round in
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  Speaker 4: the Thlingett country. He said, you will be the head
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  Speaker 4: among the very small birds. You are not to live
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  Speaker 4: on the same food as human beings. Keep away from them.
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  Speaker 4: Then Raven said to Robin, you will make people happy
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  Speaker 4: by your whistle. You will be a good whistler. Then
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  Speaker 4: Raven said to Koon the flicker, you will be chief
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  Speaker 4: among birds of your size. You will not be found
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  Speaker 4: in all places. You will seldom be seen. Then Raven
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  Speaker 4: said to Logan, a bird that lives on the ocean,
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  Speaker 4: you will seldom be seen near shore. You will live
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  Speaker 4: on lonely rocks far out on the ocean. When Raven
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  Speaker 4: came to snipes, he said, you will always go in flocks.
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  Speaker 4: You will never go out alone. Therefore we always see
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  Speaker 4: snipes in flocks. Raven said to Askakati, a small bird
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  Speaker 4: with yellow green plumage, You will always go in flocks.
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  Speaker 4: You will always be on the tree tops. That is
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  Speaker 4: where your food is. Raven said to a very small
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  Speaker 4: bird Katlaie, the size of a butterfly. You will be liked.
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  Speaker 4: You will be seen only to give good luck. People
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  Speaker 4: will hear your voice, but seldom see you. Then to
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  Speaker 4: blue jay, Raven said, you will have very fine clothes.
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  Speaker 4: You will be a good talker. People will take colors
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  Speaker 4: from your clothes. Then, Raven said to Zunkaha, you will
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  Speaker 4: never be seen unless the north wind is going to blow.
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  Speaker 4: That is what the name Zukaha means. To crow, Raven said,
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  Speaker 4: you will make lots of noise. You will be great talkers.
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  Speaker 4: That is why when you hear one crow, you hear
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  Speaker 4: a lot of others. Right afterwards, Raven said to Gassiadu,
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  Speaker 4: you will be seen only when warm weather is coming.
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  Speaker 4: Never come near except when warm weather is coming. To hummingbird,
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  Speaker 4: Raven said, people will enjoy seeing you. If a person
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  Speaker 4: sees you once, he will want to see you again.
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  Speaker 4: Raven said to eagle, you will be very powerful and
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  Speaker 4: above all birds. Your eyesight will be very good. It
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  Speaker 4: will be easy for you to get what you want.
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  Speaker 4: Then Raven put talons on the eagle and said they
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  Speaker 4: will be useful to him. Thus Raven taught all the birds.
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  Speaker 4: End of chapter twenty. Chapter twenty one of Myths and
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  Speaker 4: Myths and Legends of Alaska by Catherine Barry Judson. Chapter
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  Speaker 4: twenty one, the origin of the wind clingett. Now, Raven
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  Speaker 4: went off to a certain place and created west Wind.
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  Speaker 4: Raven said to it, you shall be my son's daughter.
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  Speaker 4: No matter how hard you blow, you shall hurt nobody.
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  Speaker 4: Raven also made south Wind. When south Wind climbs to
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  Speaker 4: the top of a rock, it never ceases to blow.
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  Speaker 4: Raven made north Wind, and on the top of a
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  Speaker 4: mountain he made a house for it with ice hanging
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  Speaker 4: down on the side. Then he went inside and said
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  Speaker 4: to north Wind, your back is white. That is why
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  Speaker 4: mountains are white with snow end of chapter twenty one,
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  Speaker 4: Chapter twenty two of Myths and Legends of al Alaska.
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  Speaker 4: Duration of Life linget Rangel Raven at the head of
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  Speaker 4: Nass tried to make human beings at the same time
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  Speaker 4: out of a rock and out of a leaf. But
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  Speaker 4: he created human beings out of the leaf first. Then
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  Speaker 4: Raven showed a leaf to people. He said, you see
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  Speaker 4: this leaf, you are to be like it. When it
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  Speaker 4: falls off the branch and rots, there is nothing left
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  Speaker 4: of it. That is why there is death in the world.
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  Speaker 4: If men had come from hard rock, there would be
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  Speaker 4: no death. Years ago, when people were getting old, they
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  Speaker 4: would say, it is unlucky that we did not come
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  Speaker 4: from the rock. We are made from leaves, and therefore
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  Speaker 4: we must die. End of chapter twenty two.
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  Speaker 1: Chapter twenty three of Myths and Legends of Alaska. This
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  Speaker 1: of Alaska by Catherine Barry Judson, Ghost Town Clinkett Wrangell.
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  Speaker 1: Once Raven came to a large town which was deserted.
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  Speaker 1: Everyone seemed to have died. Raven entered the largest house,
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  Speaker 1: but he felt someone continually pushing him away, yet he
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  Speaker 1: saw no one there. It was a ghost house. The
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  Speaker 1: place was called ghost Town. Raven then loaded a canoe
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  Speaker 1: with provisions from the empty houses and started to paddle away.
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  Speaker 1: He did not notice that a long rope was fastened
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  Speaker 1: to the stern of the canoe and to a tree
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  Speaker 1: on the shore. When Raven had paddled the length of
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  Speaker 1: the rope, the canoe was pulled right back to the beach.
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  Speaker 1: All the provisions were carried back to the houses, yet
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  Speaker 1: Raven could see no one. Then a ghost dropped a
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  Speaker 1: large stone on Raven's foot. This made him very lame.
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  Speaker 1: End of chapter twenty three Chapter twenty four of Myths
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  Speaker 1: How Raven stole the Lake ok Haida Queen Charlotte Islands.
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  Speaker 1: After Raven had made the crows black because they had
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  Speaker 1: eaten his salmon, crows had always been white before that,
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  Speaker 1: they say, he met some people with feathers on their
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  Speaker 1: heads and gambling stick bags on their backs. They said,
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  Speaker 1: what is the matter. Raven said, oh, my father and
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  Speaker 1: mother are dead. Then they started home with him. These
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  Speaker 1: were the beavers. They say. They were going out to gamble,
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  Speaker 1: but turned back on account of him. The next morning,
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  Speaker 1: they put their gambling stick bags upon their backs and
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  Speaker 1: started off again. Raven flew around behind a screen lo
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  Speaker 1: A lake lay there, and a creek flowing from it
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  Speaker 1: was a fish trap. The fish trap was so full
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  Speaker 1: of salmon it looked as if someone were shaking it.
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  Speaker 1: There were plenty of salmon in it, and in the
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  Speaker 1: lake were very small canoes passing each other. Several points
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  Speaker 1: of land were red with cranberries. Raven pulled out the
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  Speaker 1: fish trap, folded it together, and laid it down at
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  Speaker 1: the edge of the lake. Then he rolled it up
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  Speaker 1: with the lake and house, put them under his arm,
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  Speaker 1: and pulled himself up into a tree that stood close by.
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  Speaker 1: They were not heavy for his arm. He had rolled
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  Speaker 1: the lake up just as though it were a blanket.
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  Speaker 1: Raven sat in the tree half way up. After a while,
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  Speaker 1: some one came. His house and the lake were not there.
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  Speaker 1: After he had looked about him for some time, he
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  Speaker 1: looked up lo There sat Raven with their property. Then
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  Speaker 1: the beavers went quickly to the tree. They began cutting
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  Speaker 1: it with their teeth. When it began to fall, Raven
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  Speaker 1: went to another one. When that began to fall, he
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  Speaker 1: went to another. After the beavers had cut down many
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  Speaker 1: trees in this way, they gave up. They then traveled
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  Speaker 1: about for a long time, they say. After a long
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  Speaker 1: time they found a lake and settled down on it. Then,
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  Speaker 1: after Raven had traveled around for a while with the lake,
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  Speaker 1: he came to a large open place. He unrolled the lake.
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  Speaker 1: There there it lay. He did not let the fish
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  Speaker 1: trap or the house go. He kept them to teach
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  Speaker 1: the Seaward mainland people and the shoreward Queen Charlotte Island's people.
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  Speaker 1: They say, end of chapter twenty four.
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  Speaker 5: Barry Judson, Chapter twenty five, The Killer Wail Haida. A
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  Speaker 5: long time ago, a canoe load of Indians were out
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  Speaker 5: seal hunting. The weather was calm and the sea was smooth.
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  Speaker 5: Then the killer whale kept near the canoe, and the
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  Speaker 5: young men threw stones at it. They hit the fin
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  Speaker 5: of the killer whale with several stones. Then the whale
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  Speaker 5: went to the beach. Soon the men in the canoe
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  Speaker 5: saw a smoke rising from the beach. They went to
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  Speaker 5: see who was there. When they reached the shore, there
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  Speaker 5: was not the scana the killer whale, but a man
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  Speaker 5: cooking some food. The man said, why did you throw
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  Speaker 5: stones at my canoe? You have broken it. Now go
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  Speaker 5: get cedar withs in the woods and mend it. So
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  Speaker 5: the men mended the broken canoe. When they had finished,
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  Speaker 5: the man said, turn your backs to the water. Cover
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  Speaker 5: your heads with your fur robes don't look until I
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  Speaker 5: call you. They all did as he told them. They
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  Speaker 5: heard the canoe grate on the beach as it was
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  Speaker 5: hauled down into the water. Then the man said, look.
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  Speaker 6: Now.
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  Speaker 5: They looked, and there was the canoe in the water.
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  Speaker 5: But when the canoe came to the second breaker, it
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  Speaker 5: went under. When it came to the surface, behold, there
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  Speaker 5: was no canoe. There was a scana, a killer whale.
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  Speaker 5: The man's spirit was inside the scana. End of chapter
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  Speaker 5: twenty five.
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  Speaker 1: of Alaska by Catherine Barry Judson. Origin of the chic
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  Speaker 1: Lit blanket Shimshian. Note. Although the patterns of the Chiclt
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  Speaker 1: blankets vary, nearly all of them show in symbolic weaving,
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  Speaker 1: the bear with his heart between his eyes, ghanikadet, the
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  Speaker 1: sea spirit, the boy, and the father of the chief daughter.
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  Speaker 1: In some of them also the raven and the thunderbird figure.
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  Speaker 1: Only the Indians can really interpret the various weavings, and
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  Speaker 1: their interpretations vary. End of note. In the days of
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  Speaker 1: the animal people long long ago, all the animals were
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  Speaker 1: divided into different tribes. In those days, also, animals could
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  Speaker 1: take off their furry skins. Then they looked just like
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  Speaker 1: people now. In some days long ago, a group of
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  Speaker 1: women once went out to search for wild salary in
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  Speaker 1: the early spring. They found it growing here and there,
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  Speaker 1: and spent all day gathering it. Then they tied it
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  Speaker 1: in bundles and started home with it on their backs.
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  Speaker 1: Now among these women was the daughter of a chief.
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  Speaker 1: She picked twigs as she followed in the trail in
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  Speaker 1: the evening light, and then slipped into the footprints of
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  Speaker 1: a brown bear. The jolt loosened her pack. She stopped
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  Speaker 1: to readjust her bundle of salary. She said sharp words
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  Speaker 1: about bears. Then she hastened on to rejoin her companions,
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  Speaker 1: who were already lost in the dark. Suddenly, the chief's
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  Speaker 1: daughter heard footsteps behind her. A handsome young man joined her.
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  Speaker 1: Soon he asked her to be his wife. The chief's
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  Speaker 1: daughter consented, so she went home with him. They walked far,
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  Speaker 1: far into the woods until they came to Bear village.
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  Speaker 1: Then the chief's daughter knew that her lover belonged to
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  Speaker 1: the Bear tribe. After a while, the chief's daughter became unhappy.
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  Speaker 1: She wanted to go back to her father's home, but
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  Speaker 1: the Bear tribe washed her so she could not escape.
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  Speaker 1: One day, chief's daughter reached the shore. Out on the water,
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  Speaker 1: she saw a fisherman in a boat, and she called
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  Speaker 1: to him to rescue her. The fisherman touched his canoe
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  Speaker 1: with his killing club, and in one bound it sprang
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  Speaker 1: to the shore just as the bear and some of
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  Speaker 1: his tribe appeared. The fisherman began to fight Bear, but
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  Speaker 1: he could not kill him. Then the chief's daughter told
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  Speaker 1: him to strike Bear between the eyes because his heart
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  Speaker 1: was there, so Bear was killed. The fisherman took the
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  Speaker 1: chief's daughter in his canoe, but behold, he was no
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  Speaker 1: fisherman at all. It was Ghana Cadet, the spirit of
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  Speaker 1: the sea. So the woman married Gane Cadet, who was
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  Speaker 1: very kind to her. After a long while, the chief's
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  Speaker 1: daughter became unhappy again. She wanted her son to be
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  Speaker 1: trained by her people, as the custom was. Then gn
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  Speaker 1: Cadet permitted her to return to earth with the boy,
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  Speaker 1: But he made her promise that she would weave him
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  Speaker 1: a blanket telling of her life and his courtship. So
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  Speaker 1: the woman returned to Earth from the sea. Then she
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  Speaker 1: wove for gn Cadet the blanket. This was the first
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  Speaker 1: chilcat blanket. Now one day yelled the Raven, wandering along
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  Speaker 1: on the sea shore, entered a great cavern under the sea.
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  Speaker 1: There he found gon Cadet wearing a beautiful chilcat blanket.
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  Speaker 1: Gona Caadet welcomed Raven and offered him food. He placed
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  Speaker 1: food before him in two long carved platters. After Raven
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  Speaker 1: had feasted, gon Cadet taught him many dances and gave
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  Speaker 1: him a copy of the blanket pattern. Then Raven taught
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  Speaker 1: the people how to weave the blankets, but he taught
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  Speaker 1: the Shimshian tribe first, after where the chilcats learned how
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  Speaker 1: to weave them. End of chapter twenty six.
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  Speaker 6: of Alaska by Catharine Barry Judson, Chapter twenty seven, Origin
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  Speaker 6: of Land and People Eskimaux, Lower Yukon. In the beginning,
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  Speaker 6: there was water over all the earth. There were no people.
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  Speaker 6: It was very cold. The water was covered with ice,
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  Speaker 6: and the ice pieces ground together, making long ridges and hummocks.
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  Speaker 6: Then a man came from the other side of the
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  Speaker 6: great water and stopped on the ice hills. He took
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  Speaker 6: for his wife a wolf. Then their children grew up.
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  Speaker 6: Each pair spoke a different language from that of their parents,
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  Speaker 6: or from that of their brothers and sisters. So each
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  Speaker 6: pair went out in a different direction and built houses
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  Speaker 6: on the ice hills. Then the snow melted and ran
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  Speaker 6: down the hillsides. It scooped out ravines and river beds
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  Speaker 6: and made the earth. Thus the earth was made and
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  Speaker 6: the people. That is why so many different languages are spoken.
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  Speaker 6: End of chapter twenty seven. Chapter twenty eight of Myths
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  Speaker 6: Chapter twenty eight Creation of the World Athapaskan Upper Yukon.
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  Speaker 6: A long time ago, water flowed all over the world.
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  Speaker 6: There was one family and they made a big raft.
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  Speaker 6: Then they put animals on the raft. Now there was
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  Speaker 6: no land but all water, So the people wanted to
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  Speaker 6: make a world. The man tied a cord around a
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  Speaker 6: beaver and sent him down to the bottom of the water.
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  Speaker 6: But the beaver got only halfway and drowned. Then the
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  Speaker 6: man tied a string around a muskrat and sent him down.
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  Speaker 6: Muskrat drowned, but he reached the bottom and got a
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  Speaker 6: little mud on his hands. Then the man took the
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  Speaker 6: mud out of the muskrat's hands into his palm. He
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  Speaker 6: let it dry and then crumbled it to dust. Then
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  Speaker 6: he blew the dust out of his palm all over
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  Speaker 6: the waters. This made the world. End of Chapter twenty eight.
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  Speaker 6: Chapter twenty nine of Myths and Legends of Alaska. This
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  Speaker 6: of Alaska by Catherine Barry Judson, Chapter twenty nine, Origin
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  Speaker 6: of mankind Eskimaux bearing Straits. Long long ago a man
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  Speaker 6: and a woman came down from the sky and landed
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  Speaker 6: on one of the Diomede Islands. They lived there a
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  Speaker 6: long while, but they had no children. At last, one
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  Speaker 6: day the man took some walrus ivory, and from this
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  Speaker 6: he carved five dolls, just like people. Then he took
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  Speaker 6: some wood and made from it five more dolls. Then
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  Speaker 6: one night, when all were finished, he set them off
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  Speaker 6: to one side, all ten in a row. The next morning,
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  Speaker 6: the dolls had become people. The ivory dolls became men,
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  Speaker 6: therefore they are brave and hearty. But the wooden dolls
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  Speaker 6: became women, therefore they are soft and timid. From these
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  Speaker 6: ten dolls came all the people of the Diomede Islands.
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  Speaker 6: End of chapter twenty nine, Chapter thirty of Myths and
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  Speaker 6: Myths and Legends of Alaska by Catherine Barry Judson, Chapter thirty,
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  Speaker 6: The first Woman Eskimo bearing straits. Long long ago, there
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  Speaker 6: were many men living in the Northland, but there was
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  Speaker 6: no woman among them. Far away, in the Southland lived
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  Speaker 6: one woman. At last, one of the young men in
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  Speaker 6: the Northland traveled south to the home of the woman
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  Speaker 6: and married her. He thought, I have a wife, while
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  Speaker 6: the son of the headsman has none. Now the son
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  Speaker 6: of the headsman had also started to travel to the
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  Speaker 6: home of the woman in the Southland. He stood in
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  Speaker 6: the pastage to the house and heard the husband talking
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  Speaker 6: to himself. So he waited until all the people were asleep.
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  Speaker 6: Then the son of the headsman crept into the house
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  Speaker 6: and began to drag the woman away. He caught her
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  Speaker 6: by her shoulders. Then the husband was awakened. He ran
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  Speaker 6: to the passage and caught the woman by her feet.
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  Speaker 6: So the men pulled until they pulled the woman in two.
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  Speaker 6: The son of the headsman carried the upper part of
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  Speaker 6: her body to the north. Then they began to carve
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  Speaker 6: wood to make each woman complete. Thus there were now
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  Speaker 6: two women. The woman in the South was a good dancer,
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  Speaker 6: but she could not do fine needlework in sowing the
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  Speaker 6: furs because her hands were wooden. The woman in the
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  Speaker 6: North was a poor dancer because her feet were wooden,
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  Speaker 6: but she could sew with fine stitches in the firs.
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  Speaker 6: So all the women of the North are skillful with
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  Speaker 6: their hands, and all the women of the South are
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  Speaker 6: good dancers, even to this day. Thus you may know
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  Speaker 6: that the tale is true. End of chapter thirty Chapter
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  Speaker 6: thirty one of Myths and Legends of Alaska. This is
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  Speaker 6: Catherine Barry Judson, Chapter thirty one, The first tears Eskimo
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  Speaker 6: bearing straits. One day man hunted for seals along the seashore.
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  Speaker 6: Many seals were there, but as man crept carefully up
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  Speaker 6: to them, they slipped into the water. At last, only
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  Speaker 6: one seal was left on the rocks. Man crept up
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  Speaker 6: to it carefully, but just as he was about to
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  Speaker 6: catch the seal, it slipped into the water. Then man
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  Speaker 6: stood up. His breast was full of a strange feeling.
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  Speaker 6: Water began to drop from his eyes, he put up
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  Speaker 6: his hand and caught the drops. Thus he saw that
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  Speaker 6: they were really water. Then loud cries came from his breast,
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  Speaker 6: and more water came out of his eyes. Now Man's
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  Speaker 6: son saw him coming. He called to his wife that
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  Speaker 6: man was making a strange noise. So they went down
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  Speaker 6: to the sea shore. They were surprised to see water
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  Speaker 6: coming out of his eyes. Then Man told them he
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  Speaker 6: had tried to catch seals. He had crept carefully up,
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  Speaker 6: but they slipped into the water. Thus all the seals
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  Speaker 6: had escaped. Then water began to come out of the
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  Speaker 6: eyes of the sun and his wife. Loud cries came
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  Speaker 6: from their breasts. In this way people first learned to cry. Afterward,
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  Speaker 6: Man and his son killed a seal. Then they made
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  Speaker 6: snares for more seals from its skin. End of chapter
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  Speaker 6: thirty one. Chapter thirty two of Myths and Legends of Alaska.
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  Speaker 6: Origin of the winds Eskimo, Lower Yukon. A long time ago,
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  Speaker 6: a man and his wife had no children, So one
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  Speaker 6: night the man went out of the house to find
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  Speaker 6: a solitary tree that grew on the tundra. First he
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  Speaker 6: saw a long track of bright light, like that made
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  Speaker 6: by the moon shining on the snow. It led across
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  Speaker 6: the tundra, so far far along the trail of bright
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  Speaker 6: light the man until he saw a beautiful tree, all alone,
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  Speaker 6: shining in the bright light. He took out his hunting knife,
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  Speaker 6: cut off part of the trunk, and went home again
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  Speaker 6: over the bright trail. When the man reached home, he
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  Speaker 6: carved a boy doll from the wood, and his wife
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  Speaker 6: made fur clothes for it. Then the man carved little
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  Speaker 6: wood dishes from the scraps of wood. The wife set
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  Speaker 6: the doll on the bench opposite the entrance in the
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  Speaker 6: place of honor. She placed before it food and water.
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  Speaker 6: That night, when all was dark, they heard low whistling sounds.
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  Speaker 6: The woman said, do you hear that it was the doll.
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  Speaker 6: When they made a light, they saw that the doll
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  Speaker 6: had eaten the food and drunk the water. They saw
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  Speaker 6: that its eyes moved. In the morning, the Doll was gone.
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  Speaker 6: The man and his wife could not find it, but
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  Speaker 6: they saw the tracks of the boy Doll leading away
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  Speaker 6: from the door. The tracks followed the direction of the
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  Speaker 6: trail of light, which the man had followed the night before.
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  Speaker 6: So the man and his wife went into the house,
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  Speaker 6: but Doll followed the bright path until he came to
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  Speaker 6: the edge of day, where the sky comes down to
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  Speaker 6: the earth. There were holes in the sky wall covered
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  Speaker 6: with gut skin. In the east. Doll saw the gut
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  Speaker 6: skin cover over the hole in the sky wall bulging inward.
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  Speaker 6: Doll stopped and said, it is very quiet in here.
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  Speaker 6: I think a little wind will make it better. Doll
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  Speaker 6: drew his knife and cut the cover loose about the
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  Speaker 6: edge of the hole. A strong wind blew through, bringing
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  Speaker 6: with it a live reindeer. Looking through the hole, Doll
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  Speaker 6: saw another world just like the earth. Then he drew
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  Speaker 6: the cover loosely over the hole and said to east,
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  Speaker 6: wind sometimes blow hard, sometimes lightly, sometimes do not blow
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  Speaker 6: at all. Dall walked along the sky wall to another
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  Speaker 6: opening at the southeast. The gut skin cover bulged inward.
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  Speaker 6: Then Doll cut the cover loose at the edges, and
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  Speaker 6: a great gale swept in. It brought reindeer, trees and bushes.
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  Speaker 6: Then Doll fastened the cover lightly and said, sometimes blow hard,
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  Speaker 6: sometimes lightly, sometimes do not blow at all. Then Doll
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  Speaker 6: came to a hole in the south and the gut
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  Speaker 6: skin cover bulged inward. He cut the edges loose, and
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  Speaker 6: a hot wind rushed in. It brought rain and spray
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  Speaker 6: from the Great Salt Sea, which lay beyond the sky
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  Speaker 6: hole on that side. Then Doll closed the opening lightly
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  Speaker 6: and said to south wind, sometimes blow hard, sometimes lightly,
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  Speaker 6: sometimes do not blow at all. Doll walked along the
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  Speaker 6: sky wall to the west. There he saw another opening
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  Speaker 6: covered by gut skin, so he cut the edges loose,
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  Speaker 6: and west wind swept in, bringing with him rain with
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  Speaker 6: sleet and spray from the gray ocean. Then Doll fastened
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  Speaker 6: the edges of the gut skin loosely and said to
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  Speaker 6: west wind, sometimes blow hard, sometimes lightly, sometimes do not
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  Speaker 6: blow at all. So Doll passed along the sky wall
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  Speaker 6: to the northwest. When he cut the edges of the
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  Speaker 6: gut skin covering, a blast of cold wind rushed in,
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  Speaker 6: bringing snow and ice. Doll became cold he almost froze.
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  Speaker 6: Therefore Doll closed the hole quickly, saying sometimes blow hard,
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  Speaker 6: sometimes lightly, sometimes do not blow at all. Again, Doll
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  Speaker 6: went along the sky wall to the north, but it
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  Speaker 6: became so cold he had to leave it. So he
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  Speaker 6: went toward the center of the earth, away from the
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  Speaker 6: sky wall, until he saw the opening to the north.
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  Speaker 6: Then he went to the hole in the sky wall.
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  Speaker 6: But so great was the cold that Doll feared to
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  Speaker 6: cut the strings. He waited, Then he cut the strings quickly,
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  Speaker 6: the terrible north wind swept in, bringing with him great
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  Speaker 6: masses of snow and ice. North Wind strewed the snow
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  Speaker 6: and ice all over the earth plane. Then Doll closed
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  Speaker 6: the hole very quickly, yet he fastened it loosely. He
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  Speaker 6: said to north Wind, sometimes blow hard, sometimes lightly, sometimes
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  Speaker 6: do not blow at all. Then Doll traveled into the
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  Speaker 6: midst of the earth plane. He looked up and saw
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  Speaker 6: the sky arch resting upon long, slender poles, like a teepee,
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  Speaker 6: but of beautiful blue material. Then Dall went back to
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  Speaker 6: the village where he was made. End of Chapter thirty
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  Speaker 6: Legends of Alaska by Catherine Barry Judson, Chapter thirty three,
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  Speaker 6: Origin of the Wind Athapaskan Upper Yukon. A long time ago,
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  Speaker 6: when all were men, there was no wind. Now, Bear
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  Speaker 6: used to go about with a bag on his back.
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  Speaker 6: The animal people wanted to know what was in the bag.
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  Speaker 6: Many times they asked Bear, but he would not tell them.
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  Speaker 6: One day Bear fell asleep with a bag on his back.
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  Speaker 6: Then a man saw him asleep. The man cut the
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  Speaker 6: bag and found the wind in it. Therefore, the wind
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  Speaker 6: escaped and has never since been caught. End of chapter
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  Speaker 6: thirty three, Chapter thirty four of Myths and Legends of Alaska.
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  Speaker 6: North Wind cling it Wrangele. After Raven left the land Otters,
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  Speaker 6: he came to Taku. There, north Wind lived in a
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  Speaker 6: cliff at the mouth of the inlet. Raven stayed there
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  Speaker 6: with him. Now north Wind is very proud and shines
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  Speaker 6: all over with what the Indians think are icicles. So
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  Speaker 6: the Indians never say anything against north Wind, no matter
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  Speaker 6: how long it blows, because the spirits give it power.
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  Speaker 6: Years ago, people thought that there were spirits in all
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  Speaker 6: the large cliffs upon the islands, and would pray to
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  Speaker 6: those cliffs. This was because Raven once lived in this
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  Speaker 6: cliff with north Wind. End of chapter thirty four, Chapter
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  Speaker 6: Catherine Barry Judson, Chapter thirty five, east Wind and north
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  Speaker 6: Wind cling it. A high cast man married first the
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  Speaker 6: daughter of east Wind. When he heard of the pretty
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  Speaker 6: daughter of north Wind, he married her also. He took
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  Speaker 6: her back to the village where his first wife lived.
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  Speaker 6: Then people said to the daughter of east Wind, there
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  Speaker 6: is a pretty woman here. Her c ohse sparkle all over.
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  Speaker 6: They make a tingling noise the daughter of east Wind
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  Speaker 6: was very jealous. She made the east Wind to blow.
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  Speaker 6: It began to grow warm and cloudy. Then the daughter
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  Speaker 6: of north Wind lost all her sparkling clothing, the icicles,
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  Speaker 6: and the frost melted away. Then the Daughter of north
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  Speaker 6: Wind was no longer beautiful. End of chapter thirty five.
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  Speaker 5: Chapter thirty six of Myths and Legends of Alaska. This
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  Speaker 5: of Alaska by Catherine Barry Judson, Chapter thirty six, Creation
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  Speaker 5: of the Killer Whale Klingett. A man named Natsien, belonging
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  Speaker 5: to the Seal people, made the killer whales. He first
• 1:41:59
  Speaker 5: tried to them out of red cedar, then out of
• 1:42:02
  Speaker 5: the hemlock, and then out of all other kinds of woods.
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  Speaker 5: He took each set of figures to the beach and
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  Speaker 5: tried to make them swim, but they only floated on
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  Speaker 5: the surface. Last of all, he tried yellow cedar. Then
• 1:42:14
  Speaker 5: the killer whales swam. Nasien on one marked white lines
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  Speaker 5: from the corners of its mouth back to its head.
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  Speaker 5: He said, this is going to be the white mouthed
• 1:42:24
  Speaker 5: killer whale. When Nasien put them into the water, he said,
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  Speaker 5: go up into the inlets, go up into the head
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  Speaker 5: of the bays, hunt for seal, for halibit, and for
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  Speaker 5: things under the sea. Do not hurt human beings. Before this,
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  Speaker 5: people did not know what a killer whale was. When
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  Speaker 5: the killer whale tribe start north, the seal people say,
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  Speaker 5: here comes another battle, Here come the warriors. They say
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  Speaker 5: this because the killer whales are always after seals. The
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  Speaker 5: killer whale, which always swims ahead is the red killer whale,
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  Speaker 5: called the killer whale spear because it's long and slender.
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  Speaker 5: End of chapter thirty six.
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  Speaker 7: Chapter thirty seven of Myths and Legends of Alaska. This
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  Speaker 7: Barry Judson. Future Life, a Clingett story from Rangel. After
• 1:43:35
  Speaker 7: Raven had created people, a man died. Raven came into
• 1:43:39
  Speaker 7: his house and saw his wife and children weeping around him.
• 1:43:43
  Speaker 7: Raven raised with both hands the blanket of the dead
• 1:43:45
  Speaker 7: man and held it over his body, so he brought
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  Speaker 7: him back to life. Now, Raven and the man both
• 1:43:51
  Speaker 7: told the woman there was no death. She would not
• 1:43:53
  Speaker 7: believe them. Then Raven said to her lie down and
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  Speaker 7: go to sleep. When the woman slept, she saw a
• 1:44:00
  Speaker 7: wide trail. There were many people on it, and many
• 1:44:02
  Speaker 7: fierce animals. Good people had to pass this trail in
• 1:44:06
  Speaker 7: order to live again. At the end of the trail
• 1:44:09
  Speaker 7: there was a broad river, and a canoe came to
• 1:44:10
  Speaker 7: her from the other side. When she crossed the river,
• 1:44:13
  Speaker 7: people came to her. They said, you had better go back.
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  Speaker 7: We are not in a good place. We are hungry
• 1:44:18
  Speaker 7: here and can get no water to drink. We are cold.
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  Speaker 7: That is why people burn the bodies of the dead
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  Speaker 7: and place food in the fire for them to eat.
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  Speaker 7: If they were not burned, their spirits would be cold.
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  Speaker 7: That is why food and drink are given to them
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  Speaker 7: at the feast of the dead. End of chapter thirty
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  Speaker 7: seven Chapter thirty eight of Myths and Legends of Alaska.
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  Speaker 7: Catherine Barry Judson. The Land of the Dead and Eskimost
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  Speaker 7: from the Lower Yukon a young woman in the Lower
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  Speaker 7: Yukon died. When she died, she went to sleep for
• 1:45:08
  Speaker 7: a while. Then someone shook her arm and said, get up,
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  Speaker 7: do not sleep, you are dead. Then she saw she
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  Speaker 7: was in her grave box, and the shade of her
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  Speaker 7: grandfather was shaking her. Then she went with her grandfather
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  Speaker 7: back to the village. But the country she knew had disappeared.
• 1:45:23
  Speaker 7: In its place was a strange village which reached as
• 1:45:25
  Speaker 7: far as the eye could see. As she reached the village,
• 1:45:29
  Speaker 7: the old man told her to go into one of
• 1:45:31
  Speaker 7: the houses. As soon as she entered it, a woman
• 1:45:33
  Speaker 7: picked up a stick of wood and raised it to
• 1:45:35
  Speaker 7: strike her. The woman said, what do you want here?
• 1:45:39
  Speaker 7: So the young woman ran out, crying to her grandfather.
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  Speaker 7: He said, this is the village of the dog shades.
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  Speaker 7: Now you see how living dogs feel when beaten by people.
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  Speaker 7: They came to another village. Here she saw a man
• 1:45:51
  Speaker 7: lying on the ground with grass growing up through his joints.
• 1:45:54
  Speaker 7: He could move, but he could not rise. The grandfather
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  Speaker 7: said this shade was punished for pulling up and showing
• 1:46:00
  Speaker 7: grass stems when he was unearthed. Then the grandfather suddenly disappeared.
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  Speaker 7: The girl followed a trail to another village, but she
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  Speaker 7: came to a swift river. This river was made up
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  Speaker 7: of the tears of people who on earth weep for
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  Speaker 7: the dead. When the girl saw she could not cross
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  Speaker 7: the river, she began to weep. At once, a mass
• 1:46:19
  Speaker 7: of straw floated down the river to her. Upon this
• 1:46:22
  Speaker 7: as a bridge, she crossed the stream. Before she reached
• 1:46:26
  Speaker 7: the village, the shades smelled her. They crowded around her,
• 1:46:29
  Speaker 7: saying who is she? Where does she come from? They
• 1:46:32
  Speaker 7: looked for the tote marks on her clothing. Someone said
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  Speaker 7: where is she? Where is she? And her grandfather came
• 1:46:38
  Speaker 7: toward her. He led her into a house near by,
• 1:46:41
  Speaker 7: and there was her grandmother. The old woman asked her
• 1:46:44
  Speaker 7: if she were thirsty. The girl looked about and saw
• 1:46:47
  Speaker 7: only one water vessel, made like those of her own village.
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  Speaker 7: This had in it their own Yukon water. It had
• 1:46:54
  Speaker 7: been given them at the festival of the Dead by
• 1:46:55
  Speaker 7: the girl's father. The other tubs had only the water
• 1:46:59
  Speaker 7: of the village. Of the shapes. The old woman gave
• 1:47:02
  Speaker 7: the girl a piece of deer fat. This too had
• 1:47:04
  Speaker 7: been given at the festival of the Dead. Then the
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  Speaker 7: grandmother explained that the guide had been the grandfather. Because
• 1:47:10
  Speaker 7: the last person thought of by a dying person hurries
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  Speaker 7: away to show the road to the new shade. Thoughts
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  Speaker 7: are heard in the Land of the Shades. End of
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  Speaker 7: chapter thirty eight Chapter thirty nine of Myths and Legends
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  Speaker 7: of Alaska. This is a LibriVox recording. All LibriVox recordings
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  Speaker 7: by Catherine Barry Judson. The Ghost Land a clinket story.
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  Speaker 7: The young wife of a chief's son died, and the
• 1:47:50
  Speaker 7: young man was so sorrowful he could not sleep. Early
• 1:47:53
  Speaker 7: one morning, he put on his fine clothes and started off.
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  Speaker 7: He walked all day and all night. He went through
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  Speaker 7: the world a long distance, and then to a valley.
• 1:48:02
  Speaker 7: The trees were very thick, but he could hear voices
• 1:48:05
  Speaker 7: far away. At last he saw light through the trees,
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  Speaker 7: and then came to a wide flat stone on the
• 1:48:10
  Speaker 7: edge of a lake. Now all this time, the young
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  Speaker 7: man had been walking in the Deaths Trail. He saw
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  Speaker 7: houses and people on the other side of the lake.
• 1:48:17
  Speaker 7: He could see them moving around, so he shouted, come
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  Speaker 7: over and get me, but they did not seem to
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  Speaker 7: hear him. Upon the lake, a little canoe was being
• 1:48:25
  Speaker 7: paneled about by one man, and all the shore was grassy.
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  Speaker 7: The chief's son shouted a long while, but no one
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  Speaker 7: answered him. At last, he whispered to himself, why don't
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  Speaker 7: they hear me? At once a person across the lake said,
• 1:48:38
  Speaker 7: some one is shouting. When he whispered, they heard him.
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  Speaker 7: The voice said, also, some one has come up from dreamland.
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  Speaker 7: Go and bring him over. When the chief's son reached
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  Speaker 7: the other side of the lake, he saw his wife.
• 1:48:52
  Speaker 7: He was very happy to see her again. People asked
• 1:48:55
  Speaker 7: him to sit down. They gave him something to eat,
• 1:48:57
  Speaker 7: but his wife said, don't eat that. If you eat that,
• 1:49:00
  Speaker 7: you will never get back, so he did not eat it.
• 1:49:03
  Speaker 7: Then his wife said, you had better not stay here long.
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  Speaker 7: Let us go right away. So they were taken back
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  Speaker 7: in the same canoe. It is called Ghost's canoe, and
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  Speaker 7: it is the only one on that lake. They landed
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  Speaker 7: at the broad flat rock where the chief's son had
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  Speaker 7: stood calling. It is called ghost Trock, and it is
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  Speaker 7: the very end of the death Trail. Then they started
• 1:49:22
  Speaker 7: down the trail through the valley and through the thick woods.
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  Speaker 7: The second night they reached the chief's house. The chief's
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  Speaker 7: son told his wife to stay outside. He went in
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  Speaker 7: and said to his father, I have brought my wife back.
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  Speaker 7: The chief said, why don't you bring her in. The
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  Speaker 7: chief laid down a nice mat with fur robes on
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  Speaker 7: it for the young wife. The young man went out
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  Speaker 7: to get his wife, but when he came in with her,
• 1:49:44
  Speaker 7: they could only see him. When he came very close,
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  Speaker 7: they saw a deep shadow following him. When his wife
• 1:49:50
  Speaker 7: sat down and they put a Martin skin robe around her,
• 1:49:52
  Speaker 7: it hung about the shadow, just as if a person
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  Speaker 7: were sitting there. When she ate, they saw only the
• 1:49:57
  Speaker 7: spoon moving up and down, but not the shadow of
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  Speaker 7: her hands. It looked very strange to them. Afterward, the
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  Speaker 7: chief's son died, and the ghosts of both of them
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  Speaker 7: went back to ghost Land. End of chapter thirty nine,
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  Speaker 7: Chapter forty of Myths and Legends of Alaska. This is
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  Speaker 7: Myths and Legends of Alaska by Catherine Barry Judson. The
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  Speaker 7: Sky Country a clinket story. Long ago, a man's wife
• 1:50:36
  Speaker 7: was stolen from him. He cared for her so much
• 1:50:39
  Speaker 7: that he thought he would follow her, so he began
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  Speaker 7: to walk. He thought he was walking along the beach,
• 1:50:43
  Speaker 7: but he was following a wide trail through the woods.
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  Speaker 7: He walked on for a long time with his head
• 1:50:48
  Speaker 7: bent down, until he saw smoke ahead. When he came near,
• 1:50:52
  Speaker 7: he saw a woman tanning a skin. He showed her
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  Speaker 7: a necklace he had made. He said, I will give
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  Speaker 7: you this string if you will tell me where my
• 1:50:58
  Speaker 7: wife is. The woman's said, she is over at the
• 1:51:01
  Speaker 7: next camp. So he at last reached his wife and
• 1:51:04
  Speaker 7: stayed there a long time. Now the people of this
• 1:51:07
  Speaker 7: village wanted to kill him. They kindled a fire and
• 1:51:09
  Speaker 7: began to drag him to it. He said, oh, how
• 1:51:12
  Speaker 7: glad I am. I want to die. Then they stopped
• 1:51:15
  Speaker 7: and began to drag him toward the water. The man
• 1:51:17
  Speaker 7: said he was afraid of water, so they threw him in.
• 1:51:20
  Speaker 7: He came up in the middle of the lake. People said,
• 1:51:22
  Speaker 7: see him, he is looking at us. The man laughed.
• 1:51:27
  Speaker 7: He said, the water is just where I like to be.
• 1:51:29
  Speaker 7: He said this because he was a good swimmer, and
• 1:51:31
  Speaker 7: there was much rain in his country. He stayed in
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  Speaker 7: the water all the time. He remained in that country. Now,
• 1:51:37
  Speaker 7: all this while, the man and his wife had really
• 1:51:39
  Speaker 7: been in the sky. Now they wanted to get down.
• 1:51:43
  Speaker 7: They started back to the house of a certain woman.
• 1:51:45
  Speaker 7: She was the spider. The house was her web. The
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  Speaker 7: woman put them into a web and began to lower
• 1:51:51
  Speaker 7: them to the earth. Before they started, the woman said,
• 1:51:54
  Speaker 7: if you get caught on anything, jerk backward and forward
• 1:51:56
  Speaker 7: until the web comes loose. She thought they might get
• 1:51:59
  Speaker 7: caught on the edges of the clouds. So the man
• 1:52:02
  Speaker 7: and his wife reached the earth safely, and the web
• 1:52:04
  Speaker 7: was drawn up to the sky. End of chapter forty.
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  Speaker 7: Barry Judson. The Lost Light an Eskimo story from Port Clarence.
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  Speaker 7: Once upon a time, all the people were together in
• 1:52:38
  Speaker 7: a singing house. While they were dancing, the sun disappeared.
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  Speaker 7: No one knew where it had gone. Because it was
• 1:52:44
  Speaker 7: so dark, people could not go hunting, and soon their
• 1:52:46
  Speaker 7: provisions were exhausted. Then they told the women to mend
• 1:52:50
  Speaker 7: their clothing carefully and to make as many boots as possible.
• 1:52:53
  Speaker 7: These they put into bags. Then the people set out
• 1:52:56
  Speaker 7: to search for the sun. They followed the sea coast.
• 1:53:00
  Speaker 7: They traveled so far they wore out their boots, so
• 1:53:02
  Speaker 7: they put on new boots from their bags. Yet it
• 1:53:05
  Speaker 7: was dark all the time. After many days, they came
• 1:53:08
  Speaker 7: to a country where were many many seals and walrus
• 1:53:11
  Speaker 7: and deer. The language of the people was different from
• 1:53:13
  Speaker 7: their own. After a while they learned to talk it
• 1:53:16
  Speaker 7: a little. They asked these people where to find the sun.
• 1:53:20
  Speaker 7: These people said that the sun was far off. Before
• 1:53:23
  Speaker 7: they came to the Sun's country, they would come to
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  Speaker 7: five places. This was the first place, but in the
• 1:53:28
  Speaker 7: fourth place beyond there lived a woman who kept both
• 1:53:30
  Speaker 7: the sun and moon in her house. So they went on.
• 1:53:34
  Speaker 7: It was very cold, and they ran as fast as
• 1:53:36
  Speaker 7: they could because it was so cold. Then their food
• 1:53:39
  Speaker 7: gave out, but they reached a country where there was
• 1:53:42
  Speaker 7: plenty to eat. Here, the people spoke a strange language.
• 1:53:46
  Speaker 7: After a while they learned to talk it a little.
• 1:53:48
  Speaker 7: These people told them that at the third place they
• 1:53:50
  Speaker 7: reached they would find a woman who kept the sun
• 1:53:52
  Speaker 7: and moon in her house. The people ran on. They
• 1:53:55
  Speaker 7: ran because it was so very cold. Then, when their
• 1:53:59
  Speaker 7: food was gone, they reached another country where there was
• 1:54:01
  Speaker 7: plenty of food. The language of the people was different
• 1:54:04
  Speaker 7: from their own, but after a while they learned to
• 1:54:06
  Speaker 7: understand it a little. These people said that at the
• 1:54:10
  Speaker 7: second place which they would reach, live a woman named
• 1:54:12
  Speaker 7: etud Lukpiac who had both sun and moon in her house.
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  Speaker 7: But it was doubtful if they would be able to
• 1:54:17
  Speaker 7: get them. Then they went on again. They had to
• 1:54:21
  Speaker 7: run as fast as they could to keep warm. It
• 1:54:23
  Speaker 7: was very cold. When their food was almost gone, they
• 1:54:26
  Speaker 7: reached the country of the dwarfs. It was a country
• 1:54:29
  Speaker 7: with plenty of food, walrus and seal and deer. The
• 1:54:33
  Speaker 7: dwarfs tried to run away when they saw the large
• 1:54:35
  Speaker 7: men coming, but the people caught them. The dwarf said
• 1:54:38
  Speaker 7: that at the next place lived the woman Etudlukpiac, who
• 1:54:40
  Speaker 7: had both sun and moon. As the people ran on
• 1:54:45
  Speaker 7: from the country of the dwarfs, they found ice and
• 1:54:48
  Speaker 7: drift wood in their way. They kicked it all aside.
• 1:54:51
  Speaker 7: At that time the people were very strong and able
• 1:54:53
  Speaker 7: to lift heavy stones. After they had run a long way,
• 1:54:56
  Speaker 7: they saw a singing house. When they came near, they
• 1:54:59
  Speaker 7: went very slowly because they were afraid. At last, one
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  Speaker 7: of the men tied his jacket around his waist and
• 1:55:04
  Speaker 7: his trousers around his knees. Then he crept cautiously through
• 1:55:07
  Speaker 7: the entrance and put his head through the door. At
• 1:55:09
  Speaker 7: the bottom of the floor, he saw a young woman
• 1:55:11
  Speaker 7: it would look Piac, sitting in the middle of the
• 1:55:13
  Speaker 7: house toward the rear. Her father was sitting in the
• 1:55:16
  Speaker 7: middle of the house on the right hand side, and
• 1:55:18
  Speaker 7: her mother on the left hand side. At the back
• 1:55:20
  Speaker 7: of the house, in the right hand corner on the
• 1:55:22
  Speaker 7: rafter hung a large ball in the left hand corner,
• 1:55:25
  Speaker 7: a small ball. The man whispered, itid Loukpiac. We came
• 1:55:29
  Speaker 7: to ask you for some light. The mother said, give
• 1:55:32
  Speaker 7: them the small ball. The man refused the small ball.
• 1:55:35
  Speaker 7: He asked for the large one. Then ittid louk Piac
• 1:55:38
  Speaker 7: took it down and gave it a kick. It fell
• 1:55:40
  Speaker 7: right into the entrance hall. The people took the ball
• 1:55:43
  Speaker 7: and ran outside. Then they tore the ball to pieces,
• 1:55:46
  Speaker 7: and the daylight came out of it. It was not
• 1:55:48
  Speaker 7: so warm at once, but it grew warmer day after day.
• 1:55:52
  Speaker 7: If they had taken the small ball, it would have
• 1:55:53
  Speaker 7: been light, but it would have remained cold. The small
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  Speaker 7: ball was the moon. End of chapter forty one Chapter
• 1:56:07
  Speaker 7: forty two of Myths and Legends of Alaska. This is
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• 1:56:19
  Speaker 7: Myths and Legends of Alaska by Catharine Barry Judson. The
• 1:56:23
  Speaker 7: Chief in the Moon an Eskimo story from the Bearing Straits.
• 1:56:29
  Speaker 1: Far away.
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  Speaker 7: In the Moon lives a great chief and shamans with
• 1:56:31
  Speaker 7: strong magic visit him there a long time ago. As
• 1:56:35
  Speaker 7: shaman went to visit the great Chief, he flew like
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  Speaker 7: a bird up as high as the sky. Because of
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  Speaker 7: his magic. The sky was a land just like the earth,
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  Speaker 7: only the grass was long and grew downward toward the earth,
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  Speaker 7: and the grass was filled with snow. When the wind
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  Speaker 7: blows up in the sky, it rustles the long grass
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  Speaker 7: stems hanging downward and loosens the snow. When the wind
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  Speaker 7: blows the snow loose in the sky, it falls down
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  Speaker 7: upon the earth from the long grass stems, and men
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  Speaker 7: call it a snow up in the sky. Among the
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  Speaker 7: grass there are many small round lakes. At night, these shine,
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  Speaker 7: and men called them stars. But the Malamut tribes say
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  Speaker 7: that the north wind is the breath of a giant.
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  Speaker 7: When he builds a snowhouse and the snowflies from his shovel,
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  Speaker 7: then there is a snowstorm upon the earth. End of
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  Speaker 7: chapter forty two Chapter forty three of Myths and Legends
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  Speaker 7: by Catherine Barry Judson. The Boy in the Moon an
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  Speaker 7: Eskimo story from the Lower Yukon. Once upon a time,
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  Speaker 7: long long ago, in a village on the Great River
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  Speaker 7: lived four brothers and a sister. There was also a
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  Speaker 7: small boy who was a great friend of his sister.
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  Speaker 7: The brothers were hunters, and in the fall hunted at sea,
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  Speaker 7: But after the bladder feast was over, they went to
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  Speaker 7: the mountains and hunted reindeer, but the boy was lazy.
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  Speaker 7: Now the boy fell in love with the girl. One day,
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  Speaker 7: the girl took up a dish of meat and berries
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  Speaker 7: and went out of the house. There she saw a
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  Speaker 7: ladder leading up to the sky, with a line hanging
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  Speaker 7: down by the side of it. Taking hold of the line,
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  Speaker 7: the girl climbed the ladder, going up into the sky.
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  Speaker 7: Then her brother saw her and began at once to
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  Speaker 7: scold the boy. The boy caught up his seal skin trousers.
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  Speaker 7: Being in a hurry, he thrust his right leg into
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  Speaker 7: them and drew a deerskin sock upon the other foot.
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  Speaker 7: As he ran outside the house. There he saw the
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  Speaker 7: girl far far up in the sky, and he began
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  Speaker 7: to climb the ladder to her, But the girl floated
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  Speaker 7: far away, the boy following her. Now the girl became
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  Speaker 7: the sun and the boy the moon. Ever, he pursues
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  Speaker 7: her but never overtakes her. When the sun sinks in
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  Speaker 7: the west, the moon rises in the east, but always
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  Speaker 7: too late. The moon has no food and sometimes almost
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  Speaker 7: fades away. Then the sun reaches out the dish of
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  Speaker 7: meat and berries, and the moon becomes fat again. End
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  Speaker 7: of chapter forty three Chapter forty four of Myths and
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  Speaker 7: of Alaska by Catherine Barry Judson. The Boy in the
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  Speaker 7: Moon and Atapaskan story from the Upper Yukon long ago.
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  Speaker 7: In the days of raven there was a great famine.
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  Speaker 7: No one in the village had anything to eat. Then
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  Speaker 7: a boy dreamed that they would kill many cariboo. Then
• 1:59:38
  Speaker 7: the hunters began to find cariboo and to kill them.
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  Speaker 7: The boys said, when they killed all the cariboo, that
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  Speaker 7: the leader of the herd must be given to him.
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  Speaker 7: The boy's uncle gave him cariboo, but not the leader,
• 1:59:48
  Speaker 7: because he did not believe the boy dreamed what he said.
• 1:59:51
  Speaker 7: Then the boy cried two nights because he did not
• 1:59:53
  Speaker 7: get the right cariboo. The next morning the boy was gone.
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  Speaker 7: Now this boy wore trousers of martin skin. When the
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  Speaker 7: they searched for him. They found only the left leg
• 2:00:02
  Speaker 7: of his trousers on a pole in the smokehole, so
• 2:00:04
  Speaker 7: they knew the boy had gone away through the smoke hole.
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  Speaker 7: The boy went up into the moon. He was seen
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  Speaker 7: there the next night. His father and mother knew it
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  Speaker 7: was the boy because the right leg was larger than
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  Speaker 7: the left. The left leg had no trousers because it
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  Speaker 7: had been caught in the smoke hole. End of chapter
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  Speaker 7: forty four, Chapter forty five of Myths and Legends of Alaska.
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  Speaker 7: Catherine Barry Judson. The meteor at Setsoux story. A long
• 2:00:48
  Speaker 7: time ago, fire was seen coming through the air from
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  Speaker 7: the north. It looked like a huge animal. Its face
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  Speaker 7: was fire. Fire came from its mouth and also from
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  Speaker 7: its back. Flames of fire shot from its pulls. The
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  Speaker 7: thing moving backward thundered through the air. In the olden times,
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  Speaker 7: these monsters came often. Now they have not been seen
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  Speaker 7: for a long time. End of chapter forty five. Chapter
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  Speaker 7: forty six of Myths and Legends of Alaska. This is
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  Speaker 7: Myths and Legends of Alaska by Catherine Barry Judson. Sleep
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  Speaker 7: House a clinket story. Once a hoona man and his
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  Speaker 7: wife were paddling along in a canoe about midnight in
• 2:01:40
  Speaker 7: search of seals. The man kept hearing a noise around
• 2:01:44
  Speaker 7: his head, like that made by a bird. At last
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  Speaker 7: he hit the thing with his hand and knocked it
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  Speaker 7: into the canoe. It was shaped like a bird, only
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  Speaker 7: with eyelids hanging far over, and its name was Ta Sleep.
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  Speaker 7: He gave the bird to his wife, saying, here, you
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  Speaker 7: can keep this for your own. So she gave it
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  Speaker 7: to her relatives, who built a house called Sleephouse. All
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  Speaker 7: the poles in it were carved to look like this bird.
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  Speaker 7: After that, the man got very tired, without being able
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  Speaker 7: to sleep. At last he ran away into the forest.
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  Speaker 7: End of chapter forty six. Chapter forty seven of Myths
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  Speaker 7: Legends of Alaska by Catherine Barry Judson. Cradle Song a
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  Speaker 7: Kyukin song. The wind blows over the Yukon. My husband
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  Speaker 7: hunts the deer on the Koyukan mountains. Almi Ahmi, sleep,
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  Speaker 7: little one. There is no wood for the fire. The
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  Speaker 7: stone axe is broken. My husband carries the other. Where
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  Speaker 7: is the sun warmth? Hid in the dam of the
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  Speaker 7: bever a, waiting for the springtime? Ah Me ah me sleep,
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  Speaker 7: little one, wake not look not for the ucule old woman.
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  Speaker 7: Long since the cash was emptied. And the crow does
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  Speaker 7: not light on the ridgepole, long since my husband departed.
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  Speaker 7: Why does he wait in the mountains? Ah me ah me,
• 2:03:19
  Speaker 7: sleep little one? Softly? Where is my own? Does he
• 2:03:24
  Speaker 7: lie starving on the hillside? Why does he linger come
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  Speaker 7: see you?
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  Speaker 3: Not?
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  Speaker 7: Soon? I will seek him among the mountains? Ah Me
• 2:03:32
  Speaker 7: ah me sleep, little one sleep. The crow has come, laughing.
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  Speaker 7: His beak is red, his eyes glistened. The false one
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  Speaker 7: thanks for a good meal. To Cooskokala. The shaman on
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  Speaker 7: the sharp mountain. Quietly lies your husband. Ah Me ah
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  Speaker 7: me sleep, little one, wake not twenty deer's tongues tied
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  Speaker 7: to the pack on his shoulders. Not a tongue in
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  Speaker 7: his mouth to call to his wife. With wolves, foxes,
• 2:03:59
  Speaker 7: and ravens are tearing and fighting for morsels. Tough and
• 2:04:03
  Speaker 7: hard are the sinews. Not so the child in your bosom,
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  Speaker 7: ah me, ah me, sleep, little one, wake, not over
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  Speaker 7: the mountains slowly staggers the hunter. Two bucks thighs on
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  Speaker 7: his shoulder, with bladders of fat between them, twenty deer's
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  Speaker 7: tongues in his belt. Go gather what old woman off
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  Speaker 7: flew the crow liar, cheat and deceive her. Wake, little one,
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  Speaker 7: wake and call to your father. He brings you back fat,
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  Speaker 7: marrow and venison, fresh from the mountain, tired and worn.
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  Speaker 7: He has carved a toy of the deer's horn while
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  Speaker 7: he was sitting and waiting long for the deer on
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  Speaker 7: the hillside. Wake and see the crow hiding himself from
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  Speaker 7: the arrow. Wake, little one, wake, for here is your father.
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  Speaker 7: End of chapter forty seven, Chapter forty eight of Myths
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  Speaker 7: Legends of Alaska by Catherine Barry Judson. Proverbs of the
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  Speaker 7: Chimshion people. A deer, although toothless, may accomplish something deceptive appearances.
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  Speaker 7: He is just now sleeping on a deer skin. Comfort now,
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  Speaker 7: but trouble ahead. He wants to die with all his
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  Speaker 7: teeth in his head, too reckless to live to old age.
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  Speaker 7: You think nas River is always calm, foolhardiness of those
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  Speaker 7: who think everything favorable to them. The mouth of the
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  Speaker 7: nass is very rough. You mistake the corner of the
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  Speaker 7: house for the door, a gross blunder. What will you
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  Speaker 7: eat when the snow is on the north side of
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  Speaker 7: the trees? Improvidence At the end of winter, food is
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  Speaker 7: always scarce. End of chapter forty eight Chapter forty nine
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  Speaker 7: and Legends of Alaska by Catherine Barry Judson. How the
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  Speaker 7: Fox became Red and at the Paskins Story. Once fox,
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  Speaker 7: when very hungry, was traveling through the country. All at once,
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  Speaker 7: he saw a goose with many goslings. Fox ran after them.
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  Speaker 7: As he ran, he sang, I shall have your tender
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  Speaker 7: breasts before I go to sleep. I shall have your
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  Speaker 7: tender breasts before I go to sleep. As Fox ran
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  Speaker 7: toward them, the geese came to water and plunged in.
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  Speaker 7: Fox followed slowly along the edge of the water. When
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  Speaker 7: he saw he could not get the geese, Fox became
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  Speaker 7: so angry he turned red all over all except the
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  Speaker 7: tip of his tail. End of Chapter forty nine, Section
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  Speaker 7: fifty of Myths and Legends of Alaska. This is a
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  Speaker 7: Myths and Legends of Alaska by Catherine Barry Judson. Beaver
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  Speaker 7: and Porcupine at Simschion's story. Now Beaver was the friend
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  Speaker 7: of Porcupine much. They loved each other. Then Beaver invited
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  Speaker 7: Porcupine to his house on the large lake. There, in
• 2:07:32
  Speaker 7: the very middle of the lake was the house of Beaver.
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  Speaker 7: Now Beaver, on his part, liked the water, but Porcupine
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  Speaker 7: had no way to go from the shore to the lake,
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  Speaker 7: because he knew not how to swim. Therefore feared porcupine
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  Speaker 7: that he should die should his stomach be filled with water,
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  Speaker 7: because he knew not how to swim. Therefore this did
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  Speaker 7: beaver from the lake to the land. He went for porcupine.
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  Speaker 7: Only twice rose beaver above the water, going to where
• 2:07:55
  Speaker 7: porcupine was sitting on the shore. Then said beaver to porcupine,
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  Speaker 7: I care you, fast hold my neck. Porcupine was afraid.
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  Speaker 7: He said to Beaver, I might die. You shall not die.
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  Speaker 7: Thus said the beaver to the porcupine. Then went up
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  Speaker 7: porcupine to the back of beaver. Beaver said, fast hold
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  Speaker 7: my neck. Thus did porcupine then swim beaver out on
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  Speaker 7: the water. But not long did he swim. Beaver dived.
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  Speaker 7: Then much troubled was porcupine because he knew not how
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  Speaker 7: to swim. Now the beavers really own the country of
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  Speaker 7: the water, but among the mountains is the country of porcupine.
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  Speaker 7: Twice rose beaver above the water. Then reached hea the
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  Speaker 7: middle of the great lake, where floated his home. But
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  Speaker 7: much troubled was porcupine, unlest he die in the water.
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  Speaker 7: Then they entered the house of beaver. Then they ate.
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  Speaker 7: Now this for food. Had the beaver sticks were the
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  Speaker 7: food for his feast. Then really troubled was the porcupine
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  Speaker 7: there to eat sticks. Yet porcupine ate the stick well.
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  Speaker 7: Then one day said beaver to porcupine. Friend, Now we play,
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  Speaker 7: Then said beaver, how he would play? I carry you
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  Speaker 7: four times I emerged from the water. Surely I die,
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  Speaker 7: thus said the heart of porcupine. Yet he agreed. Beaver said,
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  Speaker 7: fast hold to my neck, lying close against the nape
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  Speaker 7: of my neck. Then he was ready, the heart of
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  Speaker 7: porcupine to die. Then dived beaver. Yet first struck he
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  Speaker 7: the water with his tail. Thus he first splashed the
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  Speaker 7: water into the face of porcupine. Then dived beaver. Long
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  Speaker 7: was he under water. Then a little dead was porcupine.
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  Speaker 7: His stomach was full of water. Three times the beaver
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  Speaker 7: rose from the water. Then only once more remained. Then
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  Speaker 7: again dived Beaver. Almost dead was porcupine. Then with him
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  Speaker 7: he returned from lake to land. He took him. Then
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  Speaker 7: porcupine went back to his tribe. When again he reached
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  Speaker 7: his tribe to his house, he invited the people. Then
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  Speaker 7: into the house of Porcupine went the invited ones. Then
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  Speaker 7: he told them what Beaver had done at his great
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  Speaker 7: house on the lake. He told the people what Beaver,
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  Speaker 7: who had invited him had done. He said, almost dead.
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  Speaker 7: Was I through my friend? Then said his people, good,
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  Speaker 7: you also invite him also play with him. This did Porcupine.
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  Speaker 7: He also invited Beaver, his friend, to the house of Beaver.
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  Speaker 7: Did he did send? Then came Beaver into the valley.
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  Speaker 7: Up he went. Then came he to the house of Porcupine.
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  Speaker 7: Then this did Porcupine. When Beaver entered the house, Porcupine
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  Speaker 7: struck on the fireplace with his own tail. Then it burnt.
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  Speaker 7: Then Beaver made a song in the middle burnt the
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  Speaker 7: tale of little Porcupine. Pa in the middle burnt the
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  Speaker 7: tale of little Porcupine. Then ran Porcupine around in front
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  Speaker 7: of Beaver to play with his friend. Now, when this
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  Speaker 7: was finished, what did the porcupine? He got food for
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  Speaker 7: the beaver to eat. Then this did the porcupine bark
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  Speaker 7: of a tree and leaves of a tree. Did he
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  Speaker 7: give him for a feast? Then on his part, Beaver
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  Speaker 7: was afraid to eat. Then this said the porcupine to
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  Speaker 7: his great friend Beaver, heat fast friend, eat fast friend.
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  Speaker 7: Then so did the beaver. Then said porcupine. Friend. Thus
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  Speaker 7: said he to the beaver. Tomorrow morning, we play you
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  Speaker 7: and I. There stands a tree on a grassy slope.
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  Speaker 7: There is my playground. Then they slept, but porcupine sang,
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  Speaker 7: Now along the edge, I walk outfalls my shooting star.
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  Speaker 7: Then spoke Porcupine to the sky, and the sky did
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  Speaker 7: so clear became the sky. The ground was ice in
• 2:11:27
  Speaker 7: the morning. Now again porcupine invited the people to a
• 2:11:31
  Speaker 7: feast for great beaver. Then porcupine said, we play friend.
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  Speaker 7: There stands my playground. Now very sharp was the cold.
• 2:11:39
  Speaker 7: The ground was ice where water ran down. Slippery was
• 2:11:42
  Speaker 7: it with ice? But beaver followed porcupine. Then again was
• 2:11:46
  Speaker 7: beaver troubled. Always slippery were his hands, But long were
• 2:11:49
  Speaker 7: the claws of porcupine. Then porcupine returned to see grape beaver.
• 2:11:54
  Speaker 7: Then said, porcupine, come do it. Friend. Thus said porcupine
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  Speaker 7: to grape beaver. But the beaver could not cross because
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  Speaker 7: icy was the mountain. Then this did the porcupine. He
• 2:12:04
  Speaker 7: took the hands of beaver. Then across he led him.
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  Speaker 7: Thus across he got. Porcupine was going to play with beaver,
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  Speaker 7: just as he also did once. So they reached the
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  Speaker 7: place where stood the tree. Good, go up, thus said
• 2:12:18
  Speaker 7: porcupine to beaver. Then much troubled was beaver. He was afraid.
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  Speaker 7: Well see this, said porcupine. So porcupine went up first,
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  Speaker 7: up he went to the very top. Then he let
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  Speaker 7: go of the top of the tree. As soon as
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  Speaker 7: he dropped, this he said, while coming down on de Belch,
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  Speaker 7: On de belch, then he dropped on a stone, but arose.
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  Speaker 7: Not dead was he, then said porcupine to beaver. See friend,
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  Speaker 7: it is not hard. Then up on the tree carried
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  Speaker 7: he beaver. He said, fast, hold to my neck, And
• 2:12:52
  Speaker 7: very fast he held to the neck of porcupine. Then,
• 2:12:55
  Speaker 7: when porcupine reached near the top of the tree, he
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  Speaker 7: put beaver on a branch. Then greatly afraid was beaver,
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  Speaker 7: for his hands were not good for holding fast to
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  Speaker 7: a tree. Only a porcupine knows that, because long are
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  Speaker 7: his claws. Then thus said porcupine, really, hold fast, friend,
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  Speaker 7: I will go down first. The beaver did so. All
• 2:13:14
  Speaker 7: around the branch were his hands. Then beaver let go
• 2:13:17
  Speaker 7: the tree into space. He went again, he said, on
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  Speaker 7: de Belac on de belach. Then once more he dropped
• 2:13:25
  Speaker 7: on the stones. But not dead. Was he much troubled
• 2:13:28
  Speaker 7: was the heart of great Beaver in holding the branch.
• 2:13:31
  Speaker 7: Much troubled was he a falling. Then about the foot
• 2:13:34
  Speaker 7: of the tree ran porcupine. Then up he looked to
• 2:13:37
  Speaker 7: where was his friend? This said Porcupine, Go unfriend, It
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  Speaker 7: is not hard look at me. Not dead am I?
• 2:13:43
  Speaker 7: Because I fell? Then Beaver let go of the branch.
• 2:13:47
  Speaker 7: Thus said Beaver, as he fell lop lope, which means
• 2:13:52
  Speaker 7: stone stone. Then Beaver struck the rocks. He lay on
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  Speaker 7: his back. He was dead. End of chapter fifty. Chapter
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  Speaker 7: Myths and Legends of Alaska by Catherine Barry Judson. The
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  Speaker 7: Mark of the Martin an Athapaskan story from the Upper
• 2:14:27
  Speaker 7: Yukon long Ago. A hungry Martin went to an Indian camp.
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  Speaker 7: The Indians around the camp fire were eating salmon. Martin
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  Speaker 7: sat still and watched them. He was hungry, and he
• 2:14:39
  Speaker 7: watched this Indian, and then that then an Indian threw
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  Speaker 7: at him a piece of red salmon. It struck Martin
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  Speaker 7: on the breast, and the reddish mark is there even
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  Speaker 7: to this day. End of chapter fifty one Chapter fifty
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  Speaker 7: two of Myths and Legends of Alaska. This is a
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  Speaker 7: Myths and Legends of Alaska by Catherine Barry Judson. The
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  Speaker 7: Wolves and the Deer at Simshone's story. Now the wolves
• 2:15:18
  Speaker 7: had a feast on a prairie at the mouth of
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  Speaker 7: Skeena River. Then invited the wolves to the feast. All
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  Speaker 7: the deer chiefs at once came the invited deer. At once.
• 2:15:27
  Speaker 7: They sat down on the prairie face to face with
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  Speaker 7: the wolves. Then said the wolves to the deer laugh
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  Speaker 7: ye on the other side, no, this said the deer
• 2:15:35
  Speaker 7: to the wolves. Ye first laugh well, said the wolves
• 2:15:38
  Speaker 7: at once. Then we will laugh ha ha ha ha ha.
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  Speaker 7: Go on ye also ye also on the other side,
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  Speaker 7: laugh well, said the deer. Then they laughed m m again.
• 2:15:51
  Speaker 7: Also ye must laugh well. At once again laughed the
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  Speaker 7: wolves ha ha ha ha ha. At once. The deer
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  Speaker 7: were much afraid when they saw the great teeth of
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  Speaker 7: go on, laugh again, ye on the other side, keep
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  Speaker 7: not your mouths closed when ye laugh. Not so does
• 2:16:07
  Speaker 7: anyone laugh. Open wide your mouths when you laugh. Thus
• 2:16:11
  Speaker 7: said the wolves, now laugh ye at once, then laughed
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  Speaker 7: the deer ha ha ha ha ha. Thus laughed the deer,
• 2:16:18
  Speaker 7: opening their mouths, but they had no teeth. Then the
• 2:16:21
  Speaker 7: wolves saw that the deer had no teeth. At once,
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  Speaker 7: they attacked them at once. The wolves bit them all
• 2:16:27
  Speaker 7: over at once. They ate the deer. Only a few escaped. Therefore,
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  Speaker 7: now are the deer afraid of wolves. End of chapter
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  Speaker 7: fifty two Chapter fifty three of Myths and Legends of Alaska.
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  Speaker 7: Catherine Barry Judson. The Camp Robber an Athapaskan story from
• 2:17:01
  Speaker 7: the Upper Yukon Note. The camp robber is the slate
• 2:17:05
  Speaker 7: colored Alaskan jay, troublesome for its habit of stealing food
• 2:17:08
  Speaker 7: from the camps now. In the days of the animal people,
• 2:17:12
  Speaker 7: the camp robber was a medicine man. One time, the
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  Speaker 7: people had nothing to eat, so they asked the medicine
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  Speaker 7: man to find food for them. Therefore, for six nights
• 2:17:20
  Speaker 7: the men dreamed of a way to find food. The
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  Speaker 7: camp robber was the sixth man. He dreamt on the
• 2:17:25
  Speaker 7: sixth night, then he called all the people together and
• 2:17:28
  Speaker 7: told them to bring their snares with them. He took
• 2:17:31
  Speaker 7: all the snares, made a pack of them, and put
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  Speaker 7: them on his back. But the people heaped up the
• 2:17:35
  Speaker 7: snow in a great pile. Around this snow pile, the
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  Speaker 7: camp robber walked, chanting and singing, By and buy meat,
• 2:17:42
  Speaker 7: will come, thus he sang. Then the camp robber reached
• 2:17:46
  Speaker 7: into the snow and pulled out a caribou's head by
• 2:17:48
  Speaker 7: the horns. This was not a real cariboo, It was
• 2:17:51
  Speaker 7: the spirit cariboo. So the camp robber painted the horns
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  Speaker 7: and tail red and sent it back into the snow heap.
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  Speaker 7: The next day a great herd of carcame. The one
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  Speaker 7: with red horns and tails was among them. That is
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  Speaker 7: why an India never kills the camp robber when he
• 2:18:06
  Speaker 7: steals food. He lets him go because he helped to
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  Speaker 7: find food for them in the days of the animal people,
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  Speaker 7: when the camp robber was a medicine man. End of
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  Speaker 7: chapter fifty three, Chapter fifty four of Myths and the
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  Speaker 7: of Alaska by Catherine Barry Judson. The Circling of Cranes
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  Speaker 7: an Eskimo story from the Bering Straits. One day in
• 2:18:43
  Speaker 7: the autumn, long long ago, the cranes were preparing to
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  Speaker 7: go southward. As they gathered in a great flock, they
• 2:18:49
  Speaker 7: saw a beautiful girl standing alone near the village. The
• 2:18:52
  Speaker 7: cranes wanted to take her with them. They gathered about
• 2:18:55
  Speaker 7: and lifted her on their outspread wings, so they carried
• 2:18:59
  Speaker 7: her into the air far away. Now, when the cranes
• 2:19:02
  Speaker 7: were taking her up into the air, they circled below
• 2:19:04
  Speaker 7: her closely so she could not fall. They also cried
• 2:19:07
  Speaker 7: in loud hoarse voices, so that people could not hear
• 2:19:09
  Speaker 7: her call for help. Therefore, the cranes always circled about
• 2:19:13
  Speaker 7: in autumn when preparing to fly southward and utter loud
• 2:19:15
  Speaker 7: horse cries. End of chapter fifty four Chapter fifty five
• 2:19:25
  Speaker 7: of Myths and Legends of Alaska by Catherine Barry Judson.
• 2:19:29
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  Speaker 7: Eskimo story from the Lower Yukon. Long long ago. There
• 2:19:45
  Speaker 7: were many thunderbirds living in the mountains, but at last
• 2:19:48
  Speaker 7: there were only two left. These birds made their home
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  Speaker 7: on the round top of a mountain overlooking the Yukon.
• 2:19:54
  Speaker 7: They hallowed out a great basin on the summit for
• 2:19:56
  Speaker 7: a nest, and from the rocky rims they could look
• 2:19:59
  Speaker 7: down upon a village upon the river bank. From this perch,
• 2:20:02
  Speaker 7: the thunderbirds, looking like a black cloud, would soar away,
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  Speaker 7: bringing back to their younger reindeer in their talons. Sometimes
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  Speaker 7: with a great noise like thunder they swooped down upon
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  Speaker 7: a fisherman in his kayak and carried him away. The
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  Speaker 7: man would be eaten by the young birds, and the
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  Speaker 7: kayak broke into bits in the nest. Every fall, the
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  Speaker 7: young birds flew away into the Northland, but the old
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  Speaker 7: birds remained in the nest. They had carried away so
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  Speaker 7: many fishermen that only the most daring would go out
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  Speaker 7: on the great river. One day, when a fisherman went
• 2:20:30
  Speaker 7: to look at his traps, he cautioned his wife not
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  Speaker 7: to leave the house for fear of the thunderbirds. During
• 2:20:35
  Speaker 7: the morning, she needed fresh water and started for the river.
• 2:20:38
  Speaker 7: A noise like thunder filled the air. A black shadow
• 2:20:41
  Speaker 7: fell over her, and a thunderbird darted down upon her.
• 2:20:44
  Speaker 7: When the fishermen returned home to his house, people of
• 2:20:46
  Speaker 7: the village told him of the thunderbird. He made no answer.
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  Speaker 7: He took his bow and quiver full of war hours
• 2:20:52
  Speaker 7: and started for the mountain. When he reached the room
• 2:20:55
  Speaker 7: with a great nest, he looked in. The old birds
• 2:20:57
  Speaker 7: were away. The nest was full of young eagles with fiery,
• 2:21:01
  Speaker 7: shining eyes and shrill cries. The hunter fitted a war arrow.
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  Speaker 7: The string twanged and the arrow killed a young thunderbird,
• 2:21:08
  Speaker 7: so the hunter killed them all. The hunter hid behind
• 2:21:11
  Speaker 7: a great rock near the nest. When the old birds
• 2:21:14
  Speaker 7: came home, the thunder in their wings was heard even
• 2:21:16
  Speaker 7: across the great River. Their cries of rage frightened the
• 2:21:19
  Speaker 7: villagers on the river's bank. The mother birds swooped down
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  Speaker 7: upon the hunter beside the rock. Quickly he fitted a
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  Speaker 7: war arrow. The string twanged and the arrow bit deep
• 2:21:28
  Speaker 7: into her throat. Then the mother bird, flapping her wings
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  Speaker 7: so that the hills shook, flew away to the northland.
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  Speaker 7: The father birds circled overhead and then swooped down upon
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  Speaker 7: the hunter. He crouched below the rocks, and the thunderbird's
• 2:21:40
  Speaker 7: great talons caught only the rock. The hunter fitted a
• 2:21:43
  Speaker 7: war arrow in his bow. The string twanged, and the
• 2:21:46
  Speaker 7: heavy war arrow bit deep under his great wing. Spreading
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  Speaker 7: his wings like a black cloud in the sky, the
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  Speaker 7: thunderbird flew away to the Northland. End of chapter fifty
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  Speaker 7: five Chapter fifty six of Myths and Legends of Alaska.
• 2:22:06
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• 2:22:17
  Speaker 7: Catherine Barry Judson. How the Kisati clan came to Sitka
• 2:22:22
  Speaker 7: Daktringett story long ago, when we were first born people
• 2:22:27
  Speaker 7: hated us. Then the sky people brought war upon us.
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  Speaker 7: They destroyed us completely. One woman saved herself. She hid
• 2:22:35
  Speaker 7: in a hole which she dug under a log. Afterward,
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  Speaker 7: various people came to her. I wonder who can tell
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  Speaker 7: me about things? She said. Grizzly bear came near her.
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  Speaker 7: What can you do, she asked, Whenever I catch a man,
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  Speaker 7: I slept my paws down upon him. The woman said,
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  Speaker 7: that is nothing. Some one in the sun spoke to her.
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  Speaker 7: How am I said, a voice? What can you do?
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  Speaker 7: My father in the sun peeps out through the clouds
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  Speaker 7: the model clouds. So the woman married the child of
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  Speaker 7: the Sun. He lowered down from the sky a great
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  Speaker 7: four to protect the woman and her children. When the
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  Speaker 7: enemy saw that, they came back. The father said, when
• 2:23:14
  Speaker 7: the enemy get too strong, put your minds on me.
• 2:23:17
  Speaker 7: So when the enemy became too strong, the women and
• 2:23:19
  Speaker 7: her children put their minds on grandfather's son. He peeped
• 2:23:22
  Speaker 7: out through the clouds upon the enemy. It quickly became
• 2:23:25
  Speaker 7: smoking hot. The sea water out there boiled. The enemy
• 2:23:30
  Speaker 7: ran down quickly into the water and were all destroyed.
• 2:23:33
  Speaker 7: Then the water stopped boiling. The grandchildren of the Sun
• 2:23:36
  Speaker 7: stayed inside their fort end of chapter fifty six Chapter
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  Speaker 7: fifty seven of Myths and Legends of Alaska. This is
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  Speaker 7: Myths and Legend of Alaska by Catherine Barry Judson. Origin
• 2:24:03
  Speaker 7: of the Grizzly Bear crest a Klinget story. A long
• 2:24:08
  Speaker 7: time ago, when some of the Kagwantan clan were catching
• 2:24:10
  Speaker 7: herring at town at mouth of a lake, a bear
• 2:24:13
  Speaker 7: came to the place where they were fishing. The bear
• 2:24:15
  Speaker 7: reached down through the smokehole and stole the herring they
• 2:24:18
  Speaker 7: were drying. Then people said, who is this thief that
• 2:24:21
  Speaker 7: is stealing our fish? Because they said that the grizzly
• 2:24:24
  Speaker 7: bear killed all of them. Then the Kagwantin seized their
• 2:24:28
  Speaker 7: spears and set out to kill the bears nearby. When
• 2:24:31
  Speaker 7: they found them, the bears were lying in holes they
• 2:24:33
  Speaker 7: had dug out for themselves. The people said to them,
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  Speaker 7: come out here, we will fight it out. So the
• 2:24:39
  Speaker 7: bears came out and the people killed them. They took
• 2:24:42
  Speaker 7: the skins from the heads of the bears and preserved
• 2:24:44
  Speaker 7: them that is how the Kagwantan came to use the
• 2:24:46
  Speaker 7: grizzly bear crest. End of chapter fifty seven Chapter fifty
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  Speaker 7: eight of Myths and Legends of Alaska. This is a
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  Speaker 7: Myths and Legends of Alaska by Catherine Barry Judson. Origin
• 2:25:12
  Speaker 7: of the Frog Crest a Klinget story. Long ago, a
• 2:25:18
  Speaker 7: man and his wife were crossing a large bay near
• 2:25:20
  Speaker 7: Sitko when it became very foggy. They could not even
• 2:25:23
  Speaker 7: see the water around their canoe. Then in the thick
• 2:25:26
  Speaker 7: fog they heard singing. The song was we picked up
• 2:25:30
  Speaker 7: a man. We picked up a man. You picked up
• 2:25:32
  Speaker 7: a man. They captured a man. They captured a man.
• 2:25:36
  Speaker 7: You've captured a man. The voice was so strong they
• 2:25:40
  Speaker 7: could hear it echo among the mountains. As the fog rose,
• 2:25:43
  Speaker 7: the song came nearer and nearer. At last they saw
• 2:25:46
  Speaker 7: the voice came from a wee little frog. The man said,
• 2:25:49
  Speaker 7: this frog is mine. I shall claim it. His wife said, no,
• 2:25:53
  Speaker 7: it is mine, I shall claim it. Thus they argued.
• 2:25:57
  Speaker 7: At last the man let his wife take the frog.
• 2:25:59
  Speaker 7: The woman took it ashore, treating it just like a child.
• 2:26:02
  Speaker 7: She took it up into the woods, put it down
• 2:26:04
  Speaker 7: by a lake, and left it there. That is why
• 2:26:07
  Speaker 7: the Kiksati clan at Sitka claimed the frog is their totem.
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  Speaker 7: End of chapter fifty eight Chapter fifty nine of Myths
• 2:26:20
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  Speaker 7: Legends of Alaska by Catherine Barry Judson. Origin of the
• 2:26:36
  Speaker 7: Beaver Crest a cling Itt story. A young beaver was
• 2:26:41
  Speaker 7: captured long ago by a family of the Dessetan. It
• 2:26:44
  Speaker 7: was well carved for but it became angry and began
• 2:26:47
  Speaker 7: to make songs. Afterwards, the beaver's master went through the
• 2:26:50
  Speaker 7: woods to a creek and found there were two salmon
• 2:26:52
  Speaker 7: spear handles, beautifully carved. They were at the foot of
• 2:26:56
  Speaker 7: a big tree. He took them home, and when the
• 2:26:58
  Speaker 7: beaver saw them, he said, that is my work. After
• 2:27:01
  Speaker 7: a while, something offended the beaver again. He began to sing,
• 2:27:05
  Speaker 7: just like a human being. Then he seized a spear
• 2:27:08
  Speaker 7: and threw it through his master's chest, so his master
• 2:27:10
  Speaker 7: was killed. The beaver thumped its tail on the ground
• 2:27:14
  Speaker 7: and the house fell into the ground. The beaver had
• 2:27:16
  Speaker 7: dug a great hollow under the house. It is from
• 2:27:19
  Speaker 7: this story that the Dessetone clan claimed the beaver as
• 2:27:21
  Speaker 7: their totem and have the beaver crest. They also have
• 2:27:25
  Speaker 7: songs composed by the beaver. End of chapter fifty.
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• 2:27:51
  Speaker 5: Barry Judson, Chapter sixty. Origin of the killer whale crest
• 2:27:56
  Speaker 5: cling it. A long time ago there was a man
• 2:27:59
  Speaker 5: named Zazien, who always quarreled with his wife. One day,
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  Speaker 5: his brothers in law took him to an island far
• 2:28:05
  Speaker 5: out at sea and left him there. Natsien began to think,
• 2:28:10
  Speaker 5: what can I do? As he sat there thinking, he
• 2:28:12
  Speaker 5: whittled two killer whales out of cottonwood bark. He put
• 2:28:16
  Speaker 5: them into the water and shouted as the shamans do.
• 2:28:19
  Speaker 5: They looked as if they were swimming, but when they
• 2:28:21
  Speaker 5: came to the surface, they were only cottonwood bark. Natsien
• 2:28:25
  Speaker 5: made two more whales out of alder. He tried to
• 2:28:28
  Speaker 5: put the spirit of his clan into them. As he
• 2:28:30
  Speaker 5: put them in the water, he whistled four times like
• 2:28:32
  Speaker 5: a spirit.
• 2:28:34
  Speaker 7: Hoo hoo, hoo hoo.
• 2:28:37
  Speaker 5: When they floated to the surface, they were only alderwood.
• 2:28:40
  Speaker 5: Then he tried hemlock, then red cedar. Afterwood, he tried
• 2:28:44
  Speaker 5: yellow cedar. These whales swam right away like large killer whales.
• 2:28:49
  Speaker 5: They swam out a long distance. When they came back,
• 2:28:52
  Speaker 5: they turned into wood. The Nasien made holes in their
• 2:28:56
  Speaker 5: dorsal fins, seized one of them with each hand and
• 2:28:59
  Speaker 5: let the killer whale tow him out to sea. He
• 2:29:02
  Speaker 5: said to them, if you see my brothers in law
• 2:29:04
  Speaker 5: and canoes, you are to upset them. After the whales
• 2:29:08
  Speaker 5: had towed Nasien to see for some distance, they returned
• 2:29:11
  Speaker 5: to the island. They became wood again. The next time
• 2:29:15
  Speaker 5: Nazien saw his brothers in law in their canoes, he
• 2:29:18
  Speaker 5: put the spirit of his clan into the killer whales.
• 2:29:21
  Speaker 5: Then they overturned the canoes and broke them to bits.
• 2:29:24
  Speaker 5: They killed the people in them. After that, Natzien said
• 2:29:27
  Speaker 5: to his killer whales, you are not to injure people again.
• 2:29:31
  Speaker 5: You must be kind to them. So these two killer
• 2:29:34
  Speaker 5: whales became the canoes of the spirits. Shamans are lucky
• 2:29:37
  Speaker 5: if they can get the spirit canoes. End of chapter sixty.
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  Speaker 7: Chapter sixty one of Myths and Legends of Alaska by
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• 2:30:03
  Speaker 7: Grass Plant an Esquimaux story from the Bearing Straits. Near
• 2:30:08
  Speaker 7: the village of Pastolic, at the mouth of the Yukon,
• 2:30:10
  Speaker 7: grows a tall, slender grass which the women weave into
• 2:30:13
  Speaker 7: baskets and mats. A grass stalk, which had almost been
• 2:30:16
  Speaker 7: pulled up by the women became much frightened. He wished
• 2:30:19
  Speaker 7: he were something else. Close to him was a bunch
• 2:30:22
  Speaker 7: of herbs living peacefully and quietly. Grass said, I wish
• 2:30:26
  Speaker 7: I were an herb. At once it became an herb
• 2:30:28
  Speaker 7: and lived peacefully. One day the women came back with
• 2:30:32
  Speaker 7: sharp pointed picks made from the antlers of the reindeer.
• 2:30:35
  Speaker 7: They began to dig up the herbs and to eat
• 2:30:37
  Speaker 7: some of the roots. Again, Grass was frightened. He saw
• 2:30:41
  Speaker 7: a small creeping plant nearby, very small and obscure. Grass said,
• 2:30:45
  Speaker 7: I wish I were a creeping plant. At once, he
• 2:30:48
  Speaker 7: became a small creeping plant. The women came back again
• 2:30:51
  Speaker 7: and tore up much of the small creeping plant. Grass
• 2:30:54
  Speaker 7: became much worried. He said, I wish I were that
• 2:30:57
  Speaker 7: small tuber plant there. At once he became a plant
• 2:31:00
  Speaker 7: having a tuberous root. Soon, a small tunder mouse came
• 2:31:04
  Speaker 7: creeping through the grass and began nibbling at one of
• 2:31:06
  Speaker 7: the tubers near by. Grass thought, I will not be
• 2:31:09
  Speaker 7: safe until I become a mouse. At once Grass became mouse.
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  Speaker 7: He felt quite free as mouse, and ran around over
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  Speaker 7: the tundra and nibbling at roots. Sometimes he would sit
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  Speaker 7: up on his hind legs and look about him. While
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  Speaker 7: traveling along, mouse saw a great white thing coming toward him.
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  Speaker 7: Sometimes it dropped to the ground, and after eating something
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  Speaker 7: would fly on. As it came near. Mouse saw it
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  Speaker 7: was a great white owl. Owl saw a mouse and
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  Speaker 7: darted down upon it. But mouse slipped into a hole
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  Speaker 7: near by, and owl flew away. Mouse was very badly
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  Speaker 7: frightened by this. When he came out of his hole,
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  Speaker 7: he said, I will be owl. Then I will be safe.
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  Speaker 7: At once he became a beautiful white owl with slow,
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  Speaker 7: noiseless wing. He flew toward the north, stopping now and
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  Speaker 7: then to catch and eat a mouse. After a long flight,
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  Speaker 7: he came in sight of Sledge Island. Al thought he
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  Speaker 7: would go there. When far out at sea, he became
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  Speaker 7: very tired. He could hardly reach the shore. As he
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  Speaker 7: rested on a piece of driftwood on the sand. Two
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  Speaker 7: men passed along the shore. Al thought for a while,
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  Speaker 7: Then he said, I will be a man at once.
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  Speaker 7: He became a fine looking young man, but he had
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  Speaker 7: no clothing. Night came on and the air became cool.
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  Speaker 7: Man sat down with his back against the piece of
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  Speaker 7: drift wood and slept there until morning. When the sun arose.
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  Speaker 7: He awakened. He felt lame and stiff from the cold
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  Speaker 7: night air. Looking about him, Man found some grass which
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  Speaker 7: he wove into a loose robe, which helps to keep
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  Speaker 7: out the cold. Suddenly he saw a reindeer near him.
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  Speaker 7: He crept on hands and knees close to one, seized
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  Speaker 7: it by the horns and broke its neck With a
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  Speaker 7: single effort. He carried the reindeer on his back to
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  Speaker 7: a sleeping place. He felt all over the reindeer's body,
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  Speaker 7: but his skin was too thick for his fingers to
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  Speaker 7: break an opening. For a long time, he thought. Then
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  Speaker 7: he saw near him a sharp edged stone. He picked
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  Speaker 7: it up and found he could cut the skin with it.
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  Speaker 7: So man skinned the deer, but he had no fire
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  Speaker 7: with which to cook it. Looking around, he saw two
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  Speaker 7: round white stones upon the beach. Striking them together, he
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  Speaker 7: saw they gave out sparks. He then found some dry
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  Speaker 7: wood and scraped off bits. With the wood and stones,
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  Speaker 7: he made a fire and roasted some of the meat.
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  Speaker 7: Man tried to swallow a large piece of meat, as
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  Speaker 7: he had done when he was out, but he could
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  Speaker 7: not do it. He had to cut it with the
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  Speaker 7: sharp edged stone into smaller pieces. The next day he
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  Speaker 7: killed another reindeer and skinned it, and the next day
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  Speaker 7: another Then the knights became so cold he wrapped the
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  Speaker 7: skins upon him. When they dried, they became as part
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  Speaker 7: of his body. But the knights became still colder, and
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  Speaker 7: the days were colder. Then Chinelok the man found some
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  Speaker 7: drift wood and made a rough hut. After finishing his hut,
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  Speaker 7: Chiniluk was walking over the hills one day when he
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  Speaker 7: met a strange black beast among the blueberry bushes. Chiniluk
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  Speaker 7: did not know what to do, but at last he
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  Speaker 7: caught it by the hind legs. The black thing turned
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  Speaker 7: around with a growl and showed his white teeth. Chiniluc
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  Speaker 7: quickly caught the bear by the heavy hair and threw
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  Speaker 7: it to the ground so it lay quiet. Then he
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  Speaker 7: killed it. Then he threw it across his shoulders and
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  Speaker 7: went home. Then he skinned it. When Chinaluk skinned the bear,
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  Speaker 7: he found it had much fat. He thought it might burn.
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  Speaker 7: His hut was very dark, so he went along the
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  Speaker 7: beach until he found a flat stone with a small
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  Speaker 7: hollow in it. He put the oil from the fat
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  Speaker 7: in this. Then he put in a bit of dry
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  Speaker 7: moss and set the end of the moss on fire.
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  Speaker 7: Then his hut was lighted very well. Chona Look also
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  Speaker 7: hung the bear skin in the opening of the door
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  Speaker 7: to keep out the cold. So he lived many days,
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  Speaker 7: But at last china Look became lonely. Then he remembered
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  Speaker 7: the two men who had passed him when he was owl.
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  Speaker 7: He went in search of people. At last he found
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  Speaker 7: two new kayaks at the foot of a hill with spears, lions, floats,
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  Speaker 7: and other hunting implements. Then he saw a path nearby.
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  Speaker 7: On the top was a house. On the ground around
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  Speaker 7: were several dead white whales. Chono look crept cautiously into
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  Speaker 7: the entranceway and up to the door. He lifted the
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  Speaker 7: corner of skin and saw a young man working on
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  Speaker 7: some arrows. He stepped in very quietly. The young man
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  Speaker 7: raised a bow and arrow to shoot, but Chonnluk said,
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  Speaker 7: I have come, brother. The young man said, gladly, are
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  Speaker 7: you my brother? Come and sit beside me. At first
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  Speaker 7: the young man was very glad. He taught Chonnoluk all things.
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  Speaker 7: Then at last he became jealous of him. Then Chonnoluk
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  Speaker 7: became scornful. He said, one day, you cannot kill anything
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  Speaker 7: without a bow and arrow. I can kill with my
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  Speaker 7: hands alone. Then the brother became still more angry. One day,
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  Speaker 7: both round on the water and their kayaks. The young
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  Speaker 7: man said, now let us see who can gain the
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  Speaker 7: shore first. They both reached the beach at the same time.
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  Speaker 7: Then the young man said, you are no Mormer brother.
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  Speaker 7: You go in that direction and I will go in this.
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  Speaker 7: So they parted angrily. As they went Chon'louk turned into
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  Speaker 7: wolverine and his brother became gray wolf. So this day
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  Speaker 7: they wander in the same country, but never together. End
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  Speaker 7: of chapter sixty one Chapter sixty two of Myths and
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  Speaker 7: Legends of Alaska by Catherine Barry Judson. This is a
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  Speaker 7: The Wind People a Koreak story from Siberia. It was
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  Speaker 7: at a time when the Creator lived. Once a violent
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  Speaker 7: snowstorm broke out and it blew incessantly. Creator got ready
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  Speaker 7: to go to Windman's village to find out why the
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  Speaker 7: storm raged so constantly. He took a skin boat instead
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  Speaker 7: of a sledge. He hitched it to mice instead of reindeer.
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  Speaker 7: Then he started. He came to the village of the
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  Speaker 7: wind People. All the people surrounded him and laughed at
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  Speaker 7: his sledge and reindeer. How will you carry off our
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  Speaker 7: presents on such reindeer, they asked. Creators said, just put
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  Speaker 7: them into the boat, and never mind how I carry
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  Speaker 7: them off. The wind people took out all the food
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  Speaker 7: and clothes they had and loaded the skin boat heaping full.
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  Speaker 7: Creator drove back his mice, which dragged the loaded skin
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  Speaker 7: boat home. Then he returned to the village of the
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  Speaker 7: wind people. They loaded his skin boat again and he
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  Speaker 7: carried off everything they had. Then Creator's mice gnawed the
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  Speaker 7: straps off all the sledges and harness of the wind people.
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  Speaker 7: Thus the wind people could not drive any more. Un
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  Speaker 7: the snowstorm ceased. That's all end of chapter sixty two
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  Speaker 7: Chapter sixty three of Myths and Legends of Alaska. This
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  Speaker 7: is a LibriVox recording. All LibriVox recordings are in the
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  Speaker 7: public domain. For more information or to volunteer, please visit
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  Speaker 7: LibriVox dot org. Tricks of the Fox a Koreak story
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  Speaker 7: from Siberia. One day Fox said to his children, I
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  Speaker 7: AM going to get some eggs. He went to the
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  Speaker 7: woods and saw eagle's nest high up in a tree.
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  Speaker 7: He put some grass stalks into his ears, knocked with
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  Speaker 7: them on the tree, and said to eagle, throw me
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  Speaker 7: down an egg. If you don't, I will knock the
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  Speaker 7: tree over with these stalks and break it. Eagle became
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  Speaker 7: frightened and threw down an egg. Throw down another, said eagle.
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  Speaker 7: That's enough, said eagle. I will not throw down any more.
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  Speaker 7: Fox said, throw it down. If I knock down the tree,
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  Speaker 7: I'll take them all. Eagle was frightened and threw down
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  Speaker 7: another egg. Then Fox laughed and said, I fooled you nicely.
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  Speaker 7: How could I have knocked down a whole tree with
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  Speaker 7: these small grass stalks. Eagle became angry. He threw himself
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  Speaker 7: upon Fox grasped him with his talons, lifted him high
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  Speaker 7: into the air, flew out far to sea, and threw
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  Speaker 7: him down upon a lonely island. Fox remained on that island.
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  Speaker 7: He lived there and thought to himself, Am I really
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  Speaker 7: going to die on this island? Fox began to sing
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  Speaker 7: shamans songs. Seals, walrus and whales appeared near the island.
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  Speaker 7: What are you singing about, they asked fox. This is
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  Speaker 7: what I am singing about, said fox. Are there more
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  Speaker 7: animals in the waters of the sea or on the
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  Speaker 7: dry land? Certainly there are more in the waters of
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  Speaker 7: the sea. So the sea people replied, well, let us see,
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  Speaker 7: said fox, come up to the surface of the water
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  Speaker 7: and form a raft from this island to the land.
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  Speaker 7: Then I will take a walk over you and count you.
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  Speaker 7: All the sea people all came up to the surface
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  Speaker 7: of the water and formed a raft. Fox ran over
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  Speaker 7: their backs, pretending to count them. But as soon as
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  Speaker 7: he reached land, he jumped ashore and went home. That's
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  Speaker 7: all the end end of chapter sixty three recording by
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  Speaker 7: Kyle Van der Glast. End of Myths and Legends of
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  Speaker 7: Alaska by Catherine Barry Judson