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Myths And Legends Of The Pacific Northwest Especially Of Washington And Oregon - Katharine Berry Judson · The Song of Hiawatha

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  Speaker 1: Preface to Myths and Legends of the Pacific Northwest. This
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  Speaker 1: LibriVox dot org. Recording by David Wales. Myths and Legends
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  Speaker 1: of the Pacific Northwest by Catharine Barry Judson preface. In
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  Speaker 1: the days of the First Grandfather, when the earth was young,
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  Speaker 1: the Indian, armed only with stone, knife, stone hatchet, and
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  Speaker 1: bows and arrows, found himself confronted with the work of
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  Speaker 1: some one far greater and stronger than himself. This power,
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  Speaker 1: or powers, for there came to be many of them,
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  Speaker 1: had uplifted snowy mountain peaks, had cut deep canyons through
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  Speaker 1: the solid rock, had carved out mountain passes, and had
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  Speaker 1: blocked the passage of mighty rivers by great rocks and boulders.
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  Speaker 1: These powers were strong and brutal. They had enormous strength,
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  Speaker 1: and men of only human size were their prey, as
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  Speaker 1: helpless as flybug under the heel of the Indian. Tattoosh,
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  Speaker 1: the thunderbird who lived in the sky, was one of
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  Speaker 1: these powers. He shook the mountains with the flapping of
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  Speaker 1: his wings. The flashing of his eye was the lightning.
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  Speaker 1: He caught great whales instead of salmon for food. Only
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  Speaker 1: by crumbling a rock into powder so small that he
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  Speaker 1: could not even see it. Could he secure a piece
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  Speaker 1: small enough for the Indian to use as a salmon spear.
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  Speaker 1: Because Tattoosh is so terrible and the enemy of red men,
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  Speaker 1: his picture is painted and carved on their houses, their canoes,
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  Speaker 1: and canoe paddles. Indeed, everywhere who soften his anger often Tattoosh,
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  Speaker 1: as shown in the photograph of the Chilcat blanket, is
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  Speaker 1: represented by a single eye, the terrible eye that flashes fire.
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  Speaker 1: There is no beneficent deity among these Indians of the Northwest.
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  Speaker 1: Sahail does not represent the same idea as that of Manitou,
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  Speaker 1: the great Spirit among the Eastern Indians. Yet Tai sa
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  Speaker 1: Hail along the Columbia River and Old Man above among
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  Speaker 1: the California Indians represent the clearest idea of a single
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  Speaker 1: governing spirit living in the sky, but they are not
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  Speaker 1: sure of his friendship. Among most of the tribes, on
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  Speaker 1: the other hand, there is an utter lack of any
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  Speaker 1: friendly deity, as among the Blackfeet of Montana, with whom
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  Speaker 1: old Man is simply a trickster, half human, who nearly
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  Speaker 1: always gets the worst of it in his encounters with Coyote.
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  Speaker 1: So the Indian felt powerless against the gods who made
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  Speaker 1: the earth, the forces of nature which he could not understand.
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  Speaker 1: In his helplessness, he was influenced by the animal life
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  Speaker 1: he saw about him. In the tragedies of the forest.
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  Speaker 1: He saw the weaker, smaller creatures escape the larger ones
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  Speaker 1: only by cunning. So must he, by cunning, escape the
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  Speaker 1: anger of the gods. The crafty animals became his earth gods,
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  Speaker 1: and in time his helpers. Coyote, the weakest but craftiest
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  Speaker 1: of all the animals, became on the coast the chief
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  Speaker 1: of all the animals, Fox ranked second. The adventures of Coyote,
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  Speaker 1: like those of Yale, the raven of Alaska, are so
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  Speaker 1: many that no one could tell them all. Professor F. S. Lyman, however,
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  Speaker 1: groups them around three or four main heads, the theft
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  Speaker 1: of fire, the destruction of monsters, the making of waterfalls,
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  Speaker 1: and the teaching of useful arts to the Indians. Now,
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  Speaker 1: the animal people lived before the days of the First Grandfather,
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  Speaker 1: long long ago, when the sun was new and no
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  Speaker 1: larger than a star, When the earth was young, and
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  Speaker 1: the tall furs of the forest no larger than an arrow.
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  Speaker 1: These were the days of the animal. People had not
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  Speaker 1: come out yet. Then Coyote said, I want it to
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  Speaker 1: be foggy, So it was foggy. Then all the people
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  Speaker 1: came out. No one saw them come. Coyote said, I
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  Speaker 1: want the sun to shine. So the sun shone and
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  Speaker 1: the fog drifted away. Then the people were there. No
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  Speaker 1: one saw them come out. But with people there must
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  Speaker 1: needs be fire. Where did fire come from? This question
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  Speaker 1: which has puzzled every tribe and nation, each has solved
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  Speaker 1: in its own way. With the Greek, as with the
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  Speaker 1: Red Man, fire was first only on a mountain top,
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  Speaker 1: carefully guarded as a precious possession, and to be secured
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  Speaker 1: only by theft. Among the Greeks, a god took pity
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  Speaker 1: on shivering unhappy mortals. Among the Indians, it was an
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  Speaker 1: animal god, usually coyote, who stole it. With both peoples,
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  Speaker 1: mountains were the homes of supernatural beings. A comparison between
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  Speaker 1: gre Greek and Red Men may seem far fetched to
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  Speaker 1: Greek scholars, Yet there is a striking similarity, and it
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  Speaker 1: is one which is of peculiar interest to those who
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  Speaker 1: live within full view of the wonderful White Mountain Olympus,
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  Speaker 1: rising above Homer's Sounding sea, on which rode the Black ships,
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  Speaker 1: was peopled with the immortal gods. Tacoma, lifting its snowy
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  Speaker 1: head above the waters of Woolge, on which road the
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  Speaker 1: frail Indian canoes, was the home of the dreaded Tomanoah's.
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  Speaker 1: With both peoples, the mountains were sacred. Avalanches and volcanic
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  Speaker 1: eruptions on Tacoma were caused by the Tomanoahs, and nothing
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  Speaker 1: could tempt the red man to climb high above the
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  Speaker 1: snow line. If encamped below it. The Indian, awakened in
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  Speaker 1: the darkness by the sound of falling ice and snow,
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  Speaker 1: started from his blanket and sang a dirge like song
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  Speaker 1: to appease the wrath of the spirits. Tacoma was associated
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  Speaker 1: with the mystery and danger. No red man dared risk
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  Speaker 1: the fate of the miser. Indian nomenclature has been used
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  Speaker 1: entirely in this volume, since the myths, of course date
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  Speaker 1: far back of the coming of the White Man. In
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  Speaker 1: due time, it is believed the Northwest will again come
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  Speaker 1: to use the beautiful Indian names instead of the commonplace
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  Speaker 1: ones given by the whites. There is no good reason
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  Speaker 1: why Kulshan, the Great White Watcher should be called by
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  Speaker 1: the prosaic name of Mount Baker. Still less reason is
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  Speaker 1: therefore calling Tacoma the White Mountain by the name of
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  Speaker 1: an English admiral Runier, who never saw the mountain and
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  Speaker 1: never came into the Northwest. Many Indian names, it is true,
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  Speaker 1: have been preserved. But the fate which the beautiful mountain
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  Speaker 1: peaks along the coast have suffered give reason for congratulation.
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  Speaker 1: That Umatilla wind drifted sands escaped being called sand hole,
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  Speaker 1: and that shellan beautiful waters is not on the map
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  Speaker 1: as Long Lake. The exact meaning of Tacoma is in dispute.
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  Speaker 1: It is given as the white Mountain and also as
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  Speaker 1: the fountain breast of milk white Waters. As Indian nomenclature
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  Speaker 1: was governed by the most striking physical feature of the
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  Speaker 1: thing named, be it man or mountain, the simple directness
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  Speaker 1: of the white Mountain seems to the writer to be
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  Speaker 1: more truly Indian. The most striking feature about Tacoma, as
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  Speaker 1: seen on any sunny day, is its intense whiteness. It
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  Speaker 1: is gloriously white, dazzling as it lifts its head fifteen
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  Speaker 1: thousand feet from sea level of the surrounding country into
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  Speaker 1: the deep blue sky. Therefore, the more expressive interpretation has
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  Speaker 1: been preferred. The basis on which these myths were selected
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  Speaker 1: necessarily excluded those which showed traces of the white man's
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  Speaker 1: religion or of the red man man's coarseness. Relatively speaking,
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  Speaker 1: only a few myths could be selected. These were the
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  Speaker 1: creation myths, the origin of the races, the theft of fire,
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  Speaker 1: the salmon, and especially those connected with the physical features
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  Speaker 1: of the country, such as those of Tacoma Shasta, the
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  Speaker 1: Columbia River, and the group of mountains of the Bridge
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  Speaker 1: of the Gods. The collection grew out of an effort
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  Speaker 1: to find, simply for personal amusement, a complete and authentic
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  Speaker 1: account of the legend of the Bridge of the Gods.
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  Speaker 1: It is one which is well known, yet I had
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  Speaker 1: difficulty in finding it, and the search revealed many quaint
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  Speaker 1: local myths that were practically inaccessible to the general reader.
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  Speaker 1: No claim is made for original work in this volume,
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  Speaker 1: except with regard to the selection of the myths and
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  Speaker 1: the rewriting of several in which the Indian simplicity and
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  Speaker 1: directness had been destroyed by attempted witticisms, by philosophical remarks,
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  Speaker 1: or by words explanations. A consistent effort has been made
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  Speaker 1: to tell these stories as the Indians told them. Some
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  Speaker 1: of the legends, such as the duration of life old
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  Speaker 1: Grizzly and old Antelope, and the robe of Kimush, are
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  Speaker 1: almost literal translations from the Indian as recorded by government ethnologists.
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  Speaker 1: With regard to the use of the name Kimush, it
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  Speaker 1: may be remarked, incidentally, that this is a popular and
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  Speaker 1: abbreviated form of the name Kmutkmish. Neither is this volume
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  Speaker 1: intended to be a very serious or a learned one.
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  Speaker 1: It is, however, authentic. All myths for which a responsible
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  Speaker 1: authority could not be found have been rejected. The chief
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  Speaker 1: sources of information used by permission were the ethnological reports
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  Speaker 1: of the Government of learned Societies and such publications as
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  Speaker 1: the American Anthropologist and the Journal of American Folklore. The
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  Speaker 1: work of such ethnologists as Franz Boas, John R. Swanton,
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  Speaker 1: and Albert S. Gashett has been freely used. Indebtedness is
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  Speaker 1: also acknowledged to Professor W. D. Lyman and Professor F. S. Lyman,
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  Speaker 1: to the work of Hubert Howe Bancroft, and to the
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  Speaker 1: writings of Louise McDermott, Alice C. Fletcher, Herbert J. Spenden, Rowland, B. Dixon,
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  Speaker 1: Missus R. S. Shackelford, J Owen, Dorsey, and others. Acknowledgment
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  Speaker 1: for courtesies received is also due to the photographers, and
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  Speaker 1: to Lowman and Hanford of Seattle, but especially to Major
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  Speaker 1: Lee Morehouse of Pendleton, Oregon, K B. J. Seattle Public Library,
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  Speaker 1: July fifteenth, nineteen ten. End of preface, Part one of
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  Speaker 1: Myths and Legends of the Pacific Northwest by camp Ethne
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  Speaker 1: Barry Judson. This LibriVox recording is in the public domain.
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  Speaker 1: Part one The Origin of Daylight Nanaimo modification of the
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  Speaker 1: Tlinglet legend. When the earth was very new and young,
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  Speaker 1: it was dark and cold and gray. Even the stars
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  Speaker 1: were black. There was no light anywhere. For Gull kept
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  Speaker 1: it in a small box, which he guarded carefully. His
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  Speaker 1: cousin Raven was tired of the dark. He wished for
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  Speaker 1: the daylight. One day, when Gull and Raven were out walking,
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  Speaker 1: Raven thought, I wish Gull would run a thorn into
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  Speaker 1: his foot. Hardly had he thought so when in the darkness,
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  Speaker 1: Gull stepped on a thorn. Squat my foot, cried Gaull
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  Speaker 1: a thorn, asked Raven, let me see it. I will
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  Speaker 1: take it out. But it was so dark Raven could
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  Speaker 1: not see the thorn. He asked Gull to open the
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  Speaker 1: box and make it light. Gull opened it just a
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  Speaker 1: little way, and the light was very faint. Raven said,
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  Speaker 1: you must give me more light, Gall answered Squenna. So
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  Speaker 1: Raven pretended not to see the thorn. Instead of pulling
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  Speaker 1: it out, he pushed it in deeper and deeper, saying,
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  Speaker 1: you must give me more light. Squena, squen an my foot,
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  Speaker 1: my foot, cried Gall. Raven pushed the thorn in deeper
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  Speaker 1: and deeper until Gall at last opened the box. That
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  Speaker 1: is the way the daylight came. How silver Fox created
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  Speaker 1: the world hat Creek Indians at Seguri. In the beginning,
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  Speaker 1: there was nothing but water. Coyote and silver Fox lived
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  Speaker 1: above in the sky where there was a world like
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  Speaker 1: this one. Silver Fox was anxious to make things, but
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  Speaker 1: Coyote was opposed to this. Finally, silver Fox got tired
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  Speaker 1: of coyote and sent him one day to get wood.
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  Speaker 1: While he was gone, silver fox took an arrow flaker
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  Speaker 1: and made a hole in the upper world and looked
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  Speaker 1: down on the sea below. When coyote came back, silver
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  Speaker 1: fox did not tell him about the hole he had made.
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  Speaker 1: Next day, he sent coyote off again for wood. While
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  Speaker 1: he was gone, silver Fox thrust down the arrow flaker
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  Speaker 1: and found that it reached through the water and down
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  Speaker 1: to the bottom of the water. So he climbed through
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  Speaker 1: the hole. As he came near the surface of the water,
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  Speaker 1: he made a little round island on which he stayed.
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  Speaker 1: When coyote returned, he could not find silver fox, and
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  Speaker 1: after hunting a long time, he began to feel remorseful.
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  Speaker 1: Finally he found the hole in the sky. He peeped
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  Speaker 1: through and saw silver Fox on his island far far below.
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  Speaker 1: He called to silver Fox. He was sorry and asked
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  Speaker 1: how to get down. Silver Fox did not answer. Kayo.
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  Speaker 1: Yote said silver Fox ought not to treat him so badly.
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  Speaker 1: Then silver Fox put up the arrow flaker and coyote
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  Speaker 1: came down. But the island was very small and there
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  Speaker 1: was not room enough for coyote to stretch out For
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  Speaker 1: some time they slept, and when they awoke they were
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  Speaker 1: very hungry. For five days things continued this way until
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  Speaker 1: at last silver fox gave coyote some sunflower seeds. He
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  Speaker 1: asked where they came from. Silver fox did not answer.
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  Speaker 1: After five days more, silver Fox made the island a
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  Speaker 1: little larger so that coyote could have room to stretch out.
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  Speaker 1: At last he went comfortably to sleep. At once, silver
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  Speaker 1: Fox got up, dressed himself finely, and then made a
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  Speaker 1: big sweat house. When it was all done, he woke coyote,
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  Speaker 1: who was much surprised to see the sweat house. Silver
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  Speaker 1: Fox told coyote to sweep it out, to spread grass
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  Speaker 1: on the floor, and to go to sleep again. He
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  Speaker 1: did so, and silver Fox dressed up again. He put
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  Speaker 1: on a finely beaded shirt and leggings, and smoked and
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  Speaker 1: sang more. Then, going outside, he pushed with his foot
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  Speaker 1: and stretched out the earth in all directions, first to
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  Speaker 1: the east, then to the north, then to the west,
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  Speaker 1: and last to the south. For five nights he repeated
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  Speaker 1: this until the world became as large as it is
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  Speaker 1: to day. Each day silver Fox told coyote to run
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  Speaker 1: around the edge and see how large it was growing.
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  Speaker 1: At first, Coyote could do this very quickly, but the
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  Speaker 1: last time he grew old and gray before he got back. Then,
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  Speaker 1: silver Fox made trees and springs and fixed the world
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  Speaker 1: up nicely. He also made all kinds of animals merely
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  Speaker 1: by thinking about them. These animals, however, were like people.
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  Speaker 1: When the world was all made, Coyote asked what they
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  Speaker 1: were going to have for food. Silver Fox did not reply.
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  Speaker 1: Coyote then said he thought there ought to be ten
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  Speaker 1: moons of winter in the year. Silver Fox replied there
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  Speaker 1: would not be enough food for so long a winter.
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  Speaker 1: Coyote said it would be better not to have much food,
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  Speaker 1: that people could make soup out of dirt. Silver Fox
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  Speaker 1: at first did not reply. Then silver Fox said it
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  Speaker 1: was not right to have ten moons of winter, that
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  Speaker 1: two were enough, and that people could then eat sunflower seeds, roots,
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  Speaker 1: and berries. Coyote repeated what he had said before, and
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  Speaker 1: they argued about it a long time. Finally, silver Fox said,
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  Speaker 1: you talk too much. I am going to make four
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  Speaker 1: moons for the whole year. I won't talk about it
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  Speaker 1: any more. There will be two moons of winter and
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  Speaker 1: one of spring and one of autumn. That's enough. How
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  Speaker 1: Kimush created the world. Klammeth in the time that was Kimush,
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  Speaker 1: old man of the ancients, slept in Yamsea, lodge of
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  Speaker 1: the North wind. Hard had been his work. Kimush had
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  Speaker 1: made the world. He had sprung quickly from the ashes
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  Speaker 1: of the northern lights and made the world at the
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  Speaker 1: call of morning star. At first Kayla, the earth had
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  Speaker 1: been flat and bare. Then Kimush planted in the valleys
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  Speaker 1: the grass and kamas roots, Iba and Ipo roots. On
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  Speaker 1: Malaiksi steepness. He had set Kopka the pine, Wako the
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  Speaker 1: white pine, and Katalo the juniper. On the river and lakes,
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  Speaker 1: Kimush placed Wex the mallard and whitewashed the white goose,
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  Speaker 1: mush Mush, the white tailed deer, Wan the red fox,
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  Speaker 1: and catchcatch the little gray fox. Ran through the forest,
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  Speaker 1: coil the mountain sheep, and look the grizzly bear. Kimush
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  Speaker 1: set on kata Ti place of rocks. So Kimush the earth,
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  Speaker 1: and all the earth was new, except Shapashkani, the rock
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  Speaker 1: where was built the lodge of Sun and moon. So
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  Speaker 1: Kimush slept while the day was young. Then came Wanaka
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  Speaker 1: the sun halo and called to the sleeping one old
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  Speaker 1: man of the ancients. Kimush rose from the door of
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  Speaker 1: the lodge. Together they followed the trail of shell the
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  Speaker 1: sun until they reached the edge of the dark. But
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  Speaker 1: Maido the Indian was not yet created. Then Kimush with
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  Speaker 1: his daughter evening Sky, went to the place of the dark,
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  Speaker 1: to the lodges of the Muna Talkni. Five nights, in
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  Speaker 1: a great circle about a vast fire, they danced with
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  Speaker 1: the spirits of the dark. The spirits were without number,
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  Speaker 1: like the leaves on the trees. But when Shell called
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  Speaker 1: to the world, the spirits became dry bones. On the
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  Speaker 1: fifth day, when the sun was new, Kimush rose and
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  Speaker 1: put the dry bones into a sack. Then, as he
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  Speaker 1: followed the trail of shell to the edge of the world,
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  Speaker 1: he threw away the bones. He threw them away two
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  Speaker 1: by two. To Katati place of steepness, he threw two,
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  Speaker 1: to kuyanishaiks the crawfish trail, to Malakisi steepness of snow,
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  Speaker 1: and to kakasam Yama mountains of the great blue heron.
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  Speaker 1: To each he threw two bones. Thus people were created.
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  Speaker 1: The dry bones became Maidu the Indian, Ikspallah, the people
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  Speaker 1: of the chipmunks, and last of all Maklaks, the Klamath Indian.
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  Speaker 1: Then Kimush followed the trail of shell the sun, climbing
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  Speaker 1: higher and higher. At the top of the trail, he
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  Speaker 1: built his lodge. Here still lives Kimush, old man of
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  Speaker 1: the ancients, with his daughter Evening Sky and Wanatka the
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  Speaker 1: sun halo the robe of Kimush Klamath. Kimush walking upon
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  Speaker 1: the the earth after having created it, saw five lynxes
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  Speaker 1: sitting upon a tree. Kimush had on only a rabbit blanket.
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  Speaker 1: Kimush tore his blanket to pieces, saying, the lynxes will
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  Speaker 1: be a good robe to me when I kill them.
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  Speaker 1: Picking up a stone, he threw it at the lynxes.
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  Speaker 1: One lynx jumped down and ran away. Kimush said, oh,
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  Speaker 1: it will not be a good mantle. Again he missed
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  Speaker 1: with a stone. Another Lynx, jumping down, ran off. Kimush said,
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  Speaker 1: again one skipped away. Now my mantle will become small.
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  Speaker 1: The three lynxes sitting on the tree scoffed at Kimush.
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  Speaker 1: Again with a stone, he missed the lynxes. Another one
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  Speaker 1: jumped down and ran away. Kimush said, it will only
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  Speaker 1: cover my back. Picking up another stone, he missed. The Lynxes,
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  Speaker 1: both skipping down, ran away. Kimush began crying loye loyan
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  Speaker 1: layak loi loyon long boyuk again. Gathering the pieces of
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  Speaker 1: his blanket, he pinned it together with splinters, then putting
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  Speaker 1: it around himself started off. Not far away, an antelope
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  Speaker 1: with an aching tooth lay on a clearing spreading his
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  Speaker 1: rabbit blanket over the antelope. Kimush kicked it, then he
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  Speaker 1: began searching for a stone knife with which to skin it.
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  Speaker 1: An antelope behind him ran off. Looking at it, Kimus said,
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: this looks like my antelope. Then the antelope of Kimush
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: ran in front of him. Kimus saw his blanket on
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: the antelope's back. He cried, stop stop, the people will
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: make fun of you, wrapped in my old rabbit blanket.
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: How Kawanica created the world. At first, it was dark,
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: There was neither wind nor rain. There were no people
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: or animals. In the middle of the water on a
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: piece of land sat Kawanica. He sat by his fire,
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: breathing the smoke of burning cedar. On the edge of
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: the land stood another god. Looking northward, he saw an
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: ash tree. Looking southward, he saw a red cedar. Therefore
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: the ash and red cedar are sacred above all other trees.
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: Looking southwest, he saw something red, said Kawanica, it must
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: be land coming. At last, the land came and touched
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: the piece on which they sat, but it was unsteady.
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: It trembled. Then Kawanika pressed his hands over it, making
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: it steady. He wanted to make more land, but he
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: did not wish sickness to be in it. He said,
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: where many die, I will make much water and little land.
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: Where few die, I will make much land and little water.
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: Kawanica chose three rocks and two pieces of earth. He
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: threw one rock into the water. Then he listened. It
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: went down, down, down. He threw another rock, and then
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: the third. Then he threw a piece of earth. He listened.
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: He threw the other piece of earth. After the fifth throw,
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: mighty waves arose. They dashed against the land, then receded.
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: Thus were the tides formed. Then more land came, but
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: it was muddy. Man could not step on it. Soon
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: footprints appeared. Ha said Kawanica, that is sickness. It is bad.
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: So he made the water cover the land. Then he
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: blew at the water and uncovered the land again. Footprints
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: came in the mud. That is bad, That is sickness,
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: said Kawanica. Four times he made water cover the land.
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: The fifth time the footprints were made as before, Kawanica
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: let them alone. Five is a sacred number. All this
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: time it was dark. Kawanaka tried to make daylight but
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: could not. Then he called all the birds to a
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: great council. He asked them how to make sunlight. Only
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: one bird knew, he said, In the far north was
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: the sun. Two wild geese had been there. The geese
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: said there was a magic way of calling the sun.
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: They would teach Kawanica if he would give special privileges
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: to all birds. So Kawanika learned the secret and called
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: the sun. It came at his call and stopped as
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: he told it. So Kawanaka made a track for the
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: sun northward in summer southward in winter. Kawanika pulled two
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: hairs from his head and threw them on the ground.
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: They became snakes. Soon there were many on the land
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: and in the water. They made storms by blowing with
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: their mouths. One long serpent coiled itself five times around
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: the world so it does not fall apart. Kawanika pulled
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: two more hairs from his head. They became dogs. Afterwards,
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: a woman came from the south. She is the mother
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: who never dies. She is the South. All Indians returned
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: to her at death, and she sends them back as infants.
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: Kawanica now lives in the sun and looks down on
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: the people. How Old Man Above created the world Shasta
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: Indians long long ago, when the world was so new
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: that even the stars were dark. It was very, very
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: flat CHERIEA old man above could not see through the
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: dark to the new flat earth, neither could he step
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: down to it, because it was so far below him.
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: With a large stone, he bored a hole in the sky.
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: Then through the hole he pushed down masses of ice
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: and snow, until a great pyramid rose from the plain.
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: Old Man Above climbed down through the hole he had
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: made in the sky, stepping from cloud to cloud until
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: he could put his foot on top the mass of
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: icen snow. Then with one long step he reached the earth.
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: The sun shone through the hole in the sky and
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: began to melt the ice and snow. It made holes
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: in the ice and snow. When it was soft, Cheria
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: bored with his finger into the earth here and there
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: and planted the first trees. Streams from the melting snow
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: watered the new trees and made them grow. Then he
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: gathered the leaves which fell from the trees and blew
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: upon them. They became birds. He took a stick and
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: broke it into pieces. Out of the small end he
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: made fishes and placed them in the mountain streams. Of
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: the middle of the stick he made all the animals
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: except the grizzly bear. From the big end of the
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: stick came the grizzly bear, who was made master of all.
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: Grizzly was large and strong and cunning. When the earth
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: was new, he walked upon two feet and carried a
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: large club. So strong was Grizzly that old man above
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: feared the creature he had made. Therefore, so that he
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: might be safe, Cheriea hollowed out the pyramid of ice
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: and snow as a teepee. There he lived for thousands
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: of snows. The Indians knew he lived there because they
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: could see the smoke curling from the smokehole of his teepee.
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: When the pale face came. Old man above went away.
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: There is no longer any smoke from the smoke hole.
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  Speaker 1: White men call the Teepee mount Shasta, old man above,
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: and the grizzlies Shasta Indians. A long time ago, while
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: smoke still curled from the smoke hole of the teepee,
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: a great storm arose. The storm shook the teepee. Wind
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: blew the smoke down the smoke hole. Old man above
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: said to little daughter, climb up to the smoke hole.
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: Tell whend to be quiet. Stick your arm out of
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: the smoke hole before you tell him. Little daughter climbed
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: up to the smoke hole and put out her arm.
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: But little daughter put out her head. Also. She wanted
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: to see the world. Little daughter wanted to see the
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: rivers and trees and the white foam on the bitter waters.
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: Wind caught little daughter by the hair when pulled her
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: out of the smoke hole and blew her down the mountain.
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: Wind blew little daughter over the smooth ice and the
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: great forests down to the land of the grizzlies. Wind
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: tangled her hair and then left her cold and shivering
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: near the teepees of the grizzlies. Soon Grizzly came home.
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: In those days, Grizzly walked on two feet and carried
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: a big stick. Grizzly could talk as people do. Grizzly
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: laid down the young Elki had killed and picked up
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: little daughter. He took little daughter to his teepee. Then
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: Mother Grizzly warmed her by the fire. Mother Grizzly gave
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: her food to eat. Soon little daughter married the son
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: of Grizzly. Their children were not Grizzlies, they were men.
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: So the Grizzlies built a teepee for little daughter and
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: her children. White men call the teepee little Shasta. At last,
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: Mother Grizzly sent a son to old Man Above. Mother
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: Grizzly knew that little daughter was the child of old
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: Man above, but she was afraid. She said, tell Old
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: Man above that little daughter is alive. Old Man Above
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: climbed out of the smoke hole. He ran down the
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: mountain side to the land of the Grizzlies. Old Man
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: Above ran very quickly. Wherever he set his foot the
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: snow melted. The snow melted very quickly and made streams
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: of water. Now Grizzly stood in line to welcome Old
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: man above. They stood on two feet and carried clubs.
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: Then old Man above saw his daughter and her children.
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: He saw the new race of men. Then old Man
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: above became very angry. He said to grizzlies, never speak again,
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: be silent. Neither shall ye stand upright. Ye shall use
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: your hands as feet, Ye shall look downward. Then old
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: man above put out the fire in the teepee. Smoke
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: no longer curls from the smoke hole. He fastened the
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: door of the teepee. The new race of men he
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: drove out. Then Old Man above took little daughter back
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: to his teepee. That is why grizzlies walk on four
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: feet and look downward. Only when fighting they stand on
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: two feet and use their fists like men. Duration of life.
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: Klameth Keimush old man of the ancients ruled as follows
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: the Klameth Lake people Maclax from a service berry bush
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: from chak he made. He made the Cacklish people from
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: skunks northward. While he had gone. He created them on
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: his way. Klameth Lake people he laid down in the
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: sun heat. The white people he laid in the shade. Therefore,
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: the Maclaques are dark. The white race is light and
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: beyond the sea. He made a world for them. Kimush
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: made mole, also flybug, also garter snake also. When he
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: had made them, they began to argue about man. Mole said,
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: I want human beings to live to great age. Garter
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: snake thus spoke, I order man to be thus made.
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: Garter snake began shedding its skin, saying this way I
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: want man to become, after having grown, to be of
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: great age, always to grow young again. On that subject,
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: mole said, and I want human beings to be thus
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: made decrepit by age shivering. He said, thus, I want
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: human beings to shiver. Flybug also voted with mole. Flybug said,
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: many human beings acting cruelly will step on me and
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: crush me. And thus they argued. How coyote stole fire
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: Long ago? Men were hungry and unhappy. They were cold.
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: The only fire in the world was on a mountain top,
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: watched by three scukums. They guarded the fire carefully, men
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: might steal it and become as strong as they. Coyote
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: wanted men to be warm and happy. One day he
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: crept to the mountain top and watched the scucums. He
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: watched all day and all night. They thought he was
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: only a skulking coyote. Coyote saw that one scuukum sat
• 32:34
  Speaker 1: always by the fire. When one went into the teepee,
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: another came out and sat by the fire. Only when
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: the dawn wind arose was there a chance to steal fire.
• 32:45
  Speaker 1: Then scucum, shivering, hurried into the teepee. She called sister, sister,
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: get up and watch the fire, but the sister was slow.
• 32:55
  Speaker 1: Coyote went down the mountain side and called a great
• 32:58
  Speaker 1: council of the animals. He knew if he stole fire,
• 33:01
  Speaker 1: the scucums would chase him. Coyote said the other animals
• 33:05
  Speaker 1: must help him. Again, coyote skulked to the mountain top.
• 33:10
  Speaker 1: The scucums saw only a coyote shivering in the bushes.
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: When the dawn wind rose, the skukum on guard called sister, sister,
• 33:19
  Speaker 1: get up and watch the fire, but the sister was slow.
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: Then coyote seized the fire and jumped down the mountain side.
• 33:28
  Speaker 1: Quickly scukum followed him. She caught the tip of his
• 33:31
  Speaker 1: tail in her hand. Therefore it is white even to
• 33:35
  Speaker 1: this day. But coyote reached wolf wolf seized the fire
• 33:39
  Speaker 1: and leaped down the mountain. Skukum chased wolf, but wolf
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: reached squirrel. Squirrel sees the fire and leaped from branch
• 33:48
  Speaker 1: to branch down the mountain. The fire was so hot
• 33:51
  Speaker 1: it burned the back of his neck. You can see
• 33:54
  Speaker 1: the black spot there even to this day. The fire
• 33:58
  Speaker 1: was so hot it made squirrel's ta curl up over
• 34:01
  Speaker 1: his back. Scukum chased squirrel, but squirrel reached frog. Frog
• 34:06
  Speaker 1: took the coals of fire in his mouth and hopped away.
• 34:10
  Speaker 1: Scutum chased frog. She caught his tail in her hand.
• 34:14
  Speaker 1: Frog jumped away, but Scukum kept the tail. That is
• 34:18
  Speaker 1: why frogs have no tail even to this day. Soon
• 34:22
  Speaker 1: Scukum caught up with frog again. To save the fire,
• 34:25
  Speaker 1: Frog spitted out on wood. Wood swallowed it. Skukum did
• 34:30
  Speaker 1: not know how to get the fire out of wood,
• 34:33
  Speaker 1: but coyote did. Coyote showed the Indians how to get
• 34:36
  Speaker 1: fire out of wood by rubbing two dry sticks together,
• 34:40
  Speaker 1: as they do even to this day. How beaver stole
• 34:45
  Speaker 1: fire nez per ses. Long ago there were no people
• 34:50
  Speaker 1: in the world. Animals and trees talked just as men
• 34:54
  Speaker 1: do now. They also walked about. Now, in those days,
• 34:58
  Speaker 1: pine trees had the secret a fire. They would tell
• 35:02
  Speaker 1: no one else. No one could have a fire, no
• 35:05
  Speaker 1: matter how cold it was, unless he were a pine.
• 35:08
  Speaker 1: One winter, it was so cold the animals almost froze
• 35:12
  Speaker 1: to death. Then they called a council. They wanted to
• 35:15
  Speaker 1: steal fire from pine trees. Now on Grand Ronde River,
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: pine trees were holding also a great council. They had
• 35:23
  Speaker 1: built a large fire to warm themselves. Guards were put
• 35:27
  Speaker 1: around the fire to keep off all animals. But Beaver
• 35:30
  Speaker 1: hid under the bank near the fire before the guards
• 35:33
  Speaker 1: took their places, so they did not see him. After
• 35:37
  Speaker 1: a while, a live coal rolled down the bank near beaver.
• 35:41
  Speaker 1: He hid it in his breast and ran away. Pine
• 35:44
  Speaker 1: trees started after him. When pine trees caught up near him,
• 35:49
  Speaker 1: Beaver dodged from side to side. Other times he ran
• 35:53
  Speaker 1: straight ahead. That is why Grand Ronde River winds from
• 35:57
  Speaker 1: side to side in some places. In other places it
• 36:00
  Speaker 1: is straight. When they had run a long way, pine
• 36:04
  Speaker 1: trees grew tired. They stopped on the river banks. So
• 36:08
  Speaker 1: many stopped there and so close together that even today
• 36:12
  Speaker 1: hunters can hardly get through the trees. A few kept
• 36:15
  Speaker 1: on after Beaver and stopped here and there. These also
• 36:19
  Speaker 1: remain here and there on the river bank. A few
• 36:23
  Speaker 1: pine trees kept close after Beaver, so did Cedar. Cedar said,
• 36:28
  Speaker 1: I will run to the top of that hill. I
• 36:31
  Speaker 1: will see how far ahead he is. So Cedar ran
• 36:34
  Speaker 1: to the top of the hill. Beaver was far ahead.
• 36:37
  Speaker 1: He was just diving into Big Snake River where Grand
• 36:41
  Speaker 1: Rond joins it. Beaver swam across Big Snake River and
• 36:45
  Speaker 1: gave fire to willows on the opposite bank. Farther on,
• 36:49
  Speaker 1: he gave fire to birches and to other trees. So
• 36:52
  Speaker 1: these woods have fire in them ever since then. Animals
• 36:56
  Speaker 1: and Indians can get fire from these woods by ubbing
• 37:00
  Speaker 1: two pieces together. Cedar still stands all alone on the
• 37:04
  Speaker 1: very top of the hill. He is very old. His
• 37:08
  Speaker 1: top is dead. The chase was a long one. You
• 37:11
  Speaker 1: can see that because there are no other Cedars within
• 37:15
  Speaker 1: a hundred miles of him. Old men of the tribes
• 37:18
  Speaker 1: point him out to the children. They say, there is
• 37:22
  Speaker 1: old Cedar. He stands just where he stopped when he
• 37:25
  Speaker 1: chased Beaver. How dogs stole fire pit river Achomawi pine
• 37:34
  Speaker 1: Martin stole the two wives of Hawkman. Hawkman grew very
• 37:38
  Speaker 1: angry and at once put on his shaman's ornaments and
• 37:42
  Speaker 1: began to dance and sing kicha kicha weinino, kitcha kitcha wenino.
• 37:48
  Speaker 1: At once it began to rain. Only Wesel noticed it
• 37:52
  Speaker 1: and spoke of it all night. It poured. The water
• 37:55
  Speaker 1: rose higher and higher until it ran in at the door.
• 37:59
  Speaker 1: Tell them to go back, these two women, that Hawkman
• 38:02
  Speaker 1: will kill us, he will drown us. But pine Martin
• 38:05
  Speaker 1: said nothing until morning. Then he said, I do not
• 38:10
  Speaker 1: like this. Where is a brave man. I want him
• 38:13
  Speaker 1: to go and kill Hawkman. So a man got up
• 38:16
  Speaker 1: and went over, taking a knife and a shield. Hawkman
• 38:20
  Speaker 1: was dancing harder and harder, and at every leap his
• 38:24
  Speaker 1: head came up through the smoke hole. The man crept
• 38:27
  Speaker 1: nearer and nearer, and finally struck Hawkman. He cut off
• 38:31
  Speaker 1: his head. At once the rain stopped, and the clouds
• 38:35
  Speaker 1: cleared away, and the water sank. Then people said, if
• 38:39
  Speaker 1: a shaman is bad, we will kill him. That is
• 38:42
  Speaker 1: how it shall be, And then they went off to hunt.
• 38:46
  Speaker 1: After Hawkman had been killed and the waters had sunk again,
• 38:49
  Speaker 1: people found that the fires were put out all over
• 38:52
  Speaker 1: the world. Nothing could be cooked. For a time they
• 38:56
  Speaker 1: did not trouble about it, But in a few days
• 38:58
  Speaker 1: they began to talk about it. They sent Owl to
• 39:01
  Speaker 1: Shasta to look out over all the world and see
• 39:04
  Speaker 1: if he could find any trace of fire. Owl took
• 39:07
  Speaker 1: a feather blanket and went. Lizard watched him go and
• 39:11
  Speaker 1: told the people how he was getting on. After a
• 39:14
  Speaker 1: long while, when Owl did not come back, people thought
• 39:18
  Speaker 1: he was dead, but Lizard said, sh I can see him.
• 39:23
  Speaker 1: Owl got to the top at last, very tired and
• 39:26
  Speaker 1: wet with sweat, He looked all around. Twice, he looked
• 39:30
  Speaker 1: to the west, and there saw smoke coming from a
• 39:32
  Speaker 1: sweat house. After a while, Owl came down from the
• 39:36
  Speaker 1: mountain and told the people what he had seen. Next morning,
• 39:40
  Speaker 1: all got ready and went off to the west to
• 39:43
  Speaker 1: where the smoke had been seen. Everyone had a cedar,
• 39:47
  Speaker 1: bark torch. Dog had some punk hidden in his ear.
• 39:51
  Speaker 1: Late in the evening they arrived at the lodge and
• 39:54
  Speaker 1: asked to be allowed to warm their hands. Dog held
• 39:57
  Speaker 1: his ear down and fire caught in the punk. Then
• 40:01
  Speaker 1: every one thrust their torches into the fire and ran.
• 40:06
  Speaker 1: The people in the lodge were angry and struck at them.
• 40:08
  Speaker 1: As they ran off. Coyotes fire gave out first, then
• 40:12
  Speaker 1: the fire of one after another gave out, until all
• 40:15
  Speaker 1: the torches were out. The people who owned the fire
• 40:19
  Speaker 1: had made it rain, and this put out the torches.
• 40:23
  Speaker 1: No one knew that dog had fire. They got home
• 40:26
  Speaker 1: and were much troubled, for they thought the fire had
• 40:29
  Speaker 1: all been lost. Dog was laughing and said, I am sweating.
• 40:34
  Speaker 1: Coyote got angry at this and said hit him put
• 40:37
  Speaker 1: him out. Then Dog said to fox, look in my ear.
• 40:42
  Speaker 1: When he did that, he saw the fire. He took
• 40:44
  Speaker 1: out the punk made fire from it, and so people
• 40:48
  Speaker 1: got fire again. End of section one, Part two of
• 41:05
  Speaker 1: Myths and Legends of the Pacific Northwest by Catherine Barry Judson.
• 41:09
  Speaker 1: This LibriVox recording is in the public domain. Part two,
• 41:15
  Speaker 1: The Bridge of the Gods. Long ago, when the world
• 41:19
  Speaker 1: was new, Tayi Sahal, with his two sons came down
• 41:23
  Speaker 1: Great River. They came near where the dales are now.
• 41:27
  Speaker 1: The land was very beautiful, and each son wanted it,
• 41:31
  Speaker 1: and therefore they quarreled. Then s a Hail took his
• 41:34
  Speaker 1: bow and shot two arrows. One he shot to the
• 41:37
  Speaker 1: north and the other He shot to the west. Then
• 41:40
  Speaker 1: sa Hail said to his sons, go find the arrows
• 41:43
  Speaker 1: where they lie, you shall have the land. One son
• 41:47
  Speaker 1: went north over the plain to the country of the Clicatats.
• 41:50
  Speaker 1: He was the first grandfather of the Clicatats. The other
• 41:54
  Speaker 1: son followed the arrow to the Willamete Valley. He was
• 41:57
  Speaker 1: the first grandfather of the Moltnomahs. Then Sahel raised great
• 42:01
  Speaker 1: mountains between the country of the Clicatats and the country
• 42:04
  Speaker 1: of the Moltnomas. This he did that the tribes might
• 42:07
  Speaker 1: not quarrel. White men called them the Cascade mountains. But
• 42:12
  Speaker 1: great river was deep and broad. The river was a
• 42:15
  Speaker 1: sign of peace between the tribes. Therefore Sahil made a
• 42:18
  Speaker 1: great stone bridge over the river that the tribes might
• 42:22
  Speaker 1: be friends. This was called the Bridge of the Tominawas
• 42:26
  Speaker 1: the tribes grew, but they did evil things. They displeased
• 42:30
  Speaker 1: Ta'i Sahel. Therefore the sun ceased to shine, and cold
• 42:35
  Speaker 1: and snow appeared. The people were unhappy, for they had
• 42:38
  Speaker 1: no fire. Only Luit had fire. Therefore the people sought
• 42:42
  Speaker 1: to steal the fire of Luit. Then Luit fled, and
• 42:46
  Speaker 1: because the runners were stiff with cold, they could not
• 42:50
  Speaker 1: catch her. Then Luit told Sahil of the need of
• 42:54
  Speaker 1: the Indians. Luit said the Indians were cold, So Sahil
• 42:58
  Speaker 1: gave fire to the people. Thus Sahil built a fire
• 43:01
  Speaker 1: on the bridge of the gods, and there the people
• 43:04
  Speaker 1: secured fire. Sahil also promised to Luit eternal youth and beauty.
• 43:09
  Speaker 1: Thus Luit became a beautiful maiden. Then began the chiefs
• 43:13
  Speaker 1: to love Luit. Many chiefs loved her because she was
• 43:16
  Speaker 1: so beautiful. Then came two more chiefs, Clicatat from the
• 43:20
  Speaker 1: north and Waist from the west. To neither would Luit
• 43:25
  Speaker 1: give an answer. Therefore the chiefs fought, and their people
• 43:29
  Speaker 1: also fought. Thus did they anger Sahil. Therefore, because blood
• 43:34
  Speaker 1: was shed, and because Great River was no longer a
• 43:36
  Speaker 1: sign of peace, Sahil broke down the Tamo nawa's e Lahi.
• 43:41
  Speaker 1: Great rocks fell into the river. They are there even
• 43:45
  Speaker 1: to this day when the river is quiet. Buried forests
• 43:49
  Speaker 1: can be seen even to this day. Thus Sahil destroyed
• 43:53
  Speaker 1: the Bridge of the Gods. Thus the tribes were separated
• 43:56
  Speaker 1: by Great River. Then Sahil made of Luit Clickatat and
• 44:01
  Speaker 1: Waist snow peaks. Always they were to be cold and
• 44:05
  Speaker 1: covered with ice and snow. White. Men call them Mount
• 44:08
  Speaker 1: Saint Helen's, Mount Adams, and Mount Hood the Dales. Long ago,
• 44:15
  Speaker 1: after Sahil had broken down the bridge of the gods,
• 44:17
  Speaker 1: Clicatat and Waist still quarreled over Lewit. When they quarreled,
• 44:22
  Speaker 1: sheets of flame burst from their peaks, and they threw
• 44:25
  Speaker 1: great rocks at one another. But Clickatat and Waist did
• 44:29
  Speaker 1: not throw far enough. The rocks fell into the Great
• 44:32
  Speaker 1: River and blocked it. Therefore the river is very narrow
• 44:35
  Speaker 1: and very swift at that point. Thus it is called
• 44:38
  Speaker 1: the Dales. The story of Ashich Klameth. Oshich, they say,
• 44:46
  Speaker 1: having many people with him, gamboled. While on their way gambling.
• 44:50
  Speaker 1: They built fires. Purple blue was the fire of Oshi,
• 44:54
  Speaker 1: The fire of silver Fox was yellow only. The fire
• 44:58
  Speaker 1: of Keemush was smoke. Only. Then they shot at the target.
• 45:02
  Speaker 1: Ashish hid it straight, silver Fox slightly missed the mark,
• 45:06
  Speaker 1: and Kimush hit the side of the mark. All the
• 45:09
  Speaker 1: others struck far this side of the mark. After doing so,
• 45:13
  Speaker 1: they began gambling again. They bet on many things. Then
• 45:17
  Speaker 1: Ashish won over them. About noon all the men had
• 45:20
  Speaker 1: lost all they had. Then they went to their lodges.
• 45:24
  Speaker 1: Now Ashish had five wives. Mudhin was one wife of Ashech.
• 45:29
  Speaker 1: Long tail squirrel was one wife, sand Hill crane was
• 45:32
  Speaker 1: one wife, Mallard was one wife. Chaffinch was one wife.
• 45:38
  Speaker 1: Then Kimush plotted secretly after daybreak, he plotted against Ashish.
• 45:44
  Speaker 1: Then Kimush began to weep, pretending to remember the inherited
• 45:48
  Speaker 1: place where his father had killed eagles. Now declared Kimush
• 45:53
  Speaker 1: to Ashish, far away is the killing place of the
• 45:56
  Speaker 1: young eagles. I kill them, not being afraid. Then they
• 46:00
  Speaker 1: set out together Kimush and Ashiesh. Now Kimush coveted little Squirrel,
• 46:05
  Speaker 1: the wife of Asheesh. Then they saw eagles. Kimush pointed
• 46:10
  Speaker 1: out the pine for Ashiesh to climb up. Then the
• 46:13
  Speaker 1: eagles flew on the pine. Ashes climbed up, but as
• 46:17
  Speaker 1: he climbed, the tree grew far up. The pine now
• 46:20
  Speaker 1: touched the sky. Ashij having climbed to the top, saw
• 46:24
  Speaker 1: only the young ones of a lark, although it was
• 46:27
  Speaker 1: the eerie of an eagle. Thus Ashiesh wept sitting in
• 46:31
  Speaker 1: the airy. Then Kimush went away. He dressed himself to
• 46:36
  Speaker 1: appear like Ashijh. He came back to the lodge from
• 46:39
  Speaker 1: the pine tree. Now the wives of Ashiesh became suspicious.
• 46:44
  Speaker 1: This one is Kiemush, thus said the wives of Ashiesh.
• 46:48
  Speaker 1: Next morning they all went with those who were in
• 46:50
  Speaker 1: the habit of gambling with ashies They built a fire
• 46:53
  Speaker 1: while gambling, and from the fire of Kimush, smoke only
• 46:57
  Speaker 1: curled up. Then they suspected and said, this is not Ashiesh.
• 47:02
  Speaker 1: This is Kimush. Thus said those far off Ashish did
• 47:07
  Speaker 1: not come. The fire of Ashish is not burning there,
• 47:12
  Speaker 1: thus said the followers in the distance. Those in the
• 47:15
  Speaker 1: distance also said, ye will find out this man after
• 47:18
  Speaker 1: he has shot at the mark. Hashish always hit straight.
• 47:23
  Speaker 1: Then they shot Keimush struck far this side of the mark.
• 47:27
  Speaker 1: Silver fox missed a little. Then they commenced gambling, and
• 47:30
  Speaker 1: they won over Kimush. All day long they won many stakes,
• 47:34
  Speaker 1: and then they went back to the lodges. Then they
• 47:37
  Speaker 1: quit gambling, for they missed Ashiesh. Now Ashish's wives wept
• 47:41
  Speaker 1: constantly and left their lodges to dig roots. Four wives
• 47:45
  Speaker 1: put pitch on their heads. Only Mallard mourned not for Ashish.
• 47:50
  Speaker 1: Then Ashiesh heard the weeping cries of sand hill crane,
• 47:53
  Speaker 1: and Ashish wept hearing them. Now Ashish was far away,
• 47:57
  Speaker 1: close to the sky. He was nothing but bones. Then
• 48:01
  Speaker 1: two butterflies flew up close to the sky and saw Oshijh.
• 48:05
  Speaker 1: Then they flew back. Having seen him, they returned home
• 48:09
  Speaker 1: and said to their father, a good man will soon perish.
• 48:12
  Speaker 1: Far off close to the sky. We saw that man
• 48:16
  Speaker 1: nothing but bones. He will soon die. Thus they said
• 48:19
  Speaker 1: to their father. The father ordered them early next morning
• 48:23
  Speaker 1: to fly up with a basket strung around them. So
• 48:27
  Speaker 1: the butterflies carried up their food, carrying water. Also, they
• 48:31
  Speaker 1: raised up Oshiesh in that erie. Then inquired those butterflies,
• 48:36
  Speaker 1: what are you doing up here? Then Ashih said, Kimush
• 48:40
  Speaker 1: sent me after the eagles, and I climbed the small pine,
• 48:43
  Speaker 1: and it grew up under me. The pine grew up
• 48:46
  Speaker 1: during my climbing. Then I saw eagles of the lark
• 48:50
  Speaker 1: saw I only the young, so Ashish said, giving explanations
• 48:55
  Speaker 1: to them. Then the butterflies spread a wild cat's skin
• 48:59
  Speaker 1: in the wind low basket. They placed Asheesh in it,
• 49:02
  Speaker 1: after giving him food, giving him water also. Then they
• 49:06
  Speaker 1: took him in the basket down to the ground. Thus
• 49:09
  Speaker 1: he returned. Then he lay sick a long time, and
• 49:13
  Speaker 1: then he recovered creation of mankind. Pitt River Akomahway, silver
• 49:21
  Speaker 1: Fox and Coyote lived together. Silver Fox gathered some service
• 49:25
  Speaker 1: berry sticks and whittled them down, working all night. The
• 49:29
  Speaker 1: shavings were to be made into common people. The finished
• 49:33
  Speaker 1: sticks were to be warriors and chiefs. About sunset the
• 49:36
  Speaker 1: next day he was ready to make them alive. They
• 49:39
  Speaker 1: turned into people. Then silver Fox sent them away, some
• 49:43
  Speaker 1: in one direction and some in another. Then he and
• 49:46
  Speaker 1: coyote had a big feast. But Coyote wanted also to
• 49:50
  Speaker 1: make people, so he did everything he had seen silver
• 49:54
  Speaker 1: Fox do. He gathered some service berry sticks and whittled
• 49:58
  Speaker 1: them down, working all night. About sunset the next day
• 50:01
  Speaker 1: he was ready to make them alive. They turned into people.
• 50:05
  Speaker 1: Then Coyote ran after some of the women, and after
• 50:08
  Speaker 1: a long chase, caught them. But so soon as he
• 50:11
  Speaker 1: touched them, they turned into shavings. Asayaho tillamuk Asayaho the
• 50:20
  Speaker 1: god lived far up in the country a long time ago.
• 50:23
  Speaker 1: He traveled all over the world. He came down the
• 50:26
  Speaker 1: river and arrived at natats There he gathered clams and mussels.
• 50:30
  Speaker 1: He made a fire and roasted them. When he opened them,
• 50:34
  Speaker 1: he found two animals in each shell. After he had
• 50:37
  Speaker 1: roasted them, he began to eat and soon had enough.
• 50:41
  Speaker 1: That made him angry, and he said, henceforth there should
• 50:44
  Speaker 1: be only one animal in each shell. The god came
• 50:48
  Speaker 1: to Tillamok Bay and then went up the river. He
• 50:51
  Speaker 1: had to cross it far up because he had no
• 50:54
  Speaker 1: canoe and the river was deep. He met a number
• 50:56
  Speaker 1: of women who were digging roots. He asked, what are
• 50:59
  Speaker 1: you doing there? They replied, we are digging roots. He said,
• 51:04
  Speaker 1: I do not like that. He took the roots away
• 51:07
  Speaker 1: and sent them to Clatsip. Ever since that time there
• 51:10
  Speaker 1: have been no roots at Tillamuck, while at Clatsup they
• 51:13
  Speaker 1: are very plentiful. He went on and came to a
• 51:17
  Speaker 1: river full of salmon which were clapping their fins. He
• 51:20
  Speaker 1: caught one of them, threw it ashore, stepped on it,
• 51:23
  Speaker 1: and flattened it. It became a flounder. Ever since then,
• 51:27
  Speaker 1: flounders have been plentiful at Tillamok, while there have been
• 51:31
  Speaker 1: no salmon there. A sayal traveled on and came to
• 51:35
  Speaker 1: a house in which he saw people lying around the fire.
• 51:39
  Speaker 1: He asked, what is the matter, Are you sick? No,
• 51:42
  Speaker 1: they replied, we are starving. East Wind wants to kill us.
• 51:46
  Speaker 1: The river, sea, and the beach are frozen over, and
• 51:49
  Speaker 1: we cannot get any food. Then he said, can't you
• 51:53
  Speaker 1: make east Wind stop blowing so you can secure food.
• 51:57
  Speaker 1: He went out of the house and far up the river,
• 51:59
  Speaker 1: which was frozen over. It was so slippery he could
• 52:02
  Speaker 1: hardly stand. He went up the river to meet east
• 52:05
  Speaker 1: Wind and to conquer him. Before he came to the
• 52:08
  Speaker 1: house of east Wind, he took up some pieces of ice,
• 52:11
  Speaker 1: which he threw into the river, saying, henceforth it shall
• 52:15
  Speaker 1: not be as cold as it is now. Winter shall
• 52:18
  Speaker 1: be a little cold, but not very much, so you
• 52:21
  Speaker 1: shall become herring. The ice at once became herring and
• 52:25
  Speaker 1: swam down the river. Assayl went on until he reached
• 52:29
  Speaker 1: the house of east Wind. He entered and whistled. He
• 52:32
  Speaker 1: was trembling with cold, but did not go near the fire.
• 52:36
  Speaker 1: He said, I am so warm, I cannot go near
• 52:39
  Speaker 1: the fire. Then he told east Wind. He came from
• 52:42
  Speaker 1: a house where they were drying herring. East Wind said,
• 52:46
  Speaker 1: don't say so. It is winter now there will be
• 52:49
  Speaker 1: no herring for a long time to come. Assayl replied,
• 52:53
  Speaker 1: don't you believe me, There are plenty of herring outside.
• 52:56
  Speaker 1: He took an icicle, which he warmed at the fire.
• 53:00
  Speaker 1: Look how quickly it boils, he said to east Wind.
• 53:02
  Speaker 1: As the ice melted. He made east Wind believe that
• 53:06
  Speaker 1: the melting ice was a herring. Then east Wind ceased
• 53:10
  Speaker 1: to blow, the ice began to melt, and the people
• 53:12
  Speaker 1: had plenty of food. Until then, it had been winter
• 53:16
  Speaker 1: all the year. Now we have both summer and winter.
• 53:21
  Speaker 1: The Golden Age Tinne long ago, the world was only
• 53:26
  Speaker 1: a great sheet of water. There was no land, There
• 53:29
  Speaker 1: were no people. Only the thunderbird lived. The beating of
• 53:33
  Speaker 1: its wings was thunder, Its glance was lightning. Then the
• 53:37
  Speaker 1: thunderbird flew down and touched the water, and thus the
• 53:40
  Speaker 1: earth arose. Then the thunderbird flew down again and touched
• 53:44
  Speaker 1: the earth. Thus the animals were created. Thus thunderbird created
• 53:49
  Speaker 1: all living things except people. Dog was the ancestor of
• 53:53
  Speaker 1: the Tinne. Then thunderbird gave to the Tinne a sacred arrow.
• 53:59
  Speaker 1: This arrow was never to be used or lost. Thus
• 54:02
  Speaker 1: the Tinnae, because of the sacred arrow, never died. Men
• 54:06
  Speaker 1: wore out their throats with eating. Men lived so long
• 54:09
  Speaker 1: their feet wore out from walking. Thus the Tinee were happy.
• 54:13
  Speaker 1: Then they disobeyed thunderbird. They used the sacred arrow. Therefore
• 54:18
  Speaker 1: arrow flew away. Thus the Teenae now die, as do
• 54:22
  Speaker 1: other Indians. The first totem pole, as told by Natalie
• 54:28
  Speaker 1: Curtis Quaktio. Once there was a chief who had never
• 54:33
  Speaker 1: had a dance. All the other chiefs had big dances,
• 54:37
  Speaker 1: but Wakiosh none. Therefore Wakiosh was unhappy. He thought for
• 54:42
  Speaker 1: a long time about the dance. Then he went up
• 54:44
  Speaker 1: into the mountains to fast. Four days. He fasted. On
• 54:48
  Speaker 1: the fourth day, he fell asleep. Then something fell on
• 54:52
  Speaker 1: his breast. It was a green frog. Frog said, wake up.
• 54:56
  Speaker 1: Then Wakiosh waked up. He looked about to see what
• 55:00
  Speaker 1: there he was. Frog said, you are on Raven's back.
• 55:03
  Speaker 1: Raven will fly around the world with you. So Raven flew.
• 55:08
  Speaker 1: Raven flew all around the world. Raven showed Wakiosh everything
• 55:12
  Speaker 1: in the world. On the fourth day, Raven flew past
• 55:15
  Speaker 1: a house with a totem pole in front of it.
• 55:18
  Speaker 1: Wakiosh could hear singing in the house. Wakiosh wished he
• 55:22
  Speaker 1: could take the totem pole and the house with him.
• 55:25
  Speaker 1: Now Frog knew what Wakiosh was thinking. Frog told Raven.
• 55:30
  Speaker 1: Raven stopped, and Frog told waki Ash to hide behind
• 55:34
  Speaker 1: the door. Frog said, when they dance, jump out into
• 55:38
  Speaker 1: the room. The people in the house began to dance.
• 55:41
  Speaker 1: They were animal people, but they could not sing or dance.
• 55:45
  Speaker 1: One said, something is the matter, some one is near us.
• 55:49
  Speaker 1: Chief said, Let one who can run faster than the
• 55:52
  Speaker 1: flames go around the house and see. So Mouse went.
• 55:56
  Speaker 1: Mouse could go anywhere, even into a box. Now Mouse
• 56:00
  Speaker 1: looked like a woman. She had taken off her animal clothes.
• 56:04
  Speaker 1: Mouse ran out, but Wakiash caught her. Wakiosh said, wait,
• 56:09
  Speaker 1: I will give you something, so he gave her a
• 56:11
  Speaker 1: piece of mountain goats fat. Wakiosh said to Mouse, I
• 56:15
  Speaker 1: want the totem pole and the house. I want the
• 56:18
  Speaker 1: dances and the songs. Mouse said, wait until I come again.
• 56:22
  Speaker 1: Mouse went back into the house. She said I could
• 56:26
  Speaker 1: find nobody. So the animal people tried again to dance.
• 56:30
  Speaker 1: They tried three times. Each time Chief sent Mouse out
• 56:34
  Speaker 1: to see if some one was near. Each time Mouse
• 56:37
  Speaker 1: talked with Wakiosh the third time. Mouse said, when they
• 56:40
  Speaker 1: began to dance, jump into the room. So the animal
• 56:44
  Speaker 1: people began to dance. Then Wakiosh sprang into the room.
• 56:48
  Speaker 1: The dancers were ashamed. They had taken off their animal
• 56:52
  Speaker 1: clothes and looked like men. So the animal people were silent.
• 56:56
  Speaker 1: Then Mouse said, what does this man want now? Wakio
• 57:00
  Speaker 1: Jush wanted the totem pole and the house. He wanted
• 57:02
  Speaker 1: the dances and the songs. Mouse knew what Wakiosh was thinking.
• 57:07
  Speaker 1: Mouse told the animal people. Chief said, let the man
• 57:11
  Speaker 1: sit down. We will show him how to dance. So
• 57:14
  Speaker 1: they danced. Then Chief asked Wakiosh what kind of a
• 57:18
  Speaker 1: dance he would like to choose. They were making masks
• 57:21
  Speaker 1: for the dance. Wakiosh wanted the echo mask and the
• 57:25
  Speaker 1: little man mask. The little man who talks talks and
• 57:28
  Speaker 1: quarrels with others. Mouse told the people what Wakiosh was thinking.
• 57:33
  Speaker 1: Then Chief said, you can take the totem pole and
• 57:36
  Speaker 1: the house. Also you can take the masks and dances
• 57:40
  Speaker 1: for one dance. Then Chief folded up the house very small.
• 57:44
  Speaker 1: He put it in a dancer's head dress. Chief said,
• 57:47
  Speaker 1: when you reach home. Throw down this bundle. The house
• 57:50
  Speaker 1: will unfold, and you can give a dance. Then Wakiosh
• 57:55
  Speaker 1: went back to Raven. Wakiosh climbed on Raven's back and
• 57:58
  Speaker 1: went to sleep. When he awoke, Raven and Frog were gone.
• 58:03
  Speaker 1: Wakiosh was alone. It was night and the tribe was asleep.
• 58:07
  Speaker 1: Then Wakiosh threw down the bundle. Behold, the house and
• 58:10
  Speaker 1: totem pole were there. The whale painted on the house
• 58:14
  Speaker 1: was blowing. The animals on the totem pole were making noises.
• 58:18
  Speaker 1: At once, the tribe woke up. They came to see Wakiosh.
• 58:22
  Speaker 1: Wakiosh found he had been gone four years instead of
• 58:26
  Speaker 1: four days. Then Wakiosh gave a great dance. He taught
• 58:29
  Speaker 1: the people the songs. Echo came to the dance. He
• 58:33
  Speaker 1: repeated all the sounds they made. When they finished the dance, behold,
• 58:38
  Speaker 1: the house was gone. It went back to the animal people.
• 58:41
  Speaker 1: Thus all the chiefs were ashamed because Wakiosh had the
• 58:45
  Speaker 1: best dance. Then Wakiosh made out of wood a house
• 58:49
  Speaker 1: and another totem pole. They called it Kali kwaiuish, the
• 58:53
  Speaker 1: pole that holds up the sky Spirit of snow. Spirit
• 59:00
  Speaker 1: of Snow did not like people. He was very stingy.
• 59:03
  Speaker 1: Spirit of snow did not wish that people should eat
• 59:06
  Speaker 1: of the deer and elk. Therefore the Indians did not
• 59:09
  Speaker 1: like him. Therefore, when too much snow fell, the Indians
• 59:13
  Speaker 1: outwitted Spirit of snow they said a charm to him.
• 59:17
  Speaker 1: They said this to Spirit of snow, hither drive the elk,
• 59:21
  Speaker 1: the black necked ones that dwell back to the mountains
• 59:24
  Speaker 1: in dark places under the trees. Thus it was customary
• 59:28
  Speaker 1: to speak to snow. Then it no longer snowed again,
• 59:32
  Speaker 1: he became quiet. Snow is stingy. He does not desire
• 59:36
  Speaker 1: to drive down elk. Owl and Raven Esquimaux. Owl and
• 59:43
  Speaker 1: Raven were close friends. One day, Raven made a new
• 59:47
  Speaker 1: dress dappled black and white for Owl. Owl in return
• 59:51
  Speaker 1: made for Raven a pair of whale bone boots, and
• 59:54
  Speaker 1: then began to make for her a white dress. When
• 59:57
  Speaker 1: Owl wanted to fit the dress, Raven hopped about and
• 1:00:00
  Speaker 1: would not sit still. Owl became very angry and said,
• 1:00:04
  Speaker 1: if I fly over you with a blubber lamp, don't jump.
• 1:00:07
  Speaker 1: Raven continued to hop about. At last, Owl became very
• 1:00:12
  Speaker 1: angry and emptied the blubber lamp over the new white dress.
• 1:00:16
  Speaker 1: Raven cried, crack crack. Ever since that day, Raven has
• 1:00:21
  Speaker 1: been black all over. Cradle song Modoc. Early in the morning, Robin,
• 1:00:29
  Speaker 1: Will he dance early? Early? Will it pick at the
• 1:00:32
  Speaker 1: cedar tree? Early in the morning. It chatters chip whip,
• 1:00:35
  Speaker 1: chip whip, dick, chitch chick chick. Wood rat and rabbits Modoc.
• 1:00:44
  Speaker 1: A wood rat lived with its mother. Five cottontail rabbits
• 1:00:47
  Speaker 1: lived nearby. Rat said to rabbit, let us have a quarrel.
• 1:00:52
  Speaker 1: Rabbit said, why do you want to quarrel with me?
• 1:00:55
  Speaker 1: Woodrat replied, well, that's all right, let us have a fuss.
• 1:00:59
  Speaker 1: Don't you always prefer the bitter leaves of some sort
• 1:01:01
  Speaker 1: of cabbage to anything else. Rabbit answered, you must be
• 1:01:05
  Speaker 1: a thief. Only yesterday I saw you watching carefully for
• 1:01:09
  Speaker 1: the right moment to steal something. Your big ears were
• 1:01:12
  Speaker 1: bent sideways. Woodrat replied, and you I see always skipping
• 1:01:17
  Speaker 1: about with your crooked legs to snatch leaves from the
• 1:01:20
  Speaker 1: cabbage bush. Rabbit said, you are an old fool. You
• 1:01:25
  Speaker 1: are good for nothing except to eat holes in your
• 1:01:27
  Speaker 1: grandmother's dress. That is why you want to attack me.
• 1:01:31
  Speaker 1: Wood rat went to a distance and spread out a
• 1:01:34
  Speaker 1: net to catch rabbit. Then he seized a stick, drove
• 1:01:37
  Speaker 1: rabbit into the net, and beat him to death. Woodrat
• 1:01:41
  Speaker 1: went to the second rabbit, let us have a fight.
• 1:01:44
  Speaker 1: Why should we fight, asked second rabbit. They fought because
• 1:01:48
  Speaker 1: second rabbit, said, wood Rat ate up his grandmother's long dress.
• 1:01:52
  Speaker 1: Wood Rat went to third rabbit. You are nothing but
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  Speaker 1: a fool, a good for nothing eater of cabbage leaves,
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  Speaker 1: said wood Ratrabbit answered, you are a thief. You live
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  Speaker 1: in an old wooden shed. So wood Rat started a
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  Speaker 1: quarrel with all the cottontail rabbits. Thus wood Rat killed
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  Speaker 1: all five cottontail rabbits. Then wood Rat and his mother
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  Speaker 1: ate them up. They danced over them a medicine dance.
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  Speaker 1: While they danced, wood Rat's wooden lodge caught fire. Thus
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  Speaker 1: wood Rat and his mother were burned to death. This
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  Speaker 1: is the end of the tail quarrel of Sun and
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  Speaker 1: Moon see you on. In the days of the first grandfather,
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  Speaker 1: Ni'aba the moon and me the sun lived upon the earth.
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  Speaker 1: Then they quarreled, said Ni'aba, I am out of patience
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  Speaker 1: with you. I gather the people, but you scatter them.
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  Speaker 1: You cause them to be lost, said me the sun.
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  Speaker 1: I wish for many people to grow, so I scatter them.
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  Speaker 1: You put them in darkness. Thus you kill many with hunger.
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  Speaker 1: Then me called to the people, Ho, ye, who are people?
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  Speaker 1: Many of you shall grow strong. I will look down
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  Speaker 1: on you from above. I will rule all your work,
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  Speaker 1: said Niaba, And I too will dwell above you. I
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  Speaker 1: will gather you when it is dark, assembling in full numbers.
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  Speaker 1: You shall sleep. I myself will rule all your work.
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  Speaker 1: We will walk in the trail, one after the other.
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  Speaker 1: I will walk behind him. So Ni'aba follows me in
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  Speaker 1: the trail and the sky. Niaba is just like a woman.
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  Speaker 1: She always walks with a kettle on her arm. Chinook
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  Speaker 1: wind Yakama. Once five brothers lived on great River. They
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  Speaker 1: were the Chinook brothers, and they caused the warm wind
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  Speaker 1: to blow. There were five other brothers who lived on
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  Speaker 1: great River. They lived at Walla Walla, the meeting of
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  Speaker 1: the waters. They caused the cold wind to blow. Now,
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  Speaker 1: the grandparents of all these brothers lived at Umatilla, the
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  Speaker 1: place of wind drifted. Walla Walla brothers and Chinook brothers
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  Speaker 1: were always fighting. They made the winds to sweep over
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  Speaker 1: the country. They blew down trees and raised great clouds
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  Speaker 1: of dust. They froze the rivers and thawed them so
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  Speaker 1: as to make floods. It was very hard for the people.
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  Speaker 1: At last, Walla Walla brothers said to Chinook brothers, we
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  Speaker 1: will wrestle with you. Whoever falls down shall have his
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  Speaker 1: head cut off. Thus he shall be dead. So Coyote
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  Speaker 1: was made judge. He was also to cut the heads
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  Speaker 1: off those who fell down. Now, Coyote secretly told the
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  Speaker 1: grandparents of Chinook brothers how to throw oil on the ground,
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  Speaker 1: then their sons would not fall. Coyote also secretly told
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  Speaker 1: the grandparents of Walla Walla brothers to throw ice on
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  Speaker 1: the ground, then their sons would not fall. The oil
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  Speaker 1: and the ice made the ground very slippery. But the
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  Speaker 1: Walla Walla grandparents had thrown ice on the ground last.
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  Speaker 1: So Chinook brothers fell down. First one th well and
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  Speaker 1: then another, until all fell down. Then Coyote cut off
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  Speaker 1: their heads. Now the oldest Chinook brother had a baby son.
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  Speaker 1: The baby's mother taught him he must revenge his father
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  Speaker 1: and uncles. So young Chinook grew very strong. At last,
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  Speaker 1: he felt himself very strong. He could pull up large
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  Speaker 1: fir trees and throw them around like weeds. Then Young
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  Speaker 1: Chinook went up Great River. Wherever he went, he pulled
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  Speaker 1: up large fir trees and threw them around like weeds.
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  Speaker 1: In the valley of the Yacamaw, he turned aside and
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  Speaker 1: went to sleep by stas the creek. The mark of
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  Speaker 1: his sleeping place can still be seen on the mountain side.
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  Speaker 1: Then Young Chinook came back to the Great River and
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  Speaker 1: went to Umatilla, the place of wind drifted sands. Here
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  Speaker 1: he found his grandparents very cold and hungry. While Walla
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  Speaker 1: brothers caused the northeast wind to blow all the time,
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  Speaker 1: They also stole their fish when they were returning to
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  Speaker 1: the shore. Always they stole the fish. Young Chinook said,
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  Speaker 1: we will go fishing now, So grandfather started out to fish.
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  Speaker 1: Young Chinook lay down in the bottom of the boat.
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  Speaker 1: When the boat was full of fish, grandfather started back
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  Speaker 1: for the shore. Then Walla Walla brothers started out from
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  Speaker 1: the shore to rob grandfather, but they could not catch
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  Speaker 1: the boat. Every time Walla Walla brothers came near the boat,
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  Speaker 1: it would shoot ahead. So grandfather reached the shore with
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  Speaker 1: his fish. Then Young Chinook took his grandparents to the
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  Speaker 1: river and bathed them. All the straw and grass and
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  Speaker 1: bark which he washed off became trout. That is how
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  Speaker 1: trout came to be in great river. Now Walla Walla
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  Speaker 1: brothers knew that Young Chinook was alive, they sent a
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  Speaker 1: messenger to him. They said, we will wrestle with you.
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  Speaker 1: Whoever falls down shall have his head cut off, Thus
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  Speaker 1: he shall be dead. So Coyote was made judge. He
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  Speaker 1: was also to cut off the heads of those who
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  Speaker 1: fell down. Now Coyote secretly told the grandparents of Walla
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  Speaker 1: Walla brothers to throw ice on the ground. Coyote also
• 1:07:06
  Speaker 1: secretly told the grandparents of Young Chinook to throw oil
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  Speaker 1: on the ground. But he told them to throw oil last.
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  Speaker 1: So Young Chinook wrestled with Walla Walla brothers one after another.
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  Speaker 1: So the Walla Walla brothers fell to the ground. First
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  Speaker 1: one fell and then another, until four had fallen. Then
• 1:07:25
  Speaker 1: Coyote cut off their heads. The fifth one yielded without wrestling,
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  Speaker 1: so Coyote let him live. But Coyote said, you must
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  Speaker 1: blow only lightly. You must never freeze people. Again to
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  Speaker 1: young Chinook, Coyote said, you shall blow hardest only at night,
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  Speaker 1: you shall blow first on the mountain ridges to warn
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  Speaker 1: the people. Thus, now winter is only a little cold.
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  Speaker 1: The Miser of Tacoma Cowlitz, long long ago. Miser lived
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  Speaker 1: near the foot of Tacoma. He never was happy when
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  Speaker 1: food was scarce and the tribe were starving. Miser could
• 1:08:03
  Speaker 1: find fish in secret places in the streams. When the
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  Speaker 1: snows were deep and the black necked elk hid in
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  Speaker 1: the dark places of the forest, he could still secure meat.
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  Speaker 1: His skill as a hunter and fisherman was known to
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  Speaker 1: all his tribe, but Miser cared only for hikua. Now Moosmus,
• 1:08:22
  Speaker 1: the elk was Miser's Tomonawus. Therefore he tried to talk
• 1:08:26
  Speaker 1: with the elk, even while hunting them. He wanted more hikua.
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  Speaker 1: One night, Mousmus whispered to Miser the secret hiding place
• 1:08:34
  Speaker 1: of the hqua of the Tominowos. The hiding place was
• 1:08:38
  Speaker 1: high up in Tacoma. Early in the morning, Miser began
• 1:08:41
  Speaker 1: to make ready for his search. He sent his Klutchmann
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  Speaker 1: to dig kamas roots. Thus he could work secretly. He
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  Speaker 1: made two elkhorn picks by taking off all the prongs
• 1:08:52
  Speaker 1: except the upper ones. He filled his ikta with kinnikinik
• 1:08:57
  Speaker 1: and with dried salmon. At sunset, Myia began to climb
• 1:09:00
  Speaker 1: the mountain all night. He climbed the trail all the
• 1:09:04
  Speaker 1: next day. He climbed by night again. He was above
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  Speaker 1: the snow line, cold and tired and hungry. When the
• 1:09:11
  Speaker 1: moon rose, he climbed again, over vast snow fields, across
• 1:09:16
  Speaker 1: wide cracks in the ice, over the slippery shoulders of
• 1:09:20
  Speaker 1: the lower peaks. He climbed. At sunrise he reached the top.
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  Speaker 1: Now Tacoma was the home of the Tamanawus. Therefore Miser
• 1:09:28
  Speaker 1: was afraid, But moose Mouse had told him where the
• 1:09:31
  Speaker 1: hequaal was. Hidden. In the white snow field which covered
• 1:09:35
  Speaker 1: the crater was a black lake. Beyond it were three
• 1:09:38
  Speaker 1: stones of equal height, all as tall as a giant.
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  Speaker 1: The top of the first was shaped like a salmon's head,
• 1:09:45
  Speaker 1: the top of the second was like a camas route,
• 1:09:48
  Speaker 1: and the third like an elk's head. Then Miser believed
• 1:09:52
  Speaker 1: the voice of moose mouse. Miser threw down his ikta,
• 1:09:56
  Speaker 1: he unwrapped his elkhorn pick. Then he began to dig
• 1:09:59
  Speaker 1: in the sea. At the foot of the elk's head,
• 1:10:02
  Speaker 1: Miser struck the first blow as an echo, he heard
• 1:10:06
  Speaker 1: a sudden puff. Startled. He turned to see a huge
• 1:10:09
  Speaker 1: otter climbing out of the black waters of the lake.
• 1:10:13
  Speaker 1: Big Otter struck his tail with a loud thump on
• 1:10:15
  Speaker 1: the snow. Another otter appeared, then another. At last twelve
• 1:10:20
  Speaker 1: outers gathered in a circle around their huge leader. They
• 1:10:24
  Speaker 1: formed a circle around Miser, digging with his pick at
• 1:10:27
  Speaker 1: the foot of the elk's head. Then big Otter leaped
• 1:10:31
  Speaker 1: to the top of the elk's head. All the otters
• 1:10:33
  Speaker 1: gave a loud puff. Miser kept digging. At every thirteenth
• 1:10:39
  Speaker 1: blow of the pick, big Otter thumped with his tail
• 1:10:42
  Speaker 1: on the elk's head. Then the circle of twelve thumped
• 1:10:45
  Speaker 1: with theirs on the snow. Miser became tired and stopped
• 1:10:49
  Speaker 1: digging for a moment. Big Otter turned on the elk's
• 1:10:52
  Speaker 1: head with his tail. He struck Miser on the shoulder.
• 1:10:56
  Speaker 1: Then the twelve turned, walked backward and struck him with
• 1:11:00
  Speaker 1: their tails. Miser began to dig again. As he dug
• 1:11:04
  Speaker 1: in the rock, his pick broke. Big Otter jumped from
• 1:11:07
  Speaker 1: the elk's head. He seized the second pick in his
• 1:11:10
  Speaker 1: mouth and gave it to him. Miser dared not stop.
• 1:11:14
  Speaker 1: With each thirteenth blow of the pick and the thump
• 1:11:17
  Speaker 1: of the tails, the otters came nearer. He could feel
• 1:11:20
  Speaker 1: their breath as he lifted the last stone. Beneath lay
• 1:11:24
  Speaker 1: a great hole filled with hikua. As he lifted out
• 1:11:28
  Speaker 1: the shells, the otters returned to their large circle. Miser
• 1:11:32
  Speaker 1: lifted out handful after handful of the shell money. He
• 1:11:36
  Speaker 1: strung the hequa on elk Sinew's twenty strings. In all
• 1:11:40
  Speaker 1: the rest he covered again. He hurried, for it was
• 1:11:43
  Speaker 1: after noon and he must return below the snow line.
• 1:11:46
  Speaker 1: Then Miser left the elk's head. He offered no shells
• 1:11:49
  Speaker 1: to Musmus or to Sahil. He had forgotten the tomanaus.
• 1:11:54
  Speaker 1: As he crossed the crater, the otters, one by one,
• 1:11:57
  Speaker 1: with a loud puff, jumped into the black lake. They
• 1:12:00
  Speaker 1: began to beat the black water with their tails. He
• 1:12:03
  Speaker 1: heard them beat the water as he plunged through the
• 1:12:05
  Speaker 1: snow to the edge of the crater. Miser felt that
• 1:12:08
  Speaker 1: the shells were very heavy. As he stepped over the
• 1:12:11
  Speaker 1: edge of the crater, he glanced back. The three stones
• 1:12:14
  Speaker 1: had vanished. A thick mist rose from the black waters
• 1:12:18
  Speaker 1: of the lake. Under the mist was a black cloud
• 1:12:21
  Speaker 1: hiding the water. Miser feared Tominos in the clouds. Then
• 1:12:26
  Speaker 1: the storm seized him. It flung him over an ice bank.
• 1:12:30
  Speaker 1: The blackness of all darkness lay around him. Kolnas, the
• 1:12:34
  Speaker 1: storm God, came down upon the mountain to Ta. The
• 1:12:38
  Speaker 1: thunder deafened him with its roar. The storm crashed about him.
• 1:12:42
  Speaker 1: Fiery blasts melted the snow into great torrents. Icy winds
• 1:12:46
  Speaker 1: froze them solid again. In the roar and thunder, Miser
• 1:12:51
  Speaker 1: heard the voice of Koghaete Hyges Tomanaoos heard also the
• 1:12:56
  Speaker 1: voices of all the Tomenos, ha ha hi qua ha
• 1:12:59
  Speaker 1: ha Jhikua. Miser threw away a string of hiqua. The
• 1:13:04
  Speaker 1: storm slackened for a moment, then all began again, louder
• 1:13:08
  Speaker 1: than ever. Kakaete screamed, Ha ha hiqua, ha ha hiqua.
• 1:13:13
  Speaker 1: One by one, Miser threw away the strings of hiqua
• 1:13:17
  Speaker 1: strung on the sinews of Moosmoos, the elk always the
• 1:13:20
  Speaker 1: Tominos screamed after him. Then, when the last string was gone,
• 1:13:25
  Speaker 1: with a last gust, the storm blew him down flat
• 1:13:28
  Speaker 1: upon the ground. Miser slept a long time. When he awoke,
• 1:13:33
  Speaker 1: Tacoma glistened above him, shining white in the sunlight. All
• 1:13:37
  Speaker 1: around him grew kamas roots, rocky ridges lay where once
• 1:13:41
  Speaker 1: the forest had stretched. Sanny meadows lay around him. Miser
• 1:13:45
  Speaker 1: stretched himself in rows. Only dry leaves and dead grass
• 1:13:49
  Speaker 1: remained in the rotted Ikta. Miser wondered. Then he went
• 1:13:54
  Speaker 1: down the mountain side. He ate berries for food, until
• 1:13:57
  Speaker 1: he came to a cabin in the valley. There lived
• 1:14:00
  Speaker 1: a very old woman. He talked with her and found
• 1:14:03
  Speaker 1: she was his Klutchmann. Klutchmann said he had slept thirty snows.
• 1:14:08
  Speaker 1: Miser looked at himself in a pool. He was very old,
• 1:14:12
  Speaker 1: his hair was white. Many many snows had The angry
• 1:14:16
  Speaker 1: tominos made him sleep, But Miser was happy. He no
• 1:14:20
  Speaker 1: longer cared for Hikua. End of section two, Part three
• 1:14:37
  Speaker 1: of Myths and Legends of the Pacific Northwest by Catherine
• 1:14:40
  Speaker 1: Barry Judson. This LibriVox recording as in the public domain
• 1:14:45
  Speaker 1: Part three, Why there are no snakes on Tacoma. A
• 1:14:51
  Speaker 1: long long time ago, Tayi Sahel became angry with the people.
• 1:14:55
  Speaker 1: Saheil ordered a medicineman to take his bow and arrow
• 1:14:59
  Speaker 1: and shoot into the cloud which hung low over Tacoma.
• 1:15:03
  Speaker 1: The medicine man shot the arrow and it stuck fast
• 1:15:06
  Speaker 1: in the cloud. Then he shot another one into the
• 1:15:08
  Speaker 1: lower end of the first. Then he shot another into
• 1:15:12
  Speaker 1: the lower end of the second. He shot arrows until
• 1:15:15
  Speaker 1: he had made a chain which reached from the cloud
• 1:15:18
  Speaker 1: to the earth. The medicine man told his klutchmann and
• 1:15:21
  Speaker 1: his children to climb up the arrow trail. Then he
• 1:15:24
  Speaker 1: told the good animals to climb up the arrow trail.
• 1:15:27
  Speaker 1: Then the medicine man climbed up himself. Just as he
• 1:15:31
  Speaker 1: was climbing into the cloud, he looked back a long
• 1:15:34
  Speaker 1: line of bad animals and snakes were also climbing up
• 1:15:38
  Speaker 1: the arrow trail. Therefore, the medicine man broke the chain
• 1:15:41
  Speaker 1: of arrows. Thus the snakes and bad animals fell down
• 1:15:45
  Speaker 1: on the mountain side. Then at once it began to rain.
• 1:15:49
  Speaker 1: It rained until all the land was flooded. Water reached
• 1:15:53
  Speaker 1: even to the snow line of Tacoma. When all the
• 1:15:56
  Speaker 1: bad animals and snakes were drowned, it stopped rain. After
• 1:16:01
  Speaker 1: a while, the water sank again. Then the medicineman and
• 1:16:04
  Speaker 1: his glutchmen and the children climbed out of the cloud
• 1:16:08
  Speaker 1: and came down the mountain side. The good animals also
• 1:16:11
  Speaker 1: climbed out of the cloud. Thus there are now no
• 1:16:15
  Speaker 1: snakes or bad animals on Tacoma. Cry because he had
• 1:16:21
  Speaker 1: no wife, nez per Se. Once there was a little boy.
• 1:16:26
  Speaker 1: He was an orphan. This boy cried day and night
• 1:16:30
  Speaker 1: and would never be quiet. His grandmother asked him one day,
• 1:16:34
  Speaker 1: what makes you cry? He said, I cry because I
• 1:16:37
  Speaker 1: want a wife. Now his grandparents knew of a girl
• 1:16:41
  Speaker 1: who lived toward the east, and they sent him there.
• 1:16:44
  Speaker 1: As he went along the trail, he came to a
• 1:16:47
  Speaker 1: giant's house. He went in to see the giant, who
• 1:16:50
  Speaker 1: asked him to stay to breakfast. The giant had five
• 1:16:54
  Speaker 1: roasts on the fire. He had four large roasts and
• 1:16:57
  Speaker 1: one small one. He said to the boy, pick out
• 1:17:00
  Speaker 1: the roast you want for breakfast. The boy picked out
• 1:17:03
  Speaker 1: the small roast. Now, the four large roasts were the
• 1:17:07
  Speaker 1: legs of people that the giant had killed. The small
• 1:17:10
  Speaker 1: one was venison. The boy knew this from what his
• 1:17:13
  Speaker 1: grandmother had told him. She said, never eat too much.
• 1:17:19
  Speaker 1: After breakfast, he went on on the road. He came
• 1:17:22
  Speaker 1: to a great rock cliff. Its name was cliff Giant,
• 1:17:26
  Speaker 1: and it crushed people. The other giant had told him
• 1:17:29
  Speaker 1: of this one and how to get by it. He
• 1:17:32
  Speaker 1: had said, turn yourself into a little dog, and very
• 1:17:36
  Speaker 1: slowly follow the trail under the rock cliff. Keep your
• 1:17:39
  Speaker 1: eye on rock cliff. When you see it move, run fast.
• 1:17:44
  Speaker 1: He did this and escaped. Then he went on. He
• 1:17:48
  Speaker 1: could see at a distance the place where the girl lived.
• 1:17:51
  Speaker 1: Until he came in sight of this lodge he had
• 1:17:54
  Speaker 1: never left off crying. Now this girl had a great
• 1:17:57
  Speaker 1: horse which would kill people before they could reach her lodge.
• 1:18:01
  Speaker 1: That was her guard. The boy picked up two large
• 1:18:05
  Speaker 1: stones and ran, still crying, toward the lodge. The animal
• 1:18:09
  Speaker 1: ran at the boy, but the boy spat all over
• 1:18:12
  Speaker 1: one of the stones. When the horse came close, he
• 1:18:15
  Speaker 1: threw the stone behind him. Then the horse stopped to
• 1:18:19
  Speaker 1: stamp on the stone, and the boy ran on. He
• 1:18:22
  Speaker 1: was almost in reach of the lodge when he threw
• 1:18:25
  Speaker 1: the other stone. The horse stopped to stamp on that,
• 1:18:28
  Speaker 1: and the boy reached the lodge and jumped in. Very
• 1:18:32
  Speaker 1: soon the girl entered. She knew him at once and
• 1:18:36
  Speaker 1: called him by name iwap net at tsik THEI cry
• 1:18:40
  Speaker 1: because he had no wife. She talked to him and
• 1:18:43
  Speaker 1: asked him if he wanted a bath. So she built
• 1:18:46
  Speaker 1: a fire, heated water, and prepared him a bath. When
• 1:18:50
  Speaker 1: he had taken the bath, he became of man's size.
• 1:18:54
  Speaker 1: Next morning, they started toward his home. When they reached
• 1:18:58
  Speaker 1: this his grand Her parents were very old because he
• 1:19:02
  Speaker 1: had been gone many years. The girl said to her husband,
• 1:19:06
  Speaker 1: you tell your grandparents to do nothing wrong to night.
• 1:19:09
  Speaker 1: If they obey, I will give them a bath that
• 1:19:11
  Speaker 1: will make them young again. In the morning, she did so,
• 1:19:15
  Speaker 1: but they had not obeyed her directions, so they did
• 1:19:18
  Speaker 1: not become young again. The next night they were both dead.
• 1:19:23
  Speaker 1: Then the girl and her husband started for her old home.
• 1:19:26
  Speaker 1: They rode back on the great horse, but he did
• 1:19:29
  Speaker 1: not go very well. They made a whip out of
• 1:19:32
  Speaker 1: black haw The whip said to them, I can outlast
• 1:19:36
  Speaker 1: all other whips. They made a whip out of smoke
• 1:19:39
  Speaker 1: wood coyote rope. This whip said, when the giant gets
• 1:19:44
  Speaker 1: too close, throw me down and I will tangle up
• 1:19:47
  Speaker 1: the giant. They made a whip out of mud. This
• 1:19:50
  Speaker 1: whip said, throw me down and I will mire the giant.
• 1:19:54
  Speaker 1: They made a whip out of slide rock. This whip said,
• 1:19:58
  Speaker 1: throw me down, and the giant will have trouble in
• 1:20:00
  Speaker 1: getting by. They made a whip out of red haw.
• 1:20:04
  Speaker 1: This whip said, throw me down, and I will tear
• 1:20:07
  Speaker 1: the giant's flesh. They made a whip out of big mountains.
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  Speaker 1: This whip said, throw me down, and the giant will
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  Speaker 1: not be able to get past me. When they had
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  Speaker 1: finished all the whips, they started to pass the giant's house.
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  Speaker 1: The giant rushed out and cried, give me your wife.
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  Speaker 1: The boy answered, get me a drink of water, and
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  Speaker 1: I will give you my wife. When the giant went
• 1:20:32
  Speaker 1: to get the water, the boy whipped up the horse
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  Speaker 1: and hurried on. They had gone some ways when the
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  Speaker 1: giant came out. They threw down the whip of black haw.
• 1:20:42
  Speaker 1: He almost overtook them, and they threw down the whip
• 1:20:45
  Speaker 1: of smoke wood. It tangled up the giant until they
• 1:20:48
  Speaker 1: got away. When the giant almost overtook them again, they
• 1:20:53
  Speaker 1: threw down the mud whip, and he was mired. When
• 1:20:56
  Speaker 1: the giant almost overtook them the fourth time, they threw
• 1:20:59
  Speaker 1: down the slide rock whip, and the giant had great
• 1:21:02
  Speaker 1: trouble in getting by. When the giant almost overtook them.
• 1:21:06
  Speaker 1: The fifth time, they threw down the red haw whip,
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  Speaker 1: and it tore the flesh of the giant. And when
• 1:21:13
  Speaker 1: the giant almost overtook them the sixth time, they threw
• 1:21:16
  Speaker 1: down the whip of high mountains, and he could not
• 1:21:19
  Speaker 1: cross it. Thus they escaped. How Coyote got his cunning
• 1:21:25
  Speaker 1: shastan long long ago. Charia old man above made first
• 1:21:31
  Speaker 1: the fishes, then the lower animals. Afterwards he made a man.
• 1:21:36
  Speaker 1: Chariah ordered the man to decide the rank of the animals.
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  Speaker 1: The man said he would give to each a bow.
• 1:21:42
  Speaker 1: By the length of the bow given him, would each
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  Speaker 1: animal know his rank the next day, when the sun
• 1:21:48
  Speaker 1: was new, would man give away the bows. Coyote listened.
• 1:21:52
  Speaker 1: If he received the longest bow, he would be the
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  Speaker 1: most important animal. He decided not to sleep. He would
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  Speaker 1: be the first one at the meeting place. When the
• 1:22:01
  Speaker 1: day was new, night owl hooted, wolf howled in the darkness,
• 1:22:06
  Speaker 1: and bat flitted over his head. Coyote slept not Robin
• 1:22:11
  Speaker 1: chirped and thrush sang when the day was new, and
• 1:22:15
  Speaker 1: coyote slept, So coyote was last to reach the man
• 1:22:19
  Speaker 1: and receive the shortest bow of all. So coyote became
• 1:22:23
  Speaker 1: the meanest of all animals. But in his distress, coyote
• 1:22:27
  Speaker 1: howled to the man, and he in turn appealed to
• 1:22:30
  Speaker 1: old man above. Chariah ordered that coyote should be the
• 1:22:34
  Speaker 1: most cunning of all animals, and so he is to
• 1:22:38
  Speaker 1: this day the naming of creation nez per Se. Coyote
• 1:22:45
  Speaker 1: was chief of all the animals. Now he told them
• 1:22:48
  Speaker 1: that the tribes of men were coming near one and
• 1:22:51
  Speaker 1: all everything he told them came true. Then he said,
• 1:22:55
  Speaker 1: tomorrow the people will come out of the ground. I
• 1:22:58
  Speaker 1: will name them, and they will spread out. Then he
• 1:23:01
  Speaker 1: named them. He named them until he had named them all,
• 1:23:05
  Speaker 1: and the people came out. But Coyote had no name
• 1:23:09
  Speaker 1: for himself. Many people came out. Then he named himself Coyote.
• 1:23:14
  Speaker 1: Thus came people, not we alone, but all people. The
• 1:23:19
  Speaker 1: bird chief they called all the birds. They said, the bird,
• 1:23:25
  Speaker 1: which flying farthest can reach the upper world, shall be chief.
• 1:23:29
  Speaker 1: All the birds high in the air went to equal heights.
• 1:23:33
  Speaker 1: Now wren sat beneath the thick feathers of eagle's wing.
• 1:23:36
  Speaker 1: He sat there as eagle flew The birds all wing
• 1:23:40
  Speaker 1: tired returned to earth. Only Eagle went above. When Eagle
• 1:23:45
  Speaker 1: had gone as high as he would, Wren flew beyond him.
• 1:23:49
  Speaker 1: When the birds had returned below, they waited. Eagle returned alone.
• 1:23:53
  Speaker 1: After a long time, they counted the birds behold Wren.
• 1:23:58
  Speaker 1: Only he had not returned. Yearned they waited for him
• 1:24:02
  Speaker 1: at length. After a long time he returned. Eagle was
• 1:24:06
  Speaker 1: too highly thinking of himself. When behold Wren was made
• 1:24:10
  Speaker 1: chief the spell of the laughing raven klammeth at dance
• 1:24:18
  Speaker 1: place when the Klamath Lake people danced, many people were there. Kimush,
• 1:24:23
  Speaker 1: old man of the ancients, went there. Then Old Raven
• 1:24:27
  Speaker 1: laughed at them, laughed when they danced, and all people
• 1:24:30
  Speaker 1: dancing there became rocks. Gray Wolf entered Kitty above from
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  Speaker 1: the north. There he stopped and lay down, although not
• 1:24:39
  Speaker 1: yet having reached his home, in full dress. At that spot,
• 1:24:43
  Speaker 1: moccasins with beads on tow stopped and rested. Then Old
• 1:24:48
  Speaker 1: Grizzly approached Old gray Wolf while lying asleep, and Old
• 1:24:52
  Speaker 1: Grizzly stole from Gray Wolf his moccasins beads also and
• 1:24:56
  Speaker 1: put them on to go to the fishing place. Upon
• 1:24:59
  Speaker 1: the This Old gray Wolf, waking up, threw Old Grizzily
• 1:25:03
  Speaker 1: down hill. He rolled him down over the rocks for
• 1:25:06
  Speaker 1: having robbed him of moccasins and beads. Also thus killed
• 1:25:11
  Speaker 1: he Old Grizzly. Upon this, the Klamath Lake people began
• 1:25:15
  Speaker 1: fighting the northerners because Old Grizzly had been killed by
• 1:25:19
  Speaker 1: Old gray Wolf. Then Old Raven laughed at them when fighting,
• 1:25:24
  Speaker 1: and they became rocks. Origin of the thunderbird long long
• 1:25:30
  Speaker 1: ago to Uluk's south Wind traveled to the north. There,
• 1:25:35
  Speaker 1: to Ulukx met quotso Hoi, the giantist. To Uluk said,
• 1:25:40
  Speaker 1: I am hungry. Give me something to eat. Qutz Hooi said,
• 1:25:44
  Speaker 1: I have nothing to eat. You can get food by fishing.
• 1:25:47
  Speaker 1: So south Wind dragged the net he caught tanase Kolai.
• 1:25:53
  Speaker 1: He caught a little whil south Wind took his stone
• 1:25:56
  Speaker 1: knife to kill the whale. Then the giantess said, you
• 1:26:00
  Speaker 1: a sharp shell, do not use your knife. Slit tanase
• 1:26:03
  Speaker 1: kole down the back, do not cut him crossways. South
• 1:26:08
  Speaker 1: Wind pretended not to hear. South Wind cut the whale
• 1:26:11
  Speaker 1: across the back. Suddenly the fish changed into an immense bird.
• 1:26:16
  Speaker 1: The bird's wings darkened the sun. The flapping of its
• 1:26:19
  Speaker 1: wings shook the earth. This bird was the thunderbird. He
• 1:26:23
  Speaker 1: flew to the north and lighted on sulla Hoost near
• 1:26:27
  Speaker 1: the mouth of Great River. Then south Wind and the
• 1:26:30
  Speaker 1: Giantess traveled north to find him. One day, picking berries,
• 1:26:34
  Speaker 1: Kutsoi found the nest of thunderbird. The nest was full
• 1:26:38
  Speaker 1: of eggs. Kutsoi broke one egg. It was not good,
• 1:26:42
  Speaker 1: so she threw it down the mountain side. Before it
• 1:26:45
  Speaker 1: reached the valley, it became an Indian. Quitzoi threw down
• 1:26:49
  Speaker 1: other eggs. Each egg became an Indian. That is how
• 1:26:53
  Speaker 1: the Shehelis Indians were created. Indians never cut the first
• 1:26:57
  Speaker 1: salmon across the back. If they did, the salmon would
• 1:27:01
  Speaker 1: not run. Always Indian slit the first salmon down the
• 1:27:05
  Speaker 1: back mount edgecumb Alaska. When all the world was covered
• 1:27:12
  Speaker 1: with rising waters, Cheeto thunder left his sister Abhishanaku, the
• 1:27:18
  Speaker 1: underground woman. Cheetels said, sister, you shall never see me again.
• 1:27:22
  Speaker 1: You shall only hear my voice. He put on the
• 1:27:25
  Speaker 1: skin of a great bird and flew away. His eyes
• 1:27:29
  Speaker 1: flashed fire, and the earth shook when he flapped his
• 1:27:32
  Speaker 1: wings Abashnikoy. The underground woman climbed to the top of
• 1:27:37
  Speaker 1: Mount Edgecumb. The top opened and she fell in, leaving
• 1:27:41
  Speaker 1: a great hole. The world is an immense plate resting
• 1:27:44
  Speaker 1: on a tall pillar. The underground woman holds up the
• 1:27:48
  Speaker 1: pillar so the plate will not fall. When storms break
• 1:27:52
  Speaker 1: on Mount Edgecumb, the lightning from Cheetle's eyes gleams through
• 1:27:56
  Speaker 1: her crater windows. The flapping of his wings makes the
• 1:27:59
  Speaker 1: plate tremble, and she hears the thundering of his voice,
• 1:28:03
  Speaker 1: but she never sees Chetto. An Indian's vow to the
• 1:28:09
  Speaker 1: thunder gods. Footnote as related by Alice C. Fletcher, used
• 1:28:15
  Speaker 1: by permission. This incident is not a myth, it is
• 1:28:18
  Speaker 1: actual fact. It is included because it throws light upon
• 1:28:22
  Speaker 1: the softer side of Indian character, and because it shows
• 1:28:25
  Speaker 1: also the extent to which the Indian was influenced by
• 1:28:29
  Speaker 1: the religious beliefs which we term myths and footnote. To
• 1:28:35
  Speaker 1: an Indian woman, the thunder had spoken in a vision
• 1:28:40
  Speaker 1: to this god. She promised to give her firstborn child.
• 1:28:43
  Speaker 1: When she became a mother. She forgot in her joy
• 1:28:46
  Speaker 1: that the life of her little child did not belong
• 1:28:49
  Speaker 1: to her, nor did she recall her fateful vow until
• 1:28:52
  Speaker 1: one bright spring day, when the clouds gathered and she
• 1:28:56
  Speaker 1: heard the role of the thunder, a sound which summoned
• 1:29:00
  Speaker 1: all persons consecrated to these gods to bring their offerings
• 1:29:04
  Speaker 1: and to pay their vows. She remembered what she had promised,
• 1:29:07
  Speaker 1: but her heart forbade her to lay the infant, which
• 1:29:11
  Speaker 1: was smiling in her arms, upon the cloud swept hilltop.
• 1:29:15
  Speaker 1: She pressed the baby to her breast and waited in
• 1:29:18
  Speaker 1: silence the passing of the gods in the storm. The
• 1:29:21
  Speaker 1: following spring, when the first thunder pealed, she did not
• 1:29:25
  Speaker 1: forget her vow, but she could not gather strength to
• 1:29:28
  Speaker 1: fulfill it. Another year passed, and again the thunder sounded.
• 1:29:33
  Speaker 1: Taking the toddling child by the hand, the mother climbed
• 1:29:36
  Speaker 1: the hill, and when the top was reached, she placed
• 1:29:39
  Speaker 1: it on the ground and fled, But the boy scrambled
• 1:29:42
  Speaker 1: up and ran after her, and his frightened cry stayed
• 1:29:45
  Speaker 1: her feet. He caught her garments and clung to them,
• 1:29:49
  Speaker 1: and although the thunder called, she could not obey. Her
• 1:29:52
  Speaker 1: vow had been made before she knew the strength of
• 1:29:55
  Speaker 1: a mother's love. Gathering the boy within her arms she
• 1:29:59
  Speaker 1: hid herself and him from the presence of the gods.
• 1:30:02
  Speaker 1: The storm passed, and the mother and child returned to
• 1:30:06
  Speaker 1: the lodge, but fear had taken possession of her. She
• 1:30:09
  Speaker 1: watched her son with eyes in which terror and love
• 1:30:12
  Speaker 1: struggled for mastery. One day, as the little one played
• 1:30:16
  Speaker 1: beside a rippling brook, laughing and singing in his glee,
• 1:30:20
  Speaker 1: suddenly the clouds gathered. The flashing lightning sent beast and
• 1:30:24
  Speaker 1: bird to cover, and drove the mother out to find
• 1:30:27
  Speaker 1: her child. She heard his voice above the fury of
• 1:30:30
  Speaker 1: the storm, calling to her. As she neared the brook,
• 1:30:33
  Speaker 1: a vivid flash blinded her eyes. For a moment. She
• 1:30:37
  Speaker 1: was stunned, but recovering, she pushed on, only to be
• 1:30:40
  Speaker 1: appalled by the sight that met her eye. Her boy
• 1:30:44
  Speaker 1: lay dead, struck by the thunder gods who had claimed
• 1:30:47
  Speaker 1: their own. No other children came to lighten the sorrow
• 1:30:51
  Speaker 1: of the lonely woman. But every spring, when the first
• 1:30:54
  Speaker 1: thunder sounded, and whenever the storm swept the land, this
• 1:30:58
  Speaker 1: stricken mother climbed the hill, and there, standing alone, with
• 1:31:02
  Speaker 1: hands uplifted to the black rolling clouds, she sang her
• 1:31:06
  Speaker 1: song of sorrow and fealty many years ago, the writer
• 1:31:10
  Speaker 1: met her and heard her song. She was an old
• 1:31:13
  Speaker 1: old woman. She is now at rest, and let us
• 1:31:16
  Speaker 1: hope that her lifelong sorrow has turned to joy. The
• 1:31:20
  Speaker 1: words of her song express her fidelity, and the music
• 1:31:24
  Speaker 1: betrays her love and sorrow. Flying, flying, sweeping, swirling, they
• 1:31:30
  Speaker 1: returned the thunder gods to me. They come to me,
• 1:31:33
  Speaker 1: their own me. They behold, who am their own on wings?
• 1:31:37
  Speaker 1: They come, flying, flying, sweeping, swirling, They return the thunder
• 1:31:42
  Speaker 1: gods Chinook ghosts Chinook. The ghosts wanted to buy a wife.
• 1:31:50
  Speaker 1: They bought blue Jay's sister Aoi. They came in the evening,
• 1:31:55
  Speaker 1: and on the next morning, Eoi had disappeared. Now blue
• 1:31:58
  Speaker 1: Jay was a wise bird, a foe to magic. After
• 1:32:02
  Speaker 1: a year, blue Jay said, I am going to search
• 1:32:04
  Speaker 1: for Eoi. Blue Jay asked all the trees where do
• 1:32:08
  Speaker 1: people go when they die? They did not answer. Then
• 1:32:11
  Speaker 1: blue Jay asked all the birds where do people go
• 1:32:14
  Speaker 1: when they die? They did not answer. At last, blue
• 1:32:18
  Speaker 1: Jay said to his wedge, where do people go when
• 1:32:21
  Speaker 1: they die? Wedge said, pay me and I will tell you.
• 1:32:25
  Speaker 1: Blue Jay paid him, and Wedge took him on a journey.
• 1:32:29
  Speaker 1: They arrived at a large village. The last lodge was
• 1:32:32
  Speaker 1: very large. Smoke was rising only from this lodge. There
• 1:32:36
  Speaker 1: blue Jay found Eoi. When Yoi saw blue Jay, she said,
• 1:32:40
  Speaker 1: where did you come from? Blue Jay said, I am
• 1:32:44
  Speaker 1: not dead. Wedge brought me here. Are you dead? Then
• 1:32:48
  Speaker 1: blue Jay opened all the lodges and he saw that
• 1:32:50
  Speaker 1: they were full of bones. He saw a skull and
• 1:32:53
  Speaker 1: bones close to Eoi. He said, what are you going
• 1:32:57
  Speaker 1: to do with that skull? Eoi said, that is my husband.
• 1:33:02
  Speaker 1: When it grew dark, the bones became alive. Blue Jay
• 1:33:05
  Speaker 1: asked where did all these people come from? Eoi said,
• 1:33:09
  Speaker 1: do you think they are people? They are ghosts. After
• 1:33:13
  Speaker 1: some time, Eoi said to him go with those people
• 1:33:16
  Speaker 1: fishing with a dip net. He went with a young boy.
• 1:33:20
  Speaker 1: The people spoke always in very low tones, and he
• 1:33:23
  Speaker 1: did not understand them. E I told him to speak
• 1:33:27
  Speaker 1: in low tones. When they were going fishing in their canoe,
• 1:33:30
  Speaker 1: another canoe came down the river. The people in it
• 1:33:33
  Speaker 1: were singing. Blue Jay began to sing too, and at
• 1:33:37
  Speaker 1: once the boy became a skeleton. Blue Jay stopped singing,
• 1:33:40
  Speaker 1: and the boy became a ghost again. When blue Jay
• 1:33:43
  Speaker 1: spoke in loud tones, the boy always became a skeleton.
• 1:33:48
  Speaker 1: The ghosts caught leaves and branches in the dip net.
• 1:33:51
  Speaker 1: These branches and leaves were their trout and salmon. Blue
• 1:33:55
  Speaker 1: Jay shouted often and all the ghosts became skeletons. One day,
• 1:33:59
  Speaker 1: when all the ghosts were bones, blue Jay changed their skulls.
• 1:34:03
  Speaker 1: He put children's skulls on old people. Therefore, the ghosts
• 1:34:07
  Speaker 1: disliked him. They told Ioi to send him back, but
• 1:34:11
  Speaker 1: he did not know in what to go. Their canoes
• 1:34:14
  Speaker 1: were full of holes and covered with moss. So Eoi
• 1:34:17
  Speaker 1: sent Blue Jay home, but he did not follow her directions.
• 1:34:21
  Speaker 1: Therefore he died and became a ghost. He returned to
• 1:34:24
  Speaker 1: the ghost land and found all the bones were real men,
• 1:34:28
  Speaker 1: the leaves and branches were real salmon and trout, and
• 1:34:31
  Speaker 1: all their canoes were new. The Memmloose islands klicatat long
• 1:34:39
  Speaker 1: ago before the white man came. A young chief and
• 1:34:42
  Speaker 1: a maiden loved one another. Suddenly, the chief went over
• 1:34:46
  Speaker 1: the spirit trail, but he could find no rest in
• 1:34:49
  Speaker 1: the land of the spirits. The maiden also grieved for him.
• 1:34:53
  Speaker 1: Then a vision came to the maiden. It told her
• 1:34:56
  Speaker 1: to go to the land of the spirits. The maiden
• 1:34:59
  Speaker 1: told her father of the vision, and they both obeyed.
• 1:35:02
  Speaker 1: The father made ready a canoe, placed her in it,
• 1:35:06
  Speaker 1: and they paddled up Great River to the Spirit Island
• 1:35:09
  Speaker 1: through the darkness. As they neared the Death Island, they
• 1:35:13
  Speaker 1: heard singing and the tom tom of the dance drum.
• 1:35:16
  Speaker 1: Four spirit people met them on the shore. The maiden landed,
• 1:35:20
  Speaker 1: but the father returned. At the great dance house, the
• 1:35:24
  Speaker 1: maiden met her lover, more beautiful than on earth. All
• 1:35:28
  Speaker 1: night long they danced. Then, when morning came and the
• 1:35:31
  Speaker 1: robins chirped, the dancers fell asleep. The maiden slept, but
• 1:35:36
  Speaker 1: not soundly. When the sun was high, she awoke. All
• 1:35:40
  Speaker 1: around her were skeletons and skulls. Her lover, with grinning teeth,
• 1:35:45
  Speaker 1: was gazing upon her. The maiden was in the island
• 1:35:48
  Speaker 1: of the Dead. Struck with horror, she ran to the shore.
• 1:35:52
  Speaker 1: At last she found an old boat and paddled herself
• 1:35:55
  Speaker 1: across Great River to the Indian village. But her father
• 1:35:59
  Speaker 1: was frightened she had been to the Spirit land. Therefore,
• 1:36:03
  Speaker 1: if she returned, evil would fall upon the tribe. That
• 1:36:07
  Speaker 1: night again, the father made ready a canoe and paddled
• 1:36:10
  Speaker 1: across the river to the Memmluse Island. Through the darkness,
• 1:36:13
  Speaker 1: they heard singing and the tom tom of the dance drum.
• 1:36:17
  Speaker 1: In course of time, a baby, half human, half spirit
• 1:36:21
  Speaker 1: was born. The spirit lover wished his mother to see it.
• 1:36:25
  Speaker 1: He sent a messenger to her, telling her to come
• 1:36:27
  Speaker 1: to the island by night. He told her when she
• 1:36:30
  Speaker 1: arrived not to look at the baby until it was
• 1:36:33
  Speaker 1: ten days old. After the old woman reached the Memmluse Island,
• 1:36:37
  Speaker 1: she became impatient. She lifted the cloth from the baby's face.
• 1:36:41
  Speaker 1: She lifted just one little corner and looked at the
• 1:36:44
  Speaker 1: baby's face. Therefore the baby died. Thus the spirit people
• 1:36:49
  Speaker 1: became displeased. They said that never again should living people
• 1:36:53
  Speaker 1: visit the land of those who had gone by the
• 1:36:56
  Speaker 1: spirit trail. A visiting ghost Teeton. Once a young brave
• 1:37:03
  Speaker 1: came to a great forest just at nightfall. He was alone,
• 1:37:07
  Speaker 1: so he lay down at the edge of the woods.
• 1:37:10
  Speaker 1: At midnight, he heard a woman cry, my son, my son.
• 1:37:14
  Speaker 1: Then he heard the breaking of twigs. Thus the warrior
• 1:37:17
  Speaker 1: knew that some one was approaching. The warrior put brush
• 1:37:21
  Speaker 1: on his fire. Then he peeped through a hole in
• 1:37:23
  Speaker 1: his blanket. A woman was approaching. She wore a skin
• 1:37:27
  Speaker 1: dress with long fringe. She wore also a blanket drawn
• 1:37:31
  Speaker 1: over her head. Her leggings were decorated with beadwork and
• 1:37:34
  Speaker 1: porcupine quills. The woman came to where the warrior lay
• 1:37:38
  Speaker 1: with his legs stretched out. She took his foot and
• 1:37:41
  Speaker 1: raised it, and then she dropped it twice. The woman
• 1:37:44
  Speaker 1: did this, then she drew a rusty knife. The warrior
• 1:37:48
  Speaker 1: sprang up. He shouted, what are you doing? Then he
• 1:37:52
  Speaker 1: shot at her. Suddenly the woman ran away, screaming Yun
• 1:37:56
  Speaker 1: yun yun. When daylight came, the warrior saw he had
• 1:38:00
  Speaker 1: camped near a scaffold grave. Therefore, he said, this is
• 1:38:04
  Speaker 1: the ghost which came to me. Origin of the tribes Chinook.
• 1:38:11
  Speaker 1: Long ago. In Lake Klaelum lived Wishpush, the monster beaver.
• 1:38:16
  Speaker 1: Klei Elum was beautiful. It was also full of fish.
• 1:38:20
  Speaker 1: The animal people wanted to fish there, but Wishpush killed them.
• 1:38:24
  Speaker 1: Wishpush dragged them into the water and drowned them. Wishpush
• 1:38:28
  Speaker 1: also killed and ate the animal people. At last, Coyote
• 1:38:32
  Speaker 1: tried to kill him. Coyote fastened a spear to his
• 1:38:35
  Speaker 1: wrist with a strong cord. Then he began to fish
• 1:38:38
  Speaker 1: in the lake. Soon Wishpush attacked him. Coyote speared the beaver.
• 1:38:43
  Speaker 1: Then Wishpush plunged to the bottom of Kleelum and dragged
• 1:38:46
  Speaker 1: Coyote with him. But Coyote fought hard with Wishpush. They
• 1:38:50
  Speaker 1: fought so hard they tore out the banks of Kleaelum.
• 1:38:54
  Speaker 1: The waters rushed through the break, then through the mountains
• 1:38:57
  Speaker 1: and down the canyon. They rushed into Kittitas Valley. The
• 1:39:01
  Speaker 1: water formed another lake in Kittitas Valley. Coyote and Wishpush
• 1:39:06
  Speaker 1: fought so hard they tore out the banks of the
• 1:39:09
  Speaker 1: new lake. The waters rushed down into the basin of
• 1:39:12
  Speaker 1: the cowych Natchez and Athenum. The water formed a larger lake.
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  Speaker 1: Yakama was flooded and a very great lake formed at
• 1:39:21
  Speaker 1: topinish Coyote and Wishpush fought so hard that they tore
• 1:39:25
  Speaker 1: out the banks of this very great lake. The waters
• 1:39:29
  Speaker 1: rushed to the meeting place of the Yakama, the Snake
• 1:39:32
  Speaker 1: and the Columbia Rivers. The waters here formed a very
• 1:39:35
  Speaker 1: very great lake. Coyote and Wishpush fought so hard that
• 1:39:39
  Speaker 1: even the banks of this lake were torn out. Then
• 1:39:43
  Speaker 1: Wishpush dashed down the Great River. Coyote was out of breath.
• 1:39:47
  Speaker 1: Coyote wanted to stop Wishpush. He caught at the trees
• 1:39:50
  Speaker 1: and stones along the banks of the Great River. Nothing
• 1:39:53
  Speaker 1: could stop Wishpush. At last, Coyote and the beaver reached
• 1:39:57
  Speaker 1: the breakers at the mouth of Great River, reached the
• 1:40:00
  Speaker 1: breakers of the bitter waters. Wish Push was very angry.
• 1:40:05
  Speaker 1: He killed salmon and swallowed them. He killed whales and
• 1:40:08
  Speaker 1: swallowed them. Coyote saw that Wishpush was very strong. Then
• 1:40:12
  Speaker 1: he remembered that he was Coyote, the wisest and cunningionest
• 1:40:16
  Speaker 1: of all the animals. So Coyote changed himself into a branch,
• 1:40:20
  Speaker 1: a tree branch. He drifted toward Wishpush. Wishpush swallowed him.
• 1:40:25
  Speaker 1: Then Coyote changed himself back into coyote again. He took
• 1:40:29
  Speaker 1: his stone knife. He cut the sinews inside of wish Push.
• 1:40:33
  Speaker 1: Thus Wishpush died. Now Coyote was very tired. Therefore he
• 1:40:38
  Speaker 1: asked muskrat to help him. Together, Coyote a muskrat pulled
• 1:40:43
  Speaker 1: the great beaver to land. Then they cut up wish Push.
• 1:40:46
  Speaker 1: They threw pieces over the land from the head of Wishpush.
• 1:40:50
  Speaker 1: Coyote made the Nesperses great in council. From the arms.
• 1:40:54
  Speaker 1: He made the Cayuses powerful with the bow and war club.
• 1:40:58
  Speaker 1: From the legs, he made the Clikotets famous runners. From
• 1:41:02
  Speaker 1: the ribs, he made the Yakamas. From the belly, he
• 1:41:05
  Speaker 1: made the Chinooks short, fat people with big stomachs. Coyote
• 1:41:09
  Speaker 1: at last had only the hair and blood of wish Push.
• 1:41:12
  Speaker 1: These he flung far up the valley to the east.
• 1:41:15
  Speaker 1: They became the Snake River Indians, a tribe of war
• 1:41:19
  Speaker 1: and blood. Thus Coyote created the tribes. Then he returned
• 1:41:24
  Speaker 1: up the Columbia. Now, in making the Chinooks and the
• 1:41:28
  Speaker 1: coast tribes, Coyote forgot to give them any mouth. The
• 1:41:31
  Speaker 1: god Ekhani traveling along noticed this. Then Aikane called the
• 1:41:36
  Speaker 1: tribes to him, and with a stone knife, gave each
• 1:41:39
  Speaker 1: one a mouth. But for fun Ikani cut them crooked.
• 1:41:43
  Speaker 1: He made some mouths very big. Thus the coast drives
• 1:41:47
  Speaker 1: have not perfect mouths. And of Part three, Part four
• 1:41:57
  Speaker 1: of Myths and Legends of the Pacific north West by
• 1:42:00
  Speaker 1: Catherine Barry Judson. This LibriVox recording is in the public domain.
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  Speaker 1: Part four, how the Okanagans became red Okanagan. Long long ago,
• 1:42:12
  Speaker 1: when the sun was young and no bigger than a star,
• 1:42:15
  Speaker 1: there was an island far out at sea called Sami
• 1:42:19
  Speaker 1: Tomi Woolah, or white Man's Island. Now giants lived there.
• 1:42:24
  Speaker 1: The giants were white, and their leader was a tall
• 1:42:27
  Speaker 1: white woman called Schmalt. At first there was peace, but
• 1:42:31
  Speaker 1: at last war came and the white giants fought with
• 1:42:34
  Speaker 1: each other. This made Schmalt angry. Schmalt had a strong heart.
• 1:42:39
  Speaker 1: She drove the unruly ones together to the farthest end
• 1:42:42
  Speaker 1: of the island. Then she broke off this piece of
• 1:42:45
  Speaker 1: land and with her foot pushed it out to sea.
• 1:42:49
  Speaker 1: Many days drifted the floating island. Storms swept over them,
• 1:42:53
  Speaker 1: and the sun beat down upon them. At last all
• 1:42:56
  Speaker 1: died except one man and one woman. Then the man
• 1:43:00
  Speaker 1: and caught a whale, and they saved their lives by
• 1:43:02
  Speaker 1: eating the blubber. Then their islands began to sink, so
• 1:43:06
  Speaker 1: they made a canoe. Then they put the blubber into
• 1:43:09
  Speaker 1: the canoe and then paddled away. After paddling for many suns,
• 1:43:13
  Speaker 1: they came to some islands, and at last to the mainland.
• 1:43:17
  Speaker 1: Here they landed but the mainland was not so large
• 1:43:20
  Speaker 1: as it is now because it had not grown. But
• 1:43:23
  Speaker 1: all their whiteness was gone. The sun had burned them
• 1:43:27
  Speaker 1: until they were red. All the Okanagans are descended from
• 1:43:30
  Speaker 1: this man and woman, and therefore they are red. In
• 1:43:34
  Speaker 1: time to come, the lakes will melt the foundations of
• 1:43:37
  Speaker 1: the world, and the rivers cut it loose. Then the
• 1:43:40
  Speaker 1: whole world will float as the island did. This is
• 1:43:43
  Speaker 1: the end of the world. The itsole the copper canoe Nootka.
• 1:43:50
  Speaker 1: Long ago, from the waters of Volga, a man came
• 1:43:53
  Speaker 1: to the Nutkahs. He came in a copper canoe, which
• 1:43:56
  Speaker 1: shone bright as the sun. His paddles were all so
• 1:44:00
  Speaker 1: copper men said, he came from the sky. He came
• 1:44:03
  Speaker 1: to teach them they should not fight. At first, the
• 1:44:06
  Speaker 1: Nutkahs listened, then they became angry. They killed the canoe man.
• 1:44:11
  Speaker 1: Indians were sorry after they killed the canoe man. Therefore
• 1:44:15
  Speaker 1: they carve images of him for their houses even to
• 1:44:18
  Speaker 1: this day. Origin of mineral springs Long long ago, in
• 1:44:24
  Speaker 1: the days of the First Grandfather, all men were at peace.
• 1:44:28
  Speaker 1: The earth was so new that tall furs of the
• 1:44:30
  Speaker 1: mountain were no larger than arrows. Many fish swam in
• 1:44:34
  Speaker 1: beautiful waters and in great river. Many deer were on
• 1:44:38
  Speaker 1: the mountains, many epo and kamas roots in the valley.
• 1:44:42
  Speaker 1: All Indians were happy. Then the first twins were born.
• 1:44:46
  Speaker 1: One became famous for the deer he shot and the
• 1:44:49
  Speaker 1: fish he speared. The other was always hungry. One day,
• 1:44:53
  Speaker 1: the brothers were hunting together. One leaned over the spring
• 1:44:57
  Speaker 1: to drink. His brothers struck him on the head with
• 1:44:59
  Speaker 1: his stone tomahawk and pushed him into the spring. At
• 1:45:03
  Speaker 1: once the water bubbled and boiled. From a cloud of vapor.
• 1:45:07
  Speaker 1: Arose an old Indian. He was the first of all Indians.
• 1:45:11
  Speaker 1: He said, you have sharpened the tomahawk against your brother.
• 1:45:15
  Speaker 1: Go wander Wherever you drink, the waters shall be bitter.
• 1:45:20
  Speaker 1: The brother wandered over the mountains and plains. Wherever he drank,
• 1:45:24
  Speaker 1: the waters became bitter. For that reason, Indians did not
• 1:45:28
  Speaker 1: allow twins to live. One is always unlucky and the
• 1:45:32
  Speaker 1: other happy. How the ermine got its necklace. At a
• 1:45:37
  Speaker 1: baskin in the valley between Koyukuk and Yukon lived an
• 1:45:42
  Speaker 1: old man, his wife and two sons. The old man
• 1:45:46
  Speaker 1: was too feeble to go out alone any longer, so
• 1:45:48
  Speaker 1: he told the boys they must travel alone. Therefore, they
• 1:45:52
  Speaker 1: decided to go alone. In the morning, they found a
• 1:45:55
  Speaker 1: porcupine trail. Following this down stream, they came to a
• 1:45:59
  Speaker 1: large river running full of ice. At the edge of
• 1:46:01
  Speaker 1: the water, the track disappeared. The brothers leaped on a
• 1:46:05
  Speaker 1: cake of ice and floated down stream again. They landed
• 1:46:09
  Speaker 1: and looked for food. When they found a fish had
• 1:46:11
  Speaker 1: been left on the ice, and saw many sledge tracks.
• 1:46:15
  Speaker 1: They followed these. They then heard a faint crying. Going
• 1:46:19
  Speaker 1: on cautiously, they saw a porcupine carrying a load. They
• 1:46:23
  Speaker 1: asked it why it cried. When it did not answer,
• 1:46:26
  Speaker 1: they clubbed it dead, cooked it, and ate it. Going on,
• 1:46:30
  Speaker 1: they saw a village. An old woman came out, saw
• 1:46:33
  Speaker 1: them and called to the people of the village to
• 1:46:35
  Speaker 1: prepare food for them. The brothers entered a large house
• 1:46:39
  Speaker 1: where an old man was seated on a cariboo skin.
• 1:46:42
  Speaker 1: They sat down on either side of him on cariboo
• 1:46:44
  Speaker 1: skins and began to eat. Seeing only young women besides
• 1:46:49
  Speaker 1: the old man and woman, the brothers asked where the
• 1:46:52
  Speaker 1: young men were. The young women said there were none,
• 1:46:55
  Speaker 1: but that they could do many difficult things which even
• 1:46:58
  Speaker 1: men could hardly do. The elder brother boasted that he
• 1:47:02
  Speaker 1: could do more than they, but the young women laughed.
• 1:47:05
  Speaker 1: They said they were simply answering his question. In the morning,
• 1:47:09
  Speaker 1: the young women went hunting. The brothers went with them.
• 1:47:12
  Speaker 1: Then the women outran the elder brother and teased him.
• 1:47:16
  Speaker 1: He became angry and said, you cannot do one thing.
• 1:47:19
  Speaker 1: Stand at a distance and shoot at me. If I
• 1:47:22
  Speaker 1: am not hit, I will shoot at you. The younger
• 1:47:25
  Speaker 1: man warned his brother, but the elder one was still
• 1:47:28
  Speaker 1: angry and insisted. Finally, the women consented to shoot at him.
• 1:47:33
  Speaker 1: As they shot, he leaped, but four arrows struck him together,
• 1:47:38
  Speaker 1: and he fell dead. The younger brother mourned for him.
• 1:47:42
  Speaker 1: When he wished to return and ask the way, he
• 1:47:45
  Speaker 1: was told it was dangerous, and they described to him
• 1:47:49
  Speaker 1: the monsters he would meet. Nevertheless, he started. After traveling
• 1:47:53
  Speaker 1: for some time, he saw a cliff with the nest
• 1:47:56
  Speaker 1: of enormous birds. The old ones were away, but he
• 1:47:59
  Speaker 1: found found a young eaglet. What do your parents do
• 1:48:03
  Speaker 1: when they come? He asked? When they come? The eaglet answered,
• 1:48:07
  Speaker 1: it becomes dark, it blows, and there is thunder. When
• 1:48:10
  Speaker 1: it is my mother coming, it rains. When it is
• 1:48:13
  Speaker 1: my father who comes, it hails. The young man killed
• 1:48:17
  Speaker 1: the bird, then he waited. Soon it became dark and
• 1:48:21
  Speaker 1: thundered and rained. While the air was blown against him
• 1:48:24
  Speaker 1: by the beating of the wings of the thunderbird. The
• 1:48:27
  Speaker 1: young man shot it, and, springing forward, killed it with
• 1:48:30
  Speaker 1: his moose horn club. When the other bird came, he
• 1:48:33
  Speaker 1: killed it too. He went on until he came to
• 1:48:37
  Speaker 1: a porcupine as high as a hill, which lived in
• 1:48:39
  Speaker 1: a cave. Through this cave, the young man had to pass,
• 1:48:43
  Speaker 1: for he could find no way around it. Hiding outside
• 1:48:46
  Speaker 1: the cave, he made a noise to attract the porcupine's attention.
• 1:48:50
  Speaker 1: It at once began to back out, lashing its tail
• 1:48:53
  Speaker 1: against the mountain side, until the enormous quills were stuck
• 1:48:57
  Speaker 1: all over the mountain and the tail itself wast bear. Then,
• 1:49:01
  Speaker 1: as it left the cave, the young man shot it
• 1:49:04
  Speaker 1: and clubbed it to death. Traveling on farther, he found
• 1:49:07
  Speaker 1: the tracks of an enormous lynx. This the woman had
• 1:49:10
  Speaker 1: told him was the strongest of the monsters. Here too,
• 1:49:14
  Speaker 1: he tried to go around it, but could not. Then
• 1:49:17
  Speaker 1: he tried to shoot it, but the lynx caught the
• 1:49:19
  Speaker 1: arrows in its claws. Seeing no way of escape, the
• 1:49:23
  Speaker 1: young man gave up hope. Then the lynx ordered him
• 1:49:26
  Speaker 1: to clear away the snow so that he could eat
• 1:49:28
  Speaker 1: him more at ease, and to heap up the wood
• 1:49:31
  Speaker 1: for the fire by which the young man was to
• 1:49:33
  Speaker 1: be cooked. The young man did this, but the lynx
• 1:49:36
  Speaker 1: told him to get still more firewood. The young man
• 1:49:39
  Speaker 1: did this, going farther each time to get the wood.
• 1:49:43
  Speaker 1: Soon he heard some one say, brother, stand quickly on
• 1:49:47
  Speaker 1: my back, and I will carry you away. Where are you,
• 1:49:50
  Speaker 1: he asked? Here, looking down, he saw an ermine at
• 1:49:54
  Speaker 1: his feet. He said, I am afraid I will kill
• 1:49:57
  Speaker 1: you if I step on your back. No jump on me.
• 1:50:00
  Speaker 1: I will carry you. Then he jumped hard, but the
• 1:50:03
  Speaker 1: ermine did not even move. Your back is too small,
• 1:50:06
  Speaker 1: I cannot sit on it. Lay a stick across my back,
• 1:50:10
  Speaker 1: and put another across my neck for your feet. He
• 1:50:13
  Speaker 1: laid the sticks across the ermine and sat down. Immediately
• 1:50:17
  Speaker 1: it carried him to his house. The young man's parents
• 1:50:20
  Speaker 1: were glad for his safe return. They gave the ermine,
• 1:50:23
  Speaker 1: a shell of necklace, coyote and grizzly ness per se.
• 1:50:30
  Speaker 1: Once there was a grizzly bear who was always angry.
• 1:50:33
  Speaker 1: One day, when traveling through the woods, she came upon
• 1:50:35
  Speaker 1: a band of Indians. She ate them all in the evening.
• 1:50:39
  Speaker 1: When she had reached home, she had a bad headache,
• 1:50:42
  Speaker 1: and in the night she became very sick because she
• 1:50:44
  Speaker 1: had eaten so many Indians. She was sick for a
• 1:50:47
  Speaker 1: week and almost died. She sent for Coyote to come
• 1:50:51
  Speaker 1: as a medicine man. But Coyote said to his friends,
• 1:50:54
  Speaker 1: I do not care if she dies. It would not
• 1:50:57
  Speaker 1: hurt me or anybody else. Everybody would be glad of
• 1:51:00
  Speaker 1: But as his wife told him to go in company
• 1:51:03
  Speaker 1: with others, he finally went to see Old Grizzly. After
• 1:51:07
  Speaker 1: a while, he came to Old Grizzly's house and made medicine.
• 1:51:11
  Speaker 1: Then she got well. He told her she was sick
• 1:51:13
  Speaker 1: from eating too many chokeberries, because he thought all the
• 1:51:16
  Speaker 1: people would run away if he told the truth and
• 1:51:19
  Speaker 1: said it was from eating too many Indians. But when
• 1:51:22
  Speaker 1: the people were gone and he himself was ready to run,
• 1:51:25
  Speaker 1: he told her she had eaten too many Indians. Old
• 1:51:30
  Speaker 1: Grizzly jumped up and chased coyote. He ran up the hills,
• 1:51:34
  Speaker 1: he ran down the valleys, he ran through the woods.
• 1:51:37
  Speaker 1: At last, he changed himself into a buffalo eating grass
• 1:51:40
  Speaker 1: by the trail. Now Grizzly Bear thought she would catch
• 1:51:44
  Speaker 1: Coyote no matter into what form he changed himself. So
• 1:51:48
  Speaker 1: when she saw the buffalo, she started to kill it.
• 1:51:51
  Speaker 1: But then she saw coyote's trail running past it, so
• 1:51:54
  Speaker 1: she followed the trail. When she had gone some ways,
• 1:51:57
  Speaker 1: Coyote changed himself into his own former again. He called
• 1:52:01
  Speaker 1: after grizzly Bear and said, you are only a foolish
• 1:52:04
  Speaker 1: old bear. You can never catch me. When Grizzly Bear
• 1:52:08
  Speaker 1: heard Coyote's voice, she started after him again. After a while,
• 1:52:12
  Speaker 1: Coyote changed himself into an old man who had smallpox.
• 1:52:16
  Speaker 1: He was in a teepee by the trail. His clothes
• 1:52:19
  Speaker 1: were old and worn. When Grizzly Bear came up, she
• 1:52:22
  Speaker 1: looked into the house. She asked the man if any
• 1:52:25
  Speaker 1: one had passed. He told her a man had crossed
• 1:52:28
  Speaker 1: the river. She saw a bridge with tracks on it.
• 1:52:31
  Speaker 1: The bridge was made of willows. Now she thought she
• 1:52:34
  Speaker 1: could get across on that bridge, so she walked on it.
• 1:52:37
  Speaker 1: The bridge broke, She fell into the water and was drowned.
• 1:52:40
  Speaker 1: Then Coyote turned himself into his own form and went
• 1:52:44
  Speaker 1: back to his people. He told them he had killed
• 1:52:47
  Speaker 1: Grizzly Bear, Coyote, and the dragon. Long ago, in the
• 1:52:53
  Speaker 1: Willamette Valley, there lived a monster who made all the
• 1:52:56
  Speaker 1: people afraid. It lived in a cave. At night, it
• 1:52:59
  Speaker 1: would come from its cave sees and eat people, and
• 1:53:02
  Speaker 1: return to the cave in the morning. All night it
• 1:53:05
  Speaker 1: would eat the people. Coyote heard of this monster and
• 1:53:09
  Speaker 1: decided to help the people. Coyote was the cunningest and
• 1:53:12
  Speaker 1: shrewdest of all the animals. Now, the monster could not
• 1:53:16
  Speaker 1: endure daylight. It lived always in the dark. So one day,
• 1:53:20
  Speaker 1: when the sun was very bright and high up in
• 1:53:22
  Speaker 1: the heavens, Coyote took his bow and arrows and went
• 1:53:26
  Speaker 1: to a mountain top. He shot one of the arrows
• 1:53:28
  Speaker 1: into the sun. Then he shot another into the lower
• 1:53:31
  Speaker 1: end of the first one, and then another into the
• 1:53:34
  Speaker 1: lower end of the second. At last, Coyote had a
• 1:53:37
  Speaker 1: chain of arrows that reached from the sun to the earth.
• 1:53:40
  Speaker 1: Then he pulled the sun down. He pulled hard until
• 1:53:43
  Speaker 1: it came down. Then he hid it in the Willamette River. Now,
• 1:53:47
  Speaker 1: the monster thought night had come. Everything was dark because
• 1:53:51
  Speaker 1: the sun was hid in the river. So the monster
• 1:53:54
  Speaker 1: came out from his cave and attacked the people. Then
• 1:53:57
  Speaker 1: Coyote broke the chain which held the sun down, and
• 1:54:00
  Speaker 1: it sprang up in the sky again. The monster was
• 1:54:03
  Speaker 1: blinded because the light was so bright. Then Coyote killed it.
• 1:54:08
  Speaker 1: When the pale faces found the big bones of the
• 1:54:10
  Speaker 1: monster and carried them away, Indians said evil would come
• 1:54:14
  Speaker 1: of it. Origin of Spokane Falls. Flathead Coyote and Fox
• 1:54:22
  Speaker 1: were traveling together. They were coming up the river. When
• 1:54:25
  Speaker 1: they got to where Spokane Falls now are. Coyote said
• 1:54:29
  Speaker 1: to Fox, I believe i'll get married. I'll take a
• 1:54:31
  Speaker 1: woman of the Pendareys for my wife. So Coyote went
• 1:54:35
  Speaker 1: to visit the chief of the pendares He said he
• 1:54:38
  Speaker 1: wanted a wife. Chief said no. Chief said that Pendaret
• 1:54:42
  Speaker 1: women could not intermarry with other tribes. Coyote said, then,
• 1:54:46
  Speaker 1: I will make a falls here in the river. I
• 1:54:49
  Speaker 1: will make falls so that the salmon cannot get past them.
• 1:54:53
  Speaker 1: That is how Spokane Falls were made Coyote. In the
• 1:54:57
  Speaker 1: Buffalo Country, Flathead Coyote took to the trail again. After
• 1:55:02
  Speaker 1: a while, he had nothing to eat. He was nearly starved.
• 1:55:06
  Speaker 1: He went into a teepee at noon and lay down
• 1:55:08
  Speaker 1: to rest. He was very weak because he had had
• 1:55:11
  Speaker 1: nothing to eat. This happened in the Jocko Valley. Coyote
• 1:55:15
  Speaker 1: heard some one halloo, but he could not see anyone.
• 1:55:19
  Speaker 1: Then some one called again. After he had looked carefully
• 1:55:22
  Speaker 1: for some time, Coyote saw eagle a long way off.
• 1:55:26
  Speaker 1: Eagle said that far away there was a country where
• 1:55:29
  Speaker 1: there were buffalo all the time. Eagle said, I am
• 1:55:33
  Speaker 1: going there, but you cannot, you are too poor. Then
• 1:55:36
  Speaker 1: Coyote was angry. Coyote said, I can go anywhere. I
• 1:55:41
  Speaker 1: am going there. Coyote started out, and in fifteen days
• 1:55:45
  Speaker 1: he reached the place. It was near Great Falls. There
• 1:55:48
  Speaker 1: was a big camp there, and the chief's name was Bear.
• 1:55:52
  Speaker 1: The people did not like Bear. When buffalo were killed,
• 1:55:56
  Speaker 1: Bear would take the best piece for himself, all the
• 1:55:59
  Speaker 1: good meat and the chunks of fat. Coyote wanted to
• 1:56:02
  Speaker 1: be chief himself, so he killed a big buffalo and
• 1:56:06
  Speaker 1: stripped off all the fat. Then he cut the meat
• 1:56:08
  Speaker 1: in strips and hung it up to dry. After that
• 1:56:11
  Speaker 1: he built a big fire and heated some stones. Red
• 1:56:15
  Speaker 1: hot Bear heard that coyote had killed a buffalo, so
• 1:56:18
  Speaker 1: he came to look at the meat. Bear said, this
• 1:56:21
  Speaker 1: is nice meat. I will take it. Coyote said, I
• 1:56:25
  Speaker 1: save some fat for you. Then coyote took a red
• 1:56:28
  Speaker 1: hot stone, wrapped it in fat, and put it in
• 1:56:31
  Speaker 1: Bear's mouth. Thus coyote killed bear. Then the people made
• 1:56:35
  Speaker 1: Coyote chief. Now Bear was a great medicine man. Whatever
• 1:56:39
  Speaker 1: he wished came true. There were many buffalo at great
• 1:56:42
  Speaker 1: Falls because Bear had wished it. After Coyote became chief,
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  Speaker 1: all the buffalo went away. Then people said Coyote is
• 1:56:51
  Speaker 1: a bad chief. Coyote went out again to hunt for buffalo.
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  Speaker 1: He was all alone, and he hunted for five days,
• 1:56:58
  Speaker 1: but the buffalo were all gone. Coyote was ashamed to
• 1:57:02
  Speaker 1: go back to the camp, so he kept right on.
• 1:57:05
  Speaker 1: In a little while, coyote met wolf. Wolf said where
• 1:57:08
  Speaker 1: are you going. Coyote said, I am going to travel
• 1:57:12
  Speaker 1: all over the world. Wolf went on ahead. Soon coyote
• 1:57:16
  Speaker 1: heard some one coming. It was a man with plenty
• 1:57:19
  Speaker 1: of meat. Coyote lay down by the trail and pretended
• 1:57:22
  Speaker 1: to be dead. The man stopped. He said, this is
• 1:57:26
  Speaker 1: pretty good fur. So he threw coyote among the meat
• 1:57:29
  Speaker 1: and went on. Coyote ate all the meat he could hold.
• 1:57:33
  Speaker 1: Then he ran away. After a while he met wolf again.
• 1:57:37
  Speaker 1: Wolf said, you look fat. Where did you get meat.
• 1:57:40
  Speaker 1: Coyote told him he had pretended to be dead. He said,
• 1:57:44
  Speaker 1: the man wanted me for my fur. Your fur is
• 1:57:47
  Speaker 1: finer than mine. If you pretend to be dead, you
• 1:57:50
  Speaker 1: can get meat. Wolf heard the man coming, so he
• 1:57:54
  Speaker 1: lay down by the trail and pretended to be dead.
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  Speaker 1: The man stopped. He said, this is pretty good fur,
• 1:58:00
  Speaker 1: but I'll make sure he is dead. Then he hit
• 1:58:03
  Speaker 1: Wolf with the club. He hit wolf twice. Then Wolf
• 1:58:07
  Speaker 1: jumped up and ran away. Wolf was very angry. He said,
• 1:58:11
  Speaker 1: coyote did this on purpose. I will kill coyote. Wolf
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  Speaker 1: ran and coyote ran. After a while, Wolf overtook coyote.
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  Speaker 1: Wolf said, why did you play that trick on me?
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  Speaker 1: Now I will kill you. Coyote said, wait until I
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  Speaker 1: tell you something, then you can kill me. Wolf said,
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  Speaker 1: what do you want to tell me? Coyote said, there
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  Speaker 1: are only two of us. It is not fair for
• 1:58:36
  Speaker 1: us to fight alone. Let us get others to fight
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  Speaker 1: with us. Then it will be like one tribe fighting another.
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  Speaker 1: Wolf agreed, So wolf went in one direction and coyote
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  Speaker 1: in another. Wolf met bear. Wolf said, come with me
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  Speaker 1: and fight coyote. Then bear and wolf went on together.
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  Speaker 1: In a little while they met mole. Wolf said, come
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  Speaker 1: with me and fight coyote. So wolf and bear and
• 1:59:00
  Speaker 1: the mole went on together. Now coyote had gone in
• 1:59:03
  Speaker 1: another direction. He met cat and dog. Coyote said, come
• 1:59:07
  Speaker 1: with me and fight wolf. So coyote and cat and
• 1:59:11
  Speaker 1: dog went on together. Now wolf reached the meeting place.
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  Speaker 1: First he looked up and said, I see coyote coming.
• 1:59:19
  Speaker 1: Coyote was coming with cat and dog. Coyote was dressed
• 1:59:23
  Speaker 1: up with beaded moccasins and a beaded shirt. Therefore he
• 1:59:27
  Speaker 1: was a great chief. When the fight began, Coyote with
• 1:59:31
  Speaker 1: cat and dog killed all his enemies. Then coyote went
• 1:59:35
  Speaker 1: on alone. Coyote and the salmon Klamath River. Then Coyote
• 1:59:43
  Speaker 1: went to Klamath River. He found the people very poor.
• 1:59:47
  Speaker 1: They had no food. The river was full of salmon,
• 1:59:50
  Speaker 1: but the people could not get any. Three scucums had
• 1:59:53
  Speaker 1: built a dam to prevent the salmon from coming up
• 1:59:55
  Speaker 1: the river. So the Skucums had all the fish, but
• 1:59:58
  Speaker 1: the people had none. Coyote was very angry. Coyote said,
• 2:00:03
  Speaker 1: before many suns fish shall come up the river, the
• 2:00:06
  Speaker 1: people shall have all the salmon they need. Then coyote
• 2:00:10
  Speaker 1: went to the mouth of the river. The skucum saw him.
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  Speaker 1: They thought he was only a skulking coyote. Coyote whined
• 2:00:17
  Speaker 1: for some of their fish. Skucum would not give him any.
• 2:00:20
  Speaker 1: Coyote came close to their camp. The scucums drove him away,
• 2:00:25
  Speaker 1: but coyote saw where the scucums kept the key of
• 2:00:27
  Speaker 1: the dam. That was what he had wanted when he
• 2:00:30
  Speaker 1: whined for fish. Next morning, one scucum started down to
• 2:00:34
  Speaker 1: open the trap and let in a fish for herself.
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  Speaker 1: Coyote ran out of the teepee, jumped between Skukum's feet
• 2:00:41
  Speaker 1: and tripped her up. Skukum fell and the key fell
• 2:00:45
  Speaker 1: out of her hand. Then Coyote picked up the key
• 2:00:48
  Speaker 1: and went to the dam. Coyote opened the dam and
• 2:00:51
  Speaker 1: let the fish through. The salmon went upstream into the
• 2:00:54
  Speaker 1: country of the carocks. Then the people had food to eat. Afterwards,
• 2:00:59
  Speaker 1: coyote broke down the dam. Ever since then, salmon go
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  Speaker 1: every year up the river falls of the Willamet. Talapus
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  Speaker 1: came from the coast to the Willamet Valley. Talapus had
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  Speaker 1: been teaching the coast Indians. He found the Willamets very
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  Speaker 1: poor and cold. Now the Wallamet was full of salmon,
• 2:01:21
  Speaker 1: but the tribes were very stupid and feeble. They could
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  Speaker 1: not catch the salmon. So Talapus made a tum tum
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  Speaker 1: footnote tum means heart. Falls were named tum tums because
• 2:01:35
  Speaker 1: the sound of falling waters resembled, to the Indian the
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  Speaker 1: beating of the heart. End note. There the fish would
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  Speaker 1: come to the surface. Talapus also made a trap. Talapus
• 2:01:47
  Speaker 1: began to make a tum tum at Hintock. He did
• 2:01:51
  Speaker 1: not like the place and left it. The gravel bar
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  Speaker 1: shows where he began to work. Then Talapus went to
• 2:01:57
  Speaker 1: Rock Island to make a tum tum. Again, he did
• 2:02:00
  Speaker 1: not like the place and left it. The rapids show
• 2:02:03
  Speaker 1: where he began to work. Then Talapus began to make
• 2:02:06
  Speaker 1: still another tum tum. Here he liked the place and
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  Speaker 1: finished his work. White men call it the falls of
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  Speaker 1: the Willamette. Here the salmon come to the surface and
• 2:02:15
  Speaker 1: trying to leap over the falls. Then the stupid tribes
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  Speaker 1: could spear the salmon. At this tum tum, Talapus began
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  Speaker 1: to make a trap. Talapus made one that would say
• 2:02:27
  Speaker 1: no seeps when it was full. So Talapus set the
• 2:02:30
  Speaker 1: trap by the falls and began to make a fire.
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  Speaker 1: He began to rub the fire sticks together. Then trap
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  Speaker 1: called no SEPs. It was full of fine fish. Talapus
• 2:02:41
  Speaker 1: emptied it. He set the trap again by the falls
• 2:02:43
  Speaker 1: and began to make a fire. He began again to
• 2:02:47
  Speaker 1: rub the fire sticks together, and then again Trap called
• 2:02:50
  Speaker 1: no seeps, no SEPs. Talapus emptied it. Then he set
• 2:02:54
  Speaker 1: the trap again by the falls and began to make
• 2:02:57
  Speaker 1: a fire. Before he could rub the fire sticks together,
• 2:03:00
  Speaker 1: Trap called nosipsk nosipsk. Then Talipus was angry. He was
• 2:03:06
  Speaker 1: very hungry, and Trap would not let him make a fire.
• 2:03:09
  Speaker 1: Thalipus said Trap should not call so soon. Talipus said,
• 2:03:14
  Speaker 1: can you not wait catching fish until I build my fire?
• 2:03:18
  Speaker 1: Then Trap was angry. Trap would not catch fish anymore.
• 2:03:22
  Speaker 1: Then the people had to spear the fish. Talapus and
• 2:03:27
  Speaker 1: the cedar clatsup. Once Talapus was traveling from the country
• 2:03:32
  Speaker 1: of the Tillamux to the country of the Clatsups. Talapus
• 2:03:36
  Speaker 1: made himself a coyote. Talapus passed the mountains and headlands
• 2:03:40
  Speaker 1: of the coast. Then he followed the trail through the
• 2:03:43
  Speaker 1: deep woods. As he was traveling along, Talapus saw an
• 2:03:46
  Speaker 1: immense cedar. The inside was hollow. He could see it
• 2:03:50
  Speaker 1: through a big gap, which opened and closed. The gap
• 2:03:54
  Speaker 1: opened and closed. As the tree swayed in the wind.
• 2:03:57
  Speaker 1: Talapus cried, open cedar tree. Then the tree opened. Talapus
• 2:04:02
  Speaker 1: jumped inside. He said, shut cedar tree. Then the tree closed.
• 2:04:07
  Speaker 1: Talipus was shut inside the tree. After a while, Talibus said,
• 2:04:12
  Speaker 1: open cedar tree. Then the tree opened. Talapus stepped out
• 2:04:16
  Speaker 1: of it. The tree was a very strange one, so
• 2:04:20
  Speaker 1: Talapus told the tree to open and jumped inside. Then
• 2:04:23
  Speaker 1: he told it to close. Talapus did this many times.
• 2:04:28
  Speaker 1: At last Talapus was inside the tree. Talipus said, open
• 2:04:32
  Speaker 1: cedar tree. The tree did not answer. Talipus was angry.
• 2:04:37
  Speaker 1: He called to the tree. He kicked the tree. The
• 2:04:40
  Speaker 1: tree did not answer. Then Talapus remembered that he was coyote,
• 2:04:44
  Speaker 1: the wisest and cunningest of all animals. Then Talipus began
• 2:04:48
  Speaker 1: to think. After he thought, Talapus called the birds to
• 2:04:52
  Speaker 1: help him. He told them to peck a hole through
• 2:04:55
  Speaker 1: cedar tree. The first was ran. Ran pecked and pecked
• 2:04:58
  Speaker 1: at the great cedar and till her bill was blunted.
• 2:05:01
  Speaker 1: But Wren could not even make a dent. Therefore Talapus
• 2:05:05
  Speaker 1: called her wren. Then Talapus called the other birds. Sparrow came,
• 2:05:10
  Speaker 1: Robin came, finch came, but they could not even break
• 2:05:13
  Speaker 1: the heavy bark, So Talapus gave each a name and
• 2:05:16
  Speaker 1: sent them away. Then owl came, and raven, and hawk
• 2:05:20
  Speaker 1: and eagle. They could not make even a little hole,
• 2:05:24
  Speaker 1: so Talipus gave each a name and sent them away.
• 2:05:27
  Speaker 1: Then he called little woodpecker. Finally little woodpecker made a
• 2:05:32
  Speaker 1: tiny hole. Then big yellow hammer came and pecked a
• 2:05:35
  Speaker 1: large hole. But the hole was too small for Talapus,
• 2:05:39
  Speaker 1: so he saw there was no help from the birds.
• 2:05:42
  Speaker 1: Then Talapus remembered again that he was Coyote, the wisest
• 2:05:46
  Speaker 1: and cunningness of all the animals. Then Talapus began to think.
• 2:05:51
  Speaker 1: After he thought, Talapus began to take himself apart. He
• 2:05:55
  Speaker 1: took himself apart and slipped each piece through Yellowhammer's hole.
• 2:05:59
  Speaker 1: First he slipped a leg through, then a paw, then
• 2:06:02
  Speaker 1: his tail, then his ears, and his eyes, until he
• 2:06:05
  Speaker 1: was through the hole and outside the cedar tree. Then
• 2:06:09
  Speaker 1: Talipus began to put himself together. He put his legs
• 2:06:12
  Speaker 1: and paws together, and then his tail, his nose, his ears,
• 2:06:16
  Speaker 1: and then his body. At last, Talapus put himself together again,
• 2:06:20
  Speaker 1: except his eyes. He could not find his eyes. Raven
• 2:06:24
  Speaker 1: had seen them on the ground. Raven had stolen them.
• 2:06:27
  Speaker 1: So Talipus, the coyote, the wisest and cunningness of all
• 2:06:31
  Speaker 1: the animals, was blind. But Talapus did not want the
• 2:06:35
  Speaker 1: animals to know he was blind. Talipus smelled a wild rose.
• 2:06:39
  Speaker 1: He found the bush and picked two rose leaves. He
• 2:06:42
  Speaker 1: put the rose leaves in place of his eyes. Then
• 2:06:45
  Speaker 1: Talibus traveled on, feeling his way along the trail. Soon
• 2:06:49
  Speaker 1: he met a squaw. Squaw began to jeer, Oh, you
• 2:06:53
  Speaker 1: seem to be very blind. Oh no, said Talipus, I
• 2:06:57
  Speaker 1: am measuring the ground. I can see better than you can.
• 2:07:01
  Speaker 1: I can see tominous rays. Squaw was greatly astonished. Thalopus
• 2:07:06
  Speaker 1: pretended to see wonderful things at a great distance. Squaw said,
• 2:07:10
  Speaker 1: I wish I could see tominoas rays. Talopus said, change
• 2:07:14
  Speaker 1: eyes with me, then you can see Tominoa's rays. So
• 2:07:18
  Speaker 1: Talapus and Squaw traded eyes. Talopus took Squaw's eyes and
• 2:07:22
  Speaker 1: gave her the rose leaves. Then Talapus could see as
• 2:07:25
  Speaker 1: well as ever. Squaw could see nothing. Talopus said, for
• 2:07:30
  Speaker 1: your folly, you must always be a snail. You must creep,
• 2:07:34
  Speaker 1: You must feel your way on the ground. Ever since
• 2:07:37
  Speaker 1: that time snails have been blind. They have to creep
• 2:07:40
  Speaker 1: slowly over the ground. How Coyote was killed. Coyote had
• 2:07:47
  Speaker 1: done many things. Fire he had stolen from scuokums, and
• 2:07:51
  Speaker 1: salmon he had given to the Indians. Therefore, Coyote, thinking
• 2:07:55
  Speaker 1: very highly of himself, wanted to travel to the sky world. Now,
• 2:07:59
  Speaker 1: Star far came every night very close to Coyote. Coyote
• 2:08:03
  Speaker 1: lived above the clouds on a mountain top. Therefore, Coyote
• 2:08:07
  Speaker 1: said to Star, take me with you. Star only laughed.
• 2:08:11
  Speaker 1: Thus Coyote was angry. Coyote said, every night, when the
• 2:08:15
  Speaker 1: star came, take me with you into the sky. But
• 2:08:18
  Speaker 1: Star only laughed. Then Coyote howled at Star. At last,
• 2:08:24
  Speaker 1: Star said tomorrow night, I will take you to the
• 2:08:27
  Speaker 1: sky world. Next night, Star came again to the mountain.
• 2:08:31
  Speaker 1: Star came quite close to coyote. Then coyote leaped far
• 2:08:35
  Speaker 1: and caught on the edge of Star. So they traveled
• 2:08:39
  Speaker 1: through the sky world. Star climbed higher and higher. Coyote
• 2:08:43
  Speaker 1: looked down The tall furs of the forest were only
• 2:08:47
  Speaker 1: as large as arrows. Then coyote became cold. Traveling high
• 2:08:51
  Speaker 1: in the sky world, Star was not warm like sun.
• 2:08:56
  Speaker 1: Coyote became so cold he could not hold on. His
• 2:09:00
  Speaker 1: paws slipped, and he fell. Coyote fell far to the
• 2:09:04
  Speaker 1: earth below him for ten snows he fell. When coyote
• 2:09:08
  Speaker 1: struck the earth, he was crushed as flat as a
• 2:09:11
  Speaker 1: willow mat. Thus coyote was killed. End of Part four,
• 2:09:24
  Speaker 1: Part five of Myths and Legends of the Pacific Northwest
• 2:09:28
  Speaker 1: by Catherine Barry Judson. This LibriVox recording is in the
• 2:09:32
  Speaker 1: public domain. Part five. Old Grizzly and Old Antelope Klameth Lake, Indians.
• 2:09:41
  Speaker 1: Old Grizzly lived with Old Antelope. Grizzly had two children,
• 2:09:45
  Speaker 1: and Lope also had two children. One morning, early they
• 2:09:49
  Speaker 1: went to dig epo roots. Leaving their children at home.
• 2:09:53
  Speaker 1: Old Antelope filled her basket before Old Grizzly had dug
• 2:09:57
  Speaker 1: any epo root. Old Grizzly came on, eating them up.
• 2:10:01
  Speaker 1: Then they returned homeward again. Next day they went out
• 2:10:05
  Speaker 1: to dig epo, and again Old Antelope sooner filled her basket.
• 2:10:10
  Speaker 1: Old Grizzly dug little. After their return, they each gave
• 2:10:14
  Speaker 1: epo to their children. Then Old Grizzly thus enjoined her cubs.
• 2:10:18
  Speaker 1: Ye shall not skip down from the lodge. The livers
• 2:10:22
  Speaker 1: to ye would get loose. Ye shall not jump over
• 2:10:25
  Speaker 1: the logs, ye would run against some sticks. Ye shall
• 2:10:29
  Speaker 1: not dive under the water, smothering Ye might die now again,
• 2:10:33
  Speaker 1: Old Grizzly next morning went again with Old Antelope to
• 2:10:37
  Speaker 1: dig roots. Old Antelope soon filled the basket, Old grizzily
• 2:10:41
  Speaker 1: having dug little. Then Old Grizzly went to Old Antelope.
• 2:10:45
  Speaker 1: She begged, insects bite me. Old Antelope said, a while
• 2:10:50
  Speaker 1: from now, I will bite you. When we have returned
• 2:10:53
  Speaker 1: homeward again, Old Grizzily declared, insects bite me very hard
• 2:10:58
  Speaker 1: in my fur. After a while, Old Antelope bit into
• 2:11:02
  Speaker 1: the fur of Old Grizzly, to kill the insects. Then
• 2:11:05
  Speaker 1: Old Grizzily wanted also to bite into the fur of
• 2:11:08
  Speaker 1: Old Antelope. Old Grizzily put epo roots into her mouth,
• 2:11:13
  Speaker 1: crunching them. She pretended to bite insects, cracking them. Then
• 2:11:17
  Speaker 1: she bit Old Antelope through the neck. She killed her
• 2:11:20
  Speaker 1: in this manner, then cut her up wholly. All the
• 2:11:23
  Speaker 1: epo roots of Old Antelope she put in her basket,
• 2:11:26
  Speaker 1: placing the meat on top. This she stuck on the
• 2:11:30
  Speaker 1: top of a pole. A small portion of the meat
• 2:11:33
  Speaker 1: she took home and gave to her children. Also to
• 2:11:36
  Speaker 1: Old Antelope's children she gave meat. The younger said, but
• 2:11:40
  Speaker 1: it tastes like our mother. The elder pushed her be silent,
• 2:11:44
  Speaker 1: say not. So they saved the meat to eat until
• 2:11:48
  Speaker 1: the next day. Meanwhile, Old Grizzily explained, your mother gave
• 2:11:52
  Speaker 1: the Indians much meat where she passed the night, but
• 2:11:56
  Speaker 1: to me they gave only a little. Tomorrow, I shall
• 2:11:59
  Speaker 1: go to look for your absent mother early next morning.
• 2:12:03
  Speaker 1: Old Grizzly started out to fetch the meat. Then the
• 2:12:06
  Speaker 1: young Antelope said to the grizzly cubs, let us skip
• 2:12:09
  Speaker 1: down from the house. Bear cub said, our mother wants
• 2:12:12
  Speaker 1: us not to skip down. Our livers might get loose.
• 2:12:16
  Speaker 1: Young antelopes again said, look here, we will jump over logs.
• 2:12:20
  Speaker 1: One cub said, our mother wants us not to jump
• 2:12:23
  Speaker 1: over logs. We might run against tree limbs. Again, a
• 2:12:27
  Speaker 1: young antelope said, look here, let us dive. The cub said,
• 2:12:32
  Speaker 1: our mother wants us not to plunge in the water smothering.
• 2:12:35
  Speaker 1: We might die. The young antelopes asked only once more.
• 2:12:40
  Speaker 1: Look here, let us play smoke out. The cub said,
• 2:12:44
  Speaker 1: our mother told us not about this. Here we will
• 2:12:47
  Speaker 1: play this. The young antelopes threw rotten wood into the
• 2:12:51
  Speaker 1: lodge and went into it. First, the bear cubs put
• 2:12:54
  Speaker 1: the cover on. The young antelope said, pretty soon you
• 2:12:57
  Speaker 1: must open again, Yes, said the cub. Soon the young
• 2:13:01
  Speaker 1: antelopes cried to smoke in, to smoke out, to smoke in,
• 2:13:06
  Speaker 1: to smoke out, smother smother. Oh. Oh. Then the cubs
• 2:13:10
  Speaker 1: opened the cover. The young antelopes went out. Then the
• 2:13:14
  Speaker 1: cubs went in, saying, pretty soon, ye must uncover, Yes,
• 2:13:19
  Speaker 1: said the young antelopes. The cubs cried, smoke in, smoke out,
• 2:13:23
  Speaker 1: smoke in, smother smother. Again, the young antelopes went into
• 2:13:28
  Speaker 1: the lodge to smoke in to smoke out smoke smoke.
• 2:13:32
  Speaker 1: The cubs uncovered and the antelopes came out. The cubs
• 2:13:37
  Speaker 1: again ran into the lodge to smoke in to smoke
• 2:13:40
  Speaker 1: out smother smother. This time the young antelopes would not
• 2:13:44
  Speaker 1: uncover for the cubs. After their death, the young antelopes
• 2:13:48
  Speaker 1: uncovered the lodge. Then, taking out the cubs red paint,
• 2:13:52
  Speaker 1: they lined in their faces. Gagging the nose of the elder,
• 2:13:55
  Speaker 1: they lifted it up to the top of the lodge,
• 2:13:58
  Speaker 1: gagging the mouth of the younger. They fastened it on
• 2:14:01
  Speaker 1: the lodge ladder. Then they went into the fireplace. Every
• 2:14:06
  Speaker 1: article they enjoined not to report to Old Grizzily. When
• 2:14:09
  Speaker 1: she returned the bone all alone they forgot as it
• 2:14:13
  Speaker 1: stuck in the roof. After a while, Old Grizzily returned,
• 2:14:18
  Speaker 1: being ahead of herself, angered at their having wasted red paint,
• 2:14:22
  Speaker 1: she said, they have wasted my red paint, which I
• 2:14:25
  Speaker 1: stole from the Indians. Then, approaching nearer, she saw the
• 2:14:29
  Speaker 1: cubs to be dead. Sobbing, she said, now the children
• 2:14:32
  Speaker 1: of old Antelope have punished me. To the young antelope,
• 2:14:36
  Speaker 1: she called, where are ye children? The children replied to
• 2:14:40
  Speaker 1: Old Grizzly, right, here are we sitting in the sunshine.
• 2:14:44
  Speaker 1: Old Grizzily ran out to where now the children were sitting.
• 2:14:48
  Speaker 1: But again the children spoke toward the mud house in
• 2:14:50
  Speaker 1: replied to Old Grizzily. Again, Old Grizzily ran into it.
• 2:14:55
  Speaker 1: Children Again the young antelopes replied to Old Grizzily, here
• 2:14:59
  Speaker 1: we play out of doors. You do not find us.
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  Speaker 1: Grizzily thought it was the voices of the children. But
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  Speaker 1: the articles enjoined by the children had done as they
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  Speaker 1: had been told and had answered her. But after some
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  Speaker 1: time the bone all Shakta, which had stuck in the
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  Speaker 1: ceiling and had been forgotten, said, long ago the children
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  Speaker 1: whom you look for went away. Old Grizzily said, which
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  Speaker 1: way then travel they? And the all Shakta told Grizzly
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  Speaker 1: through here they crawled, and here they placed coals against
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  Speaker 1: the opening. Then Old Grizzly attempted to crawl through the
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  Speaker 1: hole to follow the children. She could not crawl through.
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  Speaker 1: Finally she broke through and went on her way, crying.
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  Speaker 1: Rotten wood rotten wood breaks easily. Rotten wood, rotten wood
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  Speaker 1: breaks through walking. Old Grizzily wept thus, then she said
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  Speaker 1: where are ye? I am going to find the children.
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  Speaker 1: She said this repeatedly while walking. Finally, she overtook the
• 2:16:00
  Speaker 1: young antelopes while they camped in a cave, but she
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  Speaker 1: did not see them building a large fire. She lay down.
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  Speaker 1: Now the children became aware that Old Grizzily had overtaken them,
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  Speaker 1: and the elder antelope woke up the younger one. Now
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  Speaker 1: she has caught up with us, she said to the younger,
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  Speaker 1: and woke up the little one. Old Grizzily went to sleep,
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  Speaker 1: lying near the fire. Tomorrow at last, I will play
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  Speaker 1: a game with ye children in daytime. Seeing more sharply,
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  Speaker 1: then so speaking and lying down, she went to sleep.
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  Speaker 1: Then the young antelopes threw sticks at the sleeping one.
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  Speaker 1: They threw them to try whether she was asleep, but
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  Speaker 1: she not moving. They ran out of the cave at
• 2:16:42
  Speaker 1: a quick pace, afraid that Old Grizzily might overtake them.
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  Speaker 1: They hallooed to Old Crane, shookum Tash, who fishing minnows
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  Speaker 1: skirted the water. Cross us over Uncle very fast. She
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  Speaker 1: is chasing us and will overtake us. Now Old Crane
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  Speaker 1: crossed them over. The young antelopes explained to Old Crane.
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  Speaker 1: Then Old Crane blew them into a whistle stick and
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  Speaker 1: hung them up in the lodge. But they rattled for
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  Speaker 1: fear at the message of the young antelopes that old
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  Speaker 1: Antelope was killed by old grizzly Old Crane, and the
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  Speaker 1: young ones too wept. Old Crane wept crying lake water,
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  Speaker 1: lake water. The young cranes also wept, crying lake wah
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  Speaker 1: wah water. Now Old Grizzily, awakening, after a time, looked
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  Speaker 1: around the cave. I shall play a rather hard game
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  Speaker 1: with the children in the daytime, when able to see better.
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  Speaker 1: Long ago. After they left the cave, they reached Old
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  Speaker 1: Crane's home. So Old Grizzily started to follow the young
• 2:17:46
  Speaker 1: antelopes the tracks of them she followed. Reaching the river,
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  Speaker 1: she asked, Old Crane, have you seen the children? Old
• 2:17:53
  Speaker 1: Crane said not I saw the children. Yet here were
• 2:17:57
  Speaker 1: the outgoing tracks of the children, having reached there. So
• 2:18:01
  Speaker 1: Old Grizzily hallooed, you want to conceal them? Then set
• 2:18:05
  Speaker 1: me over quickly, Old Crane said, I have no canoe. Again,
• 2:18:10
  Speaker 1: said Old Grizzily, quickly, cross me over fast, set me over.
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  Speaker 1: After a while, Old Crane spread out his legs, one
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  Speaker 1: leg carrying a drinking cup and let Old Grizzly use
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  Speaker 1: it as a bridge. Old Grizzly stepped on his leg.
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  Speaker 1: Coming to the midst of the river, she drank water
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  Speaker 1: from the drinking cup, and to shake out the water.
• 2:18:31
  Speaker 1: After drinking, she struck Old Crane's leg with the drinking cup.
• 2:18:36
  Speaker 1: Old Crane angered doused Old Grizzily into the water. Then,
• 2:18:41
  Speaker 1: fetching a bow from home, Old Crane shot Old Grizzly.
• 2:18:45
  Speaker 1: Then the young antelopes came out of the whistle with
• 2:18:48
  Speaker 1: bows and arrows borrowed from the Crane children. They shot
• 2:18:52
  Speaker 1: Old Grizzily, and thus they killed her. Legend of the
• 2:18:57
  Speaker 1: Clickatat basket Shade told the first weaver to weave Tuxi
• 2:19:04
  Speaker 1: the basket. Weaver said, I do not know how, But
• 2:19:08
  Speaker 1: she went to the forest. She thought for a long
• 2:19:11
  Speaker 1: time how to weave Tuxi. Then she gathered the plant
• 2:19:14
  Speaker 1: ye with squaw grass, elk grass, pine grass, and woo
• 2:19:19
  Speaker 1: wie ash and red cedar roots. Then weaver began to work.
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  Speaker 1: She worked very hard for many days. Then Tuxi the
• 2:19:28
  Speaker 1: basket was finished. Weaver carried it to the lake. She
• 2:19:31
  Speaker 1: dipped it full of water, but the water leaked out.
• 2:19:35
  Speaker 1: Shade said, it will not do. Weave again. We've a
• 2:19:38
  Speaker 1: tight basket with a pattern in it. Weaver was very sorrowful.
• 2:19:43
  Speaker 1: Weaver sat by the lake morning. At last, in the
• 2:19:46
  Speaker 1: clear water, Weaver saw the pattern Chattotimus. Then Weaver was
• 2:19:51
  Speaker 1: happy again. She went again into the deep forest and
• 2:19:54
  Speaker 1: pulled up nuwie ash the red cedar roots. Then Weaver
• 2:19:58
  Speaker 1: began to work. She worked very hard for many days.
• 2:20:02
  Speaker 1: Then Tuxi the basket was finished. Weaver carried it to
• 2:20:05
  Speaker 1: the lake. She dipped it full of water. This time
• 2:20:08
  Speaker 1: the water did not leak out. The basket was tight,
• 2:20:12
  Speaker 1: and it had a pattern on it. As Shade had
• 2:20:14
  Speaker 1: told her, other weavers learned the pattern. Thus, the Clickatats
• 2:20:19
  Speaker 1: have plenty of baskets. They do not leak, and they
• 2:20:22
  Speaker 1: have a pattern in them. The northern lights Wabanski Old
• 2:20:29
  Speaker 1: Chief Masarto morning Star had one son, only so different
• 2:20:34
  Speaker 1: from other boys of the tribe as to be worry
• 2:20:38
  Speaker 1: to old Chief. He would not stay and play with
• 2:20:41
  Speaker 1: the others, but would take his bow and arrows and
• 2:20:43
  Speaker 1: leave home for days at a time, always going toward
• 2:20:47
  Speaker 1: the north. When he came home. They say where you been?
• 2:20:51
  Speaker 1: What you see? But he say nothing. At last, old
• 2:20:55
  Speaker 1: chief say his wife, that boy must be watched. I
• 2:20:58
  Speaker 1: will follow him next time. Chief Masarto kept in his
• 2:21:02
  Speaker 1: trail and travel for a long time. Suddenly his eyes
• 2:21:07
  Speaker 1: close and he could not hear. He had a curious
• 2:21:11
  Speaker 1: feeling then know nothing by and by his eyes open
• 2:21:15
  Speaker 1: in a queer light country no sun, no moon, no stars,
• 2:21:19
  Speaker 1: but country all lighted by strange light. He saw many things,
• 2:21:23
  Speaker 1: but all different from his people. They gather round and
• 2:21:26
  Speaker 1: try to talk, but he not understand their language. Masarto
• 2:21:31
  Speaker 1: did not know where to go or what to do.
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  Speaker 1: He well treated by this strange tribe. He watched their
• 2:21:37
  Speaker 1: games and was tracted to wonderful game of ball he
• 2:21:40
  Speaker 1: never saw before. It seemed to turn the light to
• 2:21:43
  Speaker 1: many colors, and players had all lights on their heads,
• 2:21:47
  Speaker 1: and all wore very curious belts called minkwan or rainbow belts.
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  Speaker 1: In few days, an old man came and speak to
• 2:21:54
  Speaker 1: him Sarto in his own language, and ask him if
• 2:21:58
  Speaker 1: he know where he was. Chief say no. Then, old
• 2:22:02
  Speaker 1: man say you are in country of Wabamban northern lights.
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  Speaker 1: I came here many years ago. I was the only
• 2:22:10
  Speaker 1: one here from the lower country as we call it.
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  Speaker 1: But now there is a boy comes to visit us
• 2:22:15
  Speaker 1: every few days. Then Msarto asked how old man got there?
• 2:22:20
  Speaker 1: What way he come? Old Man say, I follow path
• 2:22:24
  Speaker 1: called spirit's path, keda goosewat milky way. This must be
• 2:22:29
  Speaker 1: path I come, said Old Chief. Did you have queer
• 2:22:32
  Speaker 1: feeling as if you lost all knowledge when you traveled? Yes,
• 2:22:36
  Speaker 1: say old Man. I could not hear or see. Then
• 2:22:39
  Speaker 1: say Msarto, we did come by same path. Can you
• 2:22:42
  Speaker 1: tell me how I get home again? Yes, Chief of
• 2:22:45
  Speaker 1: Wababon will send you home safe. Well, can you tell
• 2:22:49
  Speaker 1: me where I can see my boy? The boy that
• 2:22:52
  Speaker 1: comes here to visit you is mine? Then old man
• 2:22:55
  Speaker 1: tell him, Sarto, you will see him playing ball if
• 2:22:58
  Speaker 1: you watch Chief himself. Tarto very glad to hear this.
• 2:23:01
  Speaker 1: And when man went round to teepees telling all to
• 2:23:05
  Speaker 1: have ballgame, Imsarto went to. When game began, he saw
• 2:23:09
  Speaker 1: many beautiful colors. Old man asked him, do you see
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  Speaker 1: your boy there? Old chief said he did. The one
• 2:23:16
  Speaker 1: with the brightest light is my son. Then they went
• 2:23:19
  Speaker 1: to Chief of Northern Lights, and old man said, Chief
• 2:23:23
  Speaker 1: of Lower Country wants to go home and also wants
• 2:23:26
  Speaker 1: his boy, So Chief of Northern Lights calls his people
• 2:23:29
  Speaker 1: together to bid goodbye to Msarto and his son, then
• 2:23:34
  Speaker 1: ordered to kit Chee Sippy great Birds to carry them home.
• 2:23:39
  Speaker 1: When they went traveling Milky Way, he felt the same
• 2:23:42
  Speaker 1: strange way he did when going, and when he came
• 2:23:45
  Speaker 1: to his sense, he found himself near home. His wife
• 2:23:49
  Speaker 1: very glad he come for when boy told her his
• 2:23:52
  Speaker 1: father was safe, she pay no notice, as she afraid
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  Speaker 1: Msarto was lost. End of Part five, end of Myths
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  Speaker 1: and Legends of the Pacific Northwest by Katherine Barry Judson