Cougar was walking in the forest, and he jumped onto a fallen log to look around. From inside the log came a tiny voice."Get off the roof of my lodge!" Out from the rotten end of the log came a tiny Cricket. "You are standing on the roof of my lodge, Cougar," said the little …

When Tu-chai-pai made the world, the Earth was the woman, the sky was the man. The sky came down upon the Earth. The world in the beginning was a pure lake covered with tules. Tu-chai-pai and his younger brother, Yo-ko-mat-is, sat together, stooping far over, bowed down by the weight of the sky. The Maker …

History begins with Creation. There are several versions of the Creation story. This is one of them:Our world began with the creation of the Earth, which is seen as the horizontal plane that separates the world above from the world below. In the Sky-World lived a fellow named "The Sky Holder." Next to his lodge …