{"id":3068,"date":"2023-02-23T23:55:08","date_gmt":"2023-02-23T23:55:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/straightarrow.org\/stories\/?p=3068"},"modified":"2023-02-23T23:55:09","modified_gmt":"2023-02-23T23:55:09","slug":"bird-origin-myth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/straightarrow.org\/stories\/indigenous-stories\/winnebago-hotcak\/bird-origin-myth\/","title":{"rendered":"Bird Origin Myth"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The first birds created by Earthmaker were the Thunders, who can make themselves invisible. As the Thunderbirds traversed the heavens, they would occasionally lose a feather. From such feathers, the visible birds sprang into existence. From the largest quill feathers of the Thunders there came into being the race of eagles; from other large feathers came the race of hawks and their kind; from the small feathers came such birds as partridges; from the down feathers came the small birds like robins and pigeons; and from the mere fuzz of down feathers emerged the very smallest of birds, such as sparrows and hummingbirds. All birds, therefore, are descended from the Thunders.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Go Back To:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/straightarrow.org\/stories\/indigenous-stories\/winnebago-nation\/\">Winnebago_(Hotc\u00e2k) Nation<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first birds created by Earthmaker were the Thunders, who can make themselves invisible. As the Thunderbirds traversed the heavens, they would occasionally lose a feather. From such feathers, the visible birds sprang into existence. From the largest quill feathers of the Thunders there came into being the race of eagles; from other large feathers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[525,526],"tags":[310],"class_list":["post-3068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-winnebago-hotcak","category-winnebago-hotcak-stories","tag-winnebago"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/straightarrow.org\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3068","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/straightarrow.org\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/straightarrow.org\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/straightarrow.org\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/straightarrow.org\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3068"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/straightarrow.org\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3068\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3069,"href":"https:\/\/straightarrow.org\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3068\/revisions\/3069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/straightarrow.org\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/straightarrow.org\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/straightarrow.org\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}