When the mother bear got home she sensed that something
was wrong as she dumped her bags. She finally figured out which
way the tracks were headed and followed them.

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The Bears and The Deers

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Booklets available in the Level IV sequence are listed below. Numbers refer to the Planned Sequence of use
in the Teacher’s Manual. Materials developed by these tribes and others in the Northwest are included in
the Levels I, II and III sequences.

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3.

4.

5.

10.

11.

. Warm Springs Animal Stories

The Confederated Tribes of the Warm Springs
Reservation of Oregon

. Snail Women at Sq*a’le

The Suquamish Tribe of the Port Madison
Reservation

Blue Jay — Star Child/Basket Woman
Muckleshoot Tribe

Assiniboine Woman Making Grease
Assiniboine Tribe of the Fort Peck Reservation

Coyote
The Confederated Tribes of the Warm Springs
Reservation of Oregon

|. How the Summer Season Came

Assiniboine Tribe of the Fort Belknap
Reservation

. Little Weasel’s Dream

Salish and Kootenai Tribes of the Flathead
Reservation

. Fort Hall Stories

Shoshone-Bannock Tribes of the Fort Hall
Reservation

. The Bear Tepee

Northern Cheyenne Tribe

Sioux Stories and Legends
Sioux Tribe of the Fort Peck Reservation

Kootenai Stories
Salish and Kootenai Tribes of the Flathead
Reservation

12.

13.

14.

15.

16.

17.

18.

19.

20.

21.

Chief Mountain’s Medicine

Gros Ventre Tribe from the Fort Belknap
Reservation

Coyote the Trickster

Burns Paiute Reservation

Running Free

Shoalwater Bay

Salish Coyote Stories

Salish and Kootenai Tribes of the Flathead
Reservation

Coyote and the Cowboys
Shoshone-Bannock Tribes of the Fort Hall
Reservation

Napi’s Journey

Blackfeet Tribe

Warm Springs Stories

The Confederated Tribes of the Warm Springs
Reservation of Oregon

Tepee Making

Salish and Kootenai Tribes of the Flathead
Reservation

Baskets and Canoes
Skokomish Tribe

Warrior People
Blackfeet Tribe


Do What You Are Told


The fawns were resting in a pine tree when they looked back
and saw her in the distance. She caught up with them and begged
them to come down. She told them their mother had come home and
wanted them, but the fawns knew this was a trick and never paid
any attention to her. After she begged and begged she fell asleep
under the pine tree. The fawns would break a branch and throw it on
her to see if she was really asleep. They kept on doing this until they
were sure she was fast alseep. They then jumped out of the tree and
ran off.

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When the bear got to the river she asked the same thing. The
crane agreed to take her across but warned her to stay still. When
they were in the middle of the river she asked the crane if she could
get a drink of water. As she got through drinking she tapped the
crane’s knee with her clay cup to shake out the water. When this
happened the crane said, “Ouch!” and folded his legs up. Thus the
bear fell off into the water and floated down the swift river away
from the fawns.

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The fawns told the bear cubs that they should play this game
where they would dig a hole and build a fire to make smoke and see
who could stay in there the longest. When they could not stand the
smoke they would call out, “Smoke! Smoke!’ and the fawns would let
them out to get air. They took turns playing the game until the bear
cubs went in and they closed the door. Soon the bear cubs cried out,
“Smoke! Smoke!” but the fawns ignored them and they suffocated
to death.


Long ago there was a young man who lived with his
grandmother. Nobody liked to be around him because he was always
having accidents.


His enemies took him and roasted him. Then they had a vic-
tory celebration with dancing. Coyote had tracked them to the
dance. When they were feasting he knew he had to get a bone from
his brother. When they weren’t looking he grabbed a bone and car-
ried it with him everywhere he went. At night he would bury it in
the ground. He did this for several days because it was his nosiness
that got his brother killed. He wanted to make up for it by carrying
the bone with him.


Coyote was with Esha. Esha was going to be in a fight. As he
was getting ready he told his brother, “Don’t watch me even though
you hear a lot of fighting. Don’t even peek at me.”

Coyote could not stand not
looking at his brother. As he
heard the fighting outside the
tepee, he peeked in a little crack
at his brother and as he did this
his brother was shot and fell to
the ground.



The fawns then took them out and put them by their camp like
they were standing up. The fawns made a lot of tracks in the dirt with
their hoofs so the mother would get confused. This gave them time to
escape before the mother bear came home.

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Na-See-Natchez (The Wet Boy)


i) THE INDIAN READING SERIES:
% Stories and Legends of the Northwest



Level V Book 3


During the night the
young man had an acci-
dent. The girls threw him
out of the bed and told him
to go home.

The young man
cried and cried as he was
going home to his
grandmother.

The next day he told his grandmother
that he was going away to the mountains. He
told her, “If it is thundering don’t look out but
stay in your house.” He went on up into the
forest and cried and cried his heart out. The
Spirit heard him and gave him many kinds of
things and a lot of horses. He was rich!


His neighbor had two daughters and they were very pretty.
Na-See-Natchez wanted to marry one of them. He asked his
grandmother, “What do I do when I want to marry one of these girls?”
She told him, “Visit their parents and if they want you to marry one
of their daughters, they will let you stay the night.” So the young man
sat at the opening of the tepee. Later at the end of the evening he
was nodding his head as he was going to sleep. The father told his
daughters to let him sleep with them so that he would not get cold.


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But one morning he heard a voice
tell him to build a campfire. At first he
thought he was hearing things but the
voice spoke again. Coyote tried to look
around his camp site but this time he
knew it belonged to his brother Esha.

He gathered some
wood and built a big fire.
His brother had come
back to life. He was so
happy to see him alive that
he did everything his
brother wanted without
complaining.



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The bear woke up and chased them. The fawns came to a big
river and knew that it was too swift to swim across before the bear
caught up with them. They saw a crane fishing along the bank so
they asked, “Uncle, can you fly us on your back across the river?” He
said, “Sure, get on.” He took them over the river and flew up into the
woods. When he left them he said, “Stay here where you have cover.”
The crane also warned them about danger. “Don’t be afraid of people
who sing and whistle as they are walking through the woods. They
are not the ones who are out to harm you. But beware of the person
who is silently walking along. He is the one who is going to harm
you.” He left them.


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A bear and her two cubs lived close to a family of deer with two
fawns. The bears were camped at their yapah digging grounds.

Yapah is a tasty root that the Paiute Tribe gather when avail-
able. Everyday when they would go digging the bear would check the
deer for lice on her neck. This made the mother deer very nervous so
when she came home she teld her children, “One of these days the
bear will probably kill me as she is checking my neck too often. If this
happens I will not return home that night so you children should
leave right away.”

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The fawns suspected something was wrong and cried for their
mother when the bear cubs would show a piece of meat and eat it.
(They were teasing the fawns.) The fawns planned to get even by
killing the bear cubs. They made a plan to do away with them. The
next day the mother bear loaded up her sacks to go digging and left
the children.

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) THE INDIAN READING SERIES:
Stories and Legends of the Northwest

Do What You Are Told
Na-See-Natchez (The Wet Boy)

The Bears and The Deers
Level V Book3

Developed by the Burns Paiute Reservation

Ruth Adams, Coordinator
Delmar Adams

Betty First Raised

Jame Sam

Minerva Soucie

Bernice Teeman

Floyd Teeman

Kenton Dick, Consultant
James St. Martin, Illustrator

Illustrated by James St. Martin

Joseph Coburn, Director
Pacific Northwest Indian Program
Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory



THE INDIAN READING SERIES: Stories and Legends of the
Northwest is a collection of authentic material cooperatively devel-
oped by Indian people from twelve reservations. Development ac-
tivities are guided by a Policy Board which represents the Indian
community of the Pacific Northwest. The Pacific Northwest Indian
Reading and Language Development Program Policy Board mem-
bers are:

@ Lloyd Smith-Warm Springs
Chairman

© Clement Azure — Devils Lake Sioux

© Walter Moffett — Nez Perce

e Emmett Oliver — Quinault

© Bob Parsley — Chippewa

@ Helen Redbird — Cherokee

@ Max Snow

e Jeanne Thomas — Warm Springs

@ Bill Yellowtail — Crow


Then it started to thunder as he was coming off of the moun-
tain. His grandmother heard the roaring but heeded her grandson’s
wish and never looked out of her tepee. The young man arrived home
and showed his gifts to his grandmother. What pretty things he had.
When the sisters heard that he was rich they tried to go over and be
friendly with him, but Na-See-Natchez just ignored them. They
were sorry for kicking him out of their house.

The moral of this story is:

“TREAT EVERYBODY THE SAME, NO MATTER WHAT KIND
OF PERSON HE IS.”


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One day the bear was checking the neck of the deer and bit her
neck and killed her. That evening the bear packed all of the deer meat
into her digging sacks and went back to the camp. When she arrived
she told the deer children, “Your mother has found a lot of yapah and

is going to camp there overnight so she can have an early start in
the morning.”