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“Wow! Dad, I sure like those stories.” said Beulups.

“Yes, Dad,” said Cha-Za-Hub, “can we hear them
again soon?”

“Sure, sons. We had better go home now. It has been
dark for some time and your mother must be wondering
where we are.”


10

“It’s a good thing Spring Salmon and Steelhead did
not get into a fight with the Humpback Salmon. If
Humpback Salmon is angered, he brings sickness when
he comes up the river. People become sick with smallpox
or something.

“However, when Humpback first came upriver he
was afraid of Indians. He did not wish to be made fun of by
anyone. In coming up the river he wished no one would
catch him and throw him on the bank carelessly.
Humpback Salmon came up the river singing loudly. He
wanted everyone to hear him. He sang,

I don’t want people to make sport of me. The
Muckleshoot young people are going to laugh at me
because I have a humpback, coming up the river.

“Humpback Salmon went up the river to die. He
liked that, lying along the bank dying slowly. His soul
always went home to the ocean and returned every spawn-
ing season. His soul went downriver singing.

Good-by people. It will be another year before I come
up the river again. Good-by people.

“He still sings this song to the Muckleshoot people
as he leaves the river which is located along nine miles of
their reservation.”


A Fishing Excursion




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



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“The following season, the King Salmon run filled
the river from bank to bank. The boy and all the people of
the village gathered on the bank to watch them.

“All at once a King Salmon, bound with three cords
of cedar bark around its body, came to the surface and
approached the shore. As he had done before, the boy
speared the salmon and cast it upon the shore.

“Immediately, the boy fainted and fell to the ground.
The people called the village doctor. With the assistance of
his spirit helper,the doctor told the people that King
Salmon had taken the boy’s soul and carried it to the ocean
to replace King Salmon’s soul.


“Spring Salmon grew angry. He said to his compan-
ions, ‘Let’s attack Steelhead!’ Spring Salmon attacked
Steelhead and took his canoe, paddle, pole and even his
clothes. Steelhead was left with nothing; even his bones
were taken!




The young boys, Beulups (Baa loops) and Cha-Za-
Hub (Cha’ tsa hub), were sitting by the river watching
their father. Father always brought the boys to the river
with him because he wanted them to learn to be fisher-
men. The boys also wanted to be the best fishermen and
be able to provide lots of fish for their families to eat.

Their favorite way to eat fish was dried. They also
enjoyed fish when it was boiled, fried, baked or roasted
over the open fire. They loved fish any way it was fixed.

One day, while they were fishing with Father, they
wondered how he knew the different names for the fish.
They also wondered how their mom knew how to prepare
the different kinds of fish. Today they decided to ask
Father how the different kinds of salmon got their names.


“This is why the bow and arrow are hung up and not used during
the time of the King Salmon run. If these weapons are carried around,
astray arrow might strike and injure the King Salmon.”

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“Steelhead Salmon became embarrassed and hid
behind the nearest Yew tree. He made for himself bones of
Yew wood. He also made clothes. Yew is a very hard wood,
this is why Steelhead’s skin is so tough. From the same
wood he made a canoe, pole and paddles and started back
to the Puget Sound.

“Before going, he said to Spring Salmon, “You may
toss your head all you please, as you make your way
upriver. Remember, you are handsomely arrayed in the
clothes you have taken from me but you still have your big
head.’




They noticed Father approaching. By the way he
walked, they knew he was ready to go home. The boys ran
to meet him and Beulups asked him ifhe would tell them a
story, one he heard when he was a boy. “Okay, son,” said
Father, “I love to retell the stories I used to hear.”

“Long ago, both the Steelhead and the Spring Sal-
mon used to run in the river called the Stuck or White
River. The Steelhead and Spring Salmon got into a fight.
They fought over who should have the river to himself.
Spring Salmon said, ‘This river should belong to me be-
cause I am the best looking of all the fish.’

“Steelhead replied, ‘I suppose this river is good for
salmon like you with your big head and big belly.’


Booklets available in the Level V 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, III and IV sequences.

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10,

. Little Ghost Bull and The Story of Firemaker

Northern Cheyenne Tribe

.A Visit to Taholah and Joseph's Long Journey

Shoalwater Bay Tribe

Stories From Burns
Burns Paiute Reservation

Ghost Woman!The Skull Story
Blackfeet Tribe

. The Lone Pine Tree and The Lodge Journey

Blackfeet Tribe

. Mary Queequeesue’s Love Story

Salish and Kootenai Tribes of the Flathead
Reservation

- Ghost Stories

Assiniboine Tribe of the Fort Peck Reservation

A Fishing Excursion
Muckleshoot Tribe

. Buffalo of the Flatheads

Salish and Kootenai Tribes of the Flathead
Reservation

How Animals Got Their Color

Klamath, Modoc and Paiute Tribes

11. Winter Months
Shoshone-Bannock Tribes of the Fort Hall
Reservation

12. Coyote Arranges the Seasons
Klamath, Modoc and Paiute Tribes

13. Broken Shoulder
Gros Ventre Tribe of the Fort Belknap
Reservation

14. How the Big Dipper and North Star Came To Be
Assiniboine Tribe of the Fort Peck Reservation

15. Duckhead Necklace and Indian Love Story
Assiniboine Tribe of the Fort Belknap
Reservation

16. White Rabbit
Sioux Tribe of the Fort Peck Reservation

17. How Horses Came to The Gros Ventre/Red Bird's
Death
Gros Ventre Tribe from the Fort Belknap
Reservation

18. Stories of an Indian Boy
Muckleshoot Tribe.



Developed by the Pacific Northwest Indian Reading and Language Development Program
Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory, 300 Southwest Sixth Avenue, Portland, Oregon 97204

Copyright © 1981 by the Muckleshoot Tribe
All rights reserved.

‘The work upon which this publication is based was performed pursuant to Contract
No. 400-80-0105 with the Educational Equity Group/Multicultural/Bilingual Division
of the National Institute of Education. It does not, however, necessarily reflect the
views of that agency.

Printed and bound in the United States of America


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“One day, when King Salmon was running strong, the boy
speared a salmon and cast it on shore. The boy had some cord woven
from cedar bark. He fastened this around the salmon’s gills, before the
middle fins and the tail.

“The salmon died. Soon the salmon decayed on the bank and
passed from sight.

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5 THE INDIAN READING SERIES
= y Stories and Legends of the Northwest

A Fishing Excursion
Level V Book

Developed by the Muckleshoot Curriculum Committee
Charlotte Williams, Coordinator

Written by Charlotte Williams

Illustrated by Arlene Sevdy

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




12

The boys loved the story Father told them. Although
it was getting dark and Mother was making dinner,
Beulups wanted to hear one more story. He asked his
father, “What is the story about Salmon never dying?”

“Once there was a boy who asked the same question.
Let me tell you what he did,” said Father.

“He decided to make an experiment and see whether
the salmon really lived again. The name of the salmon
which he experimented with was King Salmon.