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“Yo! Iam not going back. I’ll stay here until this
evening when she comes out again so I can see her. After I
see her Ill go back. I have nothing to do. I have no further
business. It will be good to stay here.”

Coyote lay there. Just as the sun touched the eve-
ning she came out.

“Hay yo! Beautiful! That’s the way it is. She is beau-
tiful! Beautiful! Beautiful! Beautiful!” Coyote couldn't
stop saying how beautiful she was. “Beautiful! Beautiful!
Beautiful!”


The grease didn’t get a chance to hit
the ground and Coyote swallowed it.

Inf a Aameuda Add ison

37


If the Raven spoke, Coyote knew he
would drop what he had in his mouth.

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~— Alomdas dena




Early in the morning Coyote fixed himself. He
bathed and put on his finest.

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52

Coyote sneaked up and stepped on the grease. It
stuck to his feet. He oiled his hands and raised them
to his lips.
“Ha! You're dirty! Quit that! Go to my tepee and eat!”
“Ha yo! You are right.”


50

Early in the morning Coyote left. He knew the place
now. He got out of the trees. The man was just making a
fire at his sweathouse.


56

Suddenly, Coyote heard deer running, lu, lu, lu and
snorting. There would be a snap, then the sound of the
deer running. What he heard was the dry meat falling off
the racks, turning into deer and running away.

He jumped up and ran out. The meat was just about
gone. The deer were running all over.

Woodtick was hollering.


60

He heard the woodtick among them. Soon it was
quiet. Everything was gone.

He went over to where he threw the man. He
was gone.

Coyote sat there. Soon he got a stomach ache. The
meat he had eaten turned back into a deer. Swoosh! It too
ran out. His stomach was empty now.


48

“Right by the edge of the meadow there was a
sweathouse. That was where the man was making a fire.
He was using intestines for wood. The grease was just
pouring out. I talked to him but he wouldn’t talk to me. I
watched him until he turned his face from me. I touched
the grease that was pouring out.”

“Ah, quit that! You’re dirty! Go to my house and eat!
There is a lot of dry meat!” he hollered at me.


Again he tried raising his back. Nothing. He had
gone his farthest this time. He couldn’t move.

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38

Raven told Coyote where the Indian people were
hunting. “I don’t know where that is,” Coyote said, “but I'll
sing my song and by chance I'll get there.”

That is where the stories told by Salish end. Coyote
continued on from here to make his way to another tribe.
Eneas Pierre thinks that it is probably the Nez Perce.


Coyote Gets Lovesick

Told by Pete Beaverhead
Illustrated by Tony Sandoval


“Where did you get it?” Coyote yelled
jumping up.



17


Too al. Sanpoume—

7

When he brought Coyote back to life, Camp Robber
said,“ Let it be that when man gets lovesick for someone, it
won't be a way to die. There will be a lovesickness, but

man won’t die from it. 23


19


“Where did you get it?” Coyote said
running after the Raven.

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14

Just as the sun shone brightly she came out.

“Ha yo! She really is beautiful. Ha yo! This is good.
She has such good clothes,” Coyote thought.

The young men were many that crowded about her.
She went to the edge of the camp and went into the trees. A
little while later she came out. She went back into the
tepee. That was all for now. The young men left.


58

Coyote ran back into the tepee. One deer came run-
ning out knocking him over. The deer ran all around him.
He got up, ran and opened the door. Nothing.


~ my 4 Dawyera— : eA

“That is where I go. There is one woman among
them. She is the most beautiful woman in all this land.
No one is as beautiful as she. I go there to yearn
for her.”


Soon he heard a couple of ravens flying
overhead.





Coyote and Camp Robber lived in the same tepee.
Camp Robber was Coyote’s roommate and friend.
Early in the morning Coyote would wake up. His
friend would already be gone. It would be dark when he
returned, tired and hungry.
As soon as Coyote would wake, he would look at his
friend’s bed. Already he would be gone. 3








“Yo, my breath is short. I wish whoever wants it that
way that I might live to see her again this day.”
He didn’t get to see her again. He died.

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The Indian Reading Series

Level IV Book 15


44

Early in the morning they would go out looking for
food. They were in need. Food was hard to find. One day
Coyote came back near camp. Fox was singing.


“Each morning just as the sun shows, you can see
her go out of the tepee. The young men are all around
flirting. Me, I flirt from the hilltop far away. I don’t get
near. Later, she goes back into the tepee. Then just as the
sun touches the evening she comes out again. We see her
again. Twice a day we feast our eyes. Beautiful, beautiful
is the chief’s daughter.”

“Okay, now you stay home this time,” Coyote told
his friend.


“Everyday the young men crowd there from afar to
flirt with her. They are all dressed in their finest. They are
all crowded around her. Me, I always watch her from the
top of the hill.” 7


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Coyote ran back into the tepee, grabbed some par-
fleches and ran back out. He threw them into the water.
Just as soon as they splashed, they would turn into deer
and swim across the water.

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He lay down by the Medicine Tree.

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Alomdo Addison

28


He thought this was unusual. That wasn’t Fox’s way.
Coyote went in and sat there. Right away he looked at
Fox’s lips. His lips were oily. He thought, “He has been
eating something greasy.”

45


Coyote was walking around one day
very hungry.



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“% Stories and Legends of the Northwest



The next evening when Camp Robber got back tired
and hungry, Coyote asked him, “Where do you go?”

“Ah, yes. That’s right. I haven’t told you. When you
go out, go straight from here, not far. Go until you get to
the end of the trees and go to the top of the hill. It’s not too
high. At the bottom of the hill there is a big clearing. A lot
of people are camped there.”


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She went back in. “Ho! I'll stay overnight here. After
I see her in the morning I'll go home. Iam going to sleep
anyway.”

Morning came. He saw her again. Again he felt the
same way.

“Hoy! I’ll stay until evening. After I see her I’ll go.”

Morning came. Ha yo! Coyote couldn’t see very well.
It was like there was fog all over as he watched the people
cooking. He rubbed his eyes. He was going to get up, but
he couldn’t. He had been lying there several days not
drinking or eating. He tried to stand but couldn't.

He raised his head and tried to bend backwards.
Nothing. He tried his eyes but they weren’t very clear.

The brightness of the sun was shining over the
mountains. Soon, the sun came out. As soon as the woman
came out he knew, even though his eyes were cloudy.

“Oh, that woman is beautiful.”

She went back in the tepee.


Suddenly, he heard something saying, “The deer are
running! The deer are running!” Coyote was startled. He
sat up. It was coming from where he had thrown the man.
He slowly went towards him. He was lying there dead. As
soon as Coyote turned his back, the man would holler
again, “The deer are running! Wha, wha, wha! I am dead
and I can’t run again!” Coyote ran back to the tepee.

The man that he had killed was a woodtick. That is
what had been killing all the deer.

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JOHNNY ARLEE ANDY WOODCOCK
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Coyote kept after him.

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Finally, Raven spoke. His grease fell down.



“Ah! Good morning! You’re already making fire
for a sweat.”

The man didn’t talk to him.

“Did you hear? I am talking to you.”

The man never talked to him. He didn’t even pay
attention to him. He was busy with his rocks.

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54

“Now all of this meat belongs to us,” he thought. He
went back into the tepee and lay down and sang his song.


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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, I] and III sequences.

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. 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


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 Salish Cultural Committee, designated as the representatives
of The Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes of the Flathead Reservation
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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Coyote and Fox had their tepee set up by a large
meadow.

43


Coyote’s Dry Meat Turns Into Live Deer

Told by Pete Beaverhead
Illustrated by Andy Woodcock

41


a Puy Saeoora—

Coyote went out into the woods then entered a clear-
ing. There was the hill his friend had,told him about. Below
in the clearing he saw that there were already a lot of
young men around the camp. uW


Coyote went. There was a lot of food. Finally, he
finished eating what he had taken.

“There, that’s enough!”

He went back to the sweathouse. He took two big
rocks and waited for the man to come out. Just as the man
came out, he hit him over the head until he died. He
dragged him to some bushes and threw him in.

53


The tepee fell down and turned into a deer and took
off running. The dry meat racks turned into deer, too and
ran off. Soon everything was gone.

59


“Now Ill see what this woman looks like.”

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THE INDIAN READING SERIES
Stories and Legends of the Northwest

Coyote Gets Lovesick
Coyote and Raven

Coyote’s Dry Meat Turns Into Live Deer
Level IV Book 15

Developed by the Salish (Flathead) Cultural Committee
of the Confederated Salish/Kootenai Tribes

Johnny Arlee, Chairman
Clarence Woodcock, Coordinator
Tony Incashola

Mary Linsebigler

Tony Sandoval, I/lustrator

Andy Woodcock, Illustrator
Alameda Addison, Illustrator
Peter Finley

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



He hated to give it up.

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“Yo,” the Camp Robber thought, “My friend has
been gone for many days. I'll go see.”

He left and got to where he used to watch. There was
Coyote all dried up, dead.


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:

+ Warren Clements — Warm Springs
Chairman

+ Clement Azure — Devils Lake Sioux

+ Walter Moffett — Nez Perce

+ Emmett Oliver — Quinault

+ Bob Parsley — Chippewa

* Lloyd Smith — Warm Springs

+ Max Snow

+ Jeanne Thomas — Yakima


46

“My brother, what made your mouth so oily?”
“No, I don’t have an oily mouth.”
“Yes, your mouth is oily from fat.”


One Raven was biting a piece of grease.

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Coyote and Raven

Told by Eneas Pierre
Illustrated by Alameda Addison

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When he got back, his Brother told him, “That is
why I was hiding it from you. You are too greedy.”
Coyote ended up hungry again.

61


“It is because you are so crazy that I hid it from you.
Over in a clearing I saw a tepee. A lone man was getting a
lot of deer. He had anumber of dry meat racks full of meat.
In his tepee the piles of parfleches with pounded meat
were high. He sure was getting a lot. I went out of the trees
into a clearing and saw smoke from a meat rack. He had a
lot of tepees lined up way over there.”

47


“I went in and ate until I was full. I went back out.
He was already sweating. The sweathouse covering was
made from a thin layer of skin taken from the inside
of a hide.”

Coyote told him, “Well then, in the morning you stay
home. I'll go this time.”

49


He went up the hill and found the place his friend
had lain to watch. It was well worn. He sat there. He
looked toward where the sun rises. It was bright. Soon the
sun would come out.

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