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


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Coyote immediately held up his hands and starting counting on
his fingers.


FVELYA TETON

A long time ago when animals and birds were people, many
different kinds lived together in a large village. This was the time
when the earth was first formed and there were no seasons.


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A plan was formed. Jumping Mouse was to sit next to the
doorway. As soon as Coyote started counting the Spring months,
Jumping Mouse was to jump up and say, “We only want three

months of Winter.”


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It was decided that the leaders would have a meeting and vote
on the length of the cold months. The meeting was to be held in the

largest tepee.


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The people in the village were undecided about the length of
the seasons. They were especially concerned about the length of the
winter season.


That is how the people won the vote to have only three months
of cold Winter.

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This worried the leaders because they thought Coyote’s vote
would make winter last longer. They tried desperately to think of a
way to block Coyote’s vote. One of the elders said, “My brother
Woe-bee-bah-noh-ch (Jumping Mouse) can block Coyote’s vote.”


MONTHS

The Indian Reading Series

Level V Book 11


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he meeting went just as expec Coyote sat in the center of
the tepee and Jumping Mouse sat by the door.


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Then Jumping Mouse was to walk out and everyone was to
follow him. This was the only way they knew to outsmart that tricky
old Coyote.


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ZveLyn TETON

All the leaders except Coyote agreed winter should last three
months.


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When he had run out of fingers he laid down, sticking his feet
in the air, so he could count on his toes.

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This left poor old Coyote on his back with all fours in the air,
right in the middle of that huge tepee.

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a THE INDIAN READING SERIES
% Stories and Legends of the Northwest

Winter Months
Series V

By members of the Fort Hall Reservation Committee

Maxine Edmo, Coordinator
Raymond George

Inez M. Evening

Cora P. George

Andrew Punkin, Jr.

Illustrated by Evelyn A. Teton Evening

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:

+ 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


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PueLyn TETON

One of the leaders started naming the months in Indian, start-
ing with Fall (November). Coyote just couldn’t sit still any longer, so
he yelled out in a real loud, excited voice, “Wait a minute. Let me
count out the months.”


BAYA TETON

When Coyote got to Spring, the signal word, Jumping Mouse
jumped up.

Jumping Mouse hollered out, “That’s it! That’s it! We will have
three months of winter.”

After saying that Jumping Mouse walked out of the tepee just
as planned and the others followed him.

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