He did this for several days.
One day the sisters got wise to
him. They tied him tightly in the
cradleboard and left him there all
alone.

Coyote tried to use his tricks
to play games but he got fooled
instead.

16



Wolf and Coyote went hunt-
ing. Everyday they would camp at
anice spring. Wolf would say to
the camp, “I would like for you to
be set up at another spring with
good water.”



Coyote spied Porcupine looking for
obsidian along the river and saw him talking
to himself. Coyote asked Porcupine, “What
are you talking about?”

Porcupine tried to pretend that
he wasn’t talking about anything. But
Coyote had already overheard him
talking about looking for some sharp
obsidian to cut up Elk. He asked Por-
cupine, “Do you need a knife?” and
offered his knife to Porcupine.


He tried to say in a loud
voice to the camp, “Can you go set
up by that nice cool spring?” He
ran over to that certain spring but
there wasn’t any camp set up.

He went back to the old
camp and it was still set up. Not a
thing was taken down.

Coyote had spoiled every-
thing by being nosy.

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Cougar was walking along the same trail and saw Coyote
sleeping. He stopped in front of the sleeping Coyote and said to
himself, “This is how you should look.” As he was shaping his nose
into a long point he said, “This will make it easier to smell the
gophers.” After he shaped his nose, he went on his way. That’s why
Coyote has a sharp nose today.

Soon Cougar became very tired and decided to lay down and
take a nap.


Each time, their camp would
be set up before they got there.
Coyote could not figure it out. He
wondered who was always setting
these camps up.

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Coyote and His Big Brother Wolf


the river where there were a lot of
animals. He wanted somebody to

help him across. He asked each of the
animals if they could help him. The
animals all said, “Na,” until it came to
Elk. When Porcupine asked Elk, “Can
you help me?”, Elk answered, “Yes.”

Porcupine was trying to cross

Elk went across the swift river

to the other side where Porcupine was
waiting. Porcupine asked him,
“Where should I sit?” “You can sit on
my ears,” answered Elk. Porcupine
said, “But I might fall off when you
shake your ears.”

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Coyote and the Cougar

17


Soon Cougar woke up and joined Coyote. They continued their
walk together for awhile.

They parted along the trail. Coyote went hunting for gophers
and Cougar went up the rimrock to hunt.

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Coyote was walking along the river. He became tired and
stopped to take a nap.

19


Elk named all the parts of his body that
Porcupine could sit on, but each time Por-
cupine would say, “No.” He did this because he
wanted to kill Elk.

He wanted to get inside his stomach and
finally got inside Elk through a natural open-
ing. Porcupine asked Elk to let him know
when they got to the other side of the river.

When they reached the other side of
the river, Porcupine shook his quills and
killed Elk.

After he got out, he dragged the carcass ee
onto the bank. Porcupine started to look for — 2
obsidian with which to cut him up. ran . a

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The two sisters heard him
crying and pulled him out of the
water and dried him off. They
returned to camp and treated him
like a baby. He even slept with
them at night.

In the mornings they would
go fishing. After they would leave
Coyote untied the cradleboard to
let himself out so he could get into
mischief.



A meadowlark was singing
in a tree. Coyote thought the
meadowlark was mocking him,
but the bird was trying to tell him
how to get out from under
Grandfather. The meadowlark
told Coyote, “Poke Grandfather in
his stomach with your little fin-
ger.” Coyote did what the meadow-
lark told him to do and tore a hole
in his stomach which killed
Grandfather. Coyote was covered
with awful green stuff.



How Coyote Tricked Porcupine

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Thinking he had killed Cougar, he began to boil water to cook
him. Cougar saw what Coyote had done and was up in the tree
laughing at him.


Coyote and his big brother
Wolf were walking along a trail in
the woods. Wolf told Coyote,
“Don’t wander off because we
have a long way to go.” Soon
Coyote said, “I want to visit our
aunts.”

Wolf told him, “If you visit
our aunts, they will not share
their food which is sometimes
wild carrots. Instead they will
comb their fur out and offer you
their fleas.” Coyote did not believe
him.





The sisters would use a
spring to hold their fish in and old
Coyote would let the fish out back
into the stream.

When he heard them com-
ing up the trail, he would get back
into the cradleboard and tie him-
self up again.

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Grandfather (on his father’s
side) had a big round stomach and
had a habit of laying across the
doorway.

Coyote went inside Grand-
father’s house and sat down.
While he was sitting down, he was
looking at all the colorful costumes
that were hanging on the walls. He
silently picked the one he wanted
and grabbed it and ran for the door.
He tried to jump over Grandfather
but he hit his stomach and
bounced back. Grandfather rolled
on top of him and would not move.



Coyote woke up and was thirsty. He went to the river to get a
drink and saw his reflection in the water. He noticed that his nose
was shaped differently and became upset. Someone had played a
trick on him.

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Coyote went over to where Grandfather was digging for a groundhog
in the rocks.

While Grandfather was bending over, Coyote tickled him in the back.
Grandfather turned to see who was doing it. When he saw who had been
tickling him, he asked Coyote, “Will you go into the hole to get the ground-
hog which I have been having trouble getting out?” Coyote quickly crawled
into the hole, and Grandfather covered him up with rocks and
left him.


Coyote escaped and caught up with his brother. Wolf asked, “What took
you so long? What is that stuff all over you. Coyote told him what had
happened during his visit.

They continued walking. There was smoke in the distance. It was
coming from his other Grandfather’s camp.

Coyote said, “I am going to go see Grandfather.” Wolf tried to warn
Coyote, “Grandfather tries to trick people into a hole and cover them
with rocks.”


He went and hid behind
some bushes to watch. Soon a
pretty Indian girl came along and
started to take the camp down and
pack it up.

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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.

1.

2.

3.

4.

5.

Warm Springs Animal Stories
The Confederated Tribes of the Warm Springs
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Snail Women at Sq*a’le

The Suquamish Tribe of the Port Madison
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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
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6. How the Summer Season Came

7.

Assiniboine Tribe of the Fort Belknap
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Little Weasel’s Dream

Salish and Kootenai Tribes of the Flathead
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8. Fort Hall Stories

9.

10.

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Shoshone-Bannock Tribes of the Fort Hall
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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
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13.

14,

15.

16.

Chief Mountain’s Medicine
Gros Ventre Tribe from the Fort Belknap
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Coyote the Trickster
Burns Paiute Reservation

Running Free
Shoalwater Bay

Salish Coyote Stories
Salish and Kootenai Tribes of the Flathead
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Coyote and the Cowboys
Shoshone-Bannock Tribes of the Fort Hall
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17. Napi’s Journey

18.

19.

Blackfeet Tribe

Warm Springs Stories

The Confederated Tribes of the Warm Springs
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Tepee Making

Salish and Kootenai Tribes of the Flathead
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20. Baskets and Canoes

21.

Skokomish Tribe

Warrior People
Blackfeet Tribe


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Finally, they realized they could not kill each other and
became friends.

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“I am going to visit them
anyway,” said Coyote. As soon as
he got there, his aunts started to
comb their fur out. Coyote remem-
bered what his big brother Wolf
had said about them, so he left.

They continued on their
journey and this time Coyote
wanted to visit his grandfather.
Wolf told him, “Grandfather has
many Indian costumes but he
never gives anything to anyone.”





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Coyote went on walking when something spooked him. He
hid in the tall grass. He then realized that Cougar was out to kill
him. They were trying to kill each other.


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Coyote ran as fast as he
could toward the girl but she
disappeared. Coyote looked for the
girl but no girl could be found.

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Coyote and the Two Sisters

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Coyote was traveling along when two
girls caught Coyote’s eye. He dropped the pack from
his back and decided to play a game with them.

He went up stream and jumped in the water. He
started crying like a baby as he was floating down the
stream.

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When they got to Elk, Coyote
had a plan. He would wait until after
they cut up Elk. He asked Porcupine if
he wanted to make a deal. The deal
was, whoever jumped over Elk the
farthest would win all the meat. Por-
cupine tried to run as fast as he could
but didn’t quite make it and bounced
back. Coyote ran and jumped over Elk,
so he won.


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He continued on down the trail and came upon Cougar who
was sleeping. He decided to play a trick on him and shaped his nose
round and flat. As he was shaping his nose, he told Cougar, “This is
how you should look when you are hunting along the rimrock.” This
is why the cougar has a nose that is round and flat today.


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Later, he told his brother
Wolf, “Why don’t you go along the
other side of the water and I'll fol-
low this trail.” He wanted to see
who was always putting up and
taking down the camp each time.



They met again and Coyote said, “Why don’t we build a
fire and tell stories?” They were both on the ground. Cougar climbed
into a tree. Coyote had a plan for him. While Coyote wasn’t looking
Cougar had taken his fur off, rolled it into a ball, and put it under a
tree. Coyote shot the fur with his bow and arrow.

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Wolf kept walking. After awhile he became worried about his brother
and turned back to look for him.

While Wolf was walking back, he said to himself, “I suppose he got into
trouble again.”

When Wolf got to the rockpile, he kicked a rock and out popped Coyote
carrying a big groundhog. This time the trick was on Grandfather.