JEANNE EVERNDEN

Jennne Evernden is a Skokomish Indian and was born and
raised on the Skokomiah reservation near the Hood Canal in
Washington. She graduated from Irene S. Reed High Schoo!
in Shelton and attended Haskell Indian Schoo! for two
years, where she took commercial courses. Sbe has managed
the Tribal Smake Shop and is now actively involved in the
Skokomiah Language Project, which is developing an une-
bridged Skokemish dictionary. She also is the mother of
eight children and hopes The Indinn Reading Series will
become a permanent part of the schooling system because
“Indinn history and involvement are very important to our
young people”

BRUCE MILLER

Bruce Miller, a Skokomieh Indian, has held art exhibitions
in Europe, South America and throughout the United
States, He was nominated for the Indian Arts Commission
Board for the Washington State Arta Commission, won the
Washington Bicentennial Playwrite Award for his play
Changer, and recently completed a screenplay. The Lord of
the House of the Maimed, to be aired as an EXXON special
on the OBS network. He presently is Director of the Skoko-
mish Tribal Learning Center, hn served as Coordinator for
the Skokomish Title IV Program and was Human Relations

‘alist and Counselor for the Seattle Public Schoots He
also has acted with theater groupe iach as Native American
Theater Ensemble (New York) and Red Earth Performing
Arts Company (Seattle), He attended the Institute of Armer-
ican Indian Arts, California College of Arts and Crafts, and
University of California at Berkeles In addition, he baw
received special training in etage direction and acting tech-
nique from, among others, Geraldine Page, Peter Brook
(three time winner at Cannes Film Festival for best direc-
tion) and ‘Tom O'Horgan (director of Godapell, Huir and
Jexua Chriat Superstar?

WILMA PETTY

Wilma Petty, a Skokomish Indian, was born and raised on
the Skokomish reservation. She graduated from Chemawa
Indian School in 1996 and has taken advanced coursework
in child paycholoyy She han served as Home Schoal Coor
dinator for Project Head Start and Supervisor of the Skoko-
mish Summer Recreation Program. For the past five years
she has been # Teacher's Aide at Hood Canal School and is
currently involved in the Skokomiah Languuge Project,
which is developing » dictionary of the Skokomiah lan-
uage. As the mother of five children, abe “would like to see
The Indian Reading Series in public schools for non-Indian
as well ae Indian children.”


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After the waters had gone down,
the Changer came to make over the world.



An old Skokomish lady says the great flood came
because some of the people were bad.



Booklets available in the Level II 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 and ITI sequences.

1 End of Summer
Crow Tribal Historical and Cultural
Commission

2 Thunder and the Mosquito
Muckleshoot Tribe

3 Why the Codfish Has a Red Face
Skokomish Tribe

4 How Wildcat and Coyote Tricked Each
Other
Shoshone-Bannock Tribes of the
Fort Hall Reservation

5 Pat Learns About Wild Peppermint
Blackfeet Tribe
6 Picture Writing
The Confederated Tribes of the
Warm Springs Reservation of Oregon
7 Grandma Rides in the Parade
Crow Tribal Historical and Cultural
Commission
8 The Bob-Tuiled Coyote
Northern Cheyenne Tribe
9 The Great Flood
Skokomish Tribe
10 The Rainbow
The Confederated Tribes of the
Warm Springs Reservation of Oregon
11 The Time the Whale Came to Jackson's
Bay
Skokomish Tribe

12 Coyote and the Man Who Sits On Top
Salish Cultural Committee of
The Confederated Salish and
Kootenai Tribes of the Flathead
Reservation

13 The Crow
Assiniboine and Sioux Tribes of the
Fort Peck Reservation

14 Tepee, Sun and Time
Crow Tribal Historical and Cultural
Commission

15 Water Story

Crow Tribal Historical and Cultural
Commission

16 How Birds Learned to Fly
The Fourteen Confederated Tribes
from the Yakima Nation
17 Napi and the Bullberries
Blackfeet Tribe
18 How Cottontail Lost His Tail
The Confederated Tribes of the
Warm Springs Reservation of Oregon
19 Being Indian Is
The Confederated Tribes of the
Warm Springs Reservation of Oregon
20 Why Animals and Man Can No
Longer Talk to One Another
The Confederated Tribes of the
Warm Springs Reservation of Oregon

For order information and prices of the above booklets and the Teacher’s Manual, contact the publisher:

Educational Systems, Inc.
2360 Southwest 170th Street
Beaverton, Oregon 97005

(503) 649-7516


When the strangers spoke to them, they said,

“We are the people who drifted away during the flood”

And that is why the Skokomish and Salish

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speak the same language.



First the people made ropes of cedar.
The people tied the ropes to their canoes
and fastened them to a mountain near the canal.



ig he Won, "

They built the house higher and higher.



Among those bad people were sisters

who desired something they shouldn't.
They wanted to see the Changer.
The three sisters built a very high house.
They made it tall so they could reach the sky.



Area Map
of the Great Flood

OLYMPIC
3( MOUNTAINS
Se SALISH
SKOKOMISH .

At A

MOUNTAINS



When the great flood came,
the three sisters drifted away.
But the good people were told
how to prepare for the flood.



The Great Flood
The Indian Reading Series

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or

Level 1] Book 9


The water rose until the mountains disappeared.
Some of the ropes to the mountain broke,

and the canoes drifted away.
The other canoes stayed tied to the mountain.



When the world became flooded,
the Skokomish people floated higher and higher
into the Olympic mountains.



By the time the house was finished,
the three sisters could not speak
the same language.
They could not understand each other.
This is why there are so many different languages today.



THE INDIAN READING SERIES:
Stories and Legends of the Northwest



Developed by the Pacific Northwest Indian Reading and Language Development Program
Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory, 710 Southwest Second Avenue, Portland, Oregon 97204

Copyright ©1978 by the Skokomish Tribe
All rights reserved.

The work upon which this publication is based was performed pursuant to Contract
No. 400-76-0048, 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.

This publication is not printed at the expense of the Federal Government.
Published by Educational Systems, Inc., 2360 Southwest 170th Street, Beaverton, Oregon 97005
Printed and bound in the United States of America


He transformed the three bad sisters
into a mountain with three peaks.
It is now called Sisters Peak.

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One day a long time after the flood,
some Skokomish people were traveling.
They heard some strangers talking in their language.

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

The Great Flood
Level II Book 9

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Coast Area Planning Committee

Edith Cusack

Jeanne Evernden

Bruce Miller

Georgia Oliver, Consultant
Wilma Petty

Seahtlhuk (Gary Hillaire)

Bernice Lozier Tanewasha

Charlotte Williams

ASkokomish Legend
Illustrated by Bruce Miller

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 members
are:

¢ Warren Clements — Warm Springs
Chairman

* Morrie Jimenez — Klamath

¢ Joan Kennerly — Blackfeet

¢ Walter Moffett — Nez Perce

¢ Emmett Oliver — Quinault

¢ Bob Parsley — Chippewa

¢ Lloyd Smith — Warm Springs

¢ Max Snow

¢ Jeanne Thomas — Yakima


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The people who broke loose kept their canoes tied together
until they drifted to the country of the Salish Indians.
And there they stayed.



The Skokomish people who had stayed tied to the mountain
settled on a bay near the Seattle area.

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