The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-08-16
THE ORIGIN OF MAN.
Story of the Creation, as Told and Be
 lleved by the Indians.
From Forest and Stream.

From Forest and Stream.
 The Indians say that the Great Snirit made Mount Tahoma the first of all Boring hole in the sky, using large stone as an auger, he pushed down snow and Ice until they reached the desired height, then stepped from cloud to cIoud down to the great icy pile, and from 1t to the earth, where he planted the first trees by merely putting his finger into the soil here and there The sun began to melt the snow, the snow produced water, the water ran down the side of the mountain, refreshed the trees and made rivers. The great Spirit gathered the leaves that fell from the trees. blew upon them, and they became birds. He took stick and broke it into pieces. Of the small end he made fishes and of the middle of the stick he made animals the grizzly bear excepted, which he formed from the big end of the stick appointing him to be master over all the others.
 Indeed this animal grew so large strong, and cunning that the Creator somewhat feared him, and so hollowed out Mount Tahoma as a wigwam for himself where he might reside while on earth in the most perfect security and comfort So the smoke was soon to be seen curling up from the mountain where the Great Spirit and his family lived and still live, though their hearth fire is alight no longer, now that the white man is in the land. This was thousands of snows ago.
 After this came late and severe spring time, in which a memorable storm blew up from the sea, shaking the huge lodge to it's base. The Great Spirit command ed his daughter, then little more than an infant, to go up and bid the wind be still, cautioningf her at the same time not to put her head out into the blast but only to thrust out her little arm and make sign before she delivered her message
 The eager child hastened up to the hole in the roof, did as she was told, and then turned to descend but her curiosity inn pelled her to look at the forbidden world outside, and the rivers and trees; at the
 
 storm had made us hoary as the forest when the snow Is on the frs. So she stopped and put out her head to look l Instantly the storm took her by the long | hair and blew her down to the earth | down the mountainside, over the smooth ice and soft snow, down to the land oi | the grizzly bears.
 | Now the grizzly bears were then some what different from what they are al | present. In appearance, it is true, they were much the same, but they walked l then on their hind legs, liked men, and talked and carried clubs, using the fore | limbs as men use their arms. At the foot | of the mountain, at the place where the
 child was blown to, lived a family oi
 grizzlies. The father grizzly was return i ing from the hunt with his club on his ! shoulder and young elk in his hant i when he saw the shiverfhg little waif ly-
 ing on the snow with her hair all tangled 1 about her.
 The old grizzly pitying and wondering | what should be done. She, too, was pitt up and carried 1t in to his wife to set I full and fed 1t from her own breast, bring | ing it up as one of their family. So th'
 daughter of the Great Spirit grew up, ant at the strange forlorn creature, lifted | the eldest son of the old grizzly married
 her, and their offspring was neither griz xly nor Great Spirit, but man.