The Creation as the Maidu Told It (coyote with bow print)

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• Indiana State University

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Created by Púktim. Text: “keep after him with all your strength “said coyote/” he might do us harm! Stay after him!” They ran down the first mountain and up another one/and, when they had taken a look around, /they quickly went down int the valley below/The Stranger, just high above the trees, /was far away and running “Now, then” said Coyote, /” stretch yourselves to the limit, stay after him!”/He seems to be getting away from us! “Now it does, indeed/look as if he’s gone further over the ridge/He seems to have left us far behind.”/Coyote outran everyone else. /” Do the best you can,” he said/ They were all in hot pursuit They came to the edge of the valley/ but the stranger had already run across it. /” Use you power, use your power!” said coyote/” He may outrun us yet!” Coyote reached the middle of the valley/”Now, then” he said, “ It looks like hem may get away from us”/Then, raising his bow, Coyote shot an arrow/which seemed to travel quickly to it smart./ it hit the stranger in the calf of the leg./Pierced by the arrow, he broke all to pieces./And so it was that Coyote killed the salt creature. Then all the others caught t up and Coyote spoke to them. /” when humans tell stories, they’ll say: /’Coyote killed Old Man Salt, long ago, /after he had outrun everybody else,!’"