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how antelope stole the moon
There was an Indian village down near the place where the sun
sets. The people there had the moon.
Other Indians wanted to go
and steal the moon and put it back up. They were going to hide
and try to steal it. The Indians who had it knew the others were
coming to get the moon. They were going to run after them
and kill them.
Then two antelope came and decided they would
steal the moon. They knew they were so fast the people wouldn't
be able to catch them. They stole the moon, and sure enough, the
people couldn't keep up because the antelope ran so fast.
When the antelope came to the other village they put the moon outside
a teepee and went in. Coyote heard about it and ran out and saw
the moon outside by the teepee. He took the moon and ran away
with it.
The antelope heard him, and they ran after Coyote as he
raced toward the river. They were going to catch Coyote, but he
gave the moon a mighty heave and threw it in the pool below the
falls in the Spokane River.
It is still there.
(Inland Northwest - Spokane)
As told by Margaret Adams.
Margaret Adams was an Upper Spokane, who moved with her family to
the Coeur d'Alene Reservation according to the Agreement of 1887.
from Children of the Sun - A History of the Spokane Indians
by David C. Wynecoop, Wellpinit, Washington © 1969
Last Updated
December 23, 2004
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