Two Thunder Bird Stories Myths and Legends of the Pacific Northwest, especially of Washington and Oregon, by Katharine Berry Judson (1910):
The Golden Age-
Earth was only water and there no people or land. Except, the thunder bird. His wings were thunder. He flew down and touched the water and created land. He did it again and created animals.
When people came he gave them an arrow and told them they could not use it. As long as they followed the rule they would not die.
One day they broke the rule and they died like normally Indians.
Coyote and Grizzly Myths and Legends of the Pacific Northwest, especially of Washington and Oregon, by Katharine Berry Judson (1910):
A grizzly ate too many Indians one day and became ill. She called the coyote to be medicine man, reluctantly the coyote went.
He told the grizzly it was from eating too many cherries so the people would not run away.
The grizzly began chasing the coyote and the coyote would change himself into different forms.
The last form was an old man in a teepee. The bear asked the man if he had seen the coyote. The old man (coyote) told the bear it had gone over the bridge. The bear went over the bridge but it broke and the bear drowned.
Coyote and the Dragon Myths and Legends of the Pacific Northwest, especially of Washington and Oregon, by Katharine Berry Judson (1910):
A dragon lived in a cave and all the people in the valley were afraid of it.
The dragon could not see the sun and and could only come out at night.
One day the coyote shot his arrow to the sun and did so many times until he was able to pull the sun down and hide it in the river.
The dragon thought the sun went down and came out of the cave. When he did so the coyote let the sun go and the dragon was blinded by the sun. When this happened the coyote killed the dragon.
Coyote. Kansas Tourism, 2012. Flickr.
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