The Eagle wasn't always the Eagle.  The Eagle, before he became the Eagle, was Yucatangee, the Talker.  Yucatangee talked and talked.  It talked so much it heard only itself.  Not the river, not the wind, not even the Wolf.  The Raven came and said "The Wolf is hungry.  If you stop talking, you'll hear him. The wind too.  And when you hear the wind, you'll fly."  And became its nature, the Eagle. 

The Eagle soared, and its flight said all it needed to say.  

If birds could talk they wouldn't be able to fly, words are heavy...like stones.  They weigh you down.

The Raven

A long time ago, the Raven looked down from the sky and saw that the people of the world were living in darkness. The ball of light was kept hidden

by a selfish old chief. So the Raven turned himself into a spruce needle, and floated on the river where the chief's daughter came for water. She

drank the spruce needle. She became pregnant and gave birth to a boy, who was the Raven in disguise. The baby cried and cried until the chief gave

him the ball of light to play with. As soon as he had the light, the Raven turned back into himself. The Raven carried the light into the sky. From

then on, we no longer lived in darkness.

The Warrior

There was a warrior who had a fine stallion.  Everyone said how lucky he was to have such a horse.  "Maybe" he said.  One day the stallion ran

off.  The people said the warrior was unlucky.  "Maybe" he said.  The next day the stallion returned, leading a string of fine ponies.  The people said

it was very lucky.  "Maybe" the warrior said.  Later, the warrior's son was thrown from one of the ponies and broke his leg.  The people said it was

unlucky.  "Maybe" the warrior said.  The next week, the chief lead a war party against another tribe. Many young men were killed.  But, because of

his broken leg, the warrior's son was left behind, and so was spared.

Death

Death, like the white man, wasn't happy in his own land. He didn't think his kingdom was big enough. He wanted more. One night, when the good

spirit was asleep, Death attacked the world. He killed a lot of people, and he took the Chief's prettiest daughter as his bride. She pretended to be a

good wife, but one day she secretly fed him a pumpkin seed. The pumpkin grew and grew inside death. Finally, he exploded, and a million 

pumpkin seeds covered the earth.  A lot of people died, but a good thing came out of it, too.  Pumpkins.  It's the same with white people. They

cleared the forest, they dug up the land, and they gave us the flu. But they also brought power tools and penicillin and 

Ben and Jerry's ice cream.