Native American Legends
The Milky Way
A Cherokee Legend
Some people in the south had a corn mill, in which they pounded
the corn into meal, and several mornings when they came to fill
it they noticed that some of the meal had been stolen during the
night. They examined the ground and found the tracks of a dog, so
the next night they watched, and when the dog came from the north
and began to eat the meal out of the bowl they sprang out and whipped
him. He ran off howling to his home in the north, with the meal
dropping from his mouth as he ran, and leaving behind a white trail
where now we see the Milky Way, which the Cherokee call to this
day Gi`lï'-utsûñ'stänûñ'yï,
"Where the dog ran."
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