Native American Legends
The Prairie Falcon Fights
A Yaudanchi Yokut Legend
Long ago the prairie falcon [Limik] lived alone. He came to a village.
He returned. Then he went again. He reached a rock. He sat on top
of it and laid his bow down on it. Then he thought: "It will
be good if I kill them."
He started again. Then he began the fight. He shot at them. At
once the people there all became angry. There was a great battle.
He killed them all. Then he hung up the hair of the killed on trees.
It can be seen still [as moss] at a place called khodomo [probably
in the territory of the Shoshonean Tübatulabal or Pitanisha].
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