Native American Legends
The Wolf and the Crane
A Tachi Yokut Legend
The wolf constantly hunted, but never gave his wife and two boys
any meat. Once in the morning He went hunting. Then his wife, the
crane, ran off. He returned and found her gone. He followed her.
He was angry and wanted to kill her. He saw her and tried to shoot
her, but she was high up in the air. Slowly she settled and at last
lit far off. Then he shot and hit her. He went to her.
With her bill she tried to stab him. He used an arrow to ward off
her blows, and tried to stab her. Then she pierced his breast and
knocked him down. She stabbed him again and again, until she killed
him.
Then she went off with her boys. They turned into stars in the
sky. She is in advance; her two boys are following her. They are
called yibish, the three stars of Orion.
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