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Mountain Goat and the Transformer – Rose Mitchell Mountain Goat heard that the Transformer was coming around, so he got two hard knots from a rotten log, sharpened them, and put them on his head. These are the two small horns that mountain goats have today. “I’ll kill him; I’ll butt him with my horns,”…

Mink liked blue jay, who was a widow. He married her, but one day he became sick. “where are you going to put me when I die?” mink asked the people, one place was suggested, but mink said that was not where he wanted to be. Another place, a really nice spot, was suggested, but…

Mink wondered who he should marry this time. So, he went to his grandmother for advice, but she wouldn’t tell him anything, as he was marrying so often, then mink remembered the beautiful salal bushes that grew shiny berries along the trail in the woods. He wanted to marry salal.   Mink went to the…

Mink Marries Pitch – Rose Mitchell Mink went walking in the woods and met a beautiful, shining woman. She was Pitch. Mink asked her to marry him, but she said she could not get married in the summer because she was always moving. “I cannot keep still at night,” she told him. “I turn over…

Mink Marries Cloud – Rose Mitchell Mink decided to marry cloud. Sometimes the clouds are together and at other times they are apart. When there isn’t any wind, clouds hang on to one another.   So, when mink decided to get married, he went up to the sky and started to flirt with all the…

Mink wanted a new wife, someone with whom he could get along. Walking along the beach, mink came across a beautiful woman sitting by the shore. He flirted with her, but she was very crank; she had beaten up her previous husbands! Yet after a while, she agreed to marry him. This woman was barnacle.…

Mink and the Whale – Rose Mitchell Mink was fishing near Mitlenatch island when a big whale surfaced near him. Mink began making fun of whale and bothered him so much that finally whale swallowed both mink and his canoe! Mink found himself in whale’s huge stomach surrounded by herring that whale had ate. So,…

Mink and the Wolves – Rose Mitchell Mink felt he was quite a man – he was jealous of other men. Nearby, in the village of the wolf people, there was a highly- respected man whom mink thought was his rival. This man, the son of the wolf chief, was named K’kiyalhumixw * person who…

Rose Mitchell   The people heard that the Transformer was coming around. When Heron heard this, he said, “I will kill him.” So, Heron busied himself sharpening four pieces of wood as spears. A man walked up to heron and asked him what he was making. “These are the spears I am going to use…

A young woman was cautioned by her grandmother not to eat tree pitch, but she only laughed at this advice. One day when this young woman was in the forest digging lady-fern roots she got some pitch and started to chew it. Soon she felt something moving around and told her grandmother. The old lady…