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We learned to be patient observers like the owl.

We learned cleverness from the crow, and courage from the jay,

who will attack an owl ten times its size t

• Sweetgrass was a tall wild grass with a musty odor.


• It was braided together. One end was lit and it was waved around letting the smoke spread.

Sweetgrass brought th

But Strong Wind, who knew of their cruelty, resolved to punish them.

Using his great power, he changed them both into aspen trees

Once I was in Victoria, and I saw a very large house.

They told me it was a bank and that the white men place their money

there to be taken care of, and that by and by they got it back with interest.