. Myths and legends of the Pacific Northwest : especially of Washington and Oregon . l in the sky. Ni-aba is just like a woman. She always walks with akettle on her arm. 69 MYTHS AND LEGENDS CHINOOK WIND Taklma ONCE five brothers lived on Great were the Chinook brothers and theycaused the warm wind to blow. Therewere five other brothers who lived on Great lived at Walla Walla, the meeting of the caused the cold wind to blow. Now thegrandparents of all these brothers lived at Umatilla,the place of wind-drifted sands. Walla Walla brothers and Chinook brothers we


. Myths and legends of the Pacific Northwest : especially of Washington and Oregon . l in the sky. Ni-aba is just like a woman. She always walks with akettle on her arm. 69 MYTHS AND LEGENDS CHINOOK WIND Taklma ONCE five brothers lived on Great were the Chinook brothers and theycaused the warm wind to blow. Therewere five other brothers who lived on Great lived at Walla Walla, the meeting of the caused the cold wind to blow. Now thegrandparents of all these brothers lived at Umatilla,the place of wind-drifted sands. Walla Walla brothers and Chinook brothers werealways fighting. They made the winds to sweepover the country, they blew down trees and raisedgreat clouds of dust, they froze the rivers and thawedthem so as to make floods. It was very hard for thepeople. At last Walla Walla brothers said to Chinookbrothers: We will wrestle with you. Whoeverfalls down shall have his head cut ofF. Thus he shallbe dead. So Coyote was made judge. He was alsoto cut the heads off those who fell down. Now Coyote secretly told the grandparents of 70. YOUNG CHINOOK COULD PULL UP LARGE FIR TREES AND THROW THEM AROUND LIKE WEEDS (Page 7j)


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