BOAS] KUTENAI TALES 67 
[Nos. 48-50. Told by Mission Joe and Felix Andrew] 
48. Tue ANIMALS AND THE SUN 
There wasatown. A chief gave hiscommands.. He said: ‘‘Who | 
will be the Sun?”” Then they began to talk about it. One of them 
was | told: “You shall be the Sun.” After this one had been told | 
that he was to be the Sun, all heard about what || was to be done. 5 
Those who were told to be the Sun went. | The name (of this one) 
was Raven. Then he started. | It became dark. On the following 
morning they watched for him to come up. | He came up. It was 
not bright enoughwhen | he came up. The day was always blackish. || 
It was always like evening. The Sun came back. | They said: ‘This 10 
way is bad. It is always | blackish.”’ They said that he could not 
be it. | Another one was looked for. Chicken Hawk was sent. | It 
grew dark. Then Chicken Hawk started. On the following morn- 
ing he went || up. When hewent up higher, the world looked yellow. | 15 
It was always like that. He went down. | In the evening the Sun 
came back. They said: “You can not.be it. | It looks like bad 
weather.”’! ‘They assembled and talked it over again. Coyote said: | 
“T will be it.”” They said: ‘“Well.”’ Coyote was about || to start. 20 
Coyote started. At night | they slept. On the following morning 
Coyote went up. | When he went up, it began to be hot. It was 
fairly warm, and | then it was noon and the people cooked food. The 
Sun spoke, and | said: ‘Will there be any left for me?” It was 
heard || what he said, and they left food for him. Even when they 25 
went into | the shade, it was warm. The children began to ery, | for 
the Sun burned them. They went to the water, and they thought | 
it would be good, but the water was hot. It was the same | when 
the Sun went down. It became warmer and warmer until || sunset. 30 
When it was dark, they felt well. They had almost | been burned to 
death. Coyote came back. He was told: ‘‘ You can not be it; | you 
are bad. You were too hot.’’ | 
There was one woman with two children. They said: “We will | 
’ go there where they are playing Sun.” || The two went. They ar- 35 
rived there, and they were told: ‘“‘Why do you come?” | They said: 
“We heard that they play Sun.” | They were told: “It is good. You 
shall go.” Then he, | the elder one, started. They slept. The next 
morning | he went up. In the morning it was coolish. || He went high 40 
up, and they always felt comfortable. | At noon it became warm, and 
when they were in the shade | it felt comfortable. They went swim- 
ming, and they felt well. | They felt cool. Then he came down. Then 
1 The narrator said that many others were tried, but he did not remember theirnames. See pp. 48,116. 
