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to this as | it was going to be first.”? Then the friends let go of each 
other. | Ya.uk%e’;ka‘m carried the flint along, and now || there is 
flint everywhere in this world. | 
(g) YA.UK’E’;KA°M OBTAINS BOW WOOD 
Now, there was one thing that he did not have, a bow. When 
Ya.uk"e’;ka’m came back | to his grandmother, he said: ‘‘ Let me see 
where there is bow wood. | I'll get it.’’ Frog said: ‘‘O grandson, 
grandson! | it isfar away where bow wood is found, and those who try 
to get it are killed.” || Ya.uk"e’;ka-m started. He went along ways. | 
He went along and heard a noise. His grandmother had told him | 
that he would be near by when it would be like that. He went along 
and heard | squirrels making a noise. That squirrel bit everybody. | 
Ya.ukte’;ka‘m saw a tree standing on each side of the trail. || They 
struck each other continually. It looked terrible. The trees killed | 
every one. If they could not kill him, the squirrels | bit him, Long 
ago they were of the size of grizzly bears. | The squirrel was big and 
looked terrible. Ya.uk%e’;ka‘m took his spear, | and, when the trees 
went apart, he || put his spear across. Then they did not move any 
more, and | he went through. Then the squirrels were angry and 
tried | to bite Ya.uk"e’;ka‘m, but the squirrel was stabbed and killed. 
Then | the squirrel was dead, and from it crept a little animal, which | 
climbed up the tree here. Ya.ukte’;ka‘m said: “Oh, || you shall be 
Squirrel. There shall be many of you. | You may continue to bite, 
but you may bite only the hands of children | that play with you.” 
Then he chopped down | the bow wood and scattered it. He said: | 
“Tet cedar grow all over this world.” Therefore || cedar, that is 
the bow wood of the people, grows everywhere. | Then Ya.ukte’,;ka°m 
started back. | 
(h) YA.UKYE’;KA°M GOES TO THE END OF THE WORLD 
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He came back to his grandmother, and he said to her: ‘“Grand- . 
mother, how big is this | world?’”’? Frog said: ‘‘The world is small.’’ 
Ya.uk'e’;kam said: | ‘From what place does the sun start?” || Frog 
said: “It is far.’ Ya.uk"e’;ka‘m said: ‘Where | does the sun go 
to?’ Frog said: ‘It is far | where the sun goes to.” Ya.uk"e’;ka*m 
said: ‘‘I shall | look for the place where the sun starts from, and 
later on I | shall look for the place where the sun goes.”’ || 
That is all I know about what Chief Ya.ukve’;ka‘m did 
people of ancient times. | 
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