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younger brother went hunting with him and the cubs came running 

 toward the canoe, he would say, ''Don't be frightened. Those are 

 your chiklren" (meaning "your brother's children"). 



By and by his human wife came to him. She was angry with him 

 and said, "Why do your children starve on my hands? What are 

 you doing feeding cubs instead of my little ones?" After that, 

 though he did not dare to say a word to his wife, he began feeding her 

 children. He thought, "I wonder what will happen to me now 

 for feeding the little ones." 



Presently he went hunting again ami again took some seals to his 

 cubs. As he was going toward them he noticed that they did not 

 act the same as usual. They lay flat on the ground with their ears 

 erect. Then he landed, but, when he got near them, they killed 

 him. It is on account of this story that the Te'qoedi claim the 

 grizzly bear. 



70. STORY OF THE EAGLE CREST OF THE NEXA'Dl 



There was a very poor NexA'di man who did not know how to 

 provitle himself with footl, so he lived off of others. He was always 

 cruising around in a small canoe, getting small bullheads and floiuiders. 

 One time lie went out just for the day. He did not take any food 

 along and therefore became very hungry. Early next morning some- 

 thing said to him, "I have come after you." He heard the voice but 

 could not see anything. Finally, however, he stepped out from the 

 place where he had been sitting and saw a young eagle perched upon 

 a branch. The man was wearing an old ground-hog blanket full of 

 holes, so he lay down again and ])ut his eye to one of these. Then 

 the eagle came very close to him and, taking the blanket down, he 

 said to it, "I have seen you now." Immediately the eagle looked 

 like a human being and said, "My grandfather has sent me for you." 



The poor man followed this eagle right up to the woods and they 

 came upon a large trail there over which the eagle led him. By and 

 by they came to some steps which led up to a house situated high u]). 

 He followed lus guide inside of this and found it very clean and nice 

 there. Everything was just like the houses of human beings, and 

 mats were strewn round upon the floor. Then they gave him all 

 kinds of fine fish and game to eat, and he wanted to stay among them 

 forever. He was very poor among his own people, but these eagles 

 treated him well. He married one of the eagle women and remained 

 there for a long time. 



After he married, this man's brothers-in-law gave him a coat and 

 named it, as they put it on him, Camping-under-water-for-two-days 

 (Dex-hln-ta'de-uxe'). Before they put it on they warmed it. This 

 coat was so named because, when an eagle gets hold of a seal, the 



