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seal is so strong that it will swim around with the eagle attached to 

 it, and the longest time the eagle can stand this is two days. Now 

 the poor man was an eagle himself, and he learned from the eagles 

 how to catch fish. He thought all the time that he was spearing 

 them, but in reality he was catching them in his talons. He became 

 a great fisher and hunter. 



The mother and brothers of this poor man were just as poor as he 

 had been, and, when he saw his brother out fishing, he would leave 

 some fish where he could find it. His brother thought that he was 

 very lucky. Finally his mother dreamed that someone said, "It is I, 

 mother, who provides for you all of this fish and meat," and afterward 

 they would dream that he said to them, "I have left a fish (or seal) 

 on such and such a point. Go there and get it." When they did so, 

 sure enough it was there. Sometimes he would say in his mother's 

 dream, "We are going off camping. You must go there and camp 

 near by." They did so and dried a lot of fish which he had gotten 

 for them. 



In another dream he said, "I have married one of the eagle women. 

 I can not come among you any more." 



One time, when they were out campmg, they saw an eagle workhig 

 very hard to bring ashore a load of fish. After it had done so, the 

 eagle sat up on a branch and said, "It is I." It told them its name, 

 which was the name of the missing man. It is because a friend of 

 theirs was once among the eagle people that the NexA'di claim the 

 eagle. This clan is now scattered everywhere. 



71. STORY OF THE KILLER-W^HALE CREST OF THE 

 DAQLIAWE'DI" 



There was a man called Natsit Aue' (the name of a worm that appears 

 on dried salmon) wdio was continually quarreling with his wife. He 

 had many brothers-in-law, who l)ecame very much ashamed of this 

 discord but had to stay around to protect their sister. One tlay his 

 brothers-in-law took him to an island far out at sea, named KAts le'uxti, 

 and talked very kindly to him. But, while he was out of sight upon 

 the island, they left liim. Then he began thinking, "What can T do 

 for myself?" As he sat there he absent-mindedly whittled killer 

 whales out of cottonwood bark, which works easily. The two he had 

 made he put into the water and, as he did so, he shouted aloud as 

 shamans used to do on such occasions. Then he thought they looked 

 as if they were swimming, but, when they came up agam, they were 

 nothing but bark. After a while he made two more whales out of 

 alder. He tried to put his clan's spirits into them as was often done 



" See story 4. 



