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I have heard of two legends of the origin of the sun; botb, however, 

 being legends, more than a matter of real belief. 



First. A woman had a son who ran away from home. After a little 

 she went after him, but could not find him. Her people went after 

 her, found her, and brought her back. They did not know what became 

 of her son until a short time afterward they beheld him, having been 

 changed into the real sun, coming up from the east. This is the origin 

 of the sun. 



Second. A woman having no husband had a son, who, being left in 

 charge of its grandmother, who was blind, was stolen away by two wo- 

 men who carried him very far away, where they brought him up, and 

 he grew very fast and became their husband. His children were the 

 trees, the cedar-tree being the favorite one. His mother in the mean 

 time sent messengers, the cougar, iDanther, and some birds, who went 

 everywhere on the land searching for him except to this place, where they 

 could not go on account of a very difficult place in the road, which was 

 liable to come together and crush whatever passed through. At last, 

 the blue-jay made the attempt, and was almost killed, being caught by 

 the head, nearly crushing it, and thus causing the top-knot on it. It 

 however found the son, a man grown, and induced him to leave his 

 present home and return to his mother. When they came to this diffi- 

 cult j)lace in the road, he fixed it, and did good wherever he went. 

 When his mother found that he was lost at first, she was very sorry, 

 and gathered his clothes together, pressed from them some water, 

 wished it to become another boy, and, being very good, her wish was 

 granted. He was a little boy when his older brother returned. They 

 were both somewhat like God, in that they could do what they wished. 

 The older brother said to the younger one, " I will make you into the 

 moon to rule the night, and I will be the sun to rule the day." The next 

 day he arose in the heavens, but was so hot that he killed the fish in the 

 sea, causing the water to boil, and also the men on the laud. Finding 

 that this would not do, he retired, and his brother tried to be the sun 

 and succeeded, as the sun is at present, while the older brother became 

 the moon, to rule the night. 



Orations. — The following are taken from the minutes of a council held 

 with them by Commissioner F. E. Brunot, September 4, 1871 : 



By Big Frank, the present head chief : 



I am the only one who was at the treaty at Point-no-Point. I heard 

 what Governor Stevens said, and thought it was good. I am like a 

 white man, and think as the white man does. Governor Stevens said 

 all the Indians would grow up and the President would make them 

 good. He told tbem all the Indians would become as white men ; that 

 all their children would learn to read and write. I was glad to hear it. 

 Governor Stevens told them, "I will go out and have the land surveyed, 

 and it will be yours and your children's forever." I thought that very 

 good. He said a doctor and carpenter and farmer would come. The 



