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and the other was left behind when he crossed Mackenzie river. With 
her she had black stones for scraping skins. (Which accounts for the 
many black stones on the bank of the river below Good Hope.) 
The Morning Woman and the Night Woman were spirits. Morning 
Woman was destroyed by a wolf which the First Brother killed. Night 
Woman went up the river and taught the people beautiful quill work. 
That is why the people on the upper Mackenzie excel in that art. 
Before the coming of the First Brother, the land was inhabited by 
giants and monsters, the former being killed off entirely by the First 
Brother. The giants always slept after hunting, and while they slept 
the First Brother stole their food so that they all starved except one who 
fled away and never returned. It is said that he went far to the east, 
leaving his canoe, now an island in the Ramparts, and his picture on the 
rocks at the foot of the Ramparts. Pie also killed his wife and boiled her, 
feeding his child on the soup. Later he killed and ate his child. The 
Ramparts of the Mackenzie (near Good Hope) were built by a monster 
beaver whose house was at the south side of the Sans Sault rapids. The 
last giant, just before he fled, killed the monster beaver and its family 
and stretched their skins on Bear rock (obvious oval red deposits on Bear 
rock, Norman). 
When the First Brother came to the country, he was starving and 
killed a bear. After this he lost his power of communicating with the 
animals, which is only regained through special associations and dreams. 
The First Brother was called ‘brother’ by all the animals before he killed 
any of them. 
The First Brother made the first arrow. He got the feathers for his 
arrow by going into the mountains where he discovered a nest with two 
young eagles. He asked the first eaglet if he would tell that the First 
Brother was there and the eaglet said “yes”, so the Brother killed him. 
Then he asked the other eaglet who agreed to keep silent. The brother 
hid himself. After a while the mother eagle came to the nest with part 
of a body of a man. She asked the young eaglet whether there was a 
man around, saying that she smelled one. The eaglet replied that it 
was her own burden that she smelled. While she rested the First Brother 
put a piece of his fire-metal in her soup; this killed her. When the father 
eagle came home this process was repeated. Afterwards the First Brother 
cut the beak of the young eagle and said that henceforward he should 
not eat men, but lemmings. Then he took feathers for his arrows and 
went home. 
The P’irst Brother made the first canoe by trying to cross a river in 
a bircli-bark basket. 
In the time when men and animals were friends, the First Brother 
came upon a great flock of geese. He persuaded them to play at blindfold. 
When they had all blindfolded themselves he slaughtered a great number. 
At last one looked and warned the whole flock, which immediately flew 
away. Hence they are now very hard to kill. 
One day the First Brother was travelling through the woods. He 
met a bird which took its eyes out of its head, threw them up into the air, 
caught them again, and replaced them in its head. The First Brother, 
not to be outdone, did likewise, but when he had thrown his eyes into the 
