YOUNG-BOY-CHIEF WHO BECAME AN OTTER. Vat 
“T-ti-sesh-i-heé-he 
I-ti-sesh-i-heé-he 
Ne-ti-kit-i-hé 
I-ti-sesh-i-heé-he. 
“Tt-sezh-e-hé-he 
It-sezh-e-hé-he 
Hi-da-zesh-si-a-wé 
It-sezh-e-he-he. 
“Tt-sezh-e-hé-he 
It-sezh-e-hé-he 
Hi-da-zesh-si-a-wé 
It-sezh-e-hé-he.”’ 
Let me give a feather to my husband! 
Give a feather to your wife’s first husband! 
Give a feather to your father! 
Suddenly the Eagle woman shook herself, and there came down 
one feather, and the feather landed by Young-Boy-Chief’s side and he 
picked it up and kept it. Again the Eagle woman sang, telling her 
Eagle man to give a feather to Young-Boy-Chief. He shook himself, 
and there came down another feather to Young-Boy-Chief. Again the 
Eagle woman sang, telling her young one to give its father a feather. 
The young one shook itself and there came down another feather to 
Young-Boy-Chief. Now the Eagles commenced to fly away from 
Young-Boy-Chief, and when he saw that they were leaving him he went 
back toward his home, still having the feathers. 
Arriving at his home, Young-Boy-Chief found that everybody had 
moved away, and where the village had been there was nothing but 
tall weeds, which showed that the people had long since moved away 
to another place. Young-Boy-Chief stood around the place where he 
used to live, turned to each direction and wondered which way the 
people had gone. He concluded he would not follow the people, as he 
thought it would take so many days that it would be too much trouble 
to catch up with them. So he went south, and there was a river that he 
wanted to reach, and on whose banks there were large dogwood bushes. 
When he came to the place he pitched his feathers into the bushes and 
commanded that in generations to come, feathers should be used for 
feathering arrows, and this is the reason why people of the present time 
use feathers on their arrows. After Young-Boy-Chief had done this 
he went to the river and turned into an Otter (Kitish). So the young 
man became an Otter, while his wife belonged to the fowls of the air. 
