TRADITIONS OF THE CADDO. 
1. THE CREATION AND EARLY MIGRATIONS.* 
In the beginning the sun, stars, moon, and earth did not exist as 
they are now. Darkness ruled. With the lapse of time came a man, 
the only living being. Soon after his arrival a village sprang into 
existence with many thousands of people, and the people noticed that 
the man seemed to be everywhere. Fora time he disappeared, and 
when he came back he had all kinds of seeds. He called all the people 
together and told them that the seeds were for them to eat, and gave 
them to every one. He told them that soon Darkness would go, and 
the people would see, for Darkness had promised that they should have 
a man by the name of Sun, and that he should be given power by the 
Great-Father-Above; that whenever his time should come to give them 
to the Sun he should be called or taken away from his mother, from 
our great mother Earth below ; that the direction where the Sun should 
come from should be called ‘‘east,’’ and the way of its going down 
should be called ‘‘ west.’’ He also announced to the people that he 
was the first being created and that he had been given power by the 
same Great-Father-Above, and that he had to carry out his work. 
He then told the people that it was very necessary that they should 
have one man abler and wiser than any other man among them, to be 
their head man; that they should call him ‘‘ chief ;’’ that whatever 
the chief should command should be done by the people; that they 
should look upon him as a great father. The unknown man told the 
people to return to their homes, hold a council among themselves, and 
select a chief. 
When they had returned and assembled there was in the council a 
man by the name of Coyote, who told the people that the unknown 
powerful man should be called Moon, because he was the first man 
created on earth. The people decided that the Moon should be their 
head man orchief. Finally the Moon called the people together again 
and asked them if they had selected their head man or chief. Coyote 
told him that they had decided that he should be their head man, and 
that they had named him ‘‘ Moon.’’ After Moon came to be chief he 
selected another man, whom he called the Errand-Man, to be his helper, 
* Told by White-Bread. 
