nêhiyawak · Cree
The mud in the paw
When the strong come up empty, a muskrat brings back the world.
In many nations these are winter stories — aadizookaanan — told when the snow is down and the thunder beings are resting. If that is your protocol, wait. This page will still be here.
Before this ground, there was water. Not a lake you could paddle across and be finished with. Water without a shore. was on a raft of logs, and the animals were with him, because there was nowhere else to stand.
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An English narrator turns the pages with you. Names are an approximation. Trust the spelling on the page.
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