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Pushing up the
Sky
The Creator and Changer
first made the world in the East. Then he slowly came westward,
creating as he came. With him he brought many
languages, and he gave a
different one to each group of humans he
made.
When he reached Puget Sound, he
liked it so well that he decided to go no further. But he had many
languages left, so he scattered
them all around Puget Sound and to the north. That's why there are so many
different Indian languages
spoken there.
These humans could not talk
together, but it happened that none them were pleased with the
way the Creator had made the world.
The sky was so low that the tall
humans bumped their heads against it. Some
times humans would do what was forbidden by
climbing up high in the trees and, learning
their own words, enter the
Sky World.
Finally the
wise men
of all the different tribes had a meeting to
see what they could do about lifting the sky.
They agreed that the humans should get
together and try to push it up higher.
"We can do it," a wise man of the council said, "if
we all push at the same
time. We
will need all the humans and all the
animals and all the birds when we
push."
"How will we
know when to push?" asked
another of the wise men.
"Some of us
live in this part of the
world, some in another. We
don't all talk the same languages. How can
we get everyone to push at the same
time ?"
That puzzled the men
of the council, but at last one of them suggested that they use a signal."
When the time comes for
us to push, when
we have everything ready, let someone shout 'Ya-hoh.'
That means 'Lift together!' in all our
languages."
So the
wise men
of the council sent that message to all the humans and animals
and birds and told them on what
day they were to lift the
sky. Everyone made poles from the giant
fir trees to use in pushing against the
sky.
The
day for the
sky lifting came. All the
humans raised their poles and touched the
sky with them. Then the
wise men
shouted, "Ya-hoh!" Everybody pushed, and the sky moved up a little.
"Ya-hoh," the
wise men
shouted a second time, and everybody pushed
with all his strength. The sky moved a few
inches more. "Ya-hoh," all shouted, and pushed as hard as they could push.
They kept on shouting "Ya-hoh" and pushing until the
sky was in the place where it is now.
Since then, no one has bumped his head against it, and no one has been
able to climb into the Sky World.
Now, three hunters had been chasing
four elks during all the meetings and did not
know about the plan. Just as the humans and animals
and birds were ready to push the
sky up, the three
hunters and the four
elks came to the place where the
Earth nearly meets the
sky. The jumped into the
Sky World, and the
hunters ran after them. When the
sky was lifted, elks and hunters
were lifted too.
In the Sky World
they were changed into stars, and at
night even now
your see them. The three
hunters
form the
handle of the Big Dipper. The middle
hunter has his dog with him, now a tiny star. The four elks
make the bowl of the Big Dipper.
We
still shout "Ya-hoh!" when doing hard work
together or lifting something heavy like a canoe. When
we say "Hoh!" all of
us use all the strength
we have. Our voices have a higher pitch on that part of
the word, and we make the
0 very long - "Ya-hooooh!"
- Chief William Shelton, told as a
child by his
family elders to teach him what could be
accomplished if people
work together.
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