The Dream Keeper
Bring me all of your dreams,
You dreamers,
Bring me all of your
Heart melodies
That I may wrap them
In a blue-cloud cloth
Away from the too-rough fingers
Of the world.

The Legend of the Dream Catcher

A very long time ago in North America, Spiderwoman told the People how to have good dreams.
"Hang a DreamCatcher near your sleeping place. The web will catch the bad dreams to be burned away with the first light of morning. Good Dreams will pass through the hole and slide down giving you only pleasant dreams."

Origin of Races

Listen, father, and I will tell you how the Great Spirit made man, and how he gave to men of different colours the different employments that we find them engaged in… the Master of Life said, we will make man. Man was made, but when he stood up before his maker, he was white! The Great Spirit was sorry; he saw that the being he had made was pale and weak; he took pity on him, and therefore did not unmake him, but let him live. He tried again, for he was determined to make a perfect man, but in his endeavor to avoid making another white man, he went into the opposite extreme, and when the second being rose up, and stood before him, he was black! The Great Spirit liked the black man less than the white, and he shoved him aside to make room for another trial. Then it was that he made the red man; and the red man pleased him.
My father, listen - I have not told you all. In this way the Great Spirit made the white, the black, and the red man, when he put them upon the earth. Here they were - but they were very poor. They had no lodges nor horses, no tools to work with, no traps, nor anything with which to kill game. All at once, these three men, looking up, saw three large boxes coming down from the sky. They descended very slowly, but at last reached the ground; while these three poor men stood and looked at them, not knowing what to do. Then the Great Spirit spoke and said, "White man, you are pale ans weak, but I made you first, and will give you the first choice; go to the boxes, open them and look in, and choose which you will take for your portion." The white man opened the boxes, looked in, and said, "I will take this." It was filled with pens, and ink, and paper, and compasses, and such things as your people use know. The Great Spirit spoke again and said, "Black man, I made you next, but I do not like you. You may stand aside. The red man is my favorite, he shall come forward and take the next choice; Red man, choose your portion of the things of this world." The red man stepped boldly up and chose a box filled with tomahawks, knives, war clubs, traps, and such things as are useful in war and hunting. The Great Spirit laughed when he saw how well his red son knew how to choose. Then he said to the negro, "You may have what is left, the third box is for you." That was filled with axes and hoes, with buckets to carry water in, and long whips for driving oxen, which meant that the negro must work for both the red and white man, and it has been so ever since.

Mother Sun

The Origin of Animals

The old-time beings were gathered together. They began acting in different ways ans showing different qualities. Master-of-Breath observed them. Some began jumping upon trees and running about. Someone asked, "What sort of beings are those?" "They are like panthers," someone answered. "Henceforth they shall go about as panthers," said Master-of-Breath. Then again, some began leaping and running. "What are they like?" someone asked. "Like deer," it was said. "Henceforth they shall go about as deer,’ said Master-of-Breath. Then again, some went hopping high among the leaves of trees and alighted on the branches. "What are they like?" asked somebody. "Like birds," someone asnwered. "They shall be birds," said Master-of-Breath. Then again, some were very fat and when they walked they made a great noise on the ground. "What are they like?" asked someone. "Like bears," was the answer. "They shall be bears, then," said Master-of-Breath. Then again, one started off to run but could not go fast. When he came back he had black stripes near his eyes. "What will that be?" [it] was asked. "It is like a raccoon," said one. "That kind shall be raccoons," said Master-of-Breath. Then one was so fat and round-bodied that when he started off he could hardly walk. "What is that kind?" [it] was asked. "It is like a beaver," someone answered. "They shall be the beavers," said Master-of -Breath. Then again, one kind was fat and could not run very fast. When this one had gone off to a distance and returned, someone asked, "What is that like?" "Like a mink." "They shall go about as minks," said Master-of-Breath. Then again, one was very swift when hestarted to run. He darted back and forth very quickly. "What is he like?" was the question. "Like a fox," came the answer. "That kind shall be foxes," said Master-of-Breath. Then again, one was very strong ans could pull up aplings by the roots. He went off to a distance ans returned. Then someone asked, "What is he like?" "Like the wind," was the answer. "That kind shall be wind," said Master-of-Breath. Then again, one started off into the mud. When he had come back out of it, someone asked, "What is he like?" "Like a mud-potato," it was answered. "Such shall be mud-potatoes," said Master-of-Breath. Then again, one of them had short legs, and his back was covered with ridges. When he started out ans returned, someone asked, "What is he like?" "like an alligator," was the answer. "That kind shall be alligators," said Master-of-Breath. Then again, one with stripes on his back went running off, and when he came back, someone asked, "What is he like?" "Like a skunk," was the answer. "That kind shall be skunks," said Master-of-Breath. Then again, one went away jumping, ans when he came back to the starting place, someone asked, "What is he like?" "Like a rabbit," was the answer. "That kind shall be rabbits," said Master-of-Breath. Then again, one went off squirming along on the ground. When he returned, soneone asked, "What is he like?" "Like a snake," was the answer. "That kind shall be snakes," said Master-of-Breath.
Master-of-Breath, after he had given them their forms on the earth, told them not to marry their own kind, but to marry people of other clans. All the red people know what clans they belong to and do not marry in their own clans. If they did they would not increase.

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