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Spilyay Tymoo, Warm Springs, Oregon
October 11, 2017
The Peaks of Central Oregon
Evaline Patt came across
this stor y in the book Indian
Legends of the Pacific
Northwest , by Ella E.
Clark. She would like to share
the stor y here:
The Oregon sky line for
many miles both east and west
of the Cascade Range is
dominated by a series of
peaks. The following stories
and traditions about some of
them were recalled by Lucy
and Walter Miller, War m
Springs Indians, who had
heard them in childhood from
their grandfathers, signers of
the Treaty of 1855:
The group of peaks called
the Three Sisters is a promi-
nent landscape feature in Cen-
tral Oregon. Each peak is
more that 10,000 feet in alti-
tude.
The mountains were once
people, our grandfathers used
to tell us. Mount Adams,
north of the Columbia, and
Mount Hood, south of it,
became jealous of each other
because of some girl. So they
started quarreling and fight-
ing.
At that time there was a
bridge across the river, and
the two rivals would cross it
to fight. Sometimes they
fought on one side of the
Columbia, sometimes on the
other. Coyote tried to stop
their quarreling, but they
would not stop.
So all the other mountain
peaks agreed to help him.
From away down in the Kla-
math Marsh country they
marched north for a big coun-
cil meeting. They planned to
cross the Columbia on the
bridge and have the meet-
ing north of the river. The
Three Sisters marched with
the mountain people, and so
did Black Butte and her
husband.
Black Butte carried on
her back a big bag of roots
and berries, for food along
the way.
Her husband carried a
deer over his shoulder, so
that they would have meat
on their journey. One day
the sun was so hot and the
bag was so heavy that Black
Butte sat down to rest. Her
husband was annoyed and
lay down, pouting. Black
Butte was very tired. She
was so warm that sweat ran
down her face and sides in
streams.
Those creeks came to-
gether below her and
formed the Metolius River.
But Coyote did not wait
for the help of the moun-
tain people, Mount Adams
and Mount Hood were go-
ing to have a wrestling match,
and Coyote knew that it
would turn into a fight. So
he made up his mind to
keep the two men apart. He
wished the bridge to fall, and
the bridge fell. Mount
Adams could not cross over.
When the mountain
people heard that Coyote
had broken down the bridge,
they stopped marching.
(Legend will conclude
in the next Spilyay Tymoo)
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