In the Willamette Valley in a monster in a cave that scares all of the people. He scared them because at night he would go and hunt people until the morning when he would return to his cave.
Coyote heard about the issues the people were having with this monster and wanted to help out. He is much more skilled for the task than the people are and was hoping his skills could save them from some agony.
It turns out that the monster only came out of his cave to hunt the people during the night because he could not endure daylight. The coyote waited for a sunny day to put his plan to take the monster down into action.
On a bright day, the coyote got his bows and arrows and went to a mountain top and shot an arrow into the sun. Just like the previous story, this one happens to include shooting an arrow into the sky to make a chain of arrows.
Once the chain of arrows was created, the coyote pulled the sun until it came down so he could hide it in the Willamette River. So, unlike the first story I read, he did not climb the chain of arrows and used them as a rope instead.
When night came around, the monster came back out to attack the people. At that time, the coyote broke the chain of arrows which made the sun fly back up into the sky. This blinded the monster giving the coyote the opportunity to kill him.
The story ends by the Indians warning the people that something evil would come of it.
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I will definitely add the arrow element in my story as that is a recurring theme in the Pacific Northwest unit stories.
Pacific Northwest unit. Myths and Legends of the Pacific Northwest: Coyote and the Dragon by New Perce.
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