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Title: Coyote Fights a Lump of Pitch
Source(s): American Indian Myths and Legends Author(s):
Traditional; Richard Erdoes (Editor); Alfonso Ortiz (Editor)
Coyote tries to fight a lump of pitch and gets captured by a white man.
Even long ago, when our tribe and animals and birds lived together near white people, Coyote was always in trouble. He would visit among the camps, staying in one for a while and then moving on, and when he stayed at Bear’s camp, he used to go over...
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