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Updated: May 5, 2025
'Be-be, our people call her; it is the Chinook word for 'a kiss. None of our people knew her real name; but it was a kiss of hers that made this legend, so as 'Be-be' we speak of her.
"Then came that long, shadowed, sunless day, when Be-be, returning from many hours of ollallie picking, her basket filled to the brim with rich fruit, her heart reaching forth to her home even before her swift feet could traverse the trail, found her husband and her boys stunned with a dreadful fear, searching with wild eyes, hurrying feet, and grief-wrung hearts for her little 'Morning-child, who had wandered into the forest while her brothers played the forest which was deep and dark and dangerous, and had not returned."
"The music of the chant was most beautiful, but no music in the world of the white man's Tyee could equal that which rang through the heart of Be-be, the Indian mother-woman. "Heart upon heart, lips upon lips, the Morning-child and the mother caught each other in embrace.
Her father and her brothers loved her, but the heart of Be-be, her mother, seemed wrapped round and about that misty-eyed child. "'I love you, the mother would say many times a day, as she caught the girl-child in her arms. 'And I love you, the girl-child would answer, resting for a moment against the warm shoulder.
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