sakechak

Updated: May 20, 2025

Whereupon Sakechak said to the otter, "My little man, I will send you to the bottom, and see if your industry and perseverance will enable you to accomplish what has been left undone by the wit and cunning of the raven." So the otter departed upon his dangerous expedition. He accomplished its object.

James Athearn Jones - Traditions of the North American Indians, Vol. 2

Upon the earth thus created trees soon sprung up; but they were only trunks destitute of branches. But the wit of Sakechak soon gave them what they wanted. He shot arrows into the trunks, and these became branches, and took the nature of the trunks. Each became an oak, or a pine, or a tulip, or a sweet gum, following the nature of the trunks.

James Athearn Jones - Traditions of the North American Indians, Vol. 2

I must sweep, and wash, and purify, the earth; I must destroy all living creatures from off the face of it." Then Sakechak said, "What have I done, Master of Life! that I should be involved in this general destruction? Have I not offered thee the best of my spoils?

James Athearn Jones - Traditions of the North American Indians, Vol. 2

Sakechak and his family shall alone, of all the inhabitants of the earth, be saved, and the creatures he assembles around him on the little hill Wecheganawaw be alone those exempted from the all-sweeping destruction."

James Athearn Jones - Traditions of the North American Indians, Vol. 2

One day, as Sakechak had taken up the third portion of the mud to prepare it, by crumbling and rubbing, for strewing upon the earth, his wife discovered a star the first which had been seen since the breaking up of the fountain.

James Athearn Jones - Traditions of the North American Indians, Vol. 2