FEATHER SONG...............

In a time before the Earth was complete there were some Creatchers
that came from the water. These Creatchers could no longer live in
the ocean as it was becomming hot from all the valcanos that were
burning on the bottom of the ocean floor. These Creatchers had to
crawl onto the shore and they were not dressed with cloths. They did
not have the knowlege of what to eat in this strange land. It began
to get colder and they started to cry for help but no help came. A
small white cloud heard the cry and he listened to them as they told
of the hot ocean water and how they could no longer live there. The
small white cloud said he would go and ask the Elders in the sky
world what to do. He left to talk to the Elders and after he
explained all the problems of the Creatchers they had a great
council.

The sky world shook and truned black and rain fell for a long time.
Finally the Cloud Elders came down to earth and said,"We will help
you but first you must agree to honor the Earth and to live with
respect with all the other things that are here." "You must never
forget where you are from and that we have helped you here today. In
this way you must be ever aware of others that are to come and you
must help them too." With that the Clouds shook and shook many seeds
like snow fell from the clouds. They told the ocean people to eat the
seeds and they would know how to live here on this land.

Soon all was good and the Creatcher People were warm and happy and
something strange started to happen to them. Long white soft things
started to grow from their bodies and they were warm. They started to
dance with joy and soon found our that they could fly. After many
tries they flew off into the hills to live where it was warm and dry.
For many years they lived there and they were many kind of the
Creatcher People. Years and Years went by.

One day one of the beautiful Creatcher People was flying over the
water and he heard a cry so he went to see what it was. There on the
shore he found many Creatchers and they were cold and hungry they
were crying. He listened to the Creatchers and he said he could
remember once when his people came from the ocean he remembered his
Great Great Grandmother telling about the Cloud Beings and the seeds
they brought. So he decided to fly to the Cloud Beings and ask for
their help. He flew for days and finally reached the Sky World and
spoke to the Cloud Elders. They answered back in an angry voice and
said no. We will not come because you did not hear them or help them
sooner. He pleaded with them to help and they again had a council
there was thunder and lightening as they talked. Finally they said
they would help if he could go and get all the wingged ones to come
and pull the clouds down to the Creatchers. He flew day and night
back to the Creatcher People in the hills. They had a council and
some agreed and because of one Creatcher person the others did not
agree. The other Creatcher person had always been greedy and did not
want to share the space with others. He said that it was to crowded
and that there was not enough food to feed all of them.

Finally half of the beautiful wingged ones flew to get the clouds and
the others stayed there on the hill. It took a long time to fly up
to the Cloud Nation and a long time passed until the wingged ones
were able to help the Sea Creatchers become able to fly.

One day they all returned to the hills and they found many changes in
all the ones who stayed behind. Many of the wingged ones had grown
long and crooked necks and had to wait a long time to get their food,
others had grown long and strange legs and had to stand in the water
and wait for their food to come to them. Some could not fly at all
and had no feathers on their wings some had huge bodies and short
legs and had to swim in the water to live.

It was sad to see all the beautiful hunters so ugly and now they had
to go to the water to eat, and live. They could no longer live on the
hill and hunt like the Winged one did. The leader of the wingeds
looked around to see if he could find the one who was responsible for
all the sadness and he saw him walking on all four feet with no
feathers, he only had quills where the feathers once grew. He had
become Porkupine and no one wanted to be near him. The Bird Nation
grew into the Nation it is today and the Eagle who was the one chosen
to watch out for all the Earth Creatchers and to send help for those
who need it.

Creator said he would give them something to remind them that they
once came from the ocean so he made scales on the legs of the birds.
To this day they are the only other two leggeds on the Earth except
the Bear when it stand tall.