Legend of Devils Tower
Once there were seven brothers. One day the wife of the oldest brother was carried off by a huge bear to his cave. Her husband mourned her loss greatly. The youngest brother who had great power, told him to make 4 arrows with a special design. Then he and the other brothers went to the cave, where they found the bear asleep with his head resting in the wife's lap. They helped her escape. When the bear awoke and found the woman gone he was so mad the he rounded up all the bears in the area, as he was their leader, and set out to find the Indians. The youngest of the brothers (who was a holy man) saw the bears coming and he took a small rock from his pocket, sang a sacred song and made the rock grow to the size it is today. The leader bear kept jumping up the sides of the rock trying to get to the top of the rock where the Indians seeking for protection, his claws marking the sides of the tower. On his fourth jump they shot an arrow into his head and that killed him. The story ends with the brothers capturing the last two bears and telling them never to bother people again. To make sure, they cut off their ears and tail. That is why to this day bears have short ears and no tails. End=)
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