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Now in the days of the animal people, the camp robber was a medicine man

Date of account: Published 1911
Source: Myths and Legends of Alaska
Reference: Myths and Legends of Alaska · selected passage 15
Rights: public_domain
Language: English retellings of Alaska Native traditions
Translation: Compiled by Katharine Berry Judson from identified sources
Record updated: 2026-08-24

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Now in the days of the animal people, the camp robber was a medicine man. One time the people had nothing to eat, so they asked the medicine man to find food for them. Therefore for six nights the men dreamed of a way to find food. The camp robber was the sixth man. He dreamed on the sixth night. Then he called all the people together and told them to bring their snares with them. He took all the snares, make a pack of them, and put them on his back. But the people heaped up the snow in a great pile. Around this snow pile the camp robber walked, chanting and singing "By and by meat will come." Thus he sang.

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