Basket Woman, Mother of the Stars
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Back in the beginning of time, when all things were being created, First Man lived in
a forest of tall pine trees.
The next day, First Man brought his wife, First Woman, through the forest to see the lodge.
As they came near, a little old woman came out to greet them.
The lodge was filled with Moon's daughters. Soon the girls began to sing and dance.
Evening Star danced in the west and held a basket representing the moon. The basket
was made of willow reeds held together with mud, for the earth is filled with trees.
The basket woman's daughters taught First Man and First Woman a game. All this they taught First Man and First Woman and reminded them that Tirawahat sent the stars to the earth in a moon-basket to teach these first two everything that people were to do. When First Man and First Woman had learned all they should, their neighbors form the lodge jumped into their basket and flew away up to the sky to return to their places
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