Name: Elva Stands-In-Timber
Tribal Affiliation: Northern Cheyenne
Interview No.: NC033EST112404
Topic: Early Cheyenne Stories: The Great Race and Mud Hen
Language: Cheyenne
Time Code In: 00:02:12:15
Time Code Out: 00:05:00:15
Tape 1 of 1 - Clone
“All the animals came together and they told how that, they won, these magpies were on their side, and they also mention the crow and the humans. And this bison, it was a powerful animal, it was fierce, that’s the way the elders described it when they relate this story. The animals got ready and painted themselves, the way they’re colored today, just like the color of deer, all the animals and birds, this one, [ ] Indian term for Red Bird, as they call it, it kept changing its color of paint and the rest were all anxious, and the only one still walking around was the [ ] Indian term for pheasant, they all told it, the race is about to begin, it just went to the fire pit and rolled around in the ashes that’s the way it colored today [laughs], it said, I’ll be, and the birds I don’t remember, they’re here in winter, [ ] Indian term for reed birds they call them, they’re small birds and the bird said, little children will play with me, that’s the only one I can remember. Then the race started, the race was about to begin, the ones that were going to win.”