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CHARACTERS / Blaiwas Eagle / Galaíwa Mouse / Kaiutois Wolf / Kĕlaiwa House Mouse / Kúja Rat / Kûlta Otter / Wŏn Elk / Yahyáhaäs The One-legged Man
Old Kúja and his five daughters lived in the mountains east of Tula Lake. The old man never went hunting, or went out of the house. His five daughters were hunters. When getting ready to hunt, they took off their clothes and became red from the waist up; then they put on breech clouts and went out as men. One of the sisters built a ring of fires around the mountain they wished to hunt on. The fire and smoke drove the deer toward the top of the mountain. The other sisters shot the deer with arrows; an arrow always went through a deer and came out.