Explore "How the Rattlesnakes Came to be what they Are" by Frank Hamilton Cushing on Textopian. Read with annotations and highlights.
Know you that long, long ago there lived at Yathlpewʻnan, as live there now, many Rattlesnakes; but then they were men and women, only of a Rattlesnake kind.
One day the little children of one of the houses there wished to go out to play at sliding down the sandbanks south of the Bitter Pond on the other side of our river. So they cried out to their parents: "Let us go, O mother, grandmother, father! and take our little sister to play on the sunny side of the sandbanks."