Matching Pairs Creation StoriesOnline version Creation Stories by Becky Mantooth 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Their children are the race known as American Indians. He made a big fire in the center of the mountain and a hole in the top so that the smoke and sparks could fly out. But at last Muskrat came up and floated almost dead on the water, and when they pulled him up on the raft and looked at his paws, they found a little mud in them. "Even today his tracks can be seen in the rocky path on the south side of Mount Shasta." He pulled up a tree by the roots and threw his daughter through the hole that was created. He took them to the edge of a cliff and showed them how to heap up piles of stone, running back from the cliff like this , with the point of the V toward the cliff. If one man should kill another, the chief took this [item] to the relatives and offered it to them to promote peace!