NING BREVE~}n, the Earth, complete in extent. No hills or mountains were there
in sight, nothing but a smooth, treeless, reddish-brown plain.

Nilchidilhkizn, the Wind, scratched his chest and rubbed his fingers
together, when out from between them flew Datilye, the Humming-bird.
Datilye was told to make a circuit of the earth and report what he saw. He
started off toward the east, circled south, west, north, and back from the
east. All was well; the earth was most beautiful, very smooth, and covered
with water on the western side.

But the Earth was not still; it kept shifting and rolling and dancing up
and down, so Kuterastan made four great posts--colored black, blue, yellow,
and white--to support it. Then he directed Stenatlihan to sing a song. She
sang, "The world is made and will soon sit still." These two then stood
and faced Chuganaai and Hadintin Skhin, when into their midst came
Nilchidilhkizn, who dashed away to the cardinal points with the four
posts, which he placed under the sides of the earth; and upon them it sat
and was still. This pleased Kuterastan, so he sang a song, repeating, "The
world is now made and sits still."

Then Kuterastan began another song, referring to the sky. None existed as
yet, and he felt there ought to be one. Four times he chanted the song, at
the end of the fourth time spreading his hands wide before him, when lo!
there stood twenty-eight men and women ready to help make a sky to cover
the earth. He next chanted a song for the purpose of making chiefs for the
sky and the earth, and at its close sent Ndidilhkizn, the Lightning Maker,
to encircle the world. Ndidilhkizn departed at once, but returned in a
short time with three very uncouth persons, two girls and a boy, whom he
had found in the sky in a large turquoise bowl. Not one of them had eyes,
ears, hair, mouth, nose, or teeth, and though they had arms and legs, they
had neither fingers nor toes.

Chuganaai at once sent for Doh, the Fly, to come and erect a _kache{~COMBINING BREVE~}_, or
sweat-house. It took but a short time to put up the framework, which
Stenatlihan covered closely with four heavy clouds: a black cloud on the
east, a blue one on the south, a yellow one on the west, and a white one
on the north. Out in front of the doorway, at the east, she spread a soft
red cloud for a foot-blanket after the sweat. Twelve stones were heated in
a fire, and four of them placed in the _kache{~COMBINING BREVE~}_. Kuterastan, St