The Tracking Project
The Tracking Project
...IT seems that one time down south, long ago, Coyote ate Turtle. When he did, all the ponds and streams dried up, because Turtle was the keeper of the water.
The animals went to Coyote and begged him to bring Turtle back.
Coyote thought about this and then brought Turtle back up. But Turtle was all in pieces and the animals had to put him back together again.
It was not that easy, either. Before he was eaten, Turtle had plates of solid black, white, red or yellow color. But the pieces coughed up by Coyote were so small that they could not be put back together in the same way.
So the animals did the best they could, and Turtle became a beautiful mosaic, each plate shining with tiny shards of all the different colors.
And it worked! Turtle came back to life. And when he did, the water came back, too.
—Adapted by John Stokes
...IT seems that one time down south, long ago, Coyote ate Turtle. When he did, all the ponds and streams dried up, because Turtle was the keeper of the water.
The animals went to Coyote and begged him to bring Turtle back.
Coyote thought about this and then brought Turtle back up. But Turtle was all in pieces and the animals had to put him back together again.
It was not that easy, either. Before he was eaten, Turtle had plates of solid black, white, red or yellow color. But the pieces coughed up by Coyote were so small that they could not be put back together in the same way.
So the animals did the best they could, and Turtle became a beautiful mosaic, each plate shining with tiny shards of all the different colors.
And it worked! Turtle came back to life. And when he did, the water came back, too.
—Adapted by John Stokes
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