A great many hundred snows ago, Alo Nokee Washte, sitting on the Sacred Stool, created the world. First, she made the fishes in the Big Water, then the animals on the green land, and last of all, Shu’halo! But at first the animals were all alike in power. So they did, and after nine sleeps their work was ended, and the bows and arrows which they had made were very many.