Securing Fire

Securing Fire is a Native American myth from the Apache tribe. It is the story of how they came to have fire, it starts out that coyotes, birds, and hawks were all people and the tribe invited all of the other tribes nearby to come join them and play games at their camp. They told everyone who was coming to bring fire, and once everyone arrived they made a great fire and the games began. While everyone was playing and not paying attention to their fire coyote come down and lit a torch that he had and ran off with the fire and ran as fast as he could and brought fire to all the nearby tribes who didn’t have it before. And now every one is of great thanks to the coyote.


“Securing Fire” Indian Mythology 1918 11-7-08 myths and tales from the San Carlos Apache http://www.indianmythology.org/apache/securingfire.htm
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