An Aniyuhnwiya Story - Coyote and Another One
This is what I was told as a boy....Two Coyotes were crossing an open field, each from oposite ends. Both of these Coyotes were strangers to one another for they had never before met. As they came abreast of each other they stopped to be social. Just as they were about to introduce themselves a farmer stepped out into the field and they heard him yell, " There's a Coyote in the field!" The first Coyote turned to the other and told him to run! They both took off running for the trees at the edge of the field and as they ran they heard the farmer yell, " And there goes another one!" Finally both Coyotes made it to the cover of the trees and stopping there they once more started to introduce themselves. " I have never seen you before. " said the first Coyote. " My name is Wanderer, I am a Coyote like you." The other Coyote looked at Wanderer rather oddly and said," My name is Sleek, but you are mistaken, I am not a Coyote like you."
"Yes you are," said Wanderer
"No I'm not," replied Sleek
" Look my friend, you are very much confused. You have ears like mine, you have a tail like mine,our fur is the same, even our snouts are the same. Everything is the same, you are just like me. We are both Coyotes." Wanderer tried to exsplain.
"Listen, lets run across the field again and you will see," challenged Sleek.
So off they ran. First went Wanderer and again the farmer yelled, "There goes that darn Coyote!" Then Sleek took afoot and the farmer yelled, " And there goes another one..... again!".
When Wanderer and Sleek reached the other side of the field they ducked into the woods. Wanderer turned to Sleek and said, " There, didn't you hear the farmer? He called us both Coyotes!"
Sleek looked disapointed with his new confused friend and he said," Yes I heard the farmer. He called YOU a Coyote, but ME...I am Another One!"
The moral of this story fit's todays times very well. We are often too willing to let others, aka the Government, tell us who we are and are way too busy trying to be what we're not! So says, Spirit Hawk ^i^
