_Shuswap_
A very long time ago, when the earth was new, Coyote traveled about
a great deal, looking after things and helping the Indians. Now
Coyote found that the salmon went to the upper Chilcotin River. He
did not like that at all, for he was a friend of the Shuswaps on the
lower Chilcotin River, and did not like the tribes on the upper
river. Therefore Coyote made a rocky dam across the stream, very
high, so that the salmon could not leap over it. Thus the Shuswaps
had all the salmon and the Chilcotins had none. But the pounding of
the waters wore away Coyote’s dam, and now the salmon go far up the
river. This is how the Chilcotin Cañon was formed.