_Cherokee_
Now the Indians had a corn mill, in which they pounded the corn into
meal. Several mornings when they came to the stone in which the corn
was pounded, they saw that some of the meal had been stolen. Therefore
they looked at the ground. They found the tracks of a dog.
The next night, the people watched, and when the dog came from the
north, they saw him begin to eat meal out of the stone bowl. Then they
sprang out and whipped him.
The dog ran howling back to the north, dropping the meal from his
mouth as he ran. Therefore he left behind a white trail where we now
see the Milky Way. But the Cherokees called it "Where-the-dog-ran."