Salish Creation Story

The world was created by Old-Man-in-the-Sky. He drained all water off the Earth, and put it all into holes which were all over the surface of the Earth, they are now called oceans. One day, Old Man Coyote came to visit Old-Man-in-the-Sky, he came to visit often, but this time he was crying. Old-Man-in-the-Sky asked what was the matter, and Old Man Coyote said he is lonely because he does not have any people to look after. Old-Man-in-the-Sky tells him that he will give him people to look after if he stops visiting all the time. He then gives Old Man Coyote a rawhide bag and tells him to fill it completely with red dirt.
Old Man Coyote searches for days trying to find red dirt. When he finally finds it, he fills the bag with it, but he is so tired that he falls asleep. While he is asleep, Mountain Sheep sees him and decides to play a joke on him. He takes the bag and empties half the red dirt out of the bag and fills the rest of it with white dirt. Later, when Old Man Coyote awakens, he grabs the bag full of dirt, without looking at it, and runs back to Old-Man-in-the-Sky. From the dirt, Old-Man-in-the-Sky makes two men and two women, while it is still nighttime so he cannot tell the difference. Old Man Coyote takes them down to Earth, but it is daytime now and he sees the difference- one man and one woman are red, the other two are white. He decides to separate them, so he puts the white man and woman by the ocean and the red man and woman on his land so he could visit them.
That is how Indian and white people came to be.
-RD