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Haida texts and myths

Note 1 — Wars between the Stikine and Sitka Tlingit

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At that time the eulachon were running into the Stikine. After they had filled the ground with holes they went out to get stones. They did not have the right kind of stones there. They had only whetstones. And, when they came from it, a man passed out by them to get some. His name was Daoł.1 Then he gave them the following prediction: “They will kill me [and my family] when the tide is on the ebb, and I shall never come back.”

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