Legends and Stories
- Chipmunk and meadowlark- Sanpoil legend about two children attacked by a monster
- Coyote becomes chief of the salmon- Sanpoil legend about the adventures of coyote.
- Coyote's salmon- Coyote teaches the Sanpoil to harvest salmon.
- Five wolves- Sanpoil story about a boy who turned into a chickadee
- How the cold lost its power- Sanpoil story about the origin of the seasons
- Origin of different languages- Sanpoil story about a quarrel between tribes
- Rolling stone- Sanpoil story about coyote getting in trouble with a grasshopper family
- Tick and the deer- Sanpoil story about the origin of the wood tick.
- Woodpecker and the theft of fire- Sanpoil legend about the origin of fire
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