THE LEGEND OF WISHPOOSH
Sep 01, 2022
3 minutes
retold by Elizabeth M. Tenney
Editor’s Note
eavers held an honored position with many Indigenous peoples. Some groups believed beavers had created humans. Other cultures believed dead people came back to life as beavers. The legend of a great beaver named Wishpoosh was told by the people of the mid-Columbia River region of the Pacific Northwest. It had two purposes. It explained a great flood the Indigenous peoples believed had once taken place in the area. It
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