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After lunch, the group walked towards the 'sliding hill'.
"I wonder why it's called that?" John asked Nora. "Sounds like fun!"
As they got closer to the hill, Etseh explained. "Long before the white
people came, this place has been called Hodoodzoo. There is a legend about
Yamozhah and the giant wolverine. The wolverine used to trick people into
sliding down this hill. He placed sharp poles at the bottom that would kill them
when they slid down.
The people were frightened so they asked Yamozhah for help. He tricked the wolverine
by pretending to lie dead on the poles at the bottom of the hill. The wolverine
found Yamozhah and dragged him back to camp. He was going to cook Yamozhah and eat
him. When the giant wolverine wasn't looking, Yamozhah jumped up, grabbed a stick
and killed the giant wolverine. The small wolverine pups ran outside and climbed
up a spruce tree.
"Please don't kill us," they cried. Their tears ran down the
side of the spruce tree. "If you don't kill us we'll give you a gift. We'll turn
our tears into spruce gum. You and your people can use it for medicine and all
sorts of things." Yamozhah agreed as long as the wolverines would stay small and
never become giants again. That is why you see spruce gum on the trees today."
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