Beaver Steals Fire - A Salish Coyote Story by Confederated Salish And Kootenai T

Beaver Steals Fire - A Salish Coyote Story by Confederated Salish And Kootenai Tribes. Published by University Of Nebraska Press in 2008. Paperback. A long time ago fire belonged only to the animals in the land above, not to those on the earth below. Curlew, keeper of the sky world, guarded fire and kept it from the earth. Coyote, however, devised a clever plan to steal fire, aided by Grizzly Bear, Wren, Snake, Frog, Eagle, and Beaver.