HOW RAVEN GAVE LIGHT As told by Marilyn Whirlwind (adapted) A long time ago, Raven looked down from the sky. He saw that the people of the world were living in the dark because an old, selfish' chief 2 was hiding the great ball of light. Raven thought that people should not live in the dark, so he decided to bring light to them. The next day he used magic to change himself into a small leaf from a tree and fell into a river. Soon after that, the chief's daughter came to the river for a drink of water. She drank the leaf. and the leaf grew in the young woman as a baby boy. When the baby was born, all loved him, especially the chief But soon. the baby started to cry. He wanted to play with his grandfathers ball of light. The family could not make him stop crying for the ball. Finally, the chief gave the ball of light to the baby. As soon as he had the light, the baby changed back into Raven. He immediately threw the ball of light into the sky, so there was light everywhere! From then on, people lived in the light.