Pawnee

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The first people on the earth were giants, very big and strong. They did not believe in the creator Ti-ra-wa. They thought nothing could overcome them. They grew increasingly worse. At last Ti-ra-wa grew angry and raised the water to the level of the land so that the ground became soft. The giants sank into the mud and drowned. Their bones can still be found today. Ti-ra-wa then created a man and woman, like people of today, and gave them corn. The Pawnees are descended from them.

Grinnell, George Bird. Pawnee Hero Stories and Folk-Tales, University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, 1961; reprinted from Forest and Stream Publishing Company, New York, 1889.