It was said that many moons ago, Raven had a son. He named him "Pangquussiiq", the peeking one, or the nosy one. Because even as a young bird he always poked around and did nothing but get into mischief. Raven got tired of telling his son "Pang" not to do this and not to do that.

Before Pang was born all the white birds and the black birds were good friends. They would always do things together as a group and always co-operate. They never had any problems and never bothered each other. They would go out hunting together and mingle and were just good friends.

After Pang grew up though things started to change. He didn't like the fact that white and black birds hung around together and he decided to do something about it.

When a mother white bird flew off her nest to rest for awhile after sitting on her eggs and sweating like the sun itself, that sneaky Pang sneaked up from behind her to play a trick on her. The mother white bird never saw what was happening until only after she heard the crack of an egg. As she turned her head she saw Pang carrying off one of her eggs. Since she couldn't do anything about it she felt very sad and angry at the same time.

Later that same day she called for a meeting with all the birds. At the meeting they decided that they would go out and search for this mean young raven. If no one returned with him then the white birds would forget about Pang's theft and simply never speak with the black birds again. And that's exactly what happened. The birds returned with nothing. And so from then on they did not speak to each other, not even to say "Excuse me!" while passing each other in the air.

Maureen Fitka