How Dog Got His Big Ears:
How Dog Got His Big
Ears
A long time ago, even before the first settlers came, the
dogs had little ears like beavers. Back then everything, including
all animals and human beings, was equal, and they would talk to
each other in the same language. Dogs though, because of their
ears, had a problem.
Each day, when a hunter named Kilook would go out on his
camping and hunting trips, he would talk to do this dog team. But
because of their small ears the dogs could not hear what Kilook
said, so they just nodded their heads. When Kilook said, "Chee!"
the dogs would answer "huh?" Then Kilook went up to the leader's
ear in yelled, "Chee, I said Chee!" The dog only said, "Oh" and
went along with Kilook. Then they went back to the village because
they caught nothing.
Later on that night at the Eskimo dance, the men of the village
were singing, but since the dogs couldn't hear what the men were
singing about, they never danced; they would only watch the men
and the women of the village dance. When the high chief came and
talked to the dogs, since they couldn't hear the high chief, he
thought the dogs were not paying attention to him. The high chief
then went to Kilook and told him that his dogs were being
disrespectful. But Kilook told the high chief that his dogs were
deaf.
The next time Kilook went out hunting he started talk to his
dogs, but the dogs couldn't hear him, as usual. So Kilook got
really mad and went straight to the medicine man. The medicine man
then attached an extra large ear to the dogs' heads. It was only
then that dogs started hear and really understood the speech of
man.
That is how the dog got his big ears.
BY: Norma Evan
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