Beaver and Porcupine

A Tlingit story · Southeast Alaska, the Yukon and northern British Columbia · 1:22

A still from the film Beaver and Porcupine
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Beaver and Porcupine are close friends, until Beaver tires of finding quills in his house and leaves Porcupine stranded on a stump in the middle of a lake. Porcupine sings the lake into ice and walks home, then repays the trick by leaving Beaver at the top of a tall tree. Beaver's slow climb down is why tree bark looks broken.

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