Skunk

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 Sign: Short, Tail up, Smell Bad

We never heard of any Indians speaking of animals beside the buffalo as existing in Spirit Land. It seems that the skunk is the only other animal that can go to Spirit Land ; for the skunk has helped one man to get his wife back from Spirit Land. The skunk has power to make rainbows by its sprays in the night. These rainbows that they make are imitations of the rainbows of Spirit Land.

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