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A Cheyenne legend of the creation of the Big Dipper. When a Native American girl begins to make clothes beautifully decorated with porcupine quills for seven brothers she has not yet met, her parents believe that unseen powers have spoken to her. The girl knows she must travel to the north country to find the seven brothers. She comforts her mother by saying, “Soon you will see me again with my brothers; everyone will know and love us!”

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