A woman from the Dakota tribe married a man who beat her and was unkind even though he promised to be kind. To escape his cruelty, she ran away to never be found. As she walked the next day she ran into what she thought was a man but was actually a the chief of the wolves. The chief took the woman back to his village filled with wolves. The chief made the other wolves go and retrieve anything the woman requested.
After living for the wolves for a year, the chief informed the woman the people she previously was apart of, would come to their village the next day in search of buffalo. The woman would have to go out and talk to the people to stop them from killing all the wolves. She met the men and they recognized her. They said they would return the next day to talk to her after they have told the village they have found the missing wife.
When the group returned the next they had women and her parents with them. The moment she came in contact with her parents, she fainted because she couldn't stand the smell of humans. She told her father and all the hunters that they must go on a buffalo hunt and return all the tongues of the killed buffalo to her. She sent he hunters to the the tops of two mountains to create a pile of meat between the 2 mountains of meat. The pile was so great, it reached the top of both mountains. She planted a flag pole in the meat between the mountains, then began to howl like a wolf.
Soon many wolves began to howl and feast upon the meat. The woman went back to her original people. Her husband wished she would come back to live with her. She denied him that until one day they settled their differences and lived together again.
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| Grey wolves. Source |
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