Potchikoo
The Birth Of Potchikoo
You don’t have to believe this, I’m not asking you to.
But Potchikoo claims that his father is the sun in heaven that shines down on us all.
There was once a very pretty Chippewa girl working in a field. She was digging potatoes for a farmer some place around Pembina when suddenly the wind blew her dress up around her face and wrapped her apron so tightly around her arms that she couldn’t move. She lay helplessly in the dust with her potato sack, this poor girl, and as she lay there she felt the sun shining down very steadily upon her.
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