How Vulture Became Bald - Ojibwa Once again we are are introduced to Nanabush. The great native healer,teacher,medecine man, trickester... When the Creator was creating all Creation...he came to the flyers,, All the flyers were made different sizes and all had purpose...just like you and I. Then the creator created the Thunderbirds necklace (the Rainbow).. All the flyers were instructed to take flight and travel through the neclace..And all did...when they came out the other side ...They got there colors... Now remember that all colors are powerful....in healing, health and medecine.. Different colors represent different things..for example.. the White is the color of change..purity.. The red is the color of vision...passion.. The yellow is the color of time... and intellect (logic).. the black is the colour of respect and mysterious medecines... Green is the color of growth and renewal.. Purple is the color of healing and grounding.. Pink is a color of passiveness and unconditional love.. Blue is spirit,,calmness and balance.. And so all the flyers received colors from the thunderbirds neclace... Now there was one giant bird whom had a beautiful head of feathers..She noticed that she was not colorful enough and wanted to be more... so she flew back through the thunderbirds necklace again and again... Everytime she went through a new colour was added to her head of feathers....Ohh was she magnificent.. And she flew down to the calm pond and looked at herself.. WOW was she beautiful... In no time she visited all the rest of the flyers and noticed something.. they were not like her...in fact they looked plain she thought to herself.. and as time went on....She developed a nasty habit....In stead of visting and sharing about the wonders of the world,,,she would talk only of how beautiful she was...and eventually.. the rest of the flyers wanted nothing to do with her..Yet she was not taken aback.... Ohhh loook at me Blue jay ...I am not only more beautiful and much larger ....than you ...I am better.. she would say to all the flyers.. Well all the animals were getting tired of her ways and requested that Nanabush...teach her a lesson.... Nanabush agreed...and went down to the beach...he took some medecine from his pouch and ate it..then sang a powerful song and slowly he turned into a Bear...Then nanabush rested on the beach and fell asleep.... Now The colourful large bragish flyer saw this giant bear in the open..and presumed it dead...so slowly it travelled down to the bear....She landed softly and poked at the foot of the bear..no movement... yet nanabush woke up...and peeked open an eye...and made no response..Nanabush forced himself to stay still....while the flyer poked at his feet...ohhhh it tickled yet nanabush still made no movement... The flyer was getting hungry and wanted to get to the meat of the bear...She hopped on its belly and poked at it trying really hard to break the skin..yet the skin was to tough..So she hopped around and poked at the eyes.. yet nanabush closed them really tight.. and she couldn't get through... She hopped to the backside of Bear...."ohhh here is an opening.." She stuck her head in the bears butt....and Nanabush clenched his muscles and let some gas go !!!! BOOM!!! And out flew the flyer...Splash into the water... All the other flyers came out and laughed at her... when she came up...Nanabush got up and pulled the feathers from his butt...and told her..You will from now on ...travel in humility..silently.. for now you don't have the colours anymore ...to seperate yourself from others....and he walked away ... Today the Vulture is bald.....always travelling in silence and ashamed...humility is big in the vulture....for if you don't appreciate the little things in this life time...how are you to appreciated the Big things... This is the lesson of the Vulture...