Fox Stories

Japanese Fox Tales

Kajortoq, the Red Fox
Rabbit and Fox (Iroquois)
Story Of The Red Fox Clan (Chickasaw)
The Fox-Woman (Labrador Eskimo)
The Foxes and the Sun (Yurok)
Spider man, Partridges and the Fox (Sioux )
Where Foxes Dance
Why the Fox has a Huge Mouth

Apache Fox Stories

Foxes in Culture

Fox and the Moon

Long ago, Snoqualm, the Moon, had a spider make him a rope out of cedar bark and stretch it from the sky to the Earth. One day Fox and Blue Jay found the rope and climbed up to where the rope was fixed to the underside of the sky. Blue Jay pecked a hole in the sky and they climbed through to the sky world. Blue Jay flew to a tree while Fox changed himself into Beaver and swam in a lake. Moon had set a trap in the lake which caught Beaver. Moon skinned him and threw the body in the corner of the smokehouse. That night when Moon was asleep Beaver got up and put his skin back on. He looked around. He took a few of the trees, and the Moon's daylight making tools, some fire, and the Sun which was hidden in Moon's house. He changed back into Fox then he found the hole that Blue Jay had made and took the things to Earth. He planted the trees, made daylight, gave the fire to the people, and put the Sun in it's place. When Moon awoke he was very angry. He found the tracks that led to the hole. He started down but the rope broke and he fell to the Earth in a heap where he became a mountain. One can see the face of Snoqualm on one of the rocky cliffs. Today it is called Mount Si and it is near Northbend, Washington.

A story from the Snoqualmie of Washington, USA

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