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Flooding myths around the world
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Squamish
When the Squamish saw the great flood coming, they made a giant
canoe and a long rope of cedar fibers with which they fastened
the canoe to a giant rock. Into the canoe, they put every baby,
a young man and woman to be their guardians, and food and water.
The waters rose and drowned everyone else. After several days,
the man saw Mount Baker in the distance. He cut the rope and paddled
south to it, and made a new home there. The outline of the canoe
can still be seen halfway up the slope of Mount Baker.
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