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It was the night of the heaviest fall rains; water flooded the earth. Deep in the Montana Sawtooth Range, a young boy was born to the Kinakii (Kih- nA- key) Tribe. He was taken to Chief Mikanahay for tribal inspection. With all newborns, the tribe makes sure the right healthy genes present themselves to ensure the future of the clan. Chief Mikanahay noticed strange bands wrapped around the boy's right arm. “Get me Shakalm,” ordered the chief! Shakalm, the medicine man, came stumbling in drenched head to toe; his deer skin matted tight against his body.
“What must disturb me during the Nira (rain) ceremony.”
“Great Shakalm we do not mean to disturb you, but a baby was born and...”
Shakalm interrupted, “Let me see the child!”
The boy now had opened eyes full of confusion and fear. Shakalm pointed out he had bright gray blue irises, which no one in the tribe has ever had. A nervous feeling rushed over Shakalm, but he ignored it and continued his look over. His hand brushed over the boy’s right arm, and a vision flushed through him. He was frozen there in the torch light cave, and everyone else quite curious stood gazed upon the medicine man waiting for what was to come. When he came to, he shuddered and said, “This boy has intense powers, it blocked all of mine! I do not know what is to become of the child. I’m sorry, but I must go.” Shakalm left and was never seen in the tribe again.
Back in the now loud cave, hierarchy men of the tribe spoke of rumours about the infant.
“He will bring disgust to our tribe. No one with more powers than Shakalm can be good,” one man stated.
“Crops will start to die, animals will disappear!” The voices got louder and louder.
“Banish him!” The men started to mob around him. In all the chaos, Makanahay jumped in front of the boy. “ENOUGH!” Makanahay got the men’s attention, “It is still too dark and that weather will be the end of him…”
“Better yet, KILL HIM,” an instigator blurted.
“No! We are better than that. We will wait till the storm stops and we will drop him off at the East End of the woods, from there he is on his own.” Dawn came around, and a dense fog scattered across the mountain tops through the gulches. A hunting group moved out; they carried on their way after

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