Talk:Wy'east

"According to local native legend, Wy'east (WHY east) was a chief of the Multnomah peoples who loved a beautiful maiden named Loo-wit. Klickitat, chief of the Klickitat tribe, also loved her.

Loo-wit had brought fire back to the Multnomah and Klickitat peoples. The Great Spirit commanded her to light a fire on the stone bridge across what we now call the Columbia River to help restore warmth and light to the tribes who had fallen into a long season of wrongdoing. The stone bridge was supposed to be a symbol of peace between the warring peoples.

Time passed and Loo-wit could not decide which of the handsome young chiefs she liked better, Wy'east or Klickitat, so the two chiefs began to quarrel. The Great Spirit became angry at the squabbling chiefs. He dashed the stone arch into the river, and turned Wy'east into Mt. Hood in northwest Oregon and Klicktat into Mt. Adams in southwest Washington. Loo-wit became Washington's Mt. St. Helens. The trio are still said to be angry with one another expressed by volcanic activity."

That's what you get when us white people start improvising on Native American themes... Wetman 00:57, 23 Mar 2004 (UTC)