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Crows

Secretly Incredibly Fascinating

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The Sloppiness of Colonizers

Many people's used Crows or Ravens as central figures in creation stories. Their Inuit peoples have a story of a primeval being called Tylungasack who learned there was clay down at the bottom of a void. The Koryak people of modern Siberia have similar stories. People of modern Western Canada have astory of a great raven calling the world into being. And then there's also the Pennsylvania Lenape people. They have a story about a bird called Rainbow Crow, whose feathers are all of the colors. He saves humanity from a freezing death in like the first primordial winter. By fetching a celestial torch and bringing us that fire. But as Rainbow Crow carries the

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