In a Miwok myth, Coyote creates all animals, then calls them to a council to discuss the creation of human beings. Each animal wants people to be imbued with its own best qualities, causing an argument. Coyote mocks them all, vowing that human beings should have his own wit and cunning. Each animal makes a human model in its own likeness; but overnight Coyote destroys the other models, so that only his own model comes to life.
–Katharine Berry Judson, Myths and Legends of California and the Old Southwest
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about where you expect to see a coyote. imagine my surprise at seeing a coyote up close and personal at the rikers island bridge, queens nyc!?