about as a flock of flickers. Raven took some of them to the
canoe. "See," he said to the fisherman, "as I said, I have
plenty of flickers on my island."

The flicker figures also in the Shuswap version of the
origin of the Sun and Moon, a problem which much perplexed the
minds of this tribe among others in British Columbia. In this
case the people desired to make a new Sun and tried Coyote's
ability to fill the part, but he told about everything he saw
from his advantageous position in the sky, and came so near the
Sun in his eagerness to miss no detail of what was going on that
he was almost burned. So the flicker was put in his place.

The bird obligingly laid an egg, and this egg was successfully
transformed into the present day Sun.