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This is a story about a young man who marries first a wolf and then a bear. He has a son with his bear wife. Eventually he turns into a bear himself. He is then reclaimed by his human relatives and turned back into a human.
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The original manuscript of this story is in the Truman Michelson Collection of the Smithsonian Institution's National Anthropological Archives. It was written by Young Bear sometime between 1921 and 1938. The version given here was transcribed, phonemicized, otherwise edited, and translated by Lucy Thomason.