For countless generations my people, the Secwépemc and St’at’imc, narrated the creation of the world and the way things are through tales of our trickster ancestor, Coyote. Coyote was sent to Earth by Creator to set things in order. While he did much good — filling the rivers with salmon, populating the lands with descendants — he was a trickster and up to no good as well. Hence why things are the way they are and why we are the way we are: tricksters in a trickster land. The Coyote Stories