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There’s an old story from the Arapahoe about how the Big Dipper came to be, and it involved 7 sisters and a giant bear. The group of sisters got separated from their camp and found themselves lost, but in the brush, a huge bear came out and began to chase them. This giant beat chased them for days. Just when the girls would think they were safe, the bear would appear and chase them again. The girls knew they were further away from their camp and could not think clearly with the bear chasing after them. 
Then, while being chased again, one of the sisters fell from exhaustion and could not get back up. The others pleaded to keep running but the oldest stopped and began to pray to Creator asking him to save them from this bear. The ground started to rumble and then began to rise. The bear finally caught up and began to climb the ledge, but the piece of ground rose again. Every time the bear figured a way to climb up to the ledge and reach the girls, the ground would rise a bit more. After the bear tried and failed over and over again to reach the girls, the bear gave up and left. The girls, exhausted, finally felt rest and true peace. Creator took them for his own and they became the Big Dipper, or “Wicha Akhiyuhapi,” becoming a way to help others to know where they are if they become lost.
People know of this place as being called “Devil’s Tower,” and when most things that were given the name “devil”- whatever, only meant that there was a power there that colonizers or non-indigenous people can never know about. They may feel its intensity but for the tribes around and that visit those areas, it is the opposite of its colonial name. Its original name is “Grey Horn Butte” or “Matho Tipila (Bear Lodge)”. Colonizers only gave this area that name because the power of the land was too intense for them and gave them the heebee-jeebees, so they named it something to reflect fear and ignorance. Those same things may be what make it hard to believe that a giant bear could make those markings on the side of the butte from its claws. Those same feelings may be what were meant to be instilled for us to not remember our loved ones who are in the stars, but it is you who stops that cycle with a good heart and an open mind.