Devils Tower

Wyoming By Maria I. Medina

There are two great legends regarding the tower from the Lakota and the Kiowa, involving a similar narrative. In the Lakota legend, six girls were out picking flowers when they were attacked and chased by bears. The Great Spirit felt bad for them, and raised the ground beneath their feet. The bears chased them and attempted to climb the newly formed tower but the bears fell off and created the claw mark on the sides of the monolith. The Kiowa legend follows the same storyline; for the except, that there was 7 Kiowa girls and when the ground rose beneath them to the heavens. The girls where turned to the constellation Pleiades. Meanwhile, the bears only managed to leave their claw marks.