Tlingit

A LONG time ago when some of the Kagwantan clan were catching herring at Town-at-mouth-of-lake, a bear came to the place where they were fishing. The bear reached down through the smoke hole and stole the herring they were drying. Then people said; “Who is this thief that is stealing our fish?” Because they said that, the grizzly bear killed all of them. Then the Kagwantan seized their spears and set out to kill the bears nearby. When they found them, the bears were lying in holes they had dug out for themselves. The people said to them, “Come out here. We will fight it out.” So the bears came out and the people killed them. They took the skins from the heads of the bears and preserved them. That is how the Kagwantan came to use the grizzly bear crest.