Yellow Eyes
"They say the story goes like this. Long ago a man robbed a bank, and leaving his partners to the police, fled into the vast wilderness of the Navajo Nation. It's the biggest Indian Reservation in the states. He shot a hiker that was camping too close to where he hid. The man would have died, except a coyote dragged him to the road, and jumped on the hood of a local rancher's pickup. Tradition says a coyote is the messenger of the Holy People- so the rancher stopped the car and looked to see what the coyote wanted him to find, and that is how he found the hiker.
This got the tribal police to search the area, and they found tracks from the hiker's camp going up into the canyons. there is no water up there, and the robber didn't seem to know the area, which is why he probably came down. They followed them, there was a gunfight, as the robber ambushed the policeman, and out of the rocks the coyote appeared, and leapt onto the robber.
With a scream he tumbled over the edge of the cliff. When the police got to the bottom of the canyon and found him, they found the robber, dead. Beside him was the body of the coyote. He watched and the coyote became a human boy. Stark naked. So the police officer took the boy home and told everyone he was his nephew.
The police officer had a family, grew old and like all men, eventually died. The boy he found, never did. They say his name is Billy Nez, and that's who you got over there." --As told by Jim Begay, Streams Come Together.
