Mima Mounds
According to stories told by people of the Upper Chehalis Tribe, the Mima Mounds were left behind after a great flood subsided: "Thrush was a disgrace to the tribe: the people had noticed, for many years, that she would not wash her face or bathe; she would not go near the water... 'My friends,' Thrush would say, 'if I should wash my face, something might happen to this earth...' One day at last she consented to wash her face... Clouds started to form immediately... It rained and rained. The whole world was flooded... There was nothing but prairie land beneath the water. At last the water fell (near Mima Prairie) the earth still remains in the shape of waves. It extends like this for four or five miles." - Folktale of the Coast Salish.
Mima Mounds
According to stories told by people of the Upper Chehalis Tribe, the Mima Mounds were left behind after a great flood subsided: "Thrush was a disgrace to the tribe: the people had noticed, for many years, that she would not wash her face or bathe; she would not go near the water... 'My friends,' Thrush would say, 'if I should wash my face, something might happen to this earth...' One day at last she consented to wash her face... Clouds started to form immediately... It rained and rained. The whole world was flooded... There was nothing but prairie land beneath the water. At last the water fell (near Mima Prairie) the earth still remains in the shape of waves. It extends like this for four or five miles." - Folktale of the Coast Salish.