while the people were dancing in a circle around kruktat’s cremation pyre, coyote snuck through the bowed legs of bear and snatched kruktat’s heart in his mouth. the people hit coyote, and as he ran into the mountains above baldwin lake, the dripping blood turned the rocky soil red. when the creator died the people mourned and their tears turned into pine trees, the area called yuhaviat. the nuts from the trees became food for the yuhaviatam, or people of the pines.