Once long ago, the Great Spirit decided to create a small, tailless, furry, 4 legged, and clumsy animal and called it a squirrel. He made it small intentionally so the Micmac tribe who lived near them would not hunt it. The reason they would not hunt small animals is because they had many wives and needed something big like elk or moose.
Later on the Great Spirit noticed that he had made a mistake because the squirrel had been overpopulating oak trees by planting too many acorns. The Great Spirit realized that he could not wipe them out in one day so he created a chain reaction by bringing the French over for the first time and had the French bring baptism among the Micmac tribe and in the Christian religion you could only have one wife. The men did not need elk any more but a squirrel was the perfect size meal and slowly but surely the squirrel population and oak tree population dropped where the Micmac people lived. The squirrel was a perfect size meal.
The squirrel asked the Great Spirit to help but the Great Spirit did not help him. The squirrel asked what he had done and the Great Spirit explained that the squirrel had been burying too many acorns and too many trees started to grow. The Micmac tribe had no space to live.
The squirrel agreed to stop planting too many acorns and only started a few. That is why to this day the area where the Micmac People live, Maine, they have few oak trees. The Great Spirit then gave the squirrel a big bushy tail.
The squirrel said, "All this does is add on weight and slow me down."
The great Spirit explained that it would help the squirrels' clumsiness by improving its sense of balance. The squirrel asked how and the Great Spirit said he can use it to balance himself by keeping it in an upright and curled position. Because of that one compromise, the squirrel found a way to hide in trees and save himself from Micmac hunters and did not over populate oak trees.
The End