The Quileutes were once a very different tribe. We have always been good people, but our ways were different than they are now. The first time we came in contact with the outsiders, the white man, and of course the white woman, was when a ship wrecked on our shores. Our ancestors saved those they could. We could not trouble ourselves with the rest. There spirits had moved on.

Although we saved these people, we made them work for their keep. Some would call it slavery; our ancestors saw it as being logical. It was a hard time then, none of the modern conveniences that we have now were available and people had to work to live. They could not be coddled like infants.

Over time these people became friends rather than strangers and eventually it was forgotten that they had ever been different at all.

Several generations passed and we began to have trouble with the white man again. Though we were a small tribe, they were greedy and wanted to take what we had. The white man did not respect the spirit magic of the Quileutes the way that the Hohs and the Makahs had at the time of the Spirit Chiefs like Kaheleha and Taha Aki had passed.

But, we still had the pack. We still had our ability to change into the wolf.

The peace was kept with the white man through treaties, but many were still angry at them even when they once again went away and let us be…at least for a time, but that is another story.

It happened that two brothers in the pack of the time, Dichali and Helaku, had grown up together and could not have been closer if they had come from the same womb. Where one went you were sure to see the other. The other two members of the pack at the time were close to them as well, but not as close as these two brave spirits. When they ran as a pack, they thought the same, hunted the same, it was almost as if they were one. But, such closeness cannot exist where one loves and another hates.

You see, Dichali could see the good in some of the whites whereas Helaku could not. Their different views on this one subject was something that they avoided, something that the whole pack avoided, but such things can only be ignored for so long.