Known as the carpenter of the animal kingdom, and is consider the industrious one.
The Beaver is said to have been a woman at one time Tsimshian legends tells of this woman who dammed a stream to swim in it. Because she refused to get out, she was transformed and her leather apron became a Beaver's tail.
In Haida legend it is the Beaver who is responsible for providing the Salmon that the Raven had stolen to give back to the people.
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