Once upon a time, a bison met a bear. Winter was coming and he asked the bear where he could get food since everything was covered with snow. The bear answered that he didn’t eat in the winter. Instead he typical went into a deep sleep. Every year at the same time Tukoni, forest inhabitants would put him to sleep in a den and wake him up at springtime. The bison became lost in thought. He had never slept all through the winter and couldn’t even imagine that other animals did. How wonderful it would be to sleep in a cozy nest rather than roam around in the snow! The bison decided that the Tukoni should put him to sleep as well.