At last even the mountaintops were submerged and the mammoth men were drowned.
After the flood subsided, the Great Spirit came to the conclusion that he had made men too large and powerful.

He therefore corrected his mistake by creating a race of the size and strength of the men of the present day.

This is the reason, the Indians told us, that the man of modern times is small and not like the giants of old.

The story has been handed down among the Pawnees for generations, but what is its origin no man can say..