THE MILKY WAY

THE MILKY WAY
Some people in the south had a corn mill, in which they pounded the corn into
meal, and several mornings when they came to fill it they noticed that some of
the meal had been stolen during the night. They examined the ground and found
the tracks of a dog, so the next night they watched, and when the dog came from
the north and began to eat the meal out of the bowl they sprang out and whipped
him. He ran off howling to his home in the north, with the meal dropping from
his mouth as he ran, and leaving behind a white trail where now we see the
Milky Way, which the Cherokee call to this day Giʻlĭ′-utsûñ′stănûñ′yĭ, “Where
the dog ran.”

Source:
Myths of the Cherokee James Mooney