“The spiders, honeybees, yellow jackets, and mud daubers: these insects still speak - a language that is older than humans. The buffalo, elk, wolf, coyote -they still talk too. It's we, the people, who have forgotten how to listen. [Osage Spider Story, an Osage Legend, told by Archie Mason, Jr]” SpiderOsage Book:Spider Spins a Story: Fourteen Legends from Native America Source: Spider Spins a Story: Fourteen Legends from Native America