Once upon a time there was a handsome red-headed brave who fell in love with a beautiful maiden. They were married.

Later, on a very cold day, the man told his wife he was going to the forest to cut wood to keep their tepee hot. The wife stayed home.

At noon she cooked him a good dinner, but he failed to come home. She went to the forest to seek him and listened to hear his chopping.

Unable to find him she started home. On her way she saw a big red-headed bird pecking as hard as he could all around a tree.

Later that evening her husband came home and sat down by the fire.
“I have a headache I chopped too hard.”
His wife told him about the bird she had seen.
“That was I, ” he said.
The girl had married a woodpecker.