The Frog Design by Richard Shortly  Image: Frogs generally represent good luck to the Northwest Coast peoples and it was not considered wise to demean or injure them.  Many frog stories abound including a well-known Tlingit story about how frogs became widespread throughout the northwest.  It has to do with a chiefs’ daughter who made fun of them and was tricked into going to the village of the frog people under the lake by a frog masquerading as a handsome man.  She married him and bore him children and in order to get her back, her father’s village drained the lake, scattering frogs in every direction
Frogs generally represent good luck to the Northwest Coast peoples and it was not considered wise to demean or injure them. Many frog stories abound including a well-known Tlingit story about how frogs became widespread throughout the northwest. It has to do with a chiefs’ daughter who made fun of them and was tricked into going to the village of the frog people under the lake by a frog masquerading as a handsome man. She married him and bore him children and in order to get her back, her father’s village drained the lake, scattering frogs in every direction