These stories are real Native American Stories, showing the traditional origin of the Klukwalle, or Wolf Dance. These inspired the concept behind the Klukwalle pack.
A long time ago, a young woman of the tribe, with three companions, was walking outside the village. They were going to a place called To-Mak'cluh to look for ah-ets'l, a small plant whose roots they used for food. During the journey, a Wolf went trotting across their path, strong and sleek, and barely noticing the girls. The young woman said: "How handsome he is! I wish my husband, when I marry, could be as strong and as fearless." At night time the women went to sleep and the Wolf came in. (The Wolves know everything, and read the minds of human creatures.) The girl did not know he had come, but the Wolf woke the sleeping girl, and told her that he was going to take her with him. Opening her eyes, she saw a fine young man standing before her. (The Wolf had taken off his mask and become human. This was a thing that easily happened in those early days.)
The young woman went with the Wolf to his home in the mountain, and was there a long time. Two sons were born, who grew up to be half Wolf and half man. The old father of the girl, meanwhile, did not know where his daughter had gone, and was greatly troubled. At her home they tried everywhere to find her, looking in vain in all kinds of places, until they grieved for her as dead. In the Wolf country the oldest son, grown to be a man, asked his mother why he looked different from the people around him (The Wolves). The mother told him that he came from another place, and that there, far from where the Wolves lived, dwelt her own father. Then the son asked her when she was going home, because he wished very much to see what it was like there. So the woman told her husband that their son would like to see his grandfather. He finally agreed, but before they went, as a gift to his wife, the Wolf began to teach her of the Klukwana, that they had there. It was the Chief of Wolves that the woman had married, and all the Wolves came to the Chief's house to have Klukwanna. When she had learned all about it, the other Wolves came to take her away to her own village. They brought her to her father's house at night, and waited behinf the other houses, but did not come near. The woman went in to wake her father, and began talking to him of the daughter he had lost, keeping hidden who she was. She said that she herself had a Wolf husband, and that she had with her two sons, who the Wolves had brought back to the village. The woman also told her father many things about the Wolves, and that the villagers must not do anything when the wolves howled or try to harm them. Instead, they must try to learn form them. Long ago, they had only spears and arrows, and she asked her people that they not spear the Wolves or shoot them with arrows.
The old father had been much grieved because his daughter was dead, but he did not know her because it was nighttime, and she was much changed after so many years. But at last she revealed herself to him and told him that now she was going to have a "song" of her own as a sign that the Wolves had brought her back and by which he might know her again. After this she went away with the Wolves once more.
As soon as he could, the old father got all the people together in his house and told them that his daughter had come back, and that the Wolves had taken her. Just at this point the Wolves howled outside four times (the signal appointed by the woman), and the people were very much afraid. The father alone recognized his daughter's "song" among these, but kept silent as bidden. The villagers had a long board and sticks with them, and began beating them to make noise; and, though the people inside were much afraid, the Wolves outside were as much frightened of the people because of the noise they made. The woman (who was outside with the Wolves) said afterwards that the younger Wolves ran away at once. After they had howled four times, all the Wolves went back into the forest, and the woman came in the house with he two sons.
Then the woman taught her father all about Klukwana, and the secrets she had learned from the Wolves as to their power and strength. After she had taught him all the songs and dances, the father began the Klukwana, and later taught the rest of the tribe all that his daughter had learned from the Wolves.
Another Version.. The Origin of the Klukwalle.
Ha-sass, the younger brother of four, belonged to the tribe at It-tat'soo village, which in it's long and bitter wars with a nearby tribe had been almost destroyed. They heard the Wolves had in their posession something invincible to fight with (the Che-to'kh, a magic war club) and Ha-sass decided he would go to the Wolves House far up in the mountain, to try and obtain this and save his tribe from extinction. The Wolves were very different in those times. Also, in ancient times there was a hole at the foot of the mountain, and the Wolves went right through here. They did not climb the mountain. Ha-sass, planning with his brothers how he could gain entrance to the House of the Wolves, decided that he would drain his blood out, so they could not scent him as man. Finding a large flat stone on the beach covered with barnacles, he lay down upon it and had his brothers pull him across the barnacles, four times, once on each side of his body, and his arms as well. He was bleeding all over, and finally, when enough blood had been let, he had his brothers sew him into the skin of a hair seal. They knew that the Wolves ate the hair seal; so, after being sewed inside, he was carried by the brothers on a flat piece of wood over to the beach. Ha-sass kept a small, flat piece of stone close upon his chest because he knew that, when Wolves have a dead thing, they try to catch it on a sharp stick to make sure that it is dead. The Raven, messenger of the Wolves, saw the hair seal on the beach and, flying over, took out it's right eye as a sign to the Wolves that the Raven had been there. Rave does this with everything he finds on the beach; hair seal, sea lion, or what not. Ha-sass' brothers were watching, to see which way the Raven went. He flew right up the mountain, but his House is not in the Wolves' House. Then the brothers saw many Wolves come down to the beach. These took up the hair seal, and all went away into the bush. The largest of the Wolves is the Carrier Wolf (Ka-noh-pass'a). There is only one of these to each pack, and his back is different. It is wider, for carrying things so that they do not fall off. The others merely go along with him to help. It was the Carrier Wolf who took Ha-sass in the hair seal skin upon his back, and after a time he said: "This creature feels warm. It must be alive. There must be a man alive in it." The Carrier Wolf, who is the main helper of the Wolf Chief, is also wiser than the common Wolves, and at this point, he threw Ha-sass from his back against the sharp sticks (o-sa-wuk'a-yuk) which lined the whole road to the Wolves' House, and against which they dash whatever they take, to make sure it has been killed. But the wary Ha-sass was also watching, and, as he held the flat stone closely to his breast, he bounced off from these each time. Finally, the Carrier Wolf took him on his back, and they went on their way.
They at last reached the secret fastness of the Wolves, very far up the mountain, and entered the house of the Wolf Chief. All the Wolves had gone along, for they, along with the Carrier Wolf, worked for the Wolf Chief, and when they got any food must take it to him. When they all came together in the Wolf Chief's home, the Carrier at once complained that he was tired, and that what he had been carrying was heavy. As soon as the hair seal was inside the house, they started to cut it into pieces, so that the Wolves could eat right away and make a feast. They had gathered into a circle for this, and when the Wolf Chief cut into the skin, they found the man alive inside. Then they began asking him questions, for the Wolf Chief, who was wise beyond all others, knew that he would not have undergone the danger of coming up there unless he desired something. Admiring his courage, they promised him anything he wished. They were not afraid of the man. There was friendship with the Wolves, because this was after the woman married the Wolf Chief. The Wolves first asked him if he would like something for catching whales, but he remained silent. Then they asked him if he wanted a comb, so he could have long hair, but again he did not answer. Next they asked him if he wanted teks-yah'pe, something which, if placed inside a dead body, would bring it back to life. Again he did not answer. Finally the Wolves asked if he wanted Che-to'kh, and Ha-sass at once replied that this was what he wanted. The Che-to'kh was a magic club which, when held high, caused all who saw it to fall dead. It was never represented in carvings because people died when they saw it. Ha-sass died too, when he first saw it; but the Wolves brought him back to life again by putting Teks-yah'pe upon his body. They brought him back to life four times. Then the Wolves called the man to come and get the death-bringer, and he walked into the place indicated to recieve it. This was a distant secret place in the Wolves' House, and here one of the Wolves handed it to him. The Wolves sent him back to his own house accompanied by a number of their pack. And they gave him also the small whistle held in the mouth during Klukwana. Ha-sass kept this with him and, when he blew it on reaching home, everyone would look toward him. Then he would lift up the Che-to'kh during wartime, and kill the people in great numbers.