Mockingbird Gives Out the Calls
In this Hopi story, Mockingbird was responsible for distributing the languages and calls among all the peoples of the world. During the migrations after the emergence into the Fourth World, the people were all speaking the same language. Mockingbird called the people together and assigned different languages and dialects to different groups, effectively creating the diversity of tribes and nations. He gave various bird species their distinctive calls as well. According to some versions, Mockingbird received this task from Spider Grandmother or the Kachinas, and his imitative ability was used t