Twilight – The Cold Ones – Quileute Legends

Quileute Legend

Native American Quileute legend suggests that they are descended of wolves.  According to legend, a being known alternately as Dokibatt, K’wa’iti, the Trickster, the Transformer and The Changer (with the latter three titles at times embodying the previous two names) created the first Quileute from a wolf that he stumbled upon during his journeys. Dokibatt the Changer, or Transformer, who looms heavy in Pacific Northwest coastal mythology. Originally there were six native societies: for the fisherman, the elk hunter, the whale hunter, the weather predictor, the medicine man, and the warrior (the latter society performed the wolf dance).

Writer Stephenie Meyer would later make minor utilization of the de facto Quileute legends while making her Twilight Saga

In the second book, New Moon, Jacob finds that he, himself, is a werewolf. He, along with many of his Quileute ‘brothers’ are pledged to protect La Push from their sworn enemies,  The Cold Ones. Many years ago, they forged a pact with the vampires, which forbidden the Cullens from trespassing on their lands, and granted the two groups to live in the same vicinity in relative peace.  This treaty hinged upon the necessity that the Cullens never feed upon human blood.

“What are the cold ones?”
He smiled darkly.
“Blood drinkers,” he replied in a chilling voice. “Your people call them
vampires.”