Chicago Coyote

My friend Jane saw the coyote at Lake Shore Drive and 47th Street again this week:

Photo: Jane Masterson

Legend has it Navajo never kill Coyotes because of their belief that it accompanied the first man and woman into the entrance of the first physical world. In the same myth, the Coyote brought with it seeds of life so as to sew new growth upon the new world. This legend depicts the Coyote as a bringer of life and a new birth symbol. Shoshoni believed the Coyote was an indication of an ending. The sighting of the Coyote was said to bring natural shifts in balance, causing an end (which, of course, simply makes way for new beginnings, and so on). Essentially, the Coyote is like a "way-maker" of new direction as it went about its symbolic role of representing the cycle of life/death in nature.  

http://www.whats-your-sign.com/animal-totems.html