Buffalo offered Porcupine several different ways that Porcupine could get on him, but Porcupine said no because if Buffalo moved then he would fall off.
So porcupine said that he would just get inside him and cross the stream the way.
While Porcupine was inside Buffalo, he was gnawing at a large blood vessel which caused Buffalo to collapse when he got across the stream.
When he was about to go out and find a flint, Coyote heard him talking to himself and he convinced Porcupine that the one to butcher Buffalo should be the one who is able to successfully jump over him.
Coyote won that and he got to butcher Buffalo. He gave porcupine some of Buffalo's organs for him to go wash off and Porcupine ate some while he was at it.
When he came back he Coyote checked his mouth and saw some food remains which led Coyote to kill him.
He stood back up a total of three times with Coyote having to go back and kill him. On the third time, Coyote did not come back and came back later with his children.
Porcupine had taken all the food to the top of a tree and told Coyote and his children to lay at the foot of the tree and he would throw them food. However, he threw a backbone at them and killed them all except for the youngest one because he saw it coming and ran.
He climbed up the tree with Porcupine and when he sat on a branch Porcupine knocked him off and he fell into the canyon and burst.
Picture of Porcupine;
Source: Wikimedia Commons
Bibliography: Coyote and Porcupine from Jicarilla Apache Texts edited by Pliny Earle Goddard
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