I chose to read the Marriage Tales unit for this week. This
provided some very interesting readings with the primary focus being humans
marrying animals. This is certainly something you wouldn’t see in present day
storytelling but this was the Native Americans way of explaining natural
phenomena such as why the buffalo is scared of men. A wide variety of animals were utilized in these stories. There was
a bear, and eagle, a whale, and several buffalo stories. Unless I find a more
interesting piece in the second part of the unit I already have a pretty good
idea of what I will do for my storytelling assignment later on in the week with
the story of The Eagle and Whale Husbands.
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