Week 11: Reading notes: Part B: Sioux
The Pemmican Man And Unktomi
- man dressed in buffalo fat and organs
- Unktomi is a spider, and has a large family
- Untktomi and his family saw the man who was covered in buffalo, and wanted to devour it
- When the man noticed be began throwing off the buffalo items and the spider and his family ate them
- He continued to run away and even got into the water, the fat pooled at the top of the lake
- The spiders sucked up this too
- Spiders went around the lake and saw two men, one was Wakapapi
- Instructed them to fight
- The pounded beef man died, and the spiders ate him, the other fat man ran away
- The fat man skinned a deer and climbed in a tree and suspended the meat
- The spider family saw this, but thought they were in the water due to the reflection
- Used rocks to build, but they made him sink to the bottom
- Unktomi died and a fish ate him
- huntsman Patkasa= turtle
- Saw deer that he was standing above as a gift
- Iktomi (deer) tapped him on the shoulder after he had given thanks
- But how...
- Two were going to battle for the deer
- Patkasa was more afraid of being called a coward than of losing the deer
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