Tuesday, April 3, 2018

Week 11 Reading Part A: Sioux

The Rabbit and the Grouse Girls
Myths and Legends of the Sioux by Marie McLaughlin (1916)
Rabbit: Pixabay

  • girls are grey and speckled 
  • Rabbit convinced all grouse girls to get into his sack
  • Brought them back to his grandmother
  • Grouse girls cried out and told grandmother they were the grandchildren
  • She opened the bag and they flew out, but grandmother caught one

Myths and Legends of the Sioux by Marie McLaughlin (1916)

  • Need a certain arrowhead, had to go to bear hut to get them
  • Stopped at a little hut, the first in the town, where everyone went
  • Asked bear chief for some flint for arrow heads
  • Bear was half flint half hard flesh
  • Took a hammer and took some flint from the bear's body
  • Rabbit struck too hard and the chief bear fell apart
  • Rabbit ran away, cried out for snow
  • Rabbit turned back and killed them one by one with his club



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