Bear-Woman and Deer-Woman: In this story, both the grizzly and the doe are married to Chickenhawk. The grizzly decides to kill the doe and puts her in the fire. The doe children realize that their mother has been killed so they decide to kill the grizzly children. They then give the children to their mother, the grizzly and she cooks them without realizing. Once she realizes what she has done, she goes after the children but she ends up dying. This story caught my attention because of the amount of revenge that went into it. The children get revenge for their mother. The other mother tries to get revenge for her children. It ends up with the doe children making it safely away. It has the worst animal be killed and the doe children are able to escape with their lives.
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| Grizzly bear. Source: Wikimedia Commons |
Splinter-foot-girl: In this story, a girl is born from the leg of a man. He pricks his leg on a thorny plant and then after it swells, a child crawls out of it. All the men love the little girl and refuse to let her be married to Bone-bull, who has become quite persistent about having her as his wife. After refusing a number of times, the men finally agreed that she was able to be Bone-bull's wife. After a while, they grew to miss her and decided that they wanted to get her back. They get her back and then the rock wants to marry her. They again refuse this marriage. They give in again with the intentions of using the animals again to bring her back. This story is so intriguing because of the lengths that everyone will go for this girl. Her fathers fight like crazy to get her back and the ones who want to marry her fight just as hard. It makes you wonder what it was about the girl that had everyone willing to fight over her.
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