Sioux Legends
The Rabbit and the Bear
The ending came out of nowhere. At no time while reading this story did I anticipate the rabbit killing all of the bears in the village. I thought the rabbit was going to just go home and sob to his mom. Anyways, I do not think the rabbit was at fault for splitting the bear chief in half. The bear chief was getting annoyed at how long it was taking the rabbit to break off flint from his body and pushed him to hit him so hard that he broke in half. If I were the rabbit, then I probably would have done the same thing and run away, since the bears in the village probably would have killed him. As expected, the bears chased after him and he sang a song to cause a lot of snow to fall. There was so much snow that the bears were stuck, unable to move, while the rabbit could easily run over it. Instead of running away like his personality would suggest, he ran back and killed all of the helpless bears with his club.
The Mysterious Butte
I really enjoyed this story and it made me think of a time when everything had not already been discovered. It would be the coolest thing to see something nobody has seen or be somewhere nobody else has been. There is not really anywhere that can be a "secret place" anymore, so I am jealous of the young man in the story who found the opening. One thing I could not help wonder was why the most daring warriors that were sent into the mysterious opening did not have torches or something so that they could see in the pitch black chambers inside of the opening. Another part of the story I liked was how the young man who took one of the bracelets was not killed for his actions, but was only hurt. I would say a good portion of folk tales that I have read this semester have unreasonable punishments, typically death.
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| (Buffalo Hunt, George Catlin) |
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