Reading Notes: Native American Marriage Tales, Part A

Reading Notes: Native American Marriage Tales, Part A 

Bear-Woman and Deer-Woman:
-The Grizzly Bear and the Doe did not get along
-The two of them and their children went down to the river to wash up for dinner
-The Grizzly Bear kills the Doe and cooks her
-The Doe's children are curious about their mother, but their Aunt Grizzly just tells them to run off and play
-The fawns go off to play with the bear's children
-while they are playing the fawns kill one of the bear children
-they then take the dead bear back to the bears mother (Aunt Grizzly) and convince her it is a skunk that they killed, and it was for her to have to dinner
-The fawns tricked the Grizzly, and the Grizzly ate her child thinking it was a skunk


Grizzly. Wikimedia.

Story Source: Native American Marriage Tales unit.

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