Reading Notes: Native American Marriage Tales Unit, Part B

Reading Notes: Native American Marriage Tales Unit, Part B

The Dog-Husband (Quinault):
The story begins with "A long time ago, in a certain village there lived a young girl who had a dog" (I love when stories begin this way). The girl loved her dog very much. He went with her everywhere, but she didn't know that every night the dog turned into a human and would transform back into a dog before the morning came. She became pregnant and her parents figured out that the dog was also human, and that he was the father of the baby. The father/dog-husband was killed for impregnating her. She gave birth to the pups. 

The dog children also were gifted with the ability to change between human and dog forms, and once their mother figured this out she ordered them to remain human. These boys were great whale hunters and so they became village chiefs and no one knew that they were the pups born of exiled woman.

Girl and the Dog-Husband. Wikimedia.

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