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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. Wikimedi a. Story Source: Native ...

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 .