Extra Reading Diary: Great Plains

In "The Creation the Osage explain about how the Earth was found and that the water was cleared of it by the winds which revealed the exposure of the rocks and soil. It then goes to tell how the elk's fur was shed then turned to corn, beans, potatoes, and turnips. In "A Tradition of the Calumet" the story of the peace pipe is told. The people of the land were dancing to scalp the Lenni-Lenapi but a great white bird flew in to tel them not to an offer a peace to them in the form of a pipe. In "The Buffalo and the Grizzly Bear" A story is told about how the grizzly bear repeatedly attacked the buffalo bull because he had heard the buffalo had been bad mouthing him. The grizzly attacked the buffalo three different times before the buffalo attacked the grizzly and made him crawl away before deciding to be friends with one another. In "The Eagle's Revenge" the Cherokee tell a story of how a hunter killed an eagle one night because the eagle had been eating his kill. The next day the hunter takes the eagle back to the village where they dance over the killed eagle. A strange man walks to the middle and tells seven different people they would die. These seven people happened to be the rattlers for the dancing of the kill and the man that killed the eagle. In "The Tradition of the Finding of Horses" the Ponce tell about how they had went into a battle with the Comanche and lost very badly. The Ponca then later friended the Comanche. The Ponca later killed the Comanche and took there horses after being taught how to use them and how to kill more efficiently.

Peace Pipe Used by the Lakota