Wednesday, October 28, 2015

Reading Diary B: California and the Old Southwest

"Origin of the Sierra Nevadas and Coast Range":
Crow and Hawk fought over who would sit on the highest pole and made mountains from mud they took from duck's mouth to make the mountains.

"El Capitan":
Two boys were trapped on a mountain and a Measuring-Worm was the only one able to bring them down.

"The Children of Cloud":
The cloud's sons went to meet their father and was sent back and forth between cloud and wind until cloud challenged them to prove he was their father.


"Origin of the Raven and the Macaw":
A tribe had to choose between two eggs. The stronger tribe took away the raven egg and the weaker one settled for the macaw egg. The priest became the leader for the macaw tribe

"Coyote and the Hare":
Coyote caught hare and was going to kill him. Hare tricked coyote into letting him stand to tell him something. Hare ran and entered a house and tricked the coyote and escaped.

"Coyote and the Quails":
Story about how the quail tricked the coyote into thinking he ate himself and ended up trying to bite the quail but bit into a cactus and killed himself.

"How Bluebird and Coyote Got Their Colors"
The bluebird bathed on a blue lake for four mornings and four evening until he turned blue. The Coyote wanted to do the same. When he turned blue he walked around showing off and didn't watch where he was going and fell in the dirt and became the color of dirt.

"Coyote's eyes":
Coyote asked a bird to help him get his eyes brighter but after a few times of making them brighter the bird became annoyed and kept them. The bird then gave the coyote yellow eyes.

"How the Rattlesnake Learned to Bite"
The Elder Brother gave the snake fangs to bite because people kept annoying him to hear his rattlers. The snake then killed the rabbit and the animals hid the body from coyote.

"Coyote and the Rattlesnake":
Coyote tried to out scare rattlesnake and ended up with no food and had to hunt anyway.


Coyote hunting in the snow

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