Mythology and Folklore MLLL 3046

Totem Pole Vancouver on  Flickr This is a continuation of my Pacific Northwest American Indian unit notes. I chose this unit because I have been to the Pacific Northwest three times. Each time I did some outdoor activities, and I absolutely loved the climate, foliage, and land. This helped me envision the imagery in these tales. Some of the stories in the second half had a different feeling than the first half of the unit. Often, they were more action-packed and the storylines sometimes went in bizarre directions which made it difficult to remember what exactly happened. Also, I noticed that a lot of the paragraphs were shorter and that sentences were often choppy and clipped. I prefer the writing style of the first half of this unit. One of these strange tales was a Nez Perce story, Cry-because-he-had-no-wife . The story title is the main character’s translated name, and he really does cry through most of the tale. Because of this, I did not find him to be a ve...

The lodge I visited on Lake Quinault. Image on  Wikimedia For this week, I decided to read the Pacific Northwest American Indian stories unit. I chose this unit as my father lived in the Pacific Northwest until recently, and I visited the area three times. On one trip, we drove all the way around Olympic National Park. Lots of places, such as Quinault Lake, are rich in Native American history. Anywhere I went in Oregon and Washington was so beautiful. There are mountains, rivers, coasts, trees, creeks, waterfalls, etc. everywhere. Reading these stories, it was easy to picture the scenery that they portrayed. A lot of the tales in this unit were creation stories as told from various tribes. Perhaps the most interesting was the Atsugewi tale of a Silver-Fox and a Coyote. The relationship between these animals was interesting, and I would like to know more about how it came about. In this creation story, the Silver-Fox serves as the Creator. He and the Coyote ...