Notes, Part A
Shin-ge-bis Fools the North Wind
I would write a story about how the winds were brothers and they would laugh and cry and fight, and when that would happen, it would control the weather due to the brothers being different winds. Well one day they get in a huge fight and it causes a storm bigger than any other the tribe and its fishermen have seen. So the storm raged on and on. After a week, the people didn't know what to do. So they prayed to the winds and instead of a rain dance, they did a wind dance. The brothers still didn't care that the people were being affected. They cared more that each of them weren't going to give in then they did about helping the people. So the people decided to rebuild their village to fit the harsh winds and storms that continued to come. Then the brothers finally saw the damage they were causing, and decided to stop the fight for the good of the people. The people did one last wind dance, and the winds and storms finally stopped. They were so happy.
The Little Boy and Girl in the Cloud
I would make the fire tell the stories. Through the storyteller, though. I would write about how the people would build a fire for storytime, and once the flame was big enough a story would appear from the fire and be told through the storyteller. Or I could write about how the native peoples used clouds to tell stories and at the end of each story would predict something about the next day. But to get the clouds to tell a story, the native peoples must correctly chant toward them and request a story.
Butterflies. Source: PBS
This story is part of the American Indian Fairy Tales unit. Story source: American Indian Fairy Tales by W.T. Larned, with illustrations by John Rae (1921).
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