Reading Notes: [[Larned's American Indian Fairy Tales, Part A]]

[SOME SPOILERS]

1. Iagoo, the Story Teller: Beautiful colored shells strung into necklaces for the girls. Idea: The necklace was made to see ancient American Indian ancestors. Iagoo makes it and goes on a spiritual journey, when he puts it on.

2. Shin-ge-bis Fools the North Wind: Land of sunflower, describe the land. No Dialogue.

• Shin-ge-bis, the shape-shifter. Three shape-shifting adventures.

3. Shin-ge-bis Fools the North Wind (Cont.): Kabib-on-okka: Evil ice villain tries to turn the world into ice. Shin-ge-bis stops him.

Fire Spirits-Pinterest

• Makes large fire out of the wood, in the forest. Then he melts the ice.
• Kabib-on-okka song, make story based on that. Ancient man tries to scare Shin-ge-bis.
• Kabib-on-okka second song, tries to blow out fire and spreads it instead.
• Kabib-on-okka the shrinking man (write process). Shin-ge-bis, the magician shrinks him.

4. The Little Boy and Girl in the Clouds: "...that the burning logs and the red coals took on a curious shapes and made odd shapes only he could understand.

Man as Animal-Amazon

• He sees visions in the fire and people go to him.
• Research animals that mean different things in American Indian Lore.
• Magic Hill? Causes the land to go from desolate to lush (describe-description story, no dialogue.

5. The Little Boy and Girl in the Clouds (Cont.): The helpful coyote: Makes it his mission to find missing kids because he lost his own.

• Was human until he went to a shaman to turn him into a coyote to better find his child.
• Has never found child, but never gave up. It is not until he found the kinds on the mountain, do they tell what happened to his own kid.
• Coyote didn't know kids beforehand.

Holy-moley! Kids were asleep for a month!!
6. The Child of the Evening Star: Looking into the hearts of different men. Qweenee-Describe what she sees in each mans heart.

  

Qweenee and Husband-IndianArtCollectors

• Keep poor man aspect in the story, but give more detail.

7. The Child of the Evening Star (Cont.): Well... I got so involved in the story I forgot that I was looking for potential stories! :/

8. The Child of the Evening Star (Cont. again): Geez...I loved this story so much!

9. The Child of Evening Star (End): I  got lost in the story and I find that wonderful! It has been a while in this class for that to happen. Not since I finished Andrew Lang's fairy-tales.