Reading Notes: Great Plains Part B

The Teton Ghost Stories

  • Man hallucinates and sees two men and a woman
  • When he thinks about them they disappear

The Wakanda, or Water God

  • Family loses son under water.
  • The people of the sea agree to return him for a price of a w white haired dog.
  • He died when he returned to land because he had already eaten their food.

The Spirit Land

  • Crow created the world
  • He dropped dust into the world and out came solid land
  • He dropped blades of grass and they became Forest trees
  • Now he  is coming to help the living Indians

Why the Possum Plays Dead

  • Rabbit and Possum were looking for wives
  • Rabbit traveled ahead and told everyone they must get married so he was given a wife
  • Possum was given no wife
  • Rabbit traveled to the next city and told them to start a war
  • When Possum arrived, he was attacked 
  • He played dead to avoid being killed

Coyote and Snake

  • Coyote and Snake encountered each other in a road
  • Coyote refused to walk around snake, but instead insisted that he would walk over him
  • Snake warned Coyote that if he walked over him, he would bite him
  • Coyote chose to walk over him and was bitten, but it did not hurt
  • Coyote did not feel the affects until much later, he fell over and died

                                                                  Coyote Image

Bibliography: This story is part of the Great Plains unit. Story source: Myths and Legends of the Great Plains by Katharine Berry Judson (1913).

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