reading notes: sioux part b

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 Iktomi the spider
a spider found some plums and decided to use them to trick a couple of women with babies. he told them where they could find more and offered to watch their kids while they were gone. he made the kids into soup and fed it to the hungry women when they returned. they realized what happened and so he ran away into a hole. he climbed out the other side much later and returned looking like a stranger and offered to help the women. he then went and "killed" the spider and told the women to go into the hole and get a piece of them for themselves. they obliged, and when down there, he filled the hole trapping and killing them.

a spider did not share his food with the muskrat, which sharing is customary. after a while, the spider challenged him to a race, he gets half if he wins. the muskrat declares the race unfair, so the spider carries a giant boulder to even the odds. the muskrat swims very quickly and wins with ease and eats the entire pot, only throwing a bone into the mouth of the spider, which he chokes on. the moral is to share.

there was an army of seven that set out for war. they were all rather measly things and most came to an end before they even reached their destination, each time exclaiming that they were no warrior and would not have been able to fight. an example was the ashes, who simply got blow away. the only two that made it were a fish and a turtle. they one after the people made a few dumb mistakes.


Story source: Old Indian Legends by Zitkala-Sa (1901).

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