Outline

Question 1

Storyline Timeline

Answer 1

Outline the story itself—list major events in order
• Explains why there are no buffalo cows in one specific area
• Animals are the god-like characters in this story
• Coyote is disrespecting the skull of Buffalo; kicking around the skull – (desecration of the dead cultural belief)
• Buffalo comes back (reincarnation belief) and starts going after Coyote
• Coyote tricks Buffalo by telling him he’ll make Buffalo some new fancy horns
• (value of culture: they value life; they value cleverness)
• Buffalo gives him a magical cow in return for the horns, but warns Coyote not to kill the cow
• Coyote the trickster is also greedy (gives into temptation)
• Coyote kills the cow for the good stuff inside, but then he is left with nothing
• The old woman tricks the Coyote to get the bones from the cow
• Coyote goes to Buffalo to ask for another cow, but Buffalo tells him too bad