Passage Recognition Flashcards
How Men and Women Got Together
Two villages one had men the other women. Man chief discovers women and tells the men of their skills and women leader tracks the leader man back to the man village where she finds the men with different skills. She tells the women and they think men are cool. The men go to the women village and the lookout for the women sees them and tells the other women and the leader women are like we should look like the men so when the man come there like what the heck. Then the same thing happened but for the women coming to the men. And then the two leaders talked and they made a new village and had sex.
The Well Baked Man
The Magician (or Man Maker) feels as if the world is missing something so he begins creating shapes out of clay and putting them into his oven. Coyote messes up his shapes and the Magician accidentally makes a dog. The Magician then goes on to create humans to be companions with the dogs. The first batch of humans are too light (white people), the second, too dark (black people), and finally the third batch (Native Americans) was just right.
Pushing up the Sky
The Creator and Changer develop Earth. They settled in Puget Sound and for that reason did not want to leave so they spread their remaining languages there. The people here are not satisfied with how the world has been made. Their first task is to raise the sky because it makes life for taller people more difficult. They discover the term “ya-hoh” that means lift for all languages and decide to organize a plan where all communities will collaborate to push the sky. The people who did not know about the plan got caught in the act and were pushed into the sky and turned into constellations.
The Voice, the Flood and the Turtle
Once there were four monsters born.The elders told their mother to kill them before they bring misfortune. The mother refused but the monsters grew big until their heads touched the sky. They started eating the people of the village. A man who could see the future told a man to live in a reed with his wife and to be safe. It started raining but did not stop, the monsters with their backs to each other started to get weak and eventually drowned. The man and his wife survived with a few animals, and the whole world regrew in the next few days. The man who could see the future gave them a stalk of corn and said that it would be their holy food. They would eventually form a new generation and never heard that voice again.
What’s This, my Balls for Your Dinner?
Coyote and the spider are friends and the spider invites coyote over for dinner. His (the spider’s) wife makes buffalo livers and eats both of them. Spider leaves and coyote sexually assaults his wife and his wife threatens to cut off his balls to eat them for dinner. Spider comes back and his wife says coyote ate both livers so spider gets mad and starts chasing coyote too.
Coyote and Wasichu
Coyote and the white guy wasichu want to see who can scam each other the best and coyote says i need my cheating medicine and takes the white guys horse and clothes so he can go get it and then doesn’t come back so the white guy is left there naked and horseless.
How Beaver Stole Fire from the Pines
The pines trees have the secret fire that they use for warmth and beaver steals a live coal and runs away and the pine trees start chasing him but they get tired and the beaver gives fire to all the other trees and that is why other trees can produce fire today.
Adventures of Great Rabbit
Wildcat gets very hungry and decides to eat Great Rabbit who was plump and smart. Great Rabbit has powers and was able to hear Wildcat’s thoughts. He decided to use his magical powers against the cat’s strength.Wildcat swore on his tail he would eat rabbit. Everytime Great Rabbit got tired, he gave Wildcat several dreams that were so realistic that he fell for it again and again.Wildcat was never able to catch him and his tail fell off- the creation of the bobcat.
Coyote gets Rich off the White Man
Coyote and Bobcat are stealing Whiskey from the white man. Coyote and Bobcat then drink the whiskey till their drunk when one of white men they stole from catches the coyote and they throw the coyote in jail, while his friends escapes. In Jail coyote overhears the prison guarding talking about unbreakable horse, when he exclaims, “I could saddle that horse right away”. So the prison guards lets him try to break the horse and when he succeeds in breaking the horse he pretends as if he was unable to break the horse, wants claiming it wants a better saddle and food. Then the Coyote escape with horse and saddle. Though Prison guards continued to pursue him
Puts gold in the butt of the donkey and tapes it a tree; kicks the donkey and shakes the tree and says he gets today’s money but they can have every other day’s money if they let him go. They do!
Coyote Steals Sun’s Tobacco
The coyote goes to the Sun’s home and steals tobacco. He does this by tricking people into thinking he was the sun’s relative. When he found out that coyote had taken his tobacco, the Sun tried to pursue the coyote. However, he was unable to find the animal in the end, and just gave up. Coyote returned to his home, and the other villagers wanted the tobacco that he had brought with him. So they disguised a young boy to look like a girl and married him to the coyote i tricked him into giving them tobacco by giving him a “wife” who was actually a young boy dressed as a girl. He tricked coyote into giving him all of the tobacco and gave it to the rest of the village. Eventually, coyote found out and demands for his tobacco back, but the other villagers didn’t listen
The Great Race
The humans and animals decide to have a race to see which species has the right to eat the others. While lots of other animals race, the competition’s mainly between the humans and buffalo. The buffalo choose their fastest runner, and the humans choose four birds to race for them. The hummingbird, meadowlark, and hawk all drop out of the race, but magpie wins the race because of its endurance, and people agree to never eat magpies in return for winning them the race. The humans are then superior to the buffalos.
Origins of the Gnawing Beaver
The hunter decides to marry a woman and they move to a forest. He goes hunting more and more often and each time, he goes away for a longer time. When he’s gone, his wife amuses herself by going into the river and swimming and building dams. One day when he comes back, his wife turned into a beaver and had beaver kids. He was very sad and never saw her again.
Why the Owl has Big Eyes
Raweno was creating animals and the owl was requesting features that he wanted. Raweno is making the rabbit and the owl refuses to turn the other direction while Raweno was working because he liked to watch him create the animals. Raweno gets annoyed by and mad at owl and yells at him making his eyes big. He made his neck short so he couldn’t look over while he was not supposed to. He also made owls have ears that stick up and made owl nocturnal so that he could not see Raweno work during the day. As a result of Raweno’s yelling, the scared rabbit ran off while he was being made.
The Dogs Hold an Election
The dogs are deciding on who to elect for president. They are debating which dogs are the best. One dog says he nominates the dog that smells good underneath his tail. So all of the dogs start sniffing each other’s butts and they are still looking for a good leader today.
Snake Brothers
There are four brothers, they go to Soldiers Creek to get a winter coat.Kill a buffalo and Place down buffalo remains on the grass then it turns into a buffalo. For their punishment, the three older brothers turn into snakes, where as the youngest brother goes and tells the townspeople. They bring offerings such as tobacco and good red meat, so they could protect the people every time they go to war. That is why we never kill rattlesnakes.
The Meeting of the Wild Animals
All the animals of the forest have a meeting to discuss if they should ask the Him Who Made Us to make the winters longer to avoid hunters. All the big animals agree to this. The porcupine disagrees and says that if the winter are too long the big animals will die. At first the big animals disagree, then the porcupine bits off his thumb to show he’s serious. After that all the animals agree and the decide to ask for 6 months of winter and 6 months of spring and summer. That is why we have 6 months of cold weather and 6 months of warm weather. And why all the animals are scared of the porcupine.
The Neglectful Mother
Crow gets tired of sitting on her eggs so she flies away them for awhile. When she returns, she sees Hawk with her hatched eggs and gets angry. They fights over whose children the eggs are. They go to court and in the end, Crow loses her children to Hawk because hawk is the rightful mother.
