This story is about how Grizzly Bear and Coyote agreed to make the length of the days and nights to both of their benefit. They also agreed to making winter 12 full moons after Coyote tricked Grizzly Bear. I could do a lot of different things here such as change the characters and the settings, but I believe it would be better to lengthen the story to where they agree upon the whole year.
SW/CA: Old Man Above and the Grizzlies by Katharine Berry Judson -
The Grizzlies used to walk on two legs and talk just as humans do back in this time. This story explains of how they began to use their hands as feet whenever they were punished by the Old Man Above. The Grizzlies did a good deed in saving the child's life, but allowed one of their sons to marry the little girl. It was Old Man's fault for not thoroughly giving the instructions. I like the way these stories are about how certain animals, such as the grizzly bear, got to be how they are today. I could use certain characteristics from the grizzly bear to say how they got certain things.
The Grizzly Bear's Medicine by George Bird Grinnel -
This was a very long story but it was my favorite one that I found. The story was about a poor little boy that was the son of a past chief whom was stripped of command after doing nothing and people ridiculed and humiliated him and his family. The poor boy was innocent in all of this and was ready to give his life up. He goes into the big cedar trees where the chief ordered no one to go because there was something killing the villagers there. The poor boy, being so depressed, decided to go so he could be killed from whatever it was that was in those woods. He goes into a cave and talks to the she-bear and her cubs, and finally meets the bad grizzly who has been killing the villagers. To make it short the boy is accepted into the Bear's family and given the power of the medicine bear, as long as he does certain things the grizzly asks of him. He does everything and gains all the power of the bear and the people from his village respect him and offer him to be chief. This story was pretty awesome and I feel I could write more up on it since I found it so interesting!
(Medicine Bear Furious Seeing Poor Boy in Cave: Sacred-Texts)
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