Great Plains - Reading Diary A

This is the second week of reading Native American myths and stories and I am really enjoying it. Today, I read the first half of a unit from Great Plains Native Americans. Their myths were full of interesting and unique stories. Like the Cherokee myths I read last week, the Great Plains stories were full of talking animals, gods and spirits.

I thought the first story in the unit was most interesting, it was over Creation. In the story, the Osage tribe was in the sky before creation and the moon said he and the sun were their parents and they must go to the earth. When the Osage went to the earth, they could only see water and were sad. They sent the elk down to vanish the water and some of the ager uplifted and they found rocks. As more water vanished the tribe and animals finally found the soft earth and were able to grow crops and food. 

The great elk who saved the tribe.

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