Week 9, Reading Diary: British North America

Story source: Myths and Legends of British North America by Katharine Berry Judson (1917).

This week's stories were primarily origin stories.

 Coyote

 
Grizzly Bear and Coyote -  I enjoyed this story about a grizzly bear who wanted it dark all the time and a coyote who wanted light. The coyote was great at tricking the grizzly bear to agreeing that the sun was around half the year and the dark half the year.

Grizzly Bear

Why the sun is bright - This was a story about how you were originally able to look at the sun. A boy had a robe made of bird plumage that was really bright. The sun wore one that was made of goatskin. The sun traded the boy robes and now because of the bright robe made of bright bird plumage, the sun is now too bright to look at.