In this reader response paper I am going to be discussing the themes and stories that are presented in chapter three of the book Native American Oralcy. One thing that I will be discussing in the following paper is the mythological paragrams that are presented in the world today and how they are told.
One of the topics that are being discussed in chapter three of Native American Oralcy is the mythology of Pikuni-Blackfeet. As stated in the second paragraph of chapter three there are four different types of mythology paragrams. The first one is primal- Oralcy, and this is defined as a non-literate piece and is told orally. The second type is Modern, and it said that it is “characterized by literacy and the advent of the meta-narrative” (pg45).…show more content… The summary of this story is that when the Feather Woman went out of her house to lay in the tall prairie grass she gazed up at a beautiful star and said that the wanted to marry it if she could. So then the next day a tall handsome man appeared from the trees and said that he was the star that she said she wanted to marry, she was shocked and didn’t expect it to happen but she left her people to go the sky world to marry him. First she had to meet his parents the moon and the sun. They married and time passed and the moon told her not to dig up the turnip in the garden no matter what. This is a little part of modernism because it ties in with Christianity with the apple tree of Adam and Eve. But she accidentally pulls up the turnip and sees her people having a fun time with life and now she fells lonely. So she is sent back down to earth with her son to be with her people. But as time passed all of the friends and relatives that she knew and loved got older and soon passed away. So soon she passed away and her son was an orphan till this old woman at the end of the community took him in and took care of him. This shows that back in those time it was a good to take in people that were in need so if you needed some help you would have someone to be there with you to be by your side. So she took him in and he went to ask a beautiful young woman would she marry him. She…show more content… Now in the Blackfeet tribe the Sun Dance is done annually to give thanks for giving light and helping things grow and strive in the land. And the following dance is derived from the story “Legend of Feather Woman and the Sky Boy”. This Myth also expresses directly that there is an “Ultimate Power” above the earth that watches over us as the “gods or spirits or powers of creation”.
In conclusion this chapter was out the way Mythology is received in many different ways through different paragrams and also if it kept to old tradition of telling it orally. And how Native Traditions can be intertwined with Christian Traditions in the same story. So all an all this was a good chapter to read about the Mythology of the Blackfeet tribe and how they try to keep the same oral
