Extra Credit Reading Notes: Hasinai Legends

Why the Skunk Walks Alone:

  • Skunk first given spots so he could blend in
    • still afraid - given sharper teeth and claws
  • Greed: wanted more
    • The Great Spirit gave him a strong smell
  • Writing idea: incorporate how the skunk got its distinct markings (the stripe on the back)
    • The other animals asked the Great Spirit to give them the ability to know when the skunk was coming - something like that

Why the Woodpecker Pecks:
  • Start story out with young girl daydreaming, looking out of her window
    • Hears the Tap! Tap! Tap of the woodpecker
  • Looks out to the pecan tree and sees a woodpecker
    • Woodpecker is shy - stops pecking and sneaks around to the other side
      • Makes her think back to a tale her grandmother told about the mescal plant
        • mescal plant had little buttons on it - when eaten, the medicine men could talk with their ancestors
          • No one else could touch them = bad luck
          • Curious boy wanted to know what the medicine men were seeing
            • snuck out to try some in the desert - describe the desert (then describe it again when he's tripping!)
              • saw moving things that looked like gods
              • told the other boys what he had seen the next day
          • not long until all the people of the tribe were eating the buttons - stopped doing their duties, abandoned caring for their children
            • one mother woke up and woke other up to find their children
            • the Manitou, one of the gods that make the clouds and hurl lighting - found the children searching for food
              • Took pity on them - hid them inside of hollow trees - out of the hot sun and away from the wolves
              • Told the tribe what he had done - turn them into birds and if they found their children, Manitou would turn them back into humans
                • black robes - into black of body
                • black feathers - red of the head
                • woodpeckers tap on looking for their children

Bibliography:
Why the Skunk Walks Alone; from When the Storm God Rides: Tejas and Other Indian Legends by Florence Stratton, 1936.


Why the Woodpecker Pecks; from When the Storm God Rides: Tejas and Other Indian Legends by Florence Stratton, 1936.

Image information: Striped Skunk by Tom Murray

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