This week we read 2 Native American folklore stories, and one darker story about growing up on a reservation. Below is a free write about the folk lore I wrote earlier this week. In the 2 stories, “Arrow to the Sun” and “Raven”, they both offer an explanation for something happening around us, for example, the raven story explains how we got the sun, it was made up in a time before we knew so much about our planets and solar system, so they made up a story to explain why we had a ball of light in the sky. And it was told for generations. Folklore can also teach lessons, like the story “the tortoise and the hair”, its a tale warning of those that are cocky and careless with their work. It also coined the familiar phrase, “slow and steady wins the race”. Stories like these usually serve one of those 2 purposes. All folklore has valuable lessons, they were made up by wise people long ago and they continued to be passed on because people still held that lesson in high respect. In a simpler world, solving religious conflict could be resolved by accepting lessons from kids stories into your life, but there is so much history and pain (like the "trail of tears") attached to these conflicts it would take a lot more than that to resolve them. We have made a lot of progress and things are getting better but life for Native Americans is not what it is for us, and the government has no idea how to work with the reservations.
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