Image Source: Blackfeet Nation Land
How Men and Women Discovered One Another:
Men and women did not know each other long ago, the men were put in one place, and the women in another. One day an old man was traveling and he noticed there were women. They were frightened and laid down to hide.
The old man saw them laying and assumed they were dead. One woman tricked him and used her dead weight to let her arm slap his face and make his nose bleed. They both ran and he lost them, he was very angry and this is how women found out about men.
The Smart Woman Chief:
The men came to feast with the women and the women chose husbands. The old man wanted to trick the woman chief into marriage by masquerading as the chief. The woman chief had been making dried meat so her clothes were covered in blood and she was dirty.
She was refused by the old man. She went back to the camp to change into something cleaner. The old man then recognized her but she would not pay him any attention. He was so angry that he attacked their homes. The women then turned him into a pine tree.
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Author's Note:
I wrote a Microfiction for my Indian Epics story this week as well, and I honestly really enjoyed it. I think it challenges the mind a lot by making you narrow down the story to the important parts. I had a very hard time choosing the details to keep in and probably could've done it better. However, I do think I will use this type of story more in the future because it allows for me to tell different stories in one post!
Hi Savannah! It was a nice change of pace to read microfiction stories! I really enjoyed how these two stories seemed to flow from one to the other. I assume the old man in the second story is the same one from the first story? Another thing that I especially enjoyed about this story was how complex the women are. They seem very self-sufficient and capable of taking care of themselves without the men. Nice work!
ReplyDeleteHi Savannah, great job with these microfictions! I have written a lot of short stories for this class too, and they are definitely harder than you would expect. I especially like the second one because the ending makes me laugh. I think it is smart you did not choose to change the setting, because that's hard to do in a shorter format.
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