Jasmine Yeo: Week 9 Reading Diary: Native American Marriage Tales

The boy would run around different camps looking for his father.
The headman took pity and send messengers to other camps to help.
After several tries, the boy ran into a man and declared him his father.
They went to the farm and a cow approached. As she got closer, she turned into a woman.
She told him to never struck fire at her.
He got mad one day and did, they turned into buffalo-cows and ran away.
When he got to the herd, he had to go through a few tests.
He failed one and got trampled.
They found a small piece of bone and resurrected him.

Grizzly bear and Doe
While down at the creek, they helped each other hunt for lice on their heads.
What the heck is happening. Grizzly bear chewed off Doe's head!
She put the head in the fire where the eye burst from the heat. The doe children think it's their mother, but bear chased the children out to play.
They played in a smoking hollow log. The does fanned the fire until the bears were smothered.
They handed the log off to the bear saying it was a skunk.
The children ran away and with help of the crane got over the river.
Bear didn't and fell in.

The men miss their daughter.
They sent flies and various birds but nothing worked.
The blackbird recommended the mole and the badger.
The girl agreed to flee with the mole and badger. She left her robe hanging on the arrow like the way she usually sat.
They fled. They asked cottonwood for help. It said to run around it four times. They climbed the tree and waited.
The bull followed their trail.
They found the tree. The bull struck the tree, but got stuck. The men shot him and he died.

The rock sent the magpie to ask the men for their daughter.
The hummingbird brought the girl back.
The mole and the badger made a hole big enough for the rock. When he came back, he fell into the hole and the mole and badger covered it up.
They escaped. The rock was to remain where the hills are.

The girl managed to escape. When the whale reached the shore, he turned into whalebone.

A man reeled a huge fish in and asked his wife to help.
When she went to wash her hands in the water, she was taken by the killer whale.
The man followed the trail to find his wife.
The man asked the fish chief if anyone would be willing to help get his wife back. Shark volunteered.
Shark pretended to stumble and the water fell onto the fire. Smoke and ash rose. He pushed the wife to her husband.
As they were running, Shark was fighting all the other whales.

The wife would go to the lake to meet a snake.
One day the husband followed her.
She went to the lake, took off her clothes, got in the lake, and a huge snake went around her.
The man killed the snake, killed his wife, and cut her up. He brought his wife's meat home, cooked it, and fed it to the children.
The mother's head came rolling out and the children ran away.
People heard about the sisters and came to them. They soon left and only the father remained.
They ordered the lions to kill him.

The woman and the bear (source: pinterest)

A woman with six older brothers and one little sister lived with their dad.
She refused to marry.
She would always run out after they went hunting to meet the bear in the woods.
As the little sister got older, she wondered why the older sister spent so much time gathering wood.
The little sister told their father.
The father sent men to kill the bear.
The older sister turned into a bear.

To be honest, I was very confused reading every story.

Jasmine Yeo