Reading Notes: Alaskan Legends Part B

For the second part of this week’s storytelling units, I chose to do a section from the Alaskan Legends unit called The Wolves and the Deer. I wanted to do something animal oriented since my Part A had to do with animals. This is pretty much a story originated from why Deer are afraid of Wolves, but I would change it to fit my original story post. Throughout this story, both of the animals are laughing to see the size of each other teeth, and in the ends shows how the Wolves eat the Deer and why they are afraid of Wolves. But instead of making it violent, I would have the animals laughing at the man from Part A who could not see them. The only animals who could see them were the ones that were trying to. Unlike the man, the Raven wanted to see each animal, friend, and food he provided for the man because he was doing a nice deed. So while the animals could see the man and could see the Raven, they could not be seen by anyone who did not want to see the animals formed from clay. The end of the story would lead to the man being so alone, and hungry that he would finally try his best to see what the Raven had created. By the time he would be starving, he could see food. By the time he needed a companion, he would see a girl. So by the time he wanted wild life around, he would see each animal the Raven had created. The man would feel so foolish to belittle the Raven and to not have seen each of these items before, that he would spend the rest of his life trying to make it up to the raven.

Wolf and Deer

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This story is part of the Alaskan Legends unit. Story source:Myths and Legends of Alaska, edited by Katharine Berry Judson (1911).