Taylor's Myths

The Coming of Manabush Story  : edited by Katharine Berry Judson (1914). I absolutely loved "The Great Flood" story about Manabush and this story is about the same situation. I wanted to read more about what happens! The Manidoes who killed his brother are called "Underground People" in this story. The daughter of Nokomis died. Nokomis also have a son, who she wrapped and laid on the ground under a wooden bowl. She mourned for 4 days. She heard a noise in her wigwam and she found a little Rabbit who she called Manabush. She then took care of him. One day the Rabbit began to hop around the earth shook. This woke up the evil underground spirits. Anamaqkiu began to plot against Manabush. So, this story was much shorter than I expected to be but that is also a great thing. In my Reading Notes part A I made Manabush Spongebobs pet snail Gary. I am going to keep that theme. So essentially I will be telling the birth of Gary! I can do so much with this story! I p...

Normally I would not read stories that are challenging to pronounce the character names. I decided to give this story a try. I found this story to be interesting. Quick Vocabulary.  Menomini people call themselves Mamaceqtaw which means "the people"  Manoominii means "wild rice people"  Manabush the trickster also known as Nanabozho A good thing to know is prior to the events in this story Manabush had a twin brother who was killed by manidoes " bad spirits" .  To get revenge Manabush invented a ball game where Anamaqkiu (who destroyed his brother) and the Thunderers played against each other. There is obvious conflict here and I think I could create a conflict between Spongebob and Plankton in the next story and possibly have Plankton be the one that destroyed Spongebobs pet snail known as Gary. Spongebob would be the creator of the ball game that would take place next to the Lagoon. Manabush said that he wanted to be a tree with branche...