Native American Folktale
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- In the beginning, Earth was covered with water. In Sky Land, people were living as they do now on Earth. In the middle of that land was the great Sky Tree. All of the food that the people ate in Sky Land came from the great tree.
- Hello, I am old chief !!
- Hello, I am Aataentsic !!
- The old chief became sick, and nothing could cure him. He grew weaker and weaker until it seemed he would die.
- “Ok my husband, I will bring back the fruit you need."
- You must cut down and bring me the fruit that grows at the top of Sky Tree.
- “I have dreamed,” and in my dream I saw how I can be healed.
- Aataentsic took her husband’s stone ax and went to the great tree. As soon as she struck it, it split in half and toppled over.
- Oh no, the tree is about to split open. I need to tell my husband!
- The old chief lived with his wife, whose name was Aataentsic, meaning“Ancient Woman,” in their longhouse near the great tree.
- As Aataentsic fell, Turtle looked up and saw her. Immediately Turtle called together all the water animals and told them what she had seen.“What should be done?” Turtle said. Beaver answered her. “You are the one who saw this happen. Tell us what to do.”
- “All of you must dive down.” “Bring up soil from the bottom, and place it on my back.”
- Then a dream came to him, and he called Aataentsic to him. “I have dreamed,” he said, “and in my dream, I saw how I can be healed. I must be given the fruit which grows at the very top of Sky Tree. You must cut it down and bring that fruit to me.”
- Aaetaentsic settles down on Earth and establishes that this will be her new home.
- Aataentsic took her husband’s stone ax and went to the great tree. As soon as she struck it, it split in half and toppled over. As it fell, a hole opened in Sky Land, and the tree fell through the hole. Aataentsic returned to the place where the old chief waited.
- Moral of the folktale
- Sky Tree
- “All of you must dive down,” Turtle said. “Bring up soil from the bottom, and place it on my back.”Immediately all of the water animals began to dive down and bring up soil. Beaver, Mink, Muskrat, and Otter each brought up pawfuls of wet soil and placed the soil on Turtle’s back until they had made an island of great size.
- "Muskrat and Otter can't come, but me and Frog can bring the soil."
- When they were through, Aataentsic settled down gently on the new Earth, and the pieces of the great tree fell beside her and took root.
- I will start a new tribe and make this my new home.
- I think the moral/lesson of the folktale was rebirth/beginning. I think it is beginning/rebirth because the fruit from the tree was supposed to be a cure for the old chief and when the tree fell down to Earth and took root, it marked the beginning of civilization and of Earth itself.
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