Post #3: American Indian Myths and Legends

After reading "American Indian Myths and Legends" by Richard Erodes and Alfonso Ortiz, it open my mind to different kinds of folklore I never thought of before. By that meaning, this kind of myths and tales are not your average day tot day superstitions that have been around since my parent childhood. These myths are the kinds of myths historians take insight in discovering what the Indians day looked like, and under covering there knowledge of the place they've made home. When reading the different tales given by the reading, the author mentioned the instability/inconsistency of the story, and that's one thing that stood out the most. Most of the tales, the ending or even the middle of the story changed completely from the toll my mind thought it would take. I have to say, the unexpected events occurring within the tales make the tales interesting to read. It gives a the readers an kind of drive to read the next tale and see what weird turn that tale is going to give. Also, it kind of makes me wonder the mindset of the Indians around the time the folklore was created, what kind of events were occurring at the moment that gave them the crazy ideas to just throw into these tales. For example, the tale of the grizzly bears, in the beginning of the tale took an direction of talking about the earth and the different people controlling what grows on the planet, and the creation of it a bit. Basically, it sidetracked from the title of the grizzly bears, so when the bears were brought up in the story it was a surprise. I had to go back to the title to remember what the tales main focus was.