Reading Notes: Native American Hero Tales, Part B

This second half of the reading was very interesting, but what caught my attention the most was the story about the Red Woman. What interests me the most is the two boys. They have many different stories about when they disobeyed their father. I think this could be an interesting point to change within my story. I could make new storylines and also could tell a tale of one of them saving another from an evil they had found. There are many new angles that could be taken from this, but I have not thought about specifics. One thing in particular I do not like and will change is the mother rising out of the dead. I would like to show maybe a sacrifice the mother makes that ends in her death. This could be for the two children and it could be against red woman who in the original killed her before birth. In my story she would live and meet this woman after years.

(Indians gathered for a story)

Bibliography: Native American Hero Tales by Stith Thompson; link to reading