Fox and Coyote and Whale

Native Ameri tooshie traditional stories, folk chronicles, be stories passed down from multiplication to generation by story singing and performance. Native Americans emphasized the importance of invigoration in harmony with the naturual reality. They had complex spiritual beliefs, sophisticated poltical systems, and strong morals. Some of the stories are creation myths, tales of heroes, and tares. Trickster tales are stories that take a crap animals or human instances who engage in deceit, violence, or magic. Often charmer tales are said to explain wherefore the world is the way it is. prairie wolf and the overawe and hold and brush wolf and Whale are 2 trickster tales, retold by Mourning Dove, explaining how brush wolfs pull through created changes in the world. In theses two trickster tales, prairie wolf, the main character shares some similarities in morals, character, and transformation . Yet there exsists differences in how these traits are presented. One co mparison between these two trickster tales is that they both assume purposes to teach morals. The moral teaching in brush wolf and the cow is to non be greedy.An example would be when prairie wolf killed the affright for more food because he was hackneyed of eating only the fat. As a result he gets the remains of the dismay stolen and is left with nothing. In throw and coyote and Whale, one of the morals is not to steal someones wife.Whale steals Foxs wife and takes her to his lodge which leads Coyote and Foxs wife. Whale ends up getting his ear chopped off and thrown into the ocean. They both teach morals, just in polar ways. One difference that these two trickster tale allow is Coyotes character trait. For example, in Coyote and the buffalo, Coyote is visualised as numbskull.Actions like kicking the Buffalo tomentums skull out of revenge, killing the scare Buffalo Bull gave him thinking Buffalo Bull will never know, and trusting a stranger with the little food he had left to take a nap, all told trade name Coyote a numbskull. In Fox and Coyote and Whale, Coyote is smart and thoughtful.When Coyote helps Fox surmount the water maidens, into telling them where Foxs wife was located, they go on a journey to feel Foxs wife from Whale. Even tho Coyote in one tale contrasts Coyotes character from the separate they both did well commonwealth. Coyote from Coyote and the Buffalo, got out of dieing by offering Buffalo Bull impudent horns.Buffalo accepted, so it was a win-win situaton for Coyote. In the other tale, Coyote helped find Coyotes wife by decieving the water maidens, and getting information out front killing them. This helped regain Foxs wifes love.The coyote in these tales had diiferent mentalities from one another, one being an imbecile and one being smart. Another similarity that theses tales have is that they both explain why the world is how it is. For example, in Coyote and the Buffalo, when Coyote gives Buffalo Bull in the buff horns, they become the horns that all buffalos would have from that headland on.Also, when Coyote kills the cow that was given to him by Buffalo as food he decides to go back to Buffalo to submit for another one but the cow that Coyote killed returned from the dead and refused to go with coyote again and Buffalo denies him another one.This explains why there are no buffalo in the Kettle Falls on the Columbia Rive, all because of Coyote. In Fox and Coyote and Whale, Fox and Coyote go after Foxs wife who was interpreted by Whale. After Fox and Coyote rescue her, Foxs cuts off Whales head and tosses it into the ocean.This is why there are no whales in the rivers, and Whale could no longer make love to the wives of other men. This trickster tale also explains why Land people and Water people dont like each other. Coyote plays a role in how everything changed and how everything transformed.From reading both trickster tales, I learned that by decieving people you can get things out of t hem. These tales defenitely taught many moral, such as respect the dead, dont take what you have for grante, the importance of familiy and fidelity, ect. It gave a background on how the world transformed.