Reading Notes: Great Plains Legends, Part A

 Sacred Legend

Myths and Legends of the Great Plains by Katharine Judson

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Plot Points

• The first men awoke in the water and came up out of the water
• Once out of the water, they made clothes for themselves from grass and hunting buffalo with clubs
• They then chipped stones and made bows, arrows, and spears for hunting
• They were cold, so they took elm roots and rubbed them together to make themselves warm, making the first fire
• They then grew tired of cooking meat on an open flame and found clay to make pots with, now they were able to boil their meat
• Then, they realized their grass homes were too cold, so they tried many different skins to make new houses for themselves so they could stay warm
• They needed larger pieces of wood, so they made hatchets for themselves to cut wood faster 
• Finally, one day a wandering man found a pile of red, blue, and white stones which he buried in the ground. Several days later he came back and found the first corn plant, providing food for his people.