The Spirit Land
Myths and Legends of the Great Plains by Katharine Judson
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Plot Points
- When the ghost dance was being performed for the first time, the spirits in the Spirit Land wanted to come to the world of the living
- However, they could not for they were separated by the Great Lake between them and the land of the living
- So Crow, the leader of the spirits took himself up in the air to make a way for the spirits
- He took a pebble in his mouth and dropped in in the water, making a mountain in the middle of the lake
- He then took a scoop of dirt in his mouth and dropped it between the water and the mountain, creating dry land for the spirits to walk on
- He then took a blade of grass and dropped it on the dirt, making lush grass for the spirits to tread upon comfortably
- Finally, he took a twig in his mouth and dropped it amongst the grass, making a forest through which the spirits could walk in the shade
- He then called the spirits together at the edge of his new creation and lead them across to the land of the living. He rests there now on the western edge of the land of the living
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