Of course there were no trolls in my grandparents basement. The basement was actually my Grandpas workroom. It had all his tools and toys. There was a drain down there hidden in the corner. It didn’t have a cover over it and it would have been dangerous for a little kid to be playing in the basement. And of course, I didn’t know this until I was about 10 years old. My Grandma told me this sto

In our readings we read about myths. Native American myths teach lessons to their people. Whether it be creation stories like those in “On the Way to Rainy Mountain”, or trickster stories like a few in the Erodes/Ortiz packet. “You know, everything had to begin, and this is how it was:” This sentence is the beginning of Rainy Mountain and solidifies the whole book in one sentence. This book tells the creation and evolution of the Kiowa’s. Without these creation stories the Kiowa’s would have no sense of culture or belonging, much like the Bible tells the creation of Christians, much like my grandmothers story told me where my roots were.

ry when I was about 5 years old after I disobeyed my parents and went to the park all by myself. After she told me about the trolls, I very rarely disobeyed my parents again.

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