Personal Stories Connected to Native American Culture

Don’t go into the basement alone!. There are trolls down there. They hide in the pipes and in the corners. The live underground and the drain in the floor is how they get into the basement. Do you see the scar on your Uncle Dons leg? That’s from a troll. He didn’t listen to your Grandpa and me when he was about your age. He decided, one day, that he would go into the basement just to check it out. Uncle Don didn’t ask Grandpa or Grandma to go down stairs with him. It was dark and he couldn’t see. He walked by the drain and a troll reached up and grabbed his leg. He screamed and luckily your Grandpa heard him. Grandpa ran downstairs and turned the lights on. The light scarred the troll enough that it let go of Uncle Don’s leg. But Uncle Don still has that scar on his leg to remind him of when he didn’t listen to his parents.
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 story wh



	Shamanism .... try to learn from a People as connected to our .... prescribe healing herbs, lead ceremonies, or tell stories. .... which participants unite with their personal spirits. .... (2808 11 )

	Frederick Douglass .... conflict Jacobs demonstrates the power of personal agency in .... He tells stories of savage beatings, as well .... slave culture that were directly connected to literacy .... (1740 7 )

	Austalia .... of this is handed down through stories told by .... in the oneness of man being connected with nature. .... laws almost always take precedence over personal or emotional .... (6690 27 )

	Disciplie: A Basic Human Outline Human beings have always connected past events to their .... the connection is made through myths and stories or though .... to their own life and personal experiences. .... (1307 5 )

	The Role of Christianity in the Development of the African-A .... and celebration have been documented in personal slave accounts .... the same story the white Christians connected with in .... promise of God, used the stories of Exodus .... (1954 8 )

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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Some topics in this essay:
Family, Grandparent, Native Americans In The United States, Trickster, Frankfort, Creation Myth, United States, Lake Michigan, Heart Attack, Bible,

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PROFESSIONAL ESSAYS:

Lone Ranger & Tonto Fistfight in Heaven .... from his past even though never fully connected to the white .... Stories within a family link the person of this .... in terms of self-esteem and personal empowerment. .... (1612 6 )

Five Native American Writers .... They hold their stories and lives until they are ready .... Ceremony is grander than the more personal use of .... his alienation and depression--is connected with the .... (10946 44 )

20th Century Native American Writers .... They hold their stories and lives until they are ready .... Ceremony is grander than the more personal use of .... his alienation and depression--is connected with the .... (10934 44 )

Asian American Communities .... The individual stories are each different, in part because of personal differences and .... is a universal American celebration, only loosely connected with the .... (1280 5 )

Contradictions in Asian American Communities .... The individual stories are each different, in part because of personal differences and .... is a universal American celebration, only loosely connected with the .... (1280 5 )

Black Womanist Ethics .... The ex cerpts from Hurston stories imply that this .... the face of white oppression, her personal life shows .... This is connected to Cannon's work--again, because of .... (2367 9 )

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