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Reading Notes: Blackfoot Stories Part A

The Theft from the Sun
(Arapaho Leggings from Wikipedia Commons)

Plot: There was an Old Man who was on a journey and went to the Sun's lodge. There the Sun said they should go hunting for deer meat. The Old Man agreed. The Sun showed the Old Man his special leggings which set fire to brush so that the deer would flee and could be easily killed. The Old Man decided he wanted to steal the leggings after seeing their usefulness. The two went hunting and that night the Old Man stole the leggings and walked as far from the Sun's lodge as he could. When he woke up he found that he was back in the lodge. When the Sun asked why he had the leggings he said he used them as a pillow. The Old Man repeated this thievery the next night only this time he ran as far as he could. Again he woke up in the Sun's lodge because the whole world is the Sun's lodge. The Sun told him since he wanted the leggings so much he could have them. The Old Man took them and went to set fire to the brush the same way the Sun had when the flames caught him on fire. He had to run into the river to save himself and the leggings were ruined.

Lesson: Don't be selfish and steal
Ideas: I think I would like to take this story into modern time. I would keep the two characters the same but maybe instead of leggings, it would just be shoes. Instead of setting fire to things maybe they would just make you run very fast? Or something like that.

Story Source: This story is from Blackfeet Indian Stories by George Bird Grinnell
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