Native American Myth: Skunk Woman

Native American Essay

Skunk Woman is comparable to other Native American myths in terms of characteristics from Native American Literature because in the myth “Coyote finishes his work” it is about a coyote sent to earth to fix it and make it right and to create different people and then putting them in different parts of the world, that is similar to the the myth Skunk Woman because in the myth it speaks about how a man wanted to get a new life and forget about his past because of his bad temper or bad behaviour towards people and he wanted to live with a new family and start over again but make it positive at that time.In the myth Skunk woman, Was about an Ojibwe man who love to go hunting and couldn’t do it right because of his children and new wife. He always gets mad when they make a simple mistake while hunting and his temper tantrum is hard to control so for that reasoning his children and wife later left him and turned into skunks and the Ojibwe man went looking for them.

The Ojibwe man has many characteristics that

For example in the Myth “Crow Brings the Daylight” the crow traveled the world just to get daylight for the people in the town that never had daylight before or seen it, Also it wasn’t a very easy task for the crow it took him a very long time until his wings was very tired and he was getting ready to give up until he seen a quick dim light miles away and that sparked him up and continued to go get wast he wanted. That shows the legend I chose cared about two things which was his family and Hunting but he didn’t know which was his best choice so he chased his dream and finally got what he wanted which was to have a wonderful family and do what he do best and go hunting on his spare