Summary Of Two Lazy Hunters

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The story “Two Lazy Hunters” is a Cherokee trickster tale. The Cherokee lived in the American southeast region. In particular, Georgia, South and North Carolina, Kentucky, Virginia, and Tennessee. Houses from the Cherokee tribe looked like a basket upside down. They were made out of bamboo from the river, tree branches, and were held together by dirt. As time went on, the houses upgraded to log cabins with tree bark for roofs. The men from the Cherokee tribe only wore little amounts of clothing made of buckskin in the hot weather. In the cooler weather they added fur to the moccasins they wore in the hot weather and wore robes that were made of animal fur. The story begins when a group of hunters go for a trip in the mountains to hunt. The …show more content…

The man secretly followed him until he came upon the man sleeping. The man who followed him quickly made it back to the camp and told all of the other hunters what was going on. The hunters decided that he doesn’t belong in the camp anymore, so he was kicked out. There was another lazy man in the group of hunters but this one was obsessed with the girl at the camp. The girl wanted nothing to do with him, but always said that she just wanted a man who could hunt or she would continue to be single. One day he went out and surprisingly killed a deer. He carried it back to the camp, purposely passing her house closely. As soon as he was out of her sight, he circled around the woods and waited until evening came. He decided to go by her house again for the next week with a deer on his shoulder. The girl was curious and decided to go ask his mother was what going on. The girl explained how he was continuously walking by her house everyday with a different deer. The mom is shocked and talks about how he never has luck with hunting, so it was unusual. The girl’s mother was convinced that something wasn’t right, so she went home and explained it to her husband. Her husband followed the man’s footsteps all the way until he reached a deer lying