Reading Diary B: Apache Tales

The Supernatural Person in the Lake

• The story talks of a boy who received a gift of being a medicine man from his mother 
• They were very hungry so the the mother asked him if he had anything to eat and he and told her that the next day they would have a lot to eat
• What he said came true until the mother told him to stop and the food they were getting stopping coming
• His mother asked for the gift back and he told her he had given it to the supernatural one 
• He then went back to his own country and the people followed him and tried to track him down and did not find him
• Two years later the people went out to war and he appeared with a buffalo and told them that the enemy was close and was not aware. 
• He then told them to get the black horse with no white spots and to bring it back to him
• The people won the war and took the horse and once they were close the lake the horse just ran of in that direction.

The Man who traveled with the Buffalo 

• At the start of this story a group of men are at war and they all die but one
• The one follows the buffalo and in the in end he gets arrows shoots them all
• In the rivers turned into the mans chiefs
• These sort of story seem to be all over the place and very random
• This probably explains the names that chiefs get in native american culture

Rio Grande

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