Overview of Stories

All different types of people have their own rituals and celebrations. In Plymouth Plantation when the pilgrims landed on Plymouth Rock they came to be their own people and have more freedom. They celebrated the first Thanksgiving, which is still something we celebrate today. I think this shows that we should respect other peoples rituals because it could have a big impact on society. http://relentlessthirst.files.wordpress.com/2008/11/first_thanksgiving.jpg

Scurvy is a disease caused by a lack of Vitamin C that wiped out a lot of the pilgrim population in the first winter they settled here. This among many other diseases they had to endure wiped out a lot of the population mostly in the months of January and February.
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The importance of The Devils Tower becomes very obvious in the story The Way to Rainy Mountain. Aho passes this legend on to her granddaughter. It talks of a young boy who got transformed into a bear. For instance we tell kids fairy tails like Cinderella, Hansel and Gretel, etc. We pass those down just like Aho passed her legends to her granddaughter. http://www.sacredsites.com/americas/united_states/images/devils-tower-02-500.jpg

In The Man to Send Rain Clouds the grandmother worships the sun. Even when she was one of the few who still remembered her birthright even after she became Christian. Leon describes an ancient awe in her meaning she carries he beliefs of her ancestors with her.
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All of the Indians rituals involve some kind of dance and/or chant. It is the way they communicate to the Gods I believe. It is the one similarity between all of there ceremonies that brings it all together.

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