Week 10 Reading: California and Old Southwest Tales (Reading B)

Coyote and Hare/ Coyote and Fawns

1. Origin of the Sierra Nevadas and Coast Range
• The Hawk and Crow created the ranges from mud and tobacco 
• Hawks were the Sierra Nevadas which are bigger
• Had other birds help them
2. Legend of Tu-tok-a-nu'-la (El Capitan)
• It is named after the measuring worm
• two boys were playing in water, got tired and slept for a long time
• the rock grew very tall 
• all animals tried to get the kids down but the worm was the only one who could
• White men call it El Capitan
3. The Children of Cloud
• They went looking for their father after their mother told where he was 
• They had to prove they were his children 
• they had smilier powers 
• They encountered other animals on the way and were turned into mescal's 
• Took place near Tucson 
4. The Boy who Became a God
• the boy got songs, medicines, and clothing from animals 
• way to long to be a tale 
• loads of narration, spats of simple dialogue throughout 
5. Origin of the Raven and the Macaw
• The raven was assigned the summer
• The Macaw was assigned winter 
• Created seasonal birds 
6. Coyote and Hare; Coyote and Fawns
• The coyote was tricked by the Hare
• The hare was trying to dictate how the Coyote killed it
• Coyote was fooled by the fawns 
• They told him they get their spots from cedar burns 
• Coyote tries and kills his children 
7. Coyote and the Quails
• Quails took the coyote's fat to cook while he was eating 
• he didn't notice, smelled it and asked for some
• He went on and felt where he had been cut out
• Goes to find Quails, asked all of them, no one admitted besides a cactus?
• so the Coyote bit the cactus hard and died 
8. How the Bluebird Got its Color
• Bluebird bathed itself in a blue river that didn't flow for four times for four mornings 
• Used to be ugly 
• the fourth morning, lost all feathers then went in again and came out with blue ones 
• Coyote wanted to be blue and pretty too, tried it and it worked, then fell in the dirt 
9. Coyote's Eyes
• A Bird took them out of his eyes and threw them into the air 
• they fell back into his eyes brighter 
• had been black and very bright 
• Asked the bird to do it again, it did not want to, kept asking, then it happened 
• They turned out yellow this time and the bird did not help again 
10. Coyote as a Hunter
• Coyote became dirty after traveling in water for a while 
• he took a nap and a woman passed by and thought he was dead 
• Coyote asked if she thought that bunnnies would think he was dead 
• Coyote and the woman hatch a plan and kill all the bunnies
• woman eventually steals all bunnies 
11. How the Rattlesnake Learned to Bite
• Men used to bother rattlesnakes all the time because they liked to hear it rattle
• Finally learned to bite back rather than be annoyed
• The Rabbit was the first to die from the bite and in the new world 
• People had to burn the rabbit so the coyote could not get it
• Coyote still tried to get it while it burned, so that's why its mouth is white
12. Coyote and the Rattlesnake
• Coyote and Rattlesnake tried to eat together
• Coyote was scared of the snake so he tried to scare the snake
• until he made a fool of himself and the snake only laughed at him 
• tried to put a rattle on his tale to scare the snake