Fox and Coyote and Whale

Native American traditional stories, folktales, argon stories passed down from contemporaries to generation by story vocalizing and performance. Native Americans emphasized the importance of lively in harmony with the naturual world. They had complex religious beliefs, sophisticated poltical systems, and strong morals. almost of the stories are creation myths, tales of heroes, and tricksters. Trickster tales are stories that establish animals or merciful instances who engage in deceit, violence, or magic. Often trickster tales are verbalize to explain why the world is the way it is. prairie wolf and the buffalo and play tricks and Coyote and hunt down are two trickster tales, retold by wo Dove, explaining how Coyotes action created changes in the world. In theses two trickster tales, Coyote, the main persona shares some similarities in morals, character, and transformation . Yet there exsists differences in how these traits are presented. 1 similarity between these two trickster tales is that they both have purposes to teach morals. The moral teaching in Coyote and the Buffalo is to non be greedy.An example would be when Coyote killed the cow for more aliment because he was tired of eating only the fat. As a consequence he gets the remains of the cow stolen and is left with nothing. In bemuse and Coyote and Whale, one of the morals is not to steal someones wife.Whale steals Foxs wife and takes her to his gild which leads Coyote and Foxs wife. Whale ends up getting his head chopped sour and thrown into the ocean. They both teach morals, just in different ways. One difference that these two trickster tale have is Coyotes character trait. For example, in Coyote and the Buffalo, Coyote is portrayed as numbskull.Actions like bang the Buffalo Bulls skull unwrap of revenge, killing the cow Buffalo Bull gave him thought Buffalo Bull will never know, and trusting a antic with the little food he had left to take a nap, each(prenominal) ease up Coyote a numbskull. In Fox and Coyote and Whale, Coyote is smart and thoughtful.When Coyote helps Fox outsmart the body of water maidens, into telling them where Foxs wife was located, they go on a journey to recapture Foxs wife from Whale. Even tho Coyote in one tale contrasts Coyotes character from the other they both did well people. Coyote from Coyote and the Buffalo, got out of dieing by offering Buffalo Bull new horns.Buffalo accepted, so it was a win-win situaton for Coyote. In the other tale, Coyote helped find Coyotes wife by decieving the water maidens, and getting information before killing them. This helped regain Foxs wifes love.The coyote in these tales had diiferent mentalities from one another, one being an idiot and one being smart. some other similarity that theses tales have is that they both explain why the world is how it is. For example, in Coyote and the Buffalo, when Coyote gives Buffalo Bull new horns, they fabricate the horns that all buffalos would hav e from that point on.Also, when Coyote kills the cow that was given to him by Buffalo as food he decides to go back to Buffalo to ask for another one but the cow that Coyote killed returned from the defunct and refused to go with coyote again and Buffalo denies him another one.This explains why there are no buffalo in the Kettle Falls on the Columbia Rive, all because of Coyote. In Fox and Coyote and Whale, Fox and Coyote go after Foxs wife who was taken by Whale. by and by Fox and Coyote rescue her, Foxs cuts off Whales head and tosses it into the ocean.This is why there are no whales in the rivers, and Whale could no longer make love to the wives of other men. This trickster tale also explains why let down people and Water people dont like each other. Coyote plays a role in how everything changed and how everything transformed.From reading both trickster tales, I erudite that by decieving people you can get things out of them. These tales defenitely taught many moral, such(pre nominal) as respect the dead, dont take what you have for grante, the importance of familiy and fidelity, ect. It gave a minimise on how the world transformed.