Legends 2 - Bare Hill and Other Stories

Iroquois History and Legends

Andrew James Cotter

Canadian History, Iroquois, History, North American History, First Nations, Religion & Spirituality, American History, Education, Six Nations, Native America, Christianity, Native American, Indian History, Colonial History, Haudenosaunee

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🗓️ 4 July 2016

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Today we share three stories told by the Seneca Nation. The first is humorous tale about Fox and Raccoon trying to find out which of them is more crafty. The second is a story of when Bear and Turtle decide to have a race. The last is the most famous of the Seneca stories that deals with their most revered site, Bare Hill.

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Reworked and based on traditional Seneca Nation stories.

SKUNNY WUNDY: SENECA INDIAN TALES BY ARTHUR CASWELL PARKER

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to Iroquois History and Legends. I'm Andrew and I am Caleb.
0:22.7	And welcome to our second installment of Howdy Nishone Legends.
0:26.4	That's right. We have done nine episodes and a historical narrative.
0:30.3	So we're going to try to own up to our name, Eriquois History and Legends and give you guys another episode on Legends.
0:36.6	So today we are going to be
0:38.2	featuring two more fable-type stories that the Haudien Shoni might have told their kids around the
0:44.3	campfire, kind of, you know, some, hey, how did this happen? And then they had a story for it. But then
0:49.9	we're also going to talk about another story. Yeah, it's one of the principal stories of the Seneca people,
0:55.4	and it combines their origin story of where they came from,
0:58.6	and also a great story about a mysterious monster.
1:04.1	Yep, monsters are make-for-good stories.
1:06.5	Yep.
1:07.3	So we hope that you enjoy these next three legends.
1:17.7	Why Fox and Raccoon are no longer friends, and why raccoon lives in a tree.
1:26.1	In the forest, there are many animals.
1:29.3	Some of these are friends with one another like turkey and deer.
1:33.3	Others do nothing but fight and bicker like Blue Jay and squirrel, or eagle and weasel.
1:40.3	This is a story of two animals that were once good friends,
1:45.0	but now have a loathing more fierce and sometimes comical than any other creature in the forest.
1:52.0	I'm of course talking about fox and raccoon.
1:57.0	Now some animals have great strength or speed or size, but fox and raccoon had something
2:05.6	more precious than that.
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