Why The Corn Doll Has No Face

Super Great Kids' Stories

Wardour Studios

Stories For Kids, Kids & Family, Education For Kids

4.4 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 26 July 2024

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

According to this Cherokee legend, Unetlanvhi, The Great One, created little corn people to help the first woman on earth, with the chores. The corn people were very beautiful, but spent more time admiring their reflection, than helping out. The Creator was not happy, and did something dramatic to teach them an important lesson about beauty. Listen to Lisa La Rue Baker tell this traditional tale from the Cherokee Nation and discover what happened. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to super great kids stories
0:18.0	wise tales from storytellers around the world which will make you laugh and sometimes cry.
0:27.0	Recommended for ages 5 to 105.
0:32.0	I'm Kim and I love stories.
0:35.0	Hello super great kids and how are you?
0:40.0	I'm very happy because Kate Corcary and super great David and I met some of you on
0:46.3	Saturday and that gives us such a buzz. Some of you asked if we're going to do a
0:52.4	show in the US or in Ireland.
0:55.0	Well, we'd really love to and we are hugging that dream.
0:59.5	Possibly next year when our book comes out.
1:02.4	Fingers crossed.
1:04.0	Our story today is from the US.
1:08.0	It's from the Cherokee Nation.
1:10.0	There are over 500 tribal nations in the United States, each with their own cultures,
1:16.6	languages and ways of life. But one thing they all have in common is storytelling. Each tribe has their own stories and
1:26.8	they pass their histories and beliefs on through those stories. The storyteller is Lisa La Rue Baker, who is a Cherokee Indian.
1:38.3	Lisa lives in the state of Kansas in a place called Topeka which just happens to be a town where I lived for a year
1:46.4	when I was an exchange student. She teaches children and grown-ups how to weave baskets and how to make corn dolls and she tells them
1:56.2	stories while they weave. Corn dolls are little dolls which are made from corn husks, the part of the corn that we don't eat.
2:05.0	People have been making them and children have been playing with them for hundreds of years.
2:11.0	This story came from Lisa's friend Sir Koya.
2:15.0	It's a how and why story and it's called Why the Corn Doll has no face.
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