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Lizzie
Lizzie
Throughout the whole day that we were at the Menominee reservation, I had a great time. I met some new people and had a great time. One of my favorite things was the bus tour with Dave Grignon who took us to the Wolf River Dells. There, he told us the legend of the Thunderbird and Serpent fighting for days on end. At times it would seem that the Thunderbird was winning but then, the Serpent would be winning, Finally after days of fighting the Thunderbird chased the serpent down to a cave, where every year the Serpent tries to escape but the Thunderbird chases it back into the cave imprisoning it there forever. This legend represents the fight between good, the Thunderbird, and evil, the Serpent.
Then my favorite part in their history class was how she told their creation story. The good spirit took a bear an allowed it to change into a human. Sadly, the bear was lonely so he called to the eagle to join him so the eagle joined him. Then bear called the crane and the crane joined them. Next he called to wolf and the wolf joined him as well. Next Bear called out to Sturgeon and Beaver and they both joined him. These make up the six clans of the Menominee Indians.
When we were doing the interviews my favorite part of that was the legend the teacher we were interviewing told us. There were two children and their parents. They were all out picking black berries and the parents told the children: “Stay here. DO not go anywhere else.” The children at the time saw some huge blackberries on the other side of the brush. They ignored their parents warning and went over to the other side to pick the big blackberries. When they went back to where they had been picking berries before they couldn’t find their parents so they searched for them, eating the blackberries they had picked. In the morning they found them. That was our interviewee’s favorite legend that her grandpa told her when she was young and now it is also one of mine.