These stories are from a collection of Native American folktales. I chose to do the ones focusing on Alaska. My brother traveled her a few years ago and loved it so I thought it would be cool to learn some of its native history through its stories.
The Origin of the Tides by Katharine Judson: As the title discusses this is a story of how the tide came to be. Qa, the Raven, built a house under a rock and twice a day someone would open and close a door causing the tide to go in and out. Then the stories discusses a man who goes out into the waters and is affected by the tide. The tide is something that will forever confuse me so I thought it would be interesting to somehow incorporate this story into one of my own where I can make the tide make sense.
Raven's Feast by Katharine Judson: This story was quite interesting to me. It told of how everyone followed what Raven did. When he had a feast, so did everyone else. When he had fancy hats, others followed. This story helps to tell of how people felt about others and how respect was of great importance in Indian tribes. Even if things may have seemed excessive, wasteful, crazy, etc., if you respected the person and were to follow what they did, then you did just that.
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