Week 9 Reading Diary: Alaskan Legends

This week I am retelling stories form Alaskan Legends.

In the story Alaska Raven's Creation there was a raven that could transform from human to raven whenever he wanted to. There was also a man that was born and came from a pea pod that the raven created. They became friends and the raven showed the man that he could make food from the clay, then the final thing he did was make a companion for the man. He sculpted a beautiful woman from clay and they lived together.

In the story Alaska: The Flood there was a raven that noticed that people near the water were being ungrateful. So he decided to wish upon them a great rise in the tide. The water rose and rose and he had to take a ladder to the bottom of the ocean to find answers. He left the eagle in charge of the tide and asked him to let him know when the tide had gone back down.

In the story Alaska: Raven and the Seals there was a raven that came across a new beach where a man lived. He convinced the man that they would become friends. Then he decided to eat the man and eat all the seals on the beach. He then hunted seals in the water and cooked them on the beach. A stump wanted some of the food so he went and sat on the hole the seals were being cooked in. The raven was so sad that he couldn’t eat the seals and cried because he was so hungry.

In the story Alaska: Raven and Marmot there was a raven that was being mocked. He went and stood in front of a marmot’s home so he could not enter. He told the marmot that he was going to have to eat him. The marmot agreed but first wanted the raven to dance. Then the raven danced again and fell dizzy so the marmot ran past him in to his home and laughed at the raven.

In the story The First Woman there was a man who traveled far away to take a woman back to his land. He snuck in a home and grabbed a woman but then her husband awoke and the two men were fighting over her. They pulled her in half and each land had one half of her. The land with the top half carved her bottom half out of wood. She was good at sewing needlepoint. The land with the bottom half carved the rest of her body out of wood and she was good at dancing.

In the story The Ghost Land there is a man who travels through a forest and looks for a wife. Once he travels along the river he returns home to this father. He tells his father of how he has found his wife so his father lays out fur coats for his wife. She comes in but they see nothing so he realizes that she was a ghost.