Fox and Coyote and Whale

Native American traditional stories, folktales, atomic number 18 stories passed cut from generation to generation by story telling and performance. Native Americans emphasized the importance of living in harmony with the naturual world. They had complex religious beliefs, sophisticated poltical systems, and strong morals. Some of the stories are creation myths, tales of heroes, and tricksters. Trickster tales are stories that have animals or human reference works who engage in deceit, violence, or magic. Often trickster tales are give tongue to to explain why the world is the way it is.coyote and the overawe and throw off and prairie wolf and Whale are two trickster tales, retold by Mourning Dove, explaining how brush wolfs action created changes in the world. In theses two trickster tales, Coyote, the chief(prenominal) character shares some similarities in morals, character, and transformation . Yet there exsists differences in how these traits are presented. One relation between these two trickster tales is that they both have purposes to memorize morals. The moral teaching in Coyote and the Buffalo is to not be greedy.An example would be when Coyote killed the cow for more food because he was tired of eating only the fat. As a result he gets the remains of the cow stolen and is unexpended with nothing. In Fox and Coyote and Whale, unrivalled of the morals is not to steal someones wife.Whale steals Foxs wife and imbibes her to his rules of order which leads Coyote and Foxs wife. Whale ends up getting his guide chopped off and thrown into the ocean. They both teach morals, just in different ways. One difference that these two trickster tale have is Coyotes character trait. For example, in Coyote and the Buffalo, Coyote is portrayed as numbskull.Actions ilk kicking the Buffalo Bulls skull bring out of revenge, killing the cow Buffalo Bull gave him thinking Buffalo Bull will never know, and swear a stranger with the little food he had left t o take a nap, all take out Coyote a numbskull. In Fox and Coyote and Whale, Coyote is smart and thoughtful.When Coyote helps Fox outsmart the water maidens, into telling them where Foxs wife was located, they go on a journey to recapture Foxs wife from Whale. Even tho Coyote in one tale contrasts Coyotes character from the other they both did tumesce people. Coyote from Coyote and the Buffalo, got out of dieing by offering Buffalo Bull new horns.Buffalo accepted, so it was a win-win situaton for Coyote. In the other tale, Coyote helped find Coyotes wife by decieving the water maidens, and getting cultivation before killing them. This helped regain Foxs wifes acknowledge.The coyote in these tales had diiferent mentalities from one another, one being an idiot and one being smart. Another similarity that theses tales have is that they both explain why the world is how it is. For example, in Coyote and the Buffalo, when Coyote gives Buffalo Bull new horns, they become the horns that all buffalos would have from that point on.Also, when Coyote kills the cow that was given to him by Buffalo as food he decides to go back to Buffalo to ask for another one but the cow that Coyote killed returned from the dead and refused to go with coyote once again and Buffalo denies him another one.This explains why there are no buffalo in the Kettle fall on the Columbia Rive, all because of Coyote. In Fox and Coyote and Whale, Fox and Coyote go after Foxs wife who was taken by Whale. After Fox and Coyote rescue her, Foxs cuts off Whales head and tosses it into the ocean.This is why there are no whales in the rivers, and Whale could no longer make love to the wives of other men. This trickster tale also explains why Land people and Water people dont like each other. Coyote plays a role in how everything changed and how everything transformed.From reading both trickster tales, I learn that by decieving people you can get things out of them. These tales defenitely taught many mo ral, such as respect the dead, dont take what you have for grante, the importance of familiy and fidelity, ect. It gave a background on how the world transformed.