Extra Credit Reading Notes: American Indian Fairy Tales (Dormouse)

- Iagoo is still narrating these stories

- Iagoo talks about a mouse that would be stronger and no match for a 1000 young boys

- Spoke of a time when people did not eat meat because there was no fire 

- Animal kingdom and the humans were the intruders it seemed like

- The boy was small and he set out to find someone else aside from his sister

- The boy was angry with the sun because of what it did to his coat

- He snared the sun with a noose and it made it so that an animal had to cut it free

- The Dormouse was the only one and as he ate the rope he began to burn leaving behind a plain mouse

Small mouse (UnSplash)

American Indian Fairy Tales by W.T. Larned, with illustrations by John Rae (1921).