American Indian Myths And Legends By Richard Erdoes And Alfonso Ortiz

American Indian Myths and Legends The book that I chose was “American Indian Myths and Legends”. This book was selected and edited by Richard Erdoes and Alfonso Ortiz. My book is about the myths and legends of certain tribes around the world; even though they were myths, I was still able to tell a lot about their culture in the context they use in the stories. While reading this book, I realized that our cultures are almost completely different with a few similarities between our two cultures. The first difference, I noticed between our two cultures was are religious beliefs on many different factors. In our culture, the main religion is Christianity, the religion that we believe there is one God and our savior Jesus Christ. While I was reading this book I saw many different religions with many

In our culture, we slaughter breed animals and have people buy it from a Market. Also, we grow plants to buy from the market. Then there’s all the processed stuff that we buy from the market. Their culture is based off of hunting and growing their own food. Or the Southern UTE tribe, “Soon Blood Clot needed larger arrows, and with them he began to hunt birds and other small game” (9). As the child grew it says “Blood Clot said, ‘I have killed a big fellow with big antlers.’ It was an elk, so again the family feasted on the meat”(9). The next example of foods is from the Brule Sioux Tribe. This tribe mainly eats off of plants that they are picked by hand. “These were peyote plants guiding her to their hiding places among the thorn bushes and chaparral. So the old woman and the girl picked the herbs and filled the hide bag with them”(67). We can also relate to their foods because a lot of people hunt for their food and grow their own plants to feed their family. We rarely go out to look for herbs, or stuff growing in the wild. I think the best example would be when we try to find asparagus on the side of the