Week 11 Reading Notes A
The Origin of Tobacco
One day a boy was climbing a mountain and smelled the smell of tobacco. He went into the cave he knew was the home of a giant guarding tobacco. He asked the giant for tobacco but the giant said to come back in another year because a group that only came once a year had just left from their yearly smoke. The boy didn't like this answer so he grabbed a bag of tobacco and ran. The boy jumped from peak to peak of the mountains with the giant behind him. The boy laid down flat on one peak & the giant sailed over him, falling into a chasm. The giant tried to climb out, but the boy turned him into a grasshopper so he could be the pest of those who tried to grow tobacco in the future. The boy shared the tobacco and seeds among all his brothers, so the Indians were never without tobacco again.
I think I may change this story into a version of Mickey and the Beanstalk. Having to steal something from a giant reminds me of this.
Bibliography: The Origin of Tobacco by Menomini. Weblink.
One day a boy was climbing a mountain and smelled the smell of tobacco. He went into the cave he knew was the home of a giant guarding tobacco. He asked the giant for tobacco but the giant said to come back in another year because a group that only came once a year had just left from their yearly smoke. The boy didn't like this answer so he grabbed a bag of tobacco and ran. The boy jumped from peak to peak of the mountains with the giant behind him. The boy laid down flat on one peak & the giant sailed over him, falling into a chasm. The giant tried to climb out, but the boy turned him into a grasshopper so he could be the pest of those who tried to grow tobacco in the future. The boy shared the tobacco and seeds among all his brothers, so the Indians were never without tobacco again.
I think I may change this story into a version of Mickey and the Beanstalk. Having to steal something from a giant reminds me of this.
Bibliography: The Origin of Tobacco by Menomini. Weblink.
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