Week 11 Reading A: Sioux Unit

-I like to think of the medicine woman as kind of a trickster, someone who is giggling as the boy keeps stumbling. Maybe in the rewrite he will hear the trees shaking their leaves in laughter and the wind giggling as it passes over his behind sticking up in the air from where it had fallen
-Brave would be strong and mischievous, and I see his six little groupies following him around the village waiting to ooh and awe at his every move. Maybe he will be the chief's son, bred for greatness and leadership
-I am very confused, because it says when Brave rushed to the village he was as badly scared as the rest and he ran to his mother's tent. Was the thin quavering voice that they said was like an old woman's not Brave's, but actually the medicine woman's?
-In the rewrite I would like Brave to be laying down in the grave when he hears a rushing through the wind, and a whisper of chanting like an old medicine woman would do. When he looks over he sees a pair of wise old eyes. Brave screams and bolts straight up, and that is when his friends see him and run away. Following that, Brave runs into the village and scares all of the women, etc. Basically I would like the medicine woman's ghost to play a much more active part in the story, and be pretty mischievous in teaching Brave a lesson about playing jokes on his friends. Maybe I could open up about Brave having some disdain for the medicine man currently. Maybe he thinks that it is a different time and that those kinds of things do not work any more. Maybe his father is telling him a ghost story and Brave scoffs at it because he does not believe in ghosts

This story is part of the Sioux unit. Story source: Myths and Legends of the Sioux by Marie McLaughlin (1916).

Betsy Thunder, medicine woman of the Ho-Chunk tribe in Wisconsin, 1913 (Source)