tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6968132365438511409.post2837271691623287568..comments2024-03-26T02:27:06.176-05:00Comments on Tales of Faerie: A Native American Cinderella Kristinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01097525403940409218noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6968132365438511409.post-9172859894025693562012-08-31T10:20:51.740-05:002012-08-31T10:20:51.740-05:00I'd never heard this one before! I was not exp...I'd never heard this one before! I was not expecting that ending - it gave me a chuckle. It just seems really abrupt... thanks for putting it up!Daisy O'Whaleyhttp://www.facebook.com/DaisyOWhaleynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6968132365438511409.post-56359769064818769102012-08-31T08:29:49.928-05:002012-08-31T08:29:49.928-05:00Native American tribes, especially Navajo; Zuni; a...Native American tribes, especially Navajo; Zuni; and the Dineh in the South West, and the Cree and the Blackfoot in the Great Plains absolutely did have class distinctions, especially when they compared themselves to different camps. Their cultural mandates instructed them to help the poorer members of their family, but anyone not in that family had no difficulty looking down on those people. Their tents, their designs, their dances were all opportunities to show off and display how they were wealthier and more gifted than anyone else.<br />A poor girl might not be able to go to a dance because a humongous amount of work ahead of her because her father is too poor to marry more than one wife to help her with the work. Or he might have married her to a richer man who already has many wives and therefore she'd be essentially a servant as the freshman wife.<br />Perhaps because of the turkey flock, but this seems similar to the Goose Girl as well as Cinderella. Thanks for putting it up!Rosiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02082134261326523872noreply@blogger.com