Reading Notes: Apache Tales Part A

After reading the collection of Apache Tales I was very confused. The stories themselves were clear and the plot was understandable, but the use of their language was very confusing. Mainly it was the use of pronouns that caught me off guard. If I use one of these stories to retell then my main objective will be to make the stories more understandable for the reader to follow. One of the stories about Naiyenesgani utilizes the colors blue, yellow, black, and mixed colors. These colors are a very integral part of every story that keep reappearing. The story goes that Naiyenesgani goes to hunt down a swamp monster and save the people of his tribe. The integral colors are used in his hoops that are used to drain the water and kill the monster. I can see that the colors are very important to every story, so making sure I utilize them in my own story will be very important.

Apache Tales by P.E. Goddard, link to online reading

(Apache Tales, Source: Tales of Faerie)