LITERATURE QUESTIONS
NATIVE AMERICAN LITERATURE
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young women who were escaping from a creepy deity called Orion.
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young women who were running away from bears; then saved by a rock (or tree stump, depending on the version)
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young women who were singing and dancing in the moonlight.
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young women who were running from a pack of wolves.
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Detailed explanation-1: -In the Arapaho legend, a young girl is transformed into a bear and injures her sister while chasing her siblings. When her sister does not recover, “Bear-Girl” climbs to the top of Devils Tower, abandoning her family to keep them safe.
Detailed explanation-2: -A Sacred Landmark A sacred place to over 20 Native American tribes, the Tower is also known as Bear Lodge. Devils Tower was designated as America’s first national monument in 1906 by President Theodore Roosevelt.
Detailed explanation-3: -The Origin of Bear Lodge Before the tower, two young girls were playing among large boulders in the area. This region was populated by bears, and one especially large bear saw the girls and was going to eat them. The girls scrambled up to the top of the nearest rock, but they couldn’t escape the bear.
Detailed explanation-4: -Bears Lodge or Devils Tower? Most maps from 1857 to 1901 mark this feature as Bear Lodge or Bears Lodge (a translation from a common Lakota name for the Tower, Mato Tipila).