{"id":1491,"date":"2023-02-11T11:13:33","date_gmt":"2023-02-11T11:13:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/straightarrow.org\/stories\/?p=1491"},"modified":"2023-02-11T11:13:34","modified_gmt":"2023-02-11T11:13:34","slug":"forsaken-brother","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/straightarrow.org\/stories\/indigenous-stories\/chippewa\/forsaken-brother\/","title":{"rendered":"Forsaken Brother"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Two Coyotes were crossing a farmers field. Both Coyotes were strangers to each other for they had never met. Just as they were about to introduce themselves they heard the farmer yell, &#8220;There&#8217;s a Coyote in the field!&#8221; The first Coyote turned to the other and told him to run! They both started to run for the trees when they heard the farmer yell, &#8220;And there goes another one!&#8221;. Finally both Coyotes made it to the cover of the trees and they started to introduce themselves. &#8220;I never saw you before, I am Wanderer, I am a Coyote like you.&#8221; The other Coyote looked at him oddly and said, &#8220;I am Sleek, but I am not a Coyote like you.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Yes you are,&#8221; said Wanderer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Oh no I am not,&#8221; replied Sleek.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Look my friend, you are confused. You have ears like mine, you have a tail like mine, our fur is the same, our snouts are the same, everything is the same, you are just like me and we are both Coyotes,&#8221; Wanderer tried to explain. &#8220;Listen let&#8217;s run across the field again and you will see,&#8221; challenged Sleek. So off they ran. First went Wanderer and again the Farmer yelled, &#8220;There goes that darn Coyote.&#8221; Then Sleek took afoot and the Farmer yelled, &#8220;And there goes another one&#8230; again!&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When the two Coyotes reached the other side of the field they ducked into the woods. Wanderer turned to sleek and said, &#8220;There! Didn&#8217;t you hear the Farmer? He called us both Coyotes.&#8221; Sleek look disappointed with his new confused friend and said, &#8220;Yes I heard the Farmer. He called you a Coyote, but I am an `Another One&#8217;.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Our problem is, we are listening to the Farmers tell us who we are. Something to talk about.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Reprinted by permission by the author since 2005,<br>Charles P. Whitedog, Ojibway. email: whitecoyote2@yahoo.com<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Go Back To:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/straightarrow.org\/stories\/indigenous-stories\/chippewa-nation\/\">Chippewa Nation<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two Coyotes were crossing a farmers field. Both Coyotes were strangers to each other for they had never met. Just as they were about to introduce themselves they heard the farmer yell, &#8220;There&#8217;s a Coyote in the field!&#8221; The first Coyote turned to the other and told him to run! They both started to run [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[341,342],"tags":[218],"class_list":["post-1491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chippewa","category-chippewa-stories","tag-chippewa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/straightarrow.org\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1491","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/straightarrow.org\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/straightarrow.org\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/straightarrow.org\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/straightarrow.org\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1491"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/straightarrow.org\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1491\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1492,"href":"https:\/\/straightarrow.org\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1491\/revisions\/1492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/straightarrow.org\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/straightarrow.org\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/straightarrow.org\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}