{"id":2744,"date":"2023-02-17T16:04:27","date_gmt":"2023-02-17T16:04:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/straightarrow.org\/stories\/?p=2744"},"modified":"2023-02-17T16:04:28","modified_gmt":"2023-02-17T16:04:28","slug":"the-bear-and-deer-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/straightarrow.org\/stories\/indigenous-stories\/miwok\/the-bear-and-deer-children\/","title":{"rendered":"The Bear And Deer Children"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The thunders were two boys with supernatural powers. Their mother was the deer. The grizzly bear also had two children. The two women went to the creek looking for&nbsp;<dfn title=\"Chukchansi: malich\">clover<\/dfn>. Now they loused each other.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Then the bear bit the back of the deer&#8217;s neck and killed her. The two deer-children made a little sweat-house. After the bear had killed and eaten their mother, they killed the two bear-children in this sweat-house with fire.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Then they struck the ground and made a noise and fled to their grandfather. He was powerful and had a large sweat-house. The bear pursued them. She had nearly caught them when they escaped into the sweat-house. The bear put in her head looking for them. Her hind legs were still outside.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The boys&#8217; grandfather had supernatural powers with fire; his amulet was a white rock at the top of the house. When all the bear&#8217;s body except her hind legs was in the house as she looked about for the two boys, the white fire-rock entered her anus and burned her to death inside. Then the two young deer became thunders.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After awhile they also had supernatural powers. They made so much noise in the house that their grandfather was afraid. They went up above, where they&nbsp;<dfn title=\"The Miwok of Yosemite also state that the thunders are two boys who were deer. They control snow and rain.\">still are.<\/dfn><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The half-Chukchansi from whom the Pohonichi tales just given were obtained did not seem to know any story of the stealing of the sun, of a hero who is dug out of the ground as a child, and of a contest between the coyote and the lizard determining the shape of the human hand.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Go Back To:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/straightarrow.org\/stories\/indigenous-stories\/miwok-nation\/\">Miwok Nation<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The thunders were two boys with supernatural powers. Their mother was the deer. The grizzly bear also had two children. The two women went to the creek looking for&nbsp;clover. Now they loused each other. Then the bear bit the back of the deer&#8217;s neck and killed her. The two deer-children made a little sweat-house. After [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[423,424],"tags":[259],"class_list":["post-2744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miwok","category-miwok-stories","tag-miwok"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/straightarrow.org\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2744","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=2744"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/straightarrow.org\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2744\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2746,"href":"https:\/\/straightarrow.org\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2744\/revisions\/2746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/straightarrow.org\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/straightarrow.org\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/straightarrow.org\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}