Iktomi—a small but powerful creature, devious and mischievous. According to the Lakota and Dakota (Sioux) tribes of the American Midwest, it was Iktomi who created time, space, and language, and gave all the animals their names, but he’s also a thief, a glutton, a letch, and “the ...
We are introduced to Charlie, Harry’s older brother, and also to Charlie’s friend Robert Huxley. I’m thinking this is a lot of names to remember before we know much about any of them. Just as well we had that breather chapter where Harry moons around in her attic space. The visito...
Themes: traveling over the whole earth: Deer Clan Origin Myth, The Pointing Man, The Medicine Rite Foundation Myth, The Necessity for Death, Death Enters the World, Spear Shaft and Lacrosse, The Twins Disobey Their Father, The Twins Get into Hot Water, The Twins Cycle, The Two Boys, The...