Respected Sir/Madam,
I, Akanksha Sharma work in a traveling agency as an officer. I work in the Native North Americans agency where I need to travel a lot around the US. In 1993, I went in to see the culture and traditions of the native Americans and without regretting, I have been the witness for many different crimes. First I headed towards the Northeast part where "it was the custom for a boy who reached a certain age to go into the forest and wait for a dream. pg-3" He would have to build his own house and "go without food for many days" hoping he would be visited by some animals or spirit of the forest that would take pity on him and give guidance and power.
A boy named Opichi was at the age where his father eagerly insisted him to go on his dream regardless of the cold snowy weather. After seven days of his father visiting him each morning asking him about his experience the night before, his parents finally decided to bring him back home. But what they found was nothing. Their son had died just because of his father wanting him to have more greater experience than the night before.
I was really shocked to see the greediness of Opichi's father for his son to have the greatest power in the whole village. But as I went to the second village, I was surprised again. I saw something really different.
A hunter called Wolverine found a little baby and a dog securing the baby. The hunter brought the baby to his wife, Fisher saying "I give you a child" and they both decide to take care of the sick and weak baby and grow him up to be a strong man. They helped him later when he grew up to find his parents and advised him. Even though he didn't find his parents but he made a new friend and also defeated the bad people on the island. However the boy didn't find his parents and returned back to his grandparents.
I don't know from which perspective to look at because on one hand, the hunter and his wife adapted the little baby but on the other hand the boy killed the people. Is it right to kill someone for their own security?
I also passed through a war. I saw people trying to get peace and they succeeded so the war ended. But still because of the giant Bear, the peace wasn't there. As people tried to cross to go to the other village, the could not return back because they were eaten by the giant Bear. The boy whom everyone made fun of and called him Swift Runner ("even though no one had ever seen him run and it was thought that he was weak and lazy"). He was the only brave boy who went forward and took the wampum that symbolized him to go to the forest and be brave enough to come back as well. Without hesitating, Swift Runner went there, found the giant Bear, solved the whole problem and finally came back bringing peace and all the other villagers. He also proved that he was the bravest amongst all and later he used the tooth of the Bear that he had brought with him to cure the villagers.
I was thinking about this but as I travelled further on, I witnessed many other crimes.
I came to meet with a boy who was really careless, and had no respect towards anyone. He never listened to anyone neither his parents. He couldn't be left alone anywhere for even a minutes or everything would be destroyed. He pushed other people and didn't follow any customs/traditions available in his culture.
Then I decided to move to the Southeast but it wasn't very different there. It was of course better than the Northwest and there were a little less crimes. However, I learned a lot about why some things in our nature are the way they are.
Firstly I went to the foot of the Looking-Glass Mountain and there lived a hunter named Kanati with his two sons. Everyday Kanati would go out to hunt for a "game" (animal). Since his name meant "the lucky one", therefore he always was successful and brought something for his sons to eat. First boy and Inage Itasuhi were the names of his two sons. "Inage', whose name meant 'The Boy Who Grew Up Wild', was always getting himself and his brother into trouble."
"Each day, Inage would ask his father to talk them with him but his father would always say that you are not yet old enough to hunt." But one morning, Inage decided that he would take his brother and go for hunt. They would follow Kanati and figure out how to hunt. So the both brothers followed Kanati to the side of the Looking-glass Mountain where a big stone was hiding something behind it. Kanati rolled away the bog stone from the mouth of the cave and suddenly a big deer came running out. Raising the bow and shutting at the deer, Kanati killed the deer. Finally he rolled the stone in front of the cave and headed back home.
Inage said "If we want to be men, then we must do as our father did." And they both came up to the side of the mountain collecting all the materials they needed. Together they rolled the stone and a deer came running. They weren't able to kill it but they shot at its tail, knocking it straight up. They made this into a game and left the cave open trying to aim at the different types of animals coming out of the cave. Soon the animals started running faster making the boys scared and afraid. Sooner many types of birds, rabbits, raccoons, all the animals ran free out of the cave.
When their father heard the noise of something, he ran back to the mountain and saw that his sons have freed all the animals. He punished the two boys by saying that "it will no longer be easy for a hunter to any from now. No longer can we be sure that we will bring a prey home."
Kanati's sons made everything so hard for every hunter in the world even now a days. Thinking of what punishment should the two sons have got, I moved forward.
There I came to meet with the reality of how the lightning and thunder came and how they used their power to kill and defeat all the bad powers in and around their village. Then the two boys, Lightning and Thunder, when their parents died, decided to go and live up in the sky.
I saw many crimes but not all could be described as crimes. On one hand, some were done for the benefit of others but on the other hand, some were done just for fun.
Crimes are crimes and the suspect should get punished for his deeds. Therefore, I request you to help me and others to end crimes in our world!
All the evidence and other crimes are reported in the book named "Flying with the Eagle, Racing the Great Bear" told by Joseph Bruchac.
I, Akanksha Sharma work in a traveling agency as an officer. I work in the Native North Americans agency where I need to travel a lot around the US. In 1993, I went in to see the culture and traditions of the native Americans and without regretting, I have been the witness for many different crimes. First I headed towards the Northeast part where "it was the custom for a boy who reached a certain age to go into the forest and wait for a dream. pg-3" He would have to build his own house and "go without food for many days" hoping he would be visited by some animals or spirit of the forest that would take pity on him and give guidance and power.
A boy named Opichi was at the age where his father eagerly insisted him to go on his dream regardless of the cold snowy weather. After seven days of his father visiting him each morning asking him about his experience the night before, his parents finally decided to bring him back home. But what they found was nothing. Their son had died just because of his father wanting him to have more greater experience than the night before.
I was really shocked to see the greediness of Opichi's father for his son to have the greatest power in the whole village. But as I went to the second village, I was surprised again. I saw something really different.
A hunter called Wolverine found a little baby and a dog securing the baby. The hunter brought the baby to his wife, Fisher saying "I give you a child" and they both decide to take care of the sick and weak baby and grow him up to be a strong man. They helped him later when he grew up to find his parents and advised him. Even though he didn't find his parents but he made a new friend and also defeated the bad people on the island. However the boy didn't find his parents and returned back to his grandparents.
I don't know from which perspective to look at because on one hand, the hunter and his wife adapted the little baby but on the other hand the boy killed the people. Is it right to kill someone for their own security?
I also passed through a war. I saw people trying to get peace and they succeeded so the war ended. But still because of the giant Bear, the peace wasn't there. As people tried to cross to go to the other village, the could not return back because they were eaten by the giant Bear. The boy whom everyone made fun of and called him Swift Runner ("even though no one had ever seen him run and it was thought that he was weak and lazy"). He was the only brave boy who went forward and took the wampum that symbolized him to go to the forest and be brave enough to come back as well. Without hesitating, Swift Runner went there, found the giant Bear, solved the whole problem and finally came back bringing peace and all the other villagers. He also proved that he was the bravest amongst all and later he used the tooth of the Bear that he had brought with him to cure the villagers.
I was thinking about this but as I travelled further on, I witnessed many other crimes.
I came to meet with a boy who was really careless, and had no respect towards anyone. He never listened to anyone neither his parents. He couldn't be left alone anywhere for even a minutes or everything would be destroyed. He pushed other people and didn't follow any customs/traditions available in his culture.
Then I decided to move to the Southeast but it wasn't very different there. It was of course better than the Northwest and there were a little less crimes. However, I learned a lot about why some things in our nature are the way they are.
Firstly I went to the foot of the Looking-Glass Mountain and there lived a hunter named Kanati with his two sons. Everyday Kanati would go out to hunt for a "game" (animal). Since his name meant "the lucky one", therefore he always was successful and brought something for his sons to eat. First boy and Inage Itasuhi were the names of his two sons. "Inage', whose name meant 'The Boy Who Grew Up Wild', was always getting himself and his brother into trouble."
"Each day, Inage would ask his father to talk them with him but his father would always say that you are not yet old enough to hunt." But one morning, Inage decided that he would take his brother and go for hunt. They would follow Kanati and figure out how to hunt. So the both brothers followed Kanati to the side of the Looking-glass Mountain where a big stone was hiding something behind it. Kanati rolled away the bog stone from the mouth of the cave and suddenly a big deer came running out. Raising the bow and shutting at the deer, Kanati killed the deer. Finally he rolled the stone in front of the cave and headed back home.
Inage said "If we want to be men, then we must do as our father did." And they both came up to the side of the mountain collecting all the materials they needed. Together they rolled the stone and a deer came running. They weren't able to kill it but they shot at its tail, knocking it straight up. They made this into a game and left the cave open trying to aim at the different types of animals coming out of the cave. Soon the animals started running faster making the boys scared and afraid. Sooner many types of birds, rabbits, raccoons, all the animals ran free out of the cave.
When their father heard the noise of something, he ran back to the mountain and saw that his sons have freed all the animals. He punished the two boys by saying that "it will no longer be easy for a hunter to any from now. No longer can we be sure that we will bring a prey home."
Kanati's sons made everything so hard for every hunter in the world even now a days. Thinking of what punishment should the two sons have got, I moved forward.
There I came to meet with the reality of how the lightning and thunder came and how they used their power to kill and defeat all the bad powers in and around their village. Then the two boys, Lightning and Thunder, when their parents died, decided to go and live up in the sky.
I saw many crimes but not all could be described as crimes. On one hand, some were done for the benefit of others but on the other hand, some were done just for fun.
Crimes are crimes and the suspect should get punished for his deeds. Therefore, I request you to help me and others to end crimes in our world!
All the evidence and other crimes are reported in the book named "Flying with the Eagle, Racing the Great Bear" told by Joseph Bruchac.
