Weesakechahk tricks the bear

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Title:
wîsakêcâhk kâ-wayêshihâkopane maskwa - Weesakechahk tricks the bear



Speaker:
Isaiah Sutherland



Dialect:
Kashechewan Cree


Age Level: 6

Description

Weesakechahk sees a bear walking along and asks him if he can see a tent in the distance. The bear cannot and Weesakechahk advises that if he slept, his vision would improve and the bear complies. As he's sleeping, however, Weesakechahk throws a stone at his head, kills him, and begins to cook him. But because he had eaten so many berries earlier, he can't stomach eating more right away so he tries to suspend himself from a tree but the tree comes to life and traps him so that all the other animals can eat the bear until all that is left is bones. The reason, they say, that some trees are twisted is because Weesakechahk struggled against the tree and shaped it that way. Later, Weesakechahk tries to cool the grease from the bones by giving it to a beaver to dive with. In his anger, he tries to kill the beaver but a partridge startles him and he falls into the water. Now starving and having nothing to eat, Weesakechahk eats the parts of him that were burnt by the explosion.

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