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    Kateri's Monster Tales: Based on Haudenosaunee Folktales
    Kateri's Monster Tales: Based on Haudenosaunee Folktales
    Kateri's Monster Tales: Based on Haudenosaunee Folktales
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    Kateri's Monster Tales: Based on Haudenosaunee Folktales

    By Cathy Smith

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    How would Haudenosaunee Monsters operate in the modern world? See for yourself in these three monster tales:

     

    The Snakes are on the warpath when Patrick Burning takes on the forbidden name Jitkwa:e, and breaks the terms of a truce established in the Seneca's "Battle of the Snakes".

     

    Rez kids, Jason and Allan, stay up until midnight despite being warned the Hand doesn't like seeing Haudenosaunee kids out at night and will slap them.

     

    The evil possessed doll Colette meets her match in Lady Snapping Turtles's clan of cornhusk dolls when she commits an "act of war".

     

    These three stories prove the Haudenosaunee Monsters medicine is still potent.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCathy Smith
    Release dateFeb 22, 2019
    ISBN9781386755388
    Kateri's Monster Tales: Based on Haudenosaunee Folktales
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    Cathy Smith

    Cathy Smith is a Mohawk writer who lives on a Status Reservation on the Canadian Side of the Border on Turtle Island (North America). She is proud of her people’s heritage and also has an interest in the myths and legends of other peoples and cultures, and modern fantasy and science fiction, which is often derived from past myths and often acts as myths for modern times.

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      Kateri's Monster Tales - Cathy Smith

      Jitkwa:e vs the Snakes

      PATRICK BURNING'S VISITS to his grandfather, Totah, was a duty to both his family and his culture. Mom would've stayed in the Bush if she didn't need to leave it to find work. Every summer he went to Totah's place to learn about his people's traditions. Now she wanted him to get an Indian name at the Green Corn Ceremony.

      Going back to the Bush was like visiting a parallel universe. One that could turn hostile if you offended an obscure custom you were unaware of. He found this out when he once said Seneca was his tribe, instead of his nation. He still said tribe among his non-native friends and had to say nation on the Rez.

      If his family cared about his name so much why did they put Patrick Burning on his birth certificate 15 years ago? Maybe he should let the Faith Keepers give him whatever name they wanted? He feared that the Indian name would have a dorky English translation. Maybe they'd take suggestions? So, he googled possible Seneca names for himself.

      His conversation about it with Totah hadn't been encouraging. It will be in our native tongue and have a special meaning.

      Oh—well I hope it’ll have a cool meaning then. Maybe Othagwenda? It has a meaning that's cool and easy to remember, 'Flint.'

      You will NOT be named ‘Othagwenda ’. Totah grimaced.

      Patrick’s brows came together when he saw Totah frown. What’s wrong with ‘Othagwenda ’?

      One of the Bad Twin’s names is ‘Othagwenda ’. He’s not as bad as the white man’s Devil, but he’s not someone I want you named after. You won’t be ‘Othagwenda,'

      Another Google search brought vocabulary lists of Seneca words. Nothing caught his eye. In his desperation he clicked one search result about The Battle of the Snakes: A Seneca Legend.:

      Jitkwa:e hated snakes so much that he'd burn any snake he found alive and tortured them to death.

      The snakes became so angry they convened a war council and declared a war on Jitkwa:e's village. When they swarmed the village. The villagers built a fire along their barricades to scare them away. The snakes slithered over the fire. Snakes at the bottom of the pyre died, but smothered the fire. The living snakes were so intent on the battle they crawled over their fallen brothers.

      The poisonous vipers found and converged on Jitkwa: e and bit him to death. He died howling in agony as the poisons ate through his body.

      His screams pleased the Chief of the Snakes. He felt so generous he offered to end the hostilities with the villagers. However, they had to agree to never name a man in their tribe Jitkwa:e again.

      The village agreed to the terms of this treaty, and that's why the name Jitkwa:e is forbidden among the Seneca.

      Patrick gasped. He found his Indian name! He texted it to all of his friends and changed all of his online avatars to read Jitkwa:e with

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