Week 10 Reading Diary: Old-Woman-Who-Never-Dies

Old-Woman-Who-Never-Dies is a story from Great Plains unit. 

Old-Woman-Who-Never-Dies lives in the moon and she has six children. Every spring she sends the wild geese, swans, and the ducks that enable the Indians to eat.so when she ends the wild geese, the Indians plant their corn and Old-Woman-Who-Never-Dies makes it grow. When eleven wild geese are found together, the Indians know the corn crop will be very large. The swans mean that the Indians must plant gourds; the ducks, that they must plant beans

The Old-Woman-Who-Never-Dies lived near the little Missouri and sometimes the Indians visited her.

Little Missouri, North Dakota

I think I can write a story like this by making all the people believe in something can do everything for them.

Story source: Myths and Legends of the Great Plains by Katharine Berry Judson (1913).