Omàmiwininiwak · Algonquin
Why the bear’s tail is short
A winter joke with a bill. The shortcut asks for a handsome tail and the ice keeps it.
In many nations these are winter stories — aadizookaanan — told when the snow is down and the thunder beings are resting. If that is your protocol, wait. This page will still be here.
Winter. Ice on the lake. was hungry again. In the stories he often is, because hunger makes a person inventive and also foolish, and he is both. He met a bear who, in those days, still had a long and handsome tail.
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