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UNIT 1 Myth 2 In the morning, Wunzhs father came to him with food, my son, he said you have fasted long. It is seven days since you have tasted food. I think you’d better not sacrifice your life. The Master of Life does not require that. My father, replied the boy, wait until the sun goes down tomorrow. For a certain reason, I wish to fast until that hour. Very well, said the father, I shall wait until the time arrives when you are willing to eat. and he went away. The next day at the usual hour, the sky stranger came again. Though Wunzh had fasted seven days, he felt a new power arise within him. He grasped the stranger with superhuman strength and threw him down. He took from him his beautiful garments and finding him dead. Wunzh buried him in the softened earth and did all else as he had been directed. He then returned to his fathers lodge and partook sparingly of food there. He abode for some time. He never forgot the grave of his friend. Daily, he visited it and pulled up the weeds and grass and kept the earth soft and moist. Very soon to his great wonder he saw the tops of green plumes coming through the ground. Weeks passed by, the summer was drawing to a close. One day Wunzh asked his father to follow him there. In the place where the stranger had been buried, stood a tall and graceful plant with bright-colored silken hair and crowned by nodding green plumes. Its stalk was covered with waving leaves and there grew from its sides clusters of milk-filled ears of corn golden and sweet each ear closely wrapped in its green husks. It is my friend shouted the boy joyously, it is Mondawmin, the Indian Corn We need no longer depend on hunting so long as this gift is planted and cared for the Great Spirit has heard my voice and has sent us this food. Then the whole family feasted on the ears of corn and thanked the Great Spirit who gave it. So Indian Corn came into the world. Adapted from: Henry Scoolcraft. 1999. http:www.apples4theteacher.comholidaysthanksgivingshort- storieshow-indian-corn-came-into-the-world.html