Legend of Corn :: Free Essays

Chippewa is a little(a) Native American group live up north. Their whole biography of living is base on raising corn, hunting, fishing and tobacco is ego entertainment. One day, they found a baby near the shore following to the canoe they dont realize where the baby deduces from but the unspoiled-will heart run in their blood, they decide to raise the baby. They also believe, in order to raise to a fine young man, everyone in the settlement must look after him, teach him how to be one good man. They gave the baby to grandma, and also his mother, as the primarily be on his side. Zhomin, the unexampled baby, they teach him how to swim, how to hunt animal, how to be a fisherman, paddle the canoe, buy up your stray and learn from it, listen to the elder. The boy did everything as his elder tell him too. At night he always begs his mother tell story, he wants to enjoy everything. As day gone by, the boy grow to be a man, his mother now is too old, she dying. His mother belie f in eerie and she is a sacred person, not just an ordinary mother, she knows what will clear in the future, like all other elders in the colonisation they know something that most people dont. Before she dies she told Zhomin, an outsider will come to this village and look for you, you will do what he wants you to do, never reject. An outsider, Mandabin comes to the village to look for hero in the village to challenge. Zhomin must meets his destiny, must accept Mandabin challenge, thats his mother moral code. They fight night by nights, at last, Mandabin has come to his last breath, he told Zhomin bury him next to his mother as his final request. Zhomin buried Mandabin next to his mother and accept Mandabin as his friend, he light the fires up four days and nights to pray his friend.