THE KIND HAWK
(Hopi)
A long time ago, in a happy Hopi village, there
lived a little boy. His mother loved
him so much that she dressed him in a pretty shirt and embroidered moccasins.
One day the boy wandered away from the village, over the plain, and a band
of fierce Navaho Indians swooped down and bore him off. They carried him to
their camp, where the squaws took his shirt and moccasins away, and gave them to
the chief's son. Then they made the boy work all day, and gave him so little to eat,
that, in a few weeks, he grew thin and sick.
Now, near the Navaho camp was a high bluff on which lived a kind-hearted
hawk. It often flew over the camp, and saw the boy working hard, and never
playing with the other children. So one day, when all the Navahos were gathered
together at the chief's lodge, the hawk flew down and hovered over the boy's head.
"Oh, do not kill me!" begged the boy.
"I am not going to hurt you," answered the hawk, "I am sorry for you. Jump
on my back, and hold on to my wings, and I'll carry you away."
The boy jumped on its back, and held on tight, and the bird flew up in the
air. It passed over the place where the Navahos were gathered, and when they saw
the boy on the back of the hawk, they were filled with rage and wonder.
The bird flew to the high bluff, and put down the boy, then it went back to
the camp. It swooped down on the chief's little son, and pulling off his embroidered
shirt, carried it to the boy. Then the hawk returned to the camp again, and taking a
pair of handsome moccasins off another boy, carried them to the bluff. The
Navahos were terribly frightened, and packing up their goods, left the place.
The hawk first dressed the boy, then fed him on rabbit-meat, and other good
things. After that it took him on its back and flew with him to his mother. Then,
without waiting to be thanked, the bird flew away again to its bluff.
The Kind Hawk
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Try to re-write the text in a modernized way in your exercise book.
Make questions to the text.
Make a painting which fits to the text. Remember that it is a Red Indian tale.
The Indians were not Christian, but had their own religion. Nature was an important part
of their beliefs. They knew that they were part of Nature.
Modern People seem to have forgotten that, and the Western world Christianized the
Indians.
What is your opinion on that?
Discuss and write down what you mean!!
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