I really enjoyed the story about Shin-Ge-Bis (I am going to call him Shin for short) and the North Wind. I thought it was cowardly for Shin's friends to leave him outside during winter by himself because they were scared of the North Wind. Luckily, Shin had a great attitude about defeating the North Wind. He was able to live for several moons (the Native American way of telling time) on his own. Shin was also able to catch fish even though the ground was frozen solid. The North Wind was not happy that Shin stuck around though, and devised a plan to get rid of him. The North Wind attempted to blow out Shin's fire and freeze him, but he ended up creating a snow covering on the place that Shin was staying to allow him to be warmer and Shin laughed at the foolish North Wind. The North Wind very upset at this point challenges Shin to come outside and battle with him. Shin comes outside and they tussle with each other until eventually Shin beats the North Wind. I thought this story was really cool. I really liked the bravery of Shin, and a possible storytelling post I could set out to tell is to make him a hero of some sort to save his family or village. I think that would be really cool.
Here is the link to the Indian Fairy Tales.
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