So, this one was a lot... most of these were quite different in terms of theme and what the story contained. They were all quite jarring to me, but interesting. The storytelling here is definitely unique.
Grizzly Bear and Doe share the same husband and they are just doing little chores. They decide to go down to the river to "leach the meal." While they are waiting for this to happen, they decide to search each other's heads for lice, like good friends do, I guess. Grizzly has none, but when it's Doe's turn, Grizzly sprinkles sand on her neck and tells her that she does. She, uh, then she bites her head off. She then takes Doe's acorn meal... I don't get it. They share the same husband. Wouldn't they share resources too? It's not like she'd benefit from Doe having more?? Anyway, she puts her head in the fireplace and it's really just horrible.
The Doe's kids heard her mother say that they wouldn't be permitted to live long, or maybe she told Bear's kids? It wasn't super clear. The ending doesn't make sense. I did not understand... the whole, "you're eating your children's hands" thing? Anyway, the kids give her dead skunks and Grizzly is being taunted so the kids run away to the river and cross over Crane's neck. When Grizzly gets there, Crane lets her cross and then dumps her in the water and she floats away.
What I think happened was that, obviously people knew that she killed someone and now she had a reputation or something. It didn't seem like she was doing anything wrong there until she chased the kids, but I would want to rewrite this differently. I think it might be interesting to see what happened if Bear never killed Doe or why she did it in the first place.
A whitetail doe (Wikimedia Commons)
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