Week 11 Reading Notes pt. B- American Indian Tales

I am focusing my notes on The Fairy Bride, which is the last story in the American Indian Tales section of the readings. I chose to focus my notes on this story because I thought it was a neat story and it was based on Lake Superior, which my family has visited many times. I am doing a regular note-taking style.

There was an Indian girl whose father was the chief

her parents cared for her and protected her greatly, they never wanted bad things to happen to their only daughter.

the daughter saw many interesting things when she went off exploring on her own, but no one really knew what she saw.

the mother wanted her daughter to stop being so adventurous and to settle down and get married.

There was a place that the fairies lived and danced and played, and it so happened to be somewhere that the daughter liked to go.

no one could ever see them, though some fishermen heard them and saw the fairies' footprints.
the fairies would often play pranks on other people
the daughter thought these fairies were actually nice and she dreamed that they lived in happy places without pain or hurt.

In her dreams, the daughter spent time in the happy land.
She did not want to marry a hunter like her mother wanted her to.
The daughter looked like a fairy; she was short but graceful and very small and elegant.
She had an arranged marriage to a man she did not like and did not want to get married to.

she looked beautiful and like a fairy on her arranged wedding day.

the bride ran away from the wedding and no one could find her, even the groom who searched for her for the entire next day.

the groom's dog acted more scared than it ever had.

the daughter found the fairies and ended up marrying one of them, yay!

The Fairy Bride

Bibliography: American Indian Fairy Tales by W.T. Larned, with illustrations by John Rae (1921)

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