Week 1 Lab: Storybook Research for Story 3

Background on the Mi'kmaq Tribe: The Canadian Encyclopedia

• Among the original residents of the coastal Atlantic Provinces of Canada
• Presently located in Nova Scotia and New Brunswick, with a significant presence in Québec, Newfoundland, Maine and the Boston area
• Relied on environmental resources, using everything from shellfish to sea mammals to land mammals small and large for nutrition, clothing, dwellings and tools, as well as timber of the region to construct canoes, snowshoes and shelters in combination with animal skins and sinews

Inspiration for Story 3: The Bird whose Wings Made the Wind

• Introduces an Indian family that lives near a seashore with two sons
• The oldest son is married and also has a family with children
• The family lived by fishing and they enjoyed catching/eating eels
• At one point, storms took over the seashore and made fishing impossible until they began to starve
• The family was so desperate that the oldest father told his sons to walk along the shore and try to find any fish that may have washed up
• The youngest son walked until he reached a point where the wind was blowing so hard that he could not walk anymore and noticed the storm-king, a large bird, at the end of a rocky point flapping his wings ferociously and causing the winds
• Seeing this, the boy decided to trick the storm-king by calling and asking if he was old so that he could "help" the bird back to shore to warm up
• While the boy was carrying the storm-king on his back, he "accidentally" tripped on a rock, which caused him to drop the bird so its wing broke
• The boy apologized, set the bird's bone, and bound up his wing then told him to stay there and remain calm so that his wing would heal and he could bring him food later
• The storm-king's wing being broken stopped all wind from blowing, allowing for easy fishing for the family, but also causing the water to get scummy/hard to see through after a few days which prevented eel-spearing
• To fix this issue, the storm-king was visited again and told that his wing was healed enough to move, but only in a steady and gentle motion, which promoted just enough wind to rid the scum in the water, but not so much that the family was unable to fish

Helpful photographs for banner:

Picture of rough seas. Source: Link.

Large waves along a rocky shore by Circe Denyer. Source: Link.

Rough seas with birds along shore by Keith Midson. Source: Link.