The Rabbit and the Bear with the Flint Body

A Sioux (Lakota and Dakota) story · Northern Plains: the Dakotas · 3:02

A still from the film The Rabbit and the Bear with the Flint Body
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Rabbit needs arrowheads before the autumn hunt, and in those days all the flint in the world was in the body of the old bear chief. The bear lets Rabbit chip off a flake, and keeps asking for bigger pieces until his body breaks in two. Rabbit calls up a snowstorm and escapes over the drifts.

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