The Race Between the Crane and the Hummingbird

A Cherokee story · Southern Appalachians; today Oklahoma and North Carolina · 2:19

A still from the film The Race Between the Crane and the Hummingbird
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Hummingbird and Crane both love the same woman, and she promises to marry whoever wins a race around the world. Hummingbird is swift but stops to sleep; Crane is slow but flies all night, and wins by a full night's travel. She still will not marry him, and stays single.

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