Why the Deer's Teeth Are Blunt

A Cherokee story · Southern Appalachians; today Oklahoma and North Carolina · 2:22

A still from the film Why the Deer's Teeth Are Blunt
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Still sore about losing the race for the horns, Rabbit shows the Deer how he can bite through a grapevine in one leap, after secretly gnawing it first. Then he offers to sharpen the Deer's teeth, and files them down almost to the gums. Ever since, the Deer can only eat grass and leaves.

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