Trickstar+Story

Their are many Native American values that are expressed in the coyaote stories. These stories the natives make up are made for the people to help teach lessons and show what they meant for spiritual reasons. Native Americans often use their animals in the stories as spiritual symbols for how the cycle of life is. The purpose for folktales to the Native American is that it gives them a sense of direction and give them something to believe in. I think these folktales are a great tribute and is known to teach lessons. The story, "Coyote and the Buffalo" teaches important lessons.The lessons this specific story is trying to get across is that you should listen to direction and not be to gulliable.In this story the coyote face the same problem of not listening. In the story the the the buffalo gave the coyote a cow he could could feed on as long as he dont get to greedy and kill her.This story wouldn't be a trickstar story if a lesson was taught. The coyote didn't listen and ain't the cow. The coyote was also gulliable because a wowan asked him to let her cook for him and the coyote believe her then the lady ran off with the coyote bones. Their was a great lesson to be taught in this story. The story, "Coyote and Fox and Whale" teaches important lessons. The lesson that was tought in this story is you shouldn't give up on love.In this story the fox found out that his girl was cheating on him. Instead of giving up on his, love of his life. In this folktales some of these animals do so magical things for example the fox first saw the whale, the whale turned to a human. That still didn't stop the fox from going to get his love back. The fox took his brother coyate and that went always to where the whale stayed and he found his love. When the fox got their after all that hard work him and his girl and the fox left when he got her. The fox and his girl ended up staying together. There was a great lesson to be learned from this story. The Native Americans was very spirutal and, the storys as we today might consider a folktale is a trickster story and its use to teach the younger generation what you should do and not to do.Thats is the reson the animals in the story use personification which is something that is not human to use human traits. The animals use personification because they are expressing feelings that human have and the do the things human do. These animals symbolized the right and the wrong for the Natives American people. The trickstars story are past down generation to generation to teach lessons and i feel this is affective.