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| Listen to and watch animated versions
of three different Arapaho tall tales (requires Flash Player).
They are called "believe it or not" tales in Arapaho
because they always end with that phrase. See if you believe
them or not. |
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The
man who went hunting for two deer.
By
Riley Evans, Univ. of Colorado
The man who hunted with a telescope.
By
Michelle
Preston, Univ. of Colorado
The man who tried to jump the canyon.
By Tony Bednar, Univ.
of Colorado
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| Many Arapaho tall tales of this sort involve modern
technology: one tale tells of a man with a double-barrelled shot
gun. He saw two deer standing in two different directions, so he
bent the two barrels of the shotgun in those two different directions,
pulled the trigger, and got both deer. |
| Another tells of a time when an airplane ran out
of gas. They stopped, sent someone down to a service station, and
he came back up with a can of gas so they could go on. |
Can you make up your own tall tale like this?
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