Reading Notes, Week 2, Part B, About The House Girl & Coyote Cooks His Daughter

About The House Girl and Coyote Cooks His Daughter

-"Karok"
-Patapir liked playing his flute along the water
-Ifapi lived far up river
-Ifapi was shy and would hide from men that came to the house
-never seen in the village
-Patapir saw two young girls he was attracted to across the river
-he canoed over to them
-Patapir got seaweed from the old lady up the hill, Ifapi didn't say anything to him
-Patapir met the two girls that night
-Patapir climbed into a boat with two random guys and headed down river to the "dancing"
-Patapir ran into Ifapi at the night event
-the next day he went back for seaweed from the old women
-he once again saw Ifapi in the house
-this time he approached her and grabbed her shoulder
-the old lady got mad and yelled at him
-Patapir did not care and continued holding Ifapi
-Patapir took Ifapi away from her home and married her that night
-Patapir took Ifapi downstream where they met up with her father
-they both talked to her father, and the father was very grateful for the girl Patapir had gotten him
-Patapir and Ifapi went out to sea
-we found out why Patapir had named Ifapi "about the house girl"
-the Coyote Cooks His Daughter was a unique writing

Author: Jack Hicks, James D. Houston, Maxine Hong Kingston, Al Young
Title: "The Literature of California", About the house Girl & Coyote cooks his Daughter pages 35-55