Level 1 – Foundational Learning (Elementary) | Science & Nature | Oral Narration

How the Milky Way Came To Be retold by Barbara Shining Woman Warren Long ago when the world was young, there were not many stars in the sky. In those days the people depended on corn for their food. Dried corn could be made into corn meal by placing it in- side a large hollowed stump and pounding it with a long wooden pestle. The cornmeal was stored in large baskets. During the winter, the ground meal could be made into bread and mush. One morning an older man and his wife went to their stor- age basket for some cornmeal. They discovered that someone or something had gotten into the cornmeal dur- ing the night. This upset them very much for no one in a Cherokee village stole from someone else. Then they noticed that the cornmeal was scattered over the ground. In the middle of the spilt meal…