Interview · North Dakota · Dennis Fox Jr.
Themes: Storytelling & oral tradition
New transcript-based questions created with AI assistance using Scott Simpson’s Learn About and Learn From guide.
Learn About questions
1. How does Dennis Fox Jr. describe Coyote's behavior in the stories?
2. What role does laughter play in those accounts?
3. What seasonal time does he identify for telling the stories?
Learn From questions
1. What can a humorous story help me notice about self-serving behavior?
2. How do I respect a storyteller's guidance about when and how a story should be shared?
3. When have I learned something important through laughter rather than direct advice?
Transcripts
06 Dennis Fox Jr Trickster Coyote
Watch this interview on YouTubeYeah there’s a lot of stories about coyote and how he manipulates different situations for his benefit and that a lot of those stories are end up laughing about because coyotes quite the trickster and he can really take a situation and turn it for his own benefit and make everybody laugh while doing it and I know it was the time to tell the stories is now when you’re telling stories you start from the from after the harvest to the when the Sun starts going back they say in so now is the time to tell stories but I’m not a really good storyteller myself and so but the next guy coming in at Kevin he’s really a good storyteller that guy so I’ll leave that at the end
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