Boy And Bear

McCord, Kathleen. “Boy and Bear.” Drawings. Bookmakers LDT. 11 November 2008.

Grizzly and His Ward (Native American Myth)

The myth about the “Grizzly and His Ward” is associated to the Assiniboine tribe. In other words the tribe of people went hunting and they sent this boy out to get meat? He immediately left them to go get some. Unfortunately, he got lost. While he was lost a bear found him and took the lost boy into his care. The boy would eat berries with the bear. Even though he was a boy he lived like a bear did. For this reason he became very close to this bear. The lost boy lived with the bear for several consecutive days and in the same way as a bear he hibernated through the winter. Afterward the bear knew that the people were coming to get the bears fur and the bear also heard them. So the bear hid the boy to keep him safe. Meanwhile they group of people were coming into the cave and killed the bear. The boy screamed in terror because he loved that bear. As a result of the boys scream his dad had found his lost son.


“The Buffaloes Ward.” Indian Mythology. Indian Mythology. 1909. 9 November 2008.