hand, there is no such thing as "Native American litera- ture
While I understand what you're trying to say based on a discussion about this article earlier, I dislike your attempt at shock-value statements mainly due to you nailing it and that makes me upset.
This indicates that the Glooskap voyage meant a trip to heaven
I didn't get that from the rest of the story AT ALL. Please show me more contextual evidence to support this seemingly out-of-nowhere claim from the story you provided.
all kinds of birds for sailors
Birds as in what?
merely point at people or animals, to kill them
Which was still not explained in the context of the story, by the by.
Eskimo
Inuit.
greatly modernized and altered
Why? Perhaps in its original wording with a few notes thrown in, it would've made a hell of a lot more sense? Why take it out of historical context?
Since that time white men have come to America
Also referred to as Glooskap's Curse, or?
all woodchucks are called Molly
This would be confusing if I hadn't read that it's just a terrible pun and I love it
taken to the king
Literal kidnapping
baptized as a Catholic
How did you learn about Catholicism and why is it important to have her baptized?
there he sat smoking his stone pipe
Does the pipe make him indestructible? He said if they ever gave it away they'd starve but um. Does he just mean generically "to perish"? Does it imbue the user with special abilities? I don't?
They could not hurt the stone canoe
Makes me wonder what the stone canoe is based on - is it an odd way of saying it's a submarine or sub-marine-like vehicle? Or is it meant to have protection built on top of it to shield its occupants? How wide must this stone have been to carve a damn boat out of it? I'm so curious now
an anchor and an English flag
Colonialism symbolically "keeping you down", oppression of the new visitors seen in literal objects
told them about it
Nooooooooo why
This was before the white people had ever heard of America.
Good, keep 'em as far away as possible for as long as you can
Let the leaves alone
"Why kill trees when you can kill allll dees chickins"
he killed many seals
Why "many" this seems. Unnecessary. Unnecessary murder.
his stick at them
When did it become his? Did his mom just give it up for him? Where's that in the story? Or are we just under the assumption that, as the male, he owns all? Gendered space/ownership
He took his pipe. He piped for moose
How, though. How do you change the pitch to get what you want? I'm curious now
I have something better
"I have something better - the fruits of my potentially needless slaughter"
mother had killed many animals
For food or for fun I have questions
a deer and a qwah-beet,–a beaver
Why these animals in particular? If the "pipe" is a reference to an animal-call imitating device, what could draw such drastically different creatures as these?
Whenever you wish to kill anything
This feels like it would be a point of issue in any other story, but for some reason, I don't know if it will be here? We'll see. It sounds dangerous to just give something like that out for nothing/no reason.
he gave it to her, and said,
Sentient animals. Does this imply that the deer is also sentient? Why did it deserve death over the beaver, and who decides the value of these creature's lives?
all the animals.
Vague - does this call humans, as well? What would that imply if it did not?
She had lost a boy; she always thought of him. Once there came to her a strange boy; he called her mother.
Lost in what sense? If he disappeared, this could be her child returning to her? If so, what would this mean symbolically? If not, what might be the reason it's mentioned at all?