Compare Black Elk Speaks to Ikto Conquers Iya, the Eater

The story Ikto Conquers Iya, the Eater is about two brother spirits, or supernatural entities, in the story Ikto comes across his younger brother Iya on his way to devour another tribal village. Ikto then has an idea to save this village, when Iya sleeps Ikto sees in Iya's belly all the villages he has eaten living in Iya and Ikto comes up with a plan to save them as well. When the duo is nearing the village Ikto asks Iya what he fears most which for Iya as the sounds of rattle, drums, and owls hooting. So, As they get closer to the village Ikto says he will go on a had when he arrives at the village before Iya he warns the villagers and rallies them to go attack Iya with drum and rattles. They sneak up on Iya and charge him and kill him and for the next day they release all the villages trapped with in him. And that is how the people moved to the continent, form what I understand. In Black Elk Speaks the leaders of the tribes have a vision and are told to preform a ghost dance with red paint and two eagle feathers. Once they have completed this ghost dance the two eagle feather were said to show the tribe they way to being all their people together, in this way Black Elk Speaks in similar to Ikto Conquers Iya, the Eater as at the end of Ikto vs. Iya all the tribes are brought together as well.

Black Elk on the topic of ancestors

There are many points within the book Black Elk Speaks where he talks of his grandfathers meaning his ancestors. In chapter three Black Elk becomes very sick and he has a vision. In this vision two men descended from the sky carrying flaming spears and told Black Elk "Hurry! Come! Your Grandfathers are calling you!" As Black Elk and the men ascended they came upon a bay horse which took Black Elk to his Grandfathers. After the vision showed him some super natural horses, with manes made of lighting, blizzard winds, and vines, Black Elk came across a tepee made of clouds with rainbow door and within it were six old men sitting in a row. As they spoke to him they gave him the power of life and the power to destroy in the form of a wooden cup filled with water and a great bow respectively. They told him to take these things and his courage because "on earth a nation you shall make live, for yours shall be the power of the white giant's wings, the cleansing wind." Basically his ancestors are telling him that he will be the one to help his people. Then in chapter 21 Black Elk remembers the times that he talked to his ancestors and what they wanted him to do, to bring his people back into the great hoop. For many native american tribes their ancestors are the people they look to for guidance and to see what they should do next, they are of great impotence to most ever native tribe.

Post #5 Resources

Ethan Frankfort
Dr. Pack
Tales in Folklore
March 4th, 2017

Work Cited 

Frankfort, William. personal interview. 4 March 2017.

Frankfort, William D. William "Wild Willy" Frankfort . Digital image. Powder Horns and Friends . Wordpress, 14 June 2012. Web. 4 Mar. 2017.

Lucas, Scott. Painting of the signing of the Declaration of Independence. Digital image. SanFrancisco magazine . SanFrancisco magazine , 9 Sept. 2013. Web. 4 Mar. 2017.

Frankfort, William. Personal Photograph. Three Horns. June 2012. 

Post #4 folklore and occupation.

I asked my dad for an example of folklore that impacted his life. He answered with the big scary things that would get you if you went into the woods by yourself. That kind of thing scared him until he got older and understood that it was just his mom not wanting him to go out alone, he also used that on use when my brother and I were young too. No tall tales or anything like that impacted his life because he had to grow up rather quickly and gain an understanding of the world. When I asked my father is occupation I thought he would give me a list of all the things that he has done over the years but he just told me that he was an artist. One of the big things he does though is he makes historic reproductions of tools, art and other objects for around the 16th and 17th century. I also brought up his job as a historical reenactor but he didn’t go into to much detail about that. When I asked him how his many jobs as an artist made an impact on his life he answered that it just made him a better artist and when he attributed it to making reproductions he said he had a distinct set of rules he had to follow to make sure that the piece was historically correct but still pleasing to look at. When I brought up the same question about reenacting he said it had taught him that he would rather do the hard work by hand rather than let machines do it for him. He used the example of he’d rather did a big hole himself then have a backhoe do it for him.
                                                        This is some of my dads work

Post #3 Important points in life

One of the most important point in my father childhood, that he thought was most important, was when he had is first allergen test and he found out he wasn’t allergic to anything outside, he is allergic to shellfish though, and he was so excited to go outside and play because that is all he had to do. When my dad was growing up he didn’t have much so being outside was the way he would play. So, that negative allergy test was an important moment because it showed that he had the freedom to do what he wanted. My father said that historical events really didn’t impact him that much because he has had a really good grasp of what’s going on in the world. Two events, though, did make an impression on him. The first was the anniversary of American in 1976, he was 16 at the time. The second would be 9/11, all he said was that it made him mad.These events really haven’t changed my father’s view on anything, he said he understood the how the world worked. Personally as his son I could say that’s not entirely true.                            
                                                                                            1776, when the constitution was signed

Post #2 When and where

Sadly the interview with my father couldn't happen face to face. So, I called my father at around 5 pm on March 4th, 2017. He had recently returned to his hotel room, he is at a show for the Horners Guild, and i asked him a few questions he was happy to answer.

My father, William Frankfort or Wild Willy if you were friends with him, was born in Waukegan Illinois, which I didn’t know, but shortly after he was born he and my grandmother and grandfather moved to Pittsburgh PA. Being born in Waukegan really didn’t really change my father view of the world because he was just a baby when he left and his mother and father, may grandparents moved to Pennsylvania. His only view of the world was from Pennsylvania and where he grew up, he played in the woods growing up and that what it was like to him. They didn’t have the money for vacations or anything like that so he never really left. He said meeting people from other places, like Ohio, was his only view into the work and from what he knew it wasn’t all that different. My dad grew up, first, in middle class American culture. Then as he grew up him and his family, I believe just consisting of his mother and two sister, dropped down into lower class American culture. My grandfather at the time was deployed as a marine. He told me that he had a few shirts, three pairs, and a pair of shoes and that’s all he had until he went into high school. How the culture that my father was brought up in changed his view by teaching him to appreciate things more because of how he dropped in social class and how little he had. That’s something important that he has passed on to my brother and I, though sometimes we don’t always follow it.
                                                                                                       This is him...with a few less wrinkles