{"id":21840,"date":"2022-08-02T18:45:45","date_gmt":"2022-08-02T18:45:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/?page_id=21840"},"modified":"2022-08-02T18:49:18","modified_gmt":"2022-08-02T18:49:18","slug":"conte-lakota-bashful-courtship","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/en\/sioux-mythology-lakota-dakota-nakota\/lakota-bashful-courtship-tale\/","title":{"rendered":"Lakota Story: Bashful Courtship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/en\/sioux-mythology-lakota-dakota-nakota\/\" role=\"button\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\tSioux mythology<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.firstpeople.us\/FP-Html-Legends\/ABashfulCourtship-Lakota.html\" role=\"button\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\tWiki<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Lakota<\/strong> or Titunwans (&quot;people of the prairie&quot;) or Tetons in English (traditional Dakota\/Wyoming territory) originally constituted one of the seven fires of the council. Here is their tale: a Bashful Courtship.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/cropped-AlphaOmega-e1602613368367.png\" alt=\"a Bashful Courtship\" width=\"25\" height=\"25\" title=\"\"><\/p>\n<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-grey ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<div class=\"ez-toc-title-container\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Contents<\/p>\n<span class=\"ez-toc-title-toggle\"><a href=\"#\" class=\"ez-toc-pull-right ez-toc-btn ez-toc-btn-xs ez-toc-btn-default ez-toc-toggle\" aria-label=\"Toggle Table of Content\"><span class=\"ez-toc-js-icon-con\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewbox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewbox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseprofile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/en\/sioux-mythology-lakota-dakota-nakota\/lakota-bashful-courtship-tale\/#A-Bashful-Courtship\" >A Bashful Courtship<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"A-Bashful-Courtship\"><\/span>A Bashful Courtship<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>A young man lived with his grandmother. He was a good hunter and<br \/>wished to marry. He knew a girl who was a good moccasin maker, but<br \/>she belonged to a great family. He wondered how he could win her.<\/p>\n<p>One day she passed the tent on her way to get water at the river.<br \/>His grandmother was at work in the tepee with a pair of old worn-out<br \/>sloppy moccasins. The young man springs to his feet. \u201cQuick,<br \/>grandmother! Let me have those old sloppy moccasins you have on your feet! \u00bb he cried.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy old moccasins, what do you want of them? \u00bb cried the astonished woman.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNever mind!\u201d Quick! I can&#039;t stop talking,&quot; answered the<br \/>grandson as he caught up the old moccasins the old lady had doffed,<br \/>and put them on. He threw a robe over his shoulders, slipped through<br \/>the door, and hastened to the watering place. The girl had just arrived with her bucket.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLet me fill your bucket for you,\u201d said the young man.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOh, no, I can do it,\u201d the girl said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOh, let me, I can go in the mud. You surely don&#039;t want to<br \/>soil your moccasins,\u201d and taking the bucket he slipped in the<br \/>mud, taking care to push his sloppy old moccasins out so the girl<br \/>could see them. She giggled outright.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy, what old moccasins you have!\u201d \u00bb she cried.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes, I have nobody to make me a new pair,\u201d he answered.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhy don\u2019t you get your grandmother to make you a new pair? \u00bb she asked.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe&#039;s old and blind and can&#039;t make them any longer. That&#039;s<br \/>why I want you,\u201d he answered.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOh, you&#039;re fooling me. You aren&#039;t speaking the truth,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes, I am. If you don&#039;t believe\u2013come with me now! \u00bb said the man.<\/p>\n<p>The girl looked down; so did the youth. At last he said gently,<br \/>\u201cWell, which one is it?\u201d Shall I take up your bucket, or will you go with me? \u00bb<\/p>\n<p>And she answered, still more gently, \u201cI guess I&#039;ll go with you!\u201d \u00bb<\/p>\n<p>The girl&#039;s aunt came down to the river, wondering what kept her<br \/>niece so long. In the mud she found two pairs of moccasin tracks<br \/>close together; at the edge of the water stood an empty keg.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sioux Mythology Wiki The Lakotas or Titunwans (\u201cprairie people\u201d) or Tetons in English (traditional Dakota\/Wyoming territory) constituted \u2026 <\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":3889,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-21840","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/21840","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21840"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/21840\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21850,"href":"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/21840\/revisions\/21850"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3889"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}