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Podcast: A Literary Cornucopia
Episode: Episode 42: An Original American Indian Tale - The Wise Old Woman and the Young Mother
Description: They say as you grow older you become wiser. Â I'm not so sure about that. In this tale, an old woman instructs a young mother who is desperate for help with her children. Whether her solution was wise or not is up to the listener to decide. My students had mixed reactions to the tale.Â