Essay on Native American Trickster Stories

Lee A. Zito
The Native American Trickster stories were definitely not what I expected them to be. I expected something along the lines of Aesop's Fables, but these particular trickster stories were somewhat different from the usual trickster tale I was taught in grade school. The stories to our culture are very immature, vulgar, and immoral. But I could see the same story being played out on an episode of The Simpson's, or Beavis and Butthead.
For the Native Americans these stories were a form of orally told entertainment. As obscene as they get, the Native Americans found them quite amu…