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The story of Coyote Races Buffalo is a tale told by Calvin Grinnell of the Mandan Hidatsa Arikara Nation. It was uploaded to YouTube.com on September 11, 2007. It's YouTube description labels it as "A cautionary tale from the oral tradition of the Mandan Hidatsa Arikara Nation." During an interview of Calvin Grinnell, he explained to me that the video was made in his spare time at his office in New Town, North Dakota. He made the video out of personal interested in producing a video version of the story, and also uses it to entertain his grandson. (Grinnell 2008)

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  • The story of Coyote Races Buffalo is a tale told by Calvin Grinnell of the Mandan Hidatsa Arikara Nation. It was uploaded to YouTube.com on September 11, 2007. It's YouTube description labels it as "A cautionary tale from the oral tradition of the Mandan Hidatsa Arikara Nation." During an interview of Calvin Grinnell, he explained to me that the video was made in his spare time at his office in New Town, North Dakota. He made the video out of personal interested in producing a video version of the story, and also uses it to entertain his grandson. (Grinnell 2008)
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  • The story of Coyote Races Buffalo is a tale told by Calvin Grinnell of the Mandan Hidatsa Arikara Nation. It was uploaded to YouTube.com on September 11, 2007. It's YouTube description labels it as "A cautionary tale from the oral tradition of the Mandan Hidatsa Arikara Nation." During an interview of Calvin Grinnell, he explained to me that the video was made in his spare time at his office in New Town, North Dakota. He made the video out of personal interested in producing a video version of the story, and also uses it to entertain his grandson. (Grinnell 2008) Mr. Grinnell explained that while this specific story may be widespread, he found this version of the story in a book of transcriptions of Mandan stories collected by professors Wesley Jones and Dr. Robert Hollow for their "Earthlodge Tales" project conducted at the University of Mary by Bismark. The stories were collected in English, Mandan, and Hidasta languages. Mr. Grinnell used his experience working at the radio station KMHA and the illustrations to create the video. The original transcription of the stories can be classified as "written oral poetry", while Mr. Grinnel's video is a "reperformance" of the original story. (Foley 2002) Although the video is not a direct artifact from the Hollow and Jones collection, Grinnell postulates that he told the story as it would have been told originally. "Adding dramatic effect is as relevant today as it was 150 plus years ago," he said in a telephone interview. Calvin Grinnell, a historian of the Mandan and Hidatsa peoples, states that the story would have been passed along as children's stories, and that the indigenous Oral Tradition used the story and similar stories to illustrate proper behavior and consequences for failing to act properly. These stories were generally told by grandparents (in some cases parents) or elders to grandchildren with a form of "transaction" occurring. The transaction consists of the child asking to be told a story, and the elder asking for a favor such as cooking a meal or doing a chore. Grinnell suggests that because the story does not come free to the children, they are more likely to remember it, and in essence remember the spirit of their elder through the story. (Grinnell 2008) See Source:Calvin Grinnell for more information on Mandan and Hidasta stories.
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