Fox story

Tadita and Bodaway ran all the way into the woods. Then Osyka, Tadita’s dad yelled “Tadita!! Come here you need to help your mother with cooking!” so Tadita and Bodaway had to run all the way back to the other side of the woods to help his mother. As Bodaway ran his tail flung side-to-side and his cheeks were wiggling. It made Tadita laugh so Bodaway looked up at Tadita it looked like he was saying stop laughing at me. So when Tadita got to Angeni, Tadita’s mom and little sister Amitola was there. So he had to help cook the deer. He hated cooking the food but he and Bodaway love eating it. After eating the deer, Tadita saved a piece of deer for Bodaway as a treat. Tadita was so tired that when they all went in the house after eating he laid down on his animal skin and went right to bed.

Today when Tadita woke up his mom cooked corn mush and he doesn’t like it that much but his mom said that she would not make anything else. So after he ate he went to go play Hoop and Pole, which is a game were someone rolls a hula hope out and another person trys to throw a stick through the hoop when the hoop is moving. But no one wanted to play with him. All the other kids looked sad. So Tadita went up to Adahy another Cherokee boy to ask why everyone was sad. Adahy said that another clan near by just got a letter from the government that said they were getting moved further west. Tadita was scared by this and went right home. When he got there Bodaway was happy to see him but instead of Tadita coming and petting him he ran over to Osyka and asked him if he knew what was happening. His father said yes and that the government was coming for their clan next. Tadita was so scared he did not know what was going to happen.

Later that day a strange man dressed in nice clothes and pale skin came to the village. When the man saw Tadita, he sneered at him and got off his horse and went over to the chief and said “the government needs this land. So we are moving your tribe to Oklahoma. We will be here tomorrow to bring you there.” The man got back on his horse and rode away. Tadita went over to the chief and said “what can we do now” and the chief said we wait for them to come. So that night Tadita started to cry and Bodaway came over and snuggled up against him that calmed him and then he went to bed.

Three days later a lot of people were running around in their home and that’s when Tadita knew that they were here, the government people. He got up from his bed and went out side he saw tones of the pale looking people and people were getting pulled into this line and chained up. Tadita was scared so he ran back inside and told his mom and she looked at him crying and hugged him. All of a sudden a voice yelled out “someone is in here” and a solider ran into their house and pulled Osyka out. Then two other soldiers came and pulled Tadita and Amitola out and the other pulled Angeni out. Bodaway came after the family not knowing what to do. Then they started walking on the trail that is now called the Trail of Tears. That night they lad down on grass and it was so cold out.

When they woke up the next morning one of the families’ baby died. Tadita knew this was going to be a hard time. But Bodaway made them happy as he walked along the side of them.

Eighteen days later Tadita got very ill and could not even walk so Osyka had to carry him and all Tadita did was sleep and would not eat. Bodaway always pushed food towards him but he would not take it and poor Bodaway knew that something was not right with tones of people being sick.

Three days later Tadita died when everyone was a sleep Bodaway sat there and tried to wake him up but he would not wake up. Bodaway stayed there with Tadita as his family had to go on they cried the whole way. Bodaway stayed there and did not eat. He died too. Bodaway and Tadita’s family says there souls play with each other up in the sky.