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2. American Indian Giant – Story time · Millennial Mustard Seed

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  Welcome to the millennial Mustard Seed, pod cast.
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  Hey guys. Thank you so much for being here
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  tonight. We're going to do things a
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  little bit differently. I'm gonna be sharing two of my
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  favorite stories. I hope that this helps you guys
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  take your mind off of some of the chaos and the trauma.
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  That's being felt right now in our neighborhoods and all around
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  the world. Let's jump right into it.
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  This is a story about never giving up a story of giants.
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  There's A long ridge in central trip, County South Dakota, it
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  looks out of place. It was a time when it wasn't
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  there. They say it was a summer of
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  storms, when red caps people were camped, south of the great
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  muddy, now known as the Missouri River.
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  Cloud and Plum were married in the moon of ripening berries,
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  two evenings later, A storm blew in big black clouds rolled
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  across the sky and the Thunder shouted.
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  Angry Eyes flashing with the light of 100 Suns, but the storm
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  was not the worst thing that happened.
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  Something dark and ugly came out of the night, ripping into the
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  village. Cloud and Plum huddled in their
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  Lodge from the darkness to her cries of Terror, women and
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  children screamed something ripped into the lodge.
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  A mountainous black finger. He was ER the giant with the
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  strength of a thousand men, blackest of hearts and the
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  bottomless hunger. A hand larger than a grown man,
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  snatch Plum away from cloud and tossed her into a mouth, like a
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  large hole in the ground and she was gone Viator part, The
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  Village to satisfy his hunger. No one could stop him.
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  He grabbed girls and young women and toss them, into his wife
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  slobbering mouth, and he was gone into the Blackness of the
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  stormy night. By Dawn, the storm weakened read
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  calf gathered, the Council of old men to consider what to do.
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  It was no use to do anything. Some said he is too big and
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  powerful move the village and hope he doesn't return some
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  advised. Cloud didn't intend to make the
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  move. He was angry and announced.
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  He would gather his weapons and strikeout after a year.
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  Seven, others joined him. Eight young, men, hit at East
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  armed with Lance's, knives and bows and arrows.
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  He has true was easy to follow his Footprints were, so deep,
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  rain water collected in him. They found him asleep on a
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  hillside. He was an ugly beast, naked, and
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  unwashed twigs, and branches caught in his long tangled hair.
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  Cloud in the others had never seen here.
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  The knew him as an imaginary creature in the stories told by
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  the old ones. Now, there he was bigger than
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  any living thing inside his stomach were Plum and the other
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  girls. But Fox asked the question and
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  all their minds. How will we defeat such a thing?
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  We will think of something. Cloud said.
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  He arose and walked Eastwood flattening everything in his
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  path. They followed until the giant
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  stopped at dusk to sleep. In a gully young men made camp
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  and Cloud suddenly thought of an idea to kill him.
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  We will trap him. He announced.
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  He has a weakness. He is always hungry.
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  We will use it to trap him. I will offer myself.
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  I will get him to chase me and I would lead him into the trap, a
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  hole in the ground that we will dig.
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  Through the night. They talked six would dig a hole
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  a cloud in one other would decoy Kia to the Trap.
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  The place where the Trap was a dried Creek with a ground was
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  sand and easy to dig in Maidstone axis.
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  The digging started in cloud and yellow Hawk left to find the
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  Giant. They would keep him decoyed.
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  When the signal fire was lit. They would know.
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  The Trap was ready and it would lead him to it.
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  They found him easily or even never bathed and could be
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  located at Great distances when the wind was, right.
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  The others dug and dug dirt piled up on each side of the
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  trench as they dug deeper and deeper days and nights passed.
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  The diggers worked without rest out.
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  On the Prairie. He has set out with long,
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  strides cloud, and yellow Hawk ran to keep Pace.
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  All went well until he has spotted them with a yellow
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  surprise and anger. He stumbled after them the
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  ground shook. His feet were like Boulders
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  crashing to the Earth yet. They were able to stay away from
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  him. It was a dangerous game and
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  cloud in yellow huhu. Huuuu tired, because they could
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  not rest. Back to the West, the trench was
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  growing deeper and deeper. The others worked, their
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  fingers, bloody the thought of their women inside the ugly.
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  Giant stomach was enough to make them work harder.
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  The trench was as deep as five men standing on top of one
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  another, it was finished. It was time to Signal cloud and
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  yellow Hawk. The diggers get a Driftwood and
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  dried brush to cover the trench, then another pile of wood was
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  set on fire. Cloud and you'll hooks out a
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  fire in a distance. The others had finished the
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  trap. Now, Cloud would have to leave
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  the John. He prayed and made offerings and
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  what? After the angry and dangerous
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  area. It was easy to get him to follow
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  but to stay alive, Cloud have to keep out of the Giants Long
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  Reach, the chase continued through the day and Cloud was
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  tiring. He Let er across the Prairie and
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  toward the trench. The other saw Co approaching and
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  he did, if he fell into the trench, they had to collapse the
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  Mounds of Earth into the hole. Australia came looming, larger
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  and larger. They saw a man running before
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  him. It was Cloud.
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  Stumbling badly soaked in sweat. He ran only on sheer willpower.
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  He fell many times and fought mightily stand and push on.
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  On a grassy slope Cloud lost his footing and slid.
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  His hand came down like a falling tree Cloud rolled and
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  barely avoided being flattened, but he had no more strength.
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  He was too exhausted to be afraid.
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  He had given everything he had. Could do no more closing his
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  eyes. He waited for, ER, to crush the
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  life out of him. Somewhere deep inside.
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  He found a pebble of strength. One last spark of hope to say
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  plum and the other women for the Bellow of Rage.
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  He rolled away from EOS outstretched fingers and leaped
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  to his feet. The ground shook under, he has
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  clawed, ran for the trench behind him.
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  He has mouth, was curled into a snarl, his yellow teeth, bared,
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  and his long, black hair. Swirling, like black smoke,
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  cloud, reach the trench and was halfway across when he heard a
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  shout of Triumph. And yes, Cry of surprise and a
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  loud cracking. Dear fellow cloud and Brooke to
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  the trench covering was far too heavy and he went down into the
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  trench. Deer fell to the bottom caught
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  firmly in the whole dust bill. It upward as he struggled,
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  filling the air with his deafening yells of Rage.
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  The others collapse the dirt down into the trench.
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  He has yells turn to whimpers, its arm reached up, one hand
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  clawed at the edge of the hole, but he could not free himself.
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  He has struggled with all. His might coughing Us, dirt
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  covered his head struggles weakened and he calls no more, a
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  silence fell over the land. All the young men stood gaping
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  at the dead giant somehow they had defeated it.
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  Cloud. Jumped into the trench and
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  sliced open his stomach. Paul are in a green yellow slime
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  leaked out. He reached in and pulled out the
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  body of a girl more dead than alive.
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  With the all the other young men jumped into the pit as Cloud
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  enlarge the opening and found more bodies.
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  All the young women and girls were barely alive.
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  Young men, pulled them out of the giant stomach and took him
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  to the nearby stream and it's Cool Waters.
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  They were gently revived and cleaned.
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  The young men filled in the hole to cover his body and the dirt
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  piled, higher and higher, until it became a long rich in time
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  grass and Cactus grew on it. Cloud and Plum blue old
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  together. They raised two children along
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  the way and hurdle after several grandchildren.
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  One Stormy summer nights Plum, would gather her grandchildren
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  and tell them the story of a terrible ugly.
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  Giant. The little ones would ask
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  Grandma Plum have Giants for real and she would only smile it
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  was so long ago that summer of many storms in the days before
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  the coming of horses, Plum, cloud and others, live only in
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  stories. Now, the same is true of ear.
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  But there is a long ridge covered with grass and Cactus
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  running east to west along a highway.
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  Many people drive by it every day.
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  To most it is only a Long Hill. A few of us though, still.
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  Remember the story of how he, oh, was defeated.
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  We know that Ridge is his grave, but in our hearts we think of it
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  more as something built by love, courage and perseverance.
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  And by Giants because that was crazy.
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  Every time I hear that story. It's like the first time I heard
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  it again. Drives me crazy in the best way
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  possible. Now, we're on to the