The Rough-Face Girl — North America Indigenous (Lesser-Known) | Bedtime World Tour
Tonight we travel to the northeast woodlands of North America, to a Mi'kmaq village on a wide lake where the greatest hunter in the country lives at the far end and nobody can see him. Every girl walks up the shore and says she can. Only one of them is asked what his bowstring is made of and answers with something true. She is the youngest of three sisters, badly burned by the fire she is made to tend, and she walks the whole length of the village in a dress of birch bark with her face uncovered while people laugh — which is the bravest thing anyone does in this story.
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