Two trickster stories that are very similar are "The Coyote and the Hen-, which is a Mayan fable from the Q'anjob'al people of the Cuchumat'n Mountains of Guatemala, and "The Hen and the Fox-, which is also one of Aesop's Fables. ... Now we're going to be friends and you can come down from the tree. ...
These concepts of providence go back even before Jackson and Monroe though. ... The fur trappers, in search of new beaver reserves, discovered fertile land and paved mountain trails into the deep west. ... When America started going out into Alaska, the Philippines and Hawaii, the destiny, in a manner of speaking, became less and less "manifest." ...
What has to be taken into consideration is that fact that in the year 1600 people were settled strictly on the east coast and there was a massive amount of land that was yet to be discovered so no one can really tell how large the Indian population was at that time. ...
