1 Analytic Response to “The Orphan Boy and The Elk Dog”I am writing an analytic response to “The Orphan Boy and The Elk Dog” by A Blackfoot Legend. This story “explains the origin of an important part of the North American Blackfeet culture—horses. Horses did not always exist in North America. Spanish explorer Hernando Cortés brought the first horses to Mexico in 1519, and they quickly spread northward. By the 1600s, many Native American tribes had captured and tamed wild horses.” -Textbook This response willexamine The Orphan Boy and The Elk dog by the Blackfoot and how they used literary elements when making this story.“He lived on scraps thrown to the dogs and things he found on the refuse heaps. He dressed in remnants of skins and frayed
