My husband and I each have our favorite ornaments, and I'll show you a few of mine.
We have my Choctaw annual Christmas ornaments, which can be really cool (check out 3D luksi) and come with a card telling about it (such as how the raccoon got his stripey tail1, and of course we've got our Unknown Woman and her miraculous corn2, because who doesn't associate women with corn3).
I also have a few floppy disks in my favorite colors from one of the packs I used in college, from the store my dad ran.
And a few things that I just don't understand why they're ornaments, but they are, such as a be-sequined Christmas Mongoose and this lovely indeterminate Party Rodent, found at Target over the years. I love them because I can't make sense of them.
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Possum admired Raccoon's beautiful tail and asked how he got it one day. Raccoon said he waited for a fire to die down, then wrapped sooty bark around his tail to get stripes. Possum decided to try this out, but it didn't go well and burned all the hair off his tail. This is why Possum has a hairless tail and, shy about his tail, only comes out when it's dark.
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It was a lean season, and two hunters had been in the woods a while, trying to bring back big game. It wasn't going well, and the two had settled in around their fire to eat the little they'd caught. A young woman approached their fire, and explained that she hadn't had anything to eat in a very long time. She was out running errands for her father, and she was nearly finished, but was so famished she didn't know if she'd make it. The two hunters offered her their rabbit, which she eagerly accepted. After a few dainty bites, she declared she was full. She had to get going, but if they'd meet her back here at the next moon, she'd repay their kindness.
The next day the hunters had better luck, and returned to their people. After some discussion, it was agreed that the two hunters should return to meet this unknown woman. Turns out Unknown Woman was the daughter of the Sun and repaid them with one of the most important crops in North America: tanchi, otherwise known as corn.