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loracarol
Since: Sep, 2009
Asuyuka
Since: Jan, 2001
Asuyuka
Since: Jan, 2001
Madrugada
MOD
Since: Jan, 2001
2011-03-25 09:10:00
Found it for you! It's the short story Ta-na-e-ka
, by Mary Whitebird.
I used Google Book search with (+"Wilderness" + "five dollars" +grandfather) and got a snippet view of a sixth-grade reader that looked promising and included "Ta-Na-E-Ka" as the name of the ritual. Googling that got me the link above.
Asuyuka
Since: Jan, 2001

There was a story I read in my class textbooks as a kid. It was about a boy and a girl, brother and sister, going into the wilderness for a Native American survival rite. The boy did the ritual as his ancestors did it for many years before him, finding his way out in the wilderness, where the girl got a little creative and found her way into a building where she met someone who was nice to her and let her stay there for the duration. There was great debate over whether her rite counted, since it wasn't done traditionally, and the grandfather gave her the okay, for being adaptable.
Now, if someone could tell me the name or author, I'd be grateful ^^;