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Molly of Denali - Wise Raven and Old Crow (S3E10)
Molly's family takes a river trip to a traditional Gwich'in village for a ceremony honoring her grandma Catherine.
| Runtime (min) | — |
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| Air Date | 2023-07-10 |
| Genres | Animation, Kids, Comedy |
| TV Rating | TV-Y |
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Storyline
In the episode 'Wise Raven and Old Crow,' Molly's family embarks on a river trip to a traditional Gwich'in village. They are participating in a special ceremony that honors Molly's grandma, Catherine. The journey is filled with excitement as they navigate the river, learning more about their heritage and the significance of the ceremony ahead.
As they arrive at the village, the family is greeted warmly by the community, and they participate in various cultural activities. Molly reflects on her connection to her grandma and the importance of family traditions, ultimately understanding the value of honoring those who came before her.
What Parents Say
This episode beautifully highlights the importance of family connections and cultural heritage. It offers parents a chance to discuss with their children the significance of honoring ancestors and the traditions that shape their identities. Molly's journey also emphasizes the value of community support and how shared experiences can strengthen family bonds.
As they watch Molly interact with her family and the villagers, kids can learn about the Gwich'in culture and the importance of respecting and celebrating different traditions. The episode encourages curiosity about one's own heritage, making it a meaningful experience for young viewers.
What Children Can Learn
Kids will learn about the Gwich'in culture and the significance of traditional ceremonies through Molly's journey. As the family travels to the village, they discover the beauty of nature and the importance of teamwork while navigating the river. This adventure teaches children about the value of exploration and understanding one's roots.
Additionally, the episode encourages children to appreciate their family history and the stories of their ancestors. By witnessing Molly's reflections on her grandma Catherine, young viewers gain insights into the importance of family legacies and how they shape personal identity.
Five Most Asked Questions
| Question | Answer |
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| What is the main theme of this episode? | The main theme of 'Wise Raven and Old Crow' revolves around family, heritage, and the importance of honoring ancestors. Through Molly's journey to the Gwich'in village, children learn about cultural traditions and the emotional connections that bind families together. |
| How does the episode portray the significance of community? | The episode showcases the community's warm welcome to Molly's family, emphasizing the role of communal support in cultural celebrations. It illustrates how traditions are not only personal but shared experiences that strengthen the bonds among community members. |
| What lessons can children learn about their own heritage? | Children can learn the value of understanding and appreciating their own cultural backgrounds. By watching Molly honor her grandma’s legacy, kids are encouraged to explore their family histories and recognize the importance of maintaining traditions that shape their identities. |
| How does nature play a role in this episode? | Nature is a central element in this episode as Molly's family travels by river to the village. The scenic journey allows children to appreciate the beauty of the outdoors and highlights the connection between nature and cultural practices, reinforcing the idea of environmental stewardship. |
| What activities do Molly and her family participate in during the ceremony? | During the ceremony, Molly and her family engage in various cultural activities that reflect Gwich'in traditions. These activities not only honor her grandma but also provide educational moments for viewers about the rituals and practices that are essential to the Gwich'in way of life. |
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| Season # | Episode # | Episode Name |
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| 1 | 1 | Molly finds a photo of Grandpa as a child and is shocked to see him singing and drumming-Grandpa never sings. Then, the Qyah Canoers are ready for their competition. There's just one problem: Molly, Tooey, and Trini don't know how to canoe! |
| 1 | 2 | Molly and her family head to their secret-berry-picking-spot, but their trip is cut short by a swarm of mosquitos! Then, Molly is thrilled when her cousin Randall calls from Sitka to say he's harvesting herring eggs-her favorite food! |
| 1 | 3 | Trini's excited to enter Big Green, her giant cabbage, into the Alaska State Fair, but a suspicious moose keeps nibbling its leaves. Then, Molly wants to get her Native name when she discovers that her Mom, Dad, Grandpa and others in the community have one. |
| 1 | 4 | Molly can't wait to catch her first fish (and to earn her own first fish tale), but when she gets to the river, the only thing she catches is Tooey's missing boot. Molly must put her knowledge of the salmon life cycle to the test and find out where the fish are before the day is through. Then, Molly suggests a community fun-raiser to fix her school roof after a snow storm. The main attraction? A giant maze made of snow. All is well until Trini gets lost in the maze and Molly realizes the maze map is out of date. Can Molly and Tooey find a way to help Trini escape the maze? |
| 1 | 5 | Molly and Tooey think they've discovered a ghost after a strange noise follows them from Spooky Hose all the way to the Trading Post's Bunkhouse. Then, Molly and Trini tag along with Nina on trip to Kenai National Park to see puffins! |
| 1 | 6 | Molly retells the story of the summer Trini moved to Qyah from Texas, and how she and Tooey attempted to make Trini feel at home - with cowboy hats, lassos, and 'yee-haws.' Then, Molly flies north to surprise Nina with a hand-delivered party box of goodies (and herself) for Nina's birthday, but her plans are jeopardized by a moose blocking the runway. |
| 1 | 7 | When a gust of wind spins a wildlife camera away from an eagle's nest on hatching day, Molly and Dad head to the Windsong Wildlife Area on an ATV to fix it. Then, Molly and friends have their eye on a spectacular water tube for sale at the Trading Post, but they don't have enough money to buy it. |
| 1 | 8 | It's a cold winter and Molly is set on discovering a hot springs Grandpa Nat once found in a blizzard, so she sets off with Grandpa, Dad, and Tooey on two snowmobiles and with a list of vague directions. Then, Tooey's hero, dog musher Eugene Pike, is recreating a historic mail run across interior Alaska. When ice breakup at the river threatens Pike's progress to Qyah, it's up to Tooey and Molly to help him finish the mail run. |
| 1 | 9 | Molly, Tooey, and Trini are convinced giant ice worms are responsible for a power outage at the Trading Post, thanks to a spooky story from Grandpa Nat. Then, when Tooey's newest dog Anka wanders off during a training run in the woods, Molly and Tooey find ways to lure her back home. |
| 1 | 10 | When Suki digs up an old bone tool covered with markings, Molly, Tooey, and Oscar discover the playful pooch has made an important archeological discovery. Then, Molly announces a contest to design an original flag for the Denali Trading Post inspired by Benny Benson, the real-life Alaska Native boy who designed the state flag of Alaska. |
| 1 | 11 | Auntie Midge teaches Molly and Tooey how to tap trees so they can make more birch syrup. Then, Molly and her Dad are shocked when Travis, a tourist, announces that the goal of his expedition is to find a living woolly mammoth. |
| 1 | 12 | Molly is entrusted with her Grandpa Nat's secret nivagi recipe for the annual Qyah Ice Cream Competition. Then, Molly can't wait to help Nina and Dr. Antigone band baby cranes. |
| 1 | 13 | Oscar's fiddle string breaks on the day of the annual fiddle festival. Then Molly and Trini encounter a tiny mink on their way to a dance at Qyah Tribal Hall, which leaves them covered in a stinky smell. |
| 1 | 14 | When Trini confesses that she's never seen the Northern Lights, Molly makes it her mission to show them to her. Then, after an awesome jig dance at the Tribal Hall, Molly can't wait for her fiddle lessons with Oscar to start! |
| 1 | 15 | After wet cement ruins Molly's plans for a basketball rematch, Molly and her friends head over to the Trading Post to create a new game called Mollyball! Then, Molly discovers that Qyah isn't included in an Alaskan travel guide! |
| 1 | 16 | When the Sassy Ladies of Saskatoon arrive at the Trading Post a day early, Molly's confident that she and Trini can check them in! Then, Molly and her friends arrive at their old clubhouse only to find it half sunk into the ground! |
| 1 | 17 | A sensational video turns Molly's excitement about an upcoming dentist video into panic! Then, it's all fun and secret spy games until Molly and Tooey stumble across a mystery visitor in Qyah. |
| 1 | 18 | Molly organizes an ice-sculpting competition in Qyah. Then, Molly's excitement about attending her first totem pole raising in Sitka quickly turns to panic when she and Randall accidentally lose an important piece of the totem pole! |
| 1 | 19 | When one of Connie's prized turkeys goes missing on Molly and Tooey's watch, it's up to them to track it down. Then, inspired by Daniel's tall tales of sailing on the high seas, Molly, Tooey, and Trini decide to build their own sailboat! |
| 1 | 20 | To entertain themselves throughout the winter, Molly and the gang organize an outhouse race! Then, after hearing that her Great-Aunt Merna keeps misplacing her keys, Molly creates a tutorial video to help Merna train her dog to find her keys! |
| 1 | 21 | Molly's class is learning about bartering by practicing with kids who live up north in Kaktovik, Alaska. Then, Molly and Mom accompany Nina to Shageluk, where Nina is doing a follow-up story on the country's only herd of wild wood bison. |
| 1 | 22 | A routine science expedition with Grandpa Nat and Nina becomes a rescue mission when Nina hurts her ankle in a snowboarding accident! Then, Molly and Mom join Randall and his family in Sitka for their traditional canoe trip! |
| 1 | 23 | An approaching storm forces Molly, Grandpa Nat, and Mom to make an impromptu landing on the Aleutian island of Atka. Then, Molly makes her own video to show off "Qyah Style" snowboarding! |
| 1 | 24 | Molly finds out there is no statue of the heroic dog Balto in nearby Nenana, so she sets out to fix the situation! Then, Molly's basketball team is planning to dribble basketballs while snowshoeing to raise money for a tournament. |
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| 1 | 26 | When a blizzard hits Qyah, Molly must spend the night at Tooey's house. Sleepover time! Then, it's ice fishing season! Nina is studying life under the ice with her new underwater camera, so Molly and Tooey decide to join her in her tent. |
| 1 | 27 | Molly and Trini want to make sun catchers for their friends on Valentine's Day. After a quick trip to Nenana, they gather all their supplies! Then, it's Mom's birthday and Molly wants to surprise her with a special gift. |
| 1 | 28 | Molly, Trini and Nina set out to pick cloudberries to make a special pie for Molly's Mom. Then, Molly and Tooey find a strange box under the floorboards beneath Tooey's bed and discover it's an old Japanese puzzle box! |
| 1 | 29 | It's salmon season! First order of business at fish camp: help Grandpa Nat fix the broken fish wheel. Then, Molly discovers that her dad used to compete in the Native Youth Olympics! |
| 1 | 30 | Molly and Tooey find a frog, and Molly decides to keep it as a pet! Then, Molly and Tooey have been learning about petroglyphs, and can't wait to see them in real life on their trip to Sitka. |
| 1 | 31 | Auntie Midge loves to emcee Spring Carnival, but a hurt hip takes her out of commission. Can Molly and Tooey build a way for her to get around? Then, Molly and Tooey try to fix his hand-me-down sweater before Grandma arrives! |
| 1 | 32 | When a family of beavers builds a dam and accidentally diverts water from Trini's garden, the kids must devise a way to redirect the stream! Then, it's Trini's first camping trip and she's determined to earn her first badge.. |
| 1 | 33 | Inspired by real-life athletes Sharon and Shirley Firth, Molly trains hard to participate in a cross-country ski race! Then, Molly and her family go fishing, but a hungry seal sneaks into their boat! |
| 1 | 34 | Tooey and friends take one of his sled dogs to a vet for a check-up and they receive some surprising news! Then, Tooey gets to decide which one of Cali's puppies to keep and train as a lead sled dog. |
| 1 | 35 | When a windstorm knocks down Qyah's oldest tree, Molly and Tooey decide to make an exhibit honoring the spruce. Then, Molly and Tooey organize a Funny Face Competition to take photos of family and friends. |
| 1 | 36 | Molly and Vera join scientists as they visit a dinosaur excavation site. Will they find a real dinosaur fossil? Then, the Sassy Ladies of Saskatoon are back, in search of a glacier they saw 30 years ago. |
| 1 | 37 | Molly invites Oscar to go mountain climbing with her and Grandpa Nat, but a fear of heights makes Oscar unsure he can do it. Then, Travis the tourist returns to Qyah to photograph a "rare" willow ptarmigan. |
| 1 | 38 | Grandpa Nat and Nina are out in the field observing an active volcano when it erupts! Then, it's winter solstice and Trini's birthday. Molly and Tooey have planned the perfect present. |
| 1 | 39 | Molly learns about her Grandpa Nat's dream to climb to the top of Denali in honor of the first person to do so, real-life Alaska Native, Walter Harper. Inspired, Molly tries to get Grandpa to climb. |
| Season # | Episode # | Episode Name |
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| 2 | 1 | Molly and Tooey are holding a tour, but two tourists are mean to them and make fun of Natives. After Auntie Merna tells them about how she met Elizabeth Peratrovich, they help the tourists learn that what they said was more wrong than right. Then, Tooey has caught his very first animal, and he is having an uqiquq! But, Grandma Elizabeth is coming to visit, and Tooey doesn't know how to give a speech in Yup'ik! |
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| 2 | 6 | Molly and her team gets pointers from basketball champion Kamaka Hepa. |
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| 2 | 9 | Molly and Very tries to make lumpia for the latter's mother; several ladybugs are let out during a sleepover in the Trading Post. |
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| 2 | 14 | Molly, Tooey and Trini find mysterious bubbles while canoeing on Lake Qyah; Molly, Tooey and Trini learn a ball game. |
| Season # | Episode # | Episode Name |
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| 3 | 1 | Molly and Tooey decide to make a few of their own Alaska Native superheroes; Molly wants to fix up her old sled for Trini, but she's not sure she is ready to part with it. |
| 3 | 2 | Molly tries to help an exchange student after she loses her prized story knife; Oscar works on remembering the old stories of his elders. |
| 3 | 3 | Molly and Tooey help count endangered whales; a blizzard forces Molly and Trini to stay inside, but a box of treasures from Mom's childhood helps remedy the boredom. |
| 3 | 4 | Molly and Tooey realize drawing is harder than it looks when they help Randall come up with a Northwest Coast design for Aunt Mema and Uncle Jack's anniversary; Molly, Tooey and Trini strike gold. |
| 3 | 5 | Grandpa Nat joins the kids on a night watch to determine what the mysterious light is in the sky; Molly and Tooey help Mr. Patak record a carving demonstration. |
| 3 | 6 | Molly and her friends compete in a contest to predict when the river ice will break; the kids find some mysterious trash during a village cleanup. |
| 3 | 7 | Trini wants to send her mum a care package but she is unable to find all of her favorite things; Trini and her dad find themselves without lights and heat during a blizzard. |
| 3 | 8 | Trini offers to puppy-sit Tooey's newest sled dog, Khi, but ends up teaching him some bad habits; Molly makes a book about female pilots. |
| 3 | 9 | Tooey labels everything to keep track of his stuff; Vera wants to surprise her Lola Miranda with a special song. |
| 3 | 10 | Molly's family takes a river trip to a traditional Gwich'in village for a ceremony honoring her grandma Catherine. |
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