How long ago did Europeans arrive in North America?
500 years ago
How long had American Indians established tribes in North America?
Thousands of years before the firsts Europeans
What were the first interactions like between Europeans and the American Indians?
Doing trading
What did each culture contribute? What did each culture teach the other?
Indians taught Americans how to build canoes and shelters, how to make clothing from animal skins, and how to plant crops. In exchange Indians acquired European firearms, textiles, and steel tools, diseases and smallpox
How did the arrival of Europeans affect the health and population of Native Americans?
The Americans exposed the Native Americans to diseases such as small pox and wiped out most of the village
What genre of literature do the Native Americans bring to American Literature?
Oral Tradition
Who is Dekanawida?
A Mohawk visionary, unites American Indian peoples with the Iroquois Confederacy 1500
1000-1500
The first groups of Europeans take over the Indians land
1493
Columbus's journal gets published
Characteristics of oral stories and myths
- Provide explanations about the world and its origins- Teach moral lessons and convey practical information- Reflect the belief that the natural world includes both human beings and animals - Respect speech as a powerful literary form - Depend on metaphor
How do Native American myths use the power of metaphor?
Speech or oratory- often relying on striking similes drawn form nature
How do Native American myths use the theme of NATURE to convey meaning in their myths?
Through Similes or metaphors for emphasis
Who are the Huron people?
Native American tribes living in the Eastern Woodlands
Where did they live?
The St. Lawrence River
What myth did the Huron tell?
The Sky Tree
What did they do?
Fur Trade
Who Were the Teton Sioux tribe? What is their "nickname?"
Native American tribes that lived in North and South Dakota "Dakota"
Where did this tribe live?
They were nomadic, following buffalo across Minnesota, North Dakota, and South Dakota
Who is Sitting Bull?
Principal chief of Teton Sioux in 1877
What was he famous for?
Was the last Sioux leader to resist the rapid expansion of the U.S government
Who are the Nez Pierce?
Native American people whose name comes from the French term pierced nose
What does their name literally mean?
Pierced nose
Where did they live?
Idaho, Oregon, and Washington Northern Planes
What story did they pass down to us?
"Coyote Finishes His Work"
Who are the Blackfeet?
Native American North Western Plane
Where did this tribe thrive?
Northwestern plains
How did they receive their name?
The tribal practice of dying moccasins black
What myth is most associated with them?
"The Blackfeet Genesis"
What is an archetype?
An old imaginative pattern that appears in literature across cultures and is repeated through the ages
What does the idea repeated in the last three lines of this myth tell us about the position of men in this culture?
That they were always rightOlder men are wiser
The personified character of Coyote is an archetype of a trickster.
List any specific character traits that show this capacity.
Coyotes are quick and sly
What is the struggle between Old Man/Great Spirit and Coyote?
The Old Man tells the Coyote that he's Chief but Coyote doesn't believe him so the Old Man proves it to him.He is powerful but not all powerful
What does the Old Man/Great Spirit symbolize?
Power and authority
What does the word Genesis mean?
The beginning
What does the Old Man in this myth create?
God, Nature, Man
Who is his counterpart in other world religions?
God
Why do you think the word "he" is so often repeated in this myth?
It represents Jesus
Personification
an imaginary person or creature conceived or figured to represent a thing or abstraction.
Archetype
An old imaginative pattern that appears in literature across cultures and is repeated through the ages
Oral Tradition
stories passed down by mouth
