LITERATURE QUESTIONS
NATIVE AMERICAN LITERATURE
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The grizzlies are their ancestors.
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The grizzlies are endangered.
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The grizzlies are magical.
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The grizzlies are too fierce.
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Detailed explanation-1: -According to “When Grizzlies Walked Upright, ” why do the Modocs never kill grizzly bears? The grizzlies are their ancestors. In “When Grizzlies Walked Upright, ” the Chief of the Sky Spirits becomes angry with the grizzlies.
Detailed explanation-2: -In “When Grizzlies Walked Upright, ” why do Native Americans living near Mount Shasta never kill a grizzly bear? Grizzlies are the Native Americans’ ancestors.
Detailed explanation-3: -He frowned on the old grandmother so sternly that she promptly fell down dead. Then he cursed all the grizzlies: “Get down on your hands and knees. You have wronged me, and from this moment all of you will walk on four feet and never talk again."
Detailed explanation-4: -When Grizzlies walked upright is a legend from the Modoc tribe retold by Richard Erdoes and Alfonzo Ortiz. The theme of the Story: Beliefs shape Behaviors. I believe this story supports the theme by showing that the beliefs the people had shaped the way they lived. Their superstitions overrode their rationalization.
Detailed explanation-5: -When the leaves dropped from the trees, he picked them up, blew upon them, and so made the birds. Then he took the big end of his giant stick and made all the animals that walked on the earth, the biggest of which were the grizzly bears.