LITERATURE QUESTIONS
NATIVE AMERICAN LITERATURE
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He performs acts of bravery and courage to save them.
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He acts only in his own interests; any help to humans is unintentional.
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While helping them, he purposely unleashes something that will harm them.
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He shows impatience with their complaints, but he helps them nonetheless.
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He seeks out the monster in order to help people, but he does not attach himself to them afterward.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Coyote is considered a trickster to both Syilx Okanagan and Secwepemc peoples. Coyote is often breaking the rules and bringing teachings through his adventurous mishaps. These teachings have strong ties to local societal values, traditional knowledge, spirituality and overall worldviews.
Detailed explanation-2: -This story tells how Coyote made the different people, including the Nez Perce, and how certain animals came to look as they do today. Without Coyote’s cleverness in outwitting the monster, the people and animals today would still be imprisoned in the Monster’s belly.
Detailed explanation-3: -Coyote’s characteristics here are thus of the typical Trickster figure: greedy, vain, foolish, cunning and, occasionally, displaying a high degree of power. Such Trickster at-tributes have been well described in the literature (Radin, 1956).
Detailed explanation-4: -"Coyote Finishes His Work": What aspects of life on earth are explained in this myth?-How people learn to dance, eat, make good housing, and how they learned to do things.