LITERATURE QUESTIONS
NATIVE AMERICAN LITERATURE
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The look like dead people.
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They are suffering greatly.
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They only come out at night.
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They are desperately hungry.
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They are accustomed to cave life.
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Detailed explanation-1: -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-2: -As you read this tale, notice how the coyote demonstrates the trickster’s contradictory qualities: he is foolish yet clever, greedy yet helpful, immoral yet moral. READING STRATEGY: PREDICT Tricksters are often schemers or scoundrels-they don’t usually act as other characters do.
Detailed explanation-3: -In a Miwok myth, Coyote creates all animals, then calls them to a council to discuss the creation of human beings. Each animal wants people to be imbued with its own best qualities, causing an argument. Coyote mocks them all, vowing that human beings should have his own wit and cunning.
Detailed explanation-4: -Myth. A myth is a story that explains objects or events in the natural world as resulting from the action of some supernatural force or entity, most often a god. Every culture on the globe has its legends.