LITERATURE QUESTIONS
NATIVE AMERICAN LITERATURE
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his cleverness
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his cowardice
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his greed
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his anger
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Detailed explanation-1: -Buffalo Bull had stolen all of Coyote’s food.
Detailed explanation-2: -Cleverness causes him to call magic to grow trees that keep the buffalo away. Violence causes him to kill all of the buffalo that come to the area along the Swah-netk’-qhu. Greed makes him disregard Buffalo Bull’s instructions, and Buffalo Bull distrusts him.
Detailed explanation-3: -The coyote’s disrespect for the lives of others almost costs him his own life, while his greed causes the death of another. The legend illustrates the importance of behaving honorably and implies that there are consequences of greed and vanity.
Detailed explanation-4: -CMarie Fuhrman encounters a coyote whose leg is caught in a trap in the southern Montana prairie. As she decides what to do, she navigates the two legacies of her identity-Native and European. In doing so, she considers what it means to be trapped and what it means to be free.
Detailed explanation-5: -COYOTE & BUFFALO: Why does Coyote act as he does when he finds Buffalo Bull’s skull? He wants revenge for the times that Buffalo Bull scared him and made him run.