LITERATURE QUESTIONS
NATIVE AMERICAN LITERATURE
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shy
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self-sacrificing.
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curious
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -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-2: -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.
Detailed explanation-3: -The grizzly bears anger the Chief of the Sky Spirits because they have created a new race with his daughter who has grown much older. The Chief is mad that he wasn’t the own who created a new race.
Detailed explanation-4: -“When Grizzlies Walked Upright” explains the origins of human beings (first Native Americans).