LITERATURE QUESTIONS
NATIVE AMERICAN LITERATURE
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Question
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the grandmother’s head
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the mother’s head
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the left-handed twin’s head
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the right-handed twins head
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Detailed explanation-1: -The right-handed twin killed his grandmother by cutting off her head, then throwing it into the sky. The grandmother of the twins becomes “Our Grandmother, The Moon."
Detailed explanation-2: -The grandmother, after being killed by her grandson, became the moon. Her daughter, after dying while giving birth, was buried and plants began to grow from her. These plants consisted of corn, beans, squash, and tobacco which provided food for the people on earth.
Detailed explanation-3: -After the right handed twin buried his mother he tried to go back to his grandmother, but she told him not to come back anymore. He got furious and killed his grandmother with an ax. He cut off her head and threw it to the sky and it became the moon.
Detailed explanation-4: -In the Iroquois creation story, after Sky Woman gives birth to her daughter Tekawerahka on the turtle’s back (the Earth), they walk around the Earth so that the whole place can continue to be fertilized and the plants can grow.
Detailed explanation-5: -These two brothers, as they grew up, represented two ways of the world which are in all people. The Indians did not call these the right and the wrong. They called them the straight mind and the crooked mind, the upright man and the devious man, the right and the left. The twins had creative powers.