LITERATURE QUESTIONS
NATIVE AMERICAN LITERATURE
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[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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have the same gods.
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believe in four worlds.
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feel close to the earth and animals.
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have the same beliefs about creation.
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tell fictional stories to amuse themselves.
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Osages, Dhegiha Siouan speakers, believed in the beginning that there was chaos in the universe. Amid the chaos, the all-powerful, mysterious, and invisible life force, Wakonda, created order by organizing the universe into air, land, and water, creating the Middle Waters.
Detailed explanation-2: -Traditional Navajos believe the Diné Bahane’1 or the “Navajo creation story” and journey narrative was given to the Navajo people by the Holy Beings. Changing Woman is the Holy Being that created the four original clans of the Navajo and saved humans from the monsters that were destroying the earth.
Detailed explanation-3: -A major example of this is the origin of humans. In the Osage Creation Account, humans reside in the sky until the mythical Elk helps the human rid water from the landmasses that they would eventually inhabit.
Detailed explanation-4: -The Genesis Creation myth is a Deus Faber myth meaning a myth about one and only one God the Maker God. While the Navajo Creation Myth is an Emergence Myth involving the first people traveled from previous worlds into this world emerging from a cramped space.