LITERATURE QUESTIONS
NATIVE AMERICAN LITERATURE
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to reflect
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to explain
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to analyze
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to entertain
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to persuade
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Detailed explanation-1: -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-2: -Creation stories provide important information about culture, values, people, animals and the environment, and are passed down from generation to generation through storytelling.
Detailed explanation-3: -A creation myth is a supernatural mytho-religious story or explanation that describes the beginnings of humanity, earth, life, and the universe (cosmogony), usually as a deliberate act of “creation” by one or more deities.
Detailed explanation-4: -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.