LITERATURE QUESTIONS
NATIVE AMERICAN LITERATURE
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To show the Native Americans respect for Nature and the Divine
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To show the Native Americans respect for their elders
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To show the Native Americans respect for their culture
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To show the Native Americans disrespect and mistrust for the Creator
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Detailed explanation-1: -“Song of the Sky Loom” is a poem, not a work of prose, and it explains how members of the Tewa tribe are receiving gifts from nature. These lines show their respect for nature. Showing their respect for nature is a characteristic of Native American literature: “O our Mother the Earth, O our Father/ the Sky…”.
Detailed explanation-2: -With “tired backs” the children have worked to bring the offering described as “the gifts that you love.” They ask in return that Mother the Earth and Father the Sky weave a symbolic garment out of the white light of morning and the read light of evening, and out of the rain and the rainbow.
Detailed explanation-3: -at the mountain top; the summit. What is the pain purpose of the “Hunter’s song"? To guarantee a good hunt.
Detailed explanation-4: -Write this prayer song in the form of a personal letter addressed to Mother Earth and Father Sky.