LITERATURE QUESTIONS
NATIVE AMERICAN LITERATURE
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[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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provide the earth’s plants
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provided food for the animals
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hold the Sky-World together
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are home to the earth’s birds
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Detailed explanation-1: -Why does the man go to the Great Tree at the beginning of the myth? It held a sacred place in the center of the Sky-World. What was so special about the Great Tree? Because the Great Tree was the mother of the earth’s plants.
Detailed explanation-2: -According to the Iroquois creation story, the world was created when the pregnant Sky Woman fell from the floating island in the sky, down to the vast ocean underneath. Birds and fish already existed, and they helped Sky Woman create the Earth, by giving her soil to put on a giant turtle’s back.
Detailed explanation-3: -But big trees are actually an essential part of every forest ecosystem. Big trees capture a disproportionate share of carbon, provide important animal habitats, propel new tree growth and provide much needed shade.
Detailed explanation-4: -Tree of Life symbolizes life and growth. This tree in this myth is the only way for survival and the only option for saving her husband from his illness.
Detailed explanation-5: -In the Iroquois Creation Story, the earth was created on the back of a turtle. It was there that life began to grow. The Turtle Clan represents the shifting of the earth and the cycles of the moon. The people of the Turtle Clan are considered the well of information and the keepers of the land.