LITERATURE QUESTIONS
NATIVE AMERICAN LITERATURE
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The first European settlers feared American Indians
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Until recently, no one in the West knew American Indians had literature
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The hundreds of native languages posed a translation problem
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Native speakers have never done translations of Indian literature
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Detailed explanation-1: -What does Joseph Bruchac cite as “part of the problem” in the West’s misrepresentation of American Indian literature? The hundreds of different native languages posed a translation problem.
Detailed explanation-2: -What does Bruchac’s title suggest? Bruchac’s title suggests that all literature no matter whose or what it is about still matters. With this title he says that the sun still rises in the same sky which means that the sun is the same for all of us, this is also what he meant about NAtive American Literature.
Detailed explanation-3: -Common themes in Native American literature are worship of many gods and and a reverence for nature.
Detailed explanation-4: -Summary. From 1783 to 1830, American Indian policy reflected the new American nation-state’s desire to establish its own legitimacy and authority, by controlling Native American peoples and establishing orderly and prosperous white settlements in the continental interior.