LITERATURE QUESTIONS
NATIVE AMERICAN LITERATURE
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are as strong as the gods
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encourage the gods
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depend on the gods
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care about the gods
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Detailed explanation-1: -How did the woman survive the fall from the Sky World? The birds flew together and cushioned her and the turtle accepted her on his back. Why is the Great Tree important to the Iriquois creation myth? Because the Great Tree provided the earth’s plants.
Detailed explanation-2: -These two brothers, as they grew up, represented two ways of the world which are in all people. The Indians did not call these the right and the wrong. They called them the straight mind and the crooked mind, the upright man and the devious man, the right and the left. The twins had creative powers.
Detailed explanation-3: -The world beings in the Sky-World knew what was happening, but they chose to ignore the woman that fell through the Sky-World.
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.