LITERATURE QUESTIONS
NATIVE AMERICAN LITERATURE
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It provides an accurate historical record of events in Native American history
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It teaches moral lessons about the natural world
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It includes epic narratives, songs, and chants
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It provides practical information
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Detailed explanation-1: -Though each nation has its own stories, several themes that are common across the tribes are the link between the land and the people, a hero’s journey, and the supernatural and natural worlds. American Indian stories influenced and helped shape later American literature.
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: -Answer. American Indian oral literatures most likely focuses on the reading that early Americans stories which were in the recorded form . Literature which were written in American colony during 1600s were the primary source documents for the stories to be written by American Indians .
Detailed explanation-4: -Common themes in Native American literature are worship of many gods and and a reverence for nature. Native American literary forms: migration of peoples, tales of great leaders, fairy tales, lyrics, chants, children’s songs, healing songs and dream visions.