LITERATURE QUESTIONS
NATIVE AMERICAN LITERATURE
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Beowulf
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The Odyssey
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The Song of Hiawatha
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The story of Gluskabe
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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: -"Coyote Finishes His Work": What aspects of life on earth are explained in this myth?-How people learn to dance, eat, make good housing, and how they learned to do things.
Detailed explanation-4: -In “Coyote Finishes His Work", what is promised for the future? That all people, living and dead, will be reunited someday.