LITERATURE QUESTIONS
NATIVE AMERICAN LITERATURE
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It provides them with shade.
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It provides food for them.
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It provides oxygen for them.
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They used its bark to build their homes.
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Detailed explanation-1: -summary: In this Huron creation myth, the Sky Tree provides food for the people of Sky Land. To cure the ailing chief of Sky Land, his wife, Aataentsic, cuts down the Sky Tree, which falls through a hole in the sky. Because the tree is the source of life, Aataentsic jumps after it.
Detailed explanation-2: -In Sky land people were living as they do today on earth. In the center of this land existed a Sky tree that provided food for people in Sky land. Aataentsic, the old chief of Sky Lands wife, cuts down the tree to give the fruit that lies at the very top of the tree to heal her sick husband.
Detailed explanation-3: -In “The Sky Tree”, a creation myth (an earth diver myth), Aataentsic (At-tent-sick) (the Earth Mother) cuts down the SkyTree (the Tree of Life) because her ailing husband, the chief (the Great Spirit) of Sky Land (Heaven or the Garden of Eden) asks her for the tree’s healing fruit.
Detailed explanation-4: -The archetype present in the text is the great tree. The great tree is where all the food in sky land comes from. The rooting of the tree represents rebirth and the tree will grow again and life will not end. In other words a “nurturer."
Detailed explanation-5: -It taught the natives where trees and land came from. It teaches the sacrifices we make for the ones we love.