FIRST CONTACTS 28000 BCE 1821 CE
NATIVE AMERICANS
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True
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False
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Either A or B
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -Thus, while European literature draws upon a long history, American literature depends upon the assumption of a new, uninhibited political and cultural landscape.
Detailed explanation-2: -The 1970s saw important fiction by James Welch (Blackfeet and A-aninin), Leslie Marmon Silko (Laguna), and Gerald Vizenor (Chippewa), and poetry by Joy Harjo (Muscogee), Simon J. Ortiz (Acoma), and Wendy Rose (Hopi/Miwok). Many authors have done significant work in both genres, such as Joseph Bruchac (Abenaki).
Detailed explanation-3: -John Rollin Ridge (Cherokee) wrote the first Native American novel in English, The Life and Adventures of Joaquin Murieta (1854).
Detailed explanation-4: -Native American literature often features a combination of oral storytelling techniques and tribal mythology with European literary forms such as the novel or short story. Many works of Native American literature are strongly rooted in myth and symbolic archetypes.