American+Literature+--+Native+American

== = Characteristics of the Oral Tradition: =
 * = Formation of the world through struggle and robbery (Pacific Coast). =
 * = Movement from a sky world to a water world by means of a fall (Iroquoian). =
 * = Fortunate fall; creation story. =
 * = Earth-diver myth--world flood after the creation. =
 * = Theft of fire. =
 * = Emergence and migration myths--ascent of being from the underworld. =
 * = Beings are animal spirits in human form; monsters are confusions of nature. =
 * = Culture hero orders the world, turns animal people into animals; other beings become landmarks. =
 * = Trickster heroes (raven, spider) provide disorder and change, and are reminders of the seamy and artificial sides of life. =

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= PBS -- Circle of Stories =

=//Smoke Signals// movie excerpt=

(The Indian Oral Tradition)
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="Rabbit's Short Tail"=

(Cherokee Storyteller Gregg Howard)
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= **__STORIES__**: =

= APACHE: "Apache Creation Story" =

= ALGONQUIAN: "The Dream Fast" =

= BLACKFOOT: "How the Old Man Made People" =

= CHEROKEE: "Legend of the Cedar Tree" =

= CHEYENNE: "Race with Buffalo" =

= CHOCTAW: "Grandmother Spider Steals the Fire" =

= COMANCHE: "How the Buffalo Were Released on Earth" =

= CREEK: " How Rabbit Brought Fire to the People" =

= FLATHEAD: "Coyote and the Monsters of the Bitterroot Valley" =

= HOPI: "How the Hopi Indians Reached Their World" =

= IROQUOIS: "Spring Defeats Winter" =

= LAKOTA: "Origin of the Lakota Peace Pipe" =

= LENNI LENAPE: "Mother Corn" =

= MODOC: "How Old Age Came into the World" =

= NAVAJO: "The Son, Moon and Stars" =

= NEZ PERCE: "Yellow Jacket and Ant" =

= OJIBWA: "Great Serpent and the Great Flood" =

= ONONDOGA: "The Earth on the Turtle's Back" =

= PAWNEE: "Making the Sacred Bundle" =

= SENECA: "The Origin of Stories" =

= SIOUX: "The Resurrection of the only Daughter" =

=** __WRITERS__ ** : =

= Dekanawiday: "The Iroquois Constitution" =

= Further resources on the Native Americans .=

Page updated 8/01/2015.