Native+American+Literature

== = 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.=

=RESOURCES:=
 * =The Oral Tradition of Storytelling=
 * =PBS -- Circle of Stories=
 * =Further resources on the Native Americans=


 * [[file:Native_American_Literature_overview.ppt]]
 * [[file:Storytelling.ppt]]

=WRITERS:= =Dekanawiday: "The Iroquois Constitution"=

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**__STORIES__**: ="Rabbit's Short Tail"=

(Cherokee Storyteller Gregg Howard)
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=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"=

Page updated 6/08/2016.