Lit Test - Native Americans

Historical Significance

Native People already there when settlers arrived

Location

North America

Key Words - Mi Taku Oyasin

Lakota tribe belief - Everyone is related

Attitude about life

Optimistic

View of God

One great spirit - all powerful creator - Some people are “Helpers”

View of Man

Basically good but fallable

How is Man born

Grandmothers made us - Wise + Important - idea of mother earth

Typical Protagonist

Coyote

Representative Authors

Oral Tradition

View of Nature

Man part of nature and should be one, but care for nature as you would your family.

Types if Lit.

Myths - Legends - Poetry

Subject Matter

Allegory

Writing Style

Oral

Where is the truth?

Nature

Philosophies

We are all one people - Respect for earth