Indigenous & Puritans Quiz

How many Indigenous across the Americas?

50-100 million

Storytelling tradition

Oral & visual records

Visual records

quipu (knotted string for numeric system), wampum, painted hides, shields

Emergence story

human/spirits exist somewhere in the earth and emerge in a process that mirrors birth

Trickster figure

destroyer of order

Etiology

explores origins/causes of natural and social aspects of the world

Examples of etiology in “Pushing Up the Sky”

The sky being high because it was pushed

Examples of etiology in fire story?

How trees/wood makes fire, why frogs have no tail, why squirrels’ tails curve, why chipmunk’s backs have stripes

Puritans in the Americas

Plymouth Plantation, MA Bay Colony, Providence Colony

Anne Bradstreet

published first poetry collection in British North America; 8 kids; work published by BIL

Salem Witch Trials

20 executions; spectral evidence; confessing/naming guilty parties

Martha Carrier

child putside of wedlock; smallpox outbreak thought as witchcraft; executed by hanging