Key Characteristics
Stories are ever-evolving, and any written adaptation is only a snapshot in time because Native Storytelling Culture is rooted heavily in __________.
Oral Tradition
A popular form of Puritan literature dealing with hardship and survival in the New World.
Survivor Literature
One of America's first poets who used poetry to explore faith, family, and life in the New World.
Anne Bradstreet
The mass persecution of people believed to be "witches," despite no real evidence.
The Salem Witch Trials
The belief that God has already chosen who will be saved and who will be damned.
Predestination.
Also known as "Creation Stories," these tales deal with explaining natural phenomena and the origins of all things in the universe.
Etiology Myths
A key historical figure who was a major part of the First Great Awakening whose famous sermon emphasized human sinfulness and a need for redemption.
Jonathan Edwards
A key period of history that emphasized personal faith, a direct relationship with God, and that introduced several new denominations and increased religious diversity.
The First Great Awakening
Native Stories are heavily symbolic and tend to follow patterns. The number 4 is a common pattern or symbol. In what way is this number represented in Native stories?
4 seasons, 4 cardinal directions.
This form of literature was not very popular in Puritan times; why?
Poetry; viewed as suspicious and a distraction from worship.
Major player in the Salem Witch Trials - warned against allowing "spectral evidence" to convict witches.
Cotton Mather
What years did the Salem Witch Trials take place?
1962-1963
The idea that humans are inherently sinful and evil; a constant awareness of human sinfulness and the need for repentance.
In the Puritan era, "Histories" include primarily what THREE subjects?
Biographies, Autobiographies, and Captive Narratives
These characters are very common in Native Literature, often upsetting the balance of nature and in turn undergoing a "transformation" that teaches them some kind of lesson.
Trickster Characters
This Act established Indian Boarding Schools to encourage the "civilization process."
The Puritans had a heavily _______ society, based upon strict religious principles and positioning God as the ultimate ruler.
Theocratic
Trickster Tales feature what primary characteristics/subjects?
A character that upsets the order of things, leading to some sort of consequence or lesson; the transformation of that character (usually human -> animal) marks the creation of a tool, species, or landscape feature; the shapeshifter retains their memory or voice which emphasizes interconnectedness.
The First Person to die in the Salem Witch Trials.
Sarah Osborne.
This Act forced Indigenous peoples out of their native lands and moved them west.
The Indian Removal Act