Archetypes
Literature Style
Navajo
"Orphan Boy"
100

The recurring symbolic number in the legend and "The Orphan Boy & the Elk Dog" was __________.

What is four?

100

Native American literature was passed along ________, from one speaker to the next. 

What is orally?

100
The name of the four gods involved with the creation of man (according to the Navajo Tribe) are _______ body, _____ body, _______ body, and ______ body. Hint: all colors  ;)

What is white, yellow, black and blue?

100

What does Long Arrow bring back to his people?

What is the elk dog?

200

Archetypes are ___________ ______________.

What are universal symbols?

200

The style of language used in Native American literature was often ________ and moving. 

What is poetic?

200

As a result of their intermarriage, the Navajo tribe acquired the skills of weaving and ___________, hence the meaning of their Spanish given names.

What is farming?
200

What character archetype did the Orphan Boy best portray?

What is the savior archetype?

300

The color ___________ was associated with the female gender, while the color __________ was associated with the male gender in "The Navajo Origin Legend."

What is yellow, white?

300

Native American literature consists of myths, songs, and ____________.

What are chants?

300

The Navajo tribe were primarily warriors and hunters before they intermarried with the _______ tribe.

What is the Pueblo tribe?

300

The kind old chief who adopted Long Arrow would fall under the _____________ character archetype.

What is caregiver/sage?
400

As man and woman are created/given life in the creation myth we read, __________ are seen to move under the buckskin. Signifying what is inanimate is now alive. 

What are feathers?
400

Myths are by nature collective and _______________.

What is communal?

400

According to the Navajo, _________ represented power, mystery, magic and spirit and were believed to come in all shapes and sizes. 

What are Manitos?

400

What archetypal motif/pattern occurs in "The Orphan Boy and the Elk Dog?"

What is initiation?

500

Two symbolic colors represented in "The Orphan Boy and the Elk Dog" were __________ symbolizing ____________ and ___________ symbolizing ___________.

What is black symbolizing mystery and white symbolizing purity?

500

Native American Literature related to three things, ______________, ______________, and __________________.

What is tribal knowledge, customs, and rituals?

500

The "Navajo" traditionally referred to themselves as ________, meaning "the people."

What is Dine?

500

Long Arrow asks the mysterious old man for three things, ________________, _______________, and _______________________.

What is his rainbow colored quill belt, black medicine robe, and a herd of the elk dogs?
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