Basics of Native American Literature
Indians live in a world of this, where the spiritual and commonplace are one.
What is Symbols and Images?
How the Salmon People treat the boy in response to him being disrespectful.
What is kindness?
The ways that Planners canoe was special.
What is the size could change to big or small, and it could go anywhere in the world with one paddle?
What Coyote gave to the Frog People to get a drink of water.
What is a shell?
The three warnings that were given to the people by the Creator.
What is do not neglect this food, do not take more than you need, and pay close attention to how to care for it?
What the big buck told the hunter
What is how to kill and eat the deer?
Koyoda was this.
What is part man and part God?
Native Americans believe that storytelling is this type of an experience.
What is a Communal experience?
The reason that the Salmon people take the boy as one of their own.
what is to teach the young boy the right way to treat salmon.
The type of girl Planner wanted his daughter to marry.
What is Salmon girl?
What is is to collapse the dam.
How the people acted over time.
What is greedy and careless.
What the doe told the hunter.
what is that by eating the deer man will survive, and they will live because of them.
The "battle" between the mountains was describing this natural disaster.
What is a volcano?
The primary learning technique of Native Americans.
What is the story cycle?
The reason that the young boy can die and come back to life so many times.
Because his spirit continues to live?
The children born to those just married will have this.
What is a dance?
The reason Coyote was sent to earth by the Creator.
What is to teach the best way, kill evil, and establish law?
The ritual the people did to bring the salmon back to life.
What is stepping over the fish five times?
What the young buck said to the hunter.
What is that if they talk bad about the deer, that they will cause problems with urinating, trouble seeing, and trouble hearing.
All the fish were dead when they got to the village because of this.
What is Salt water?
What is animals, nature, water, sky, wind?
Circles present in this story.
What is life circle, restorative, and respect for nature?
The thing that no one should do when the salmon are coming up river.
What is mourn?
The reason Coyote saw the frog people and the beaver women as evil.
Because they kept water and food away from those that were hungry and thirsty. The creator gave that to all people to have, not for people to control.
The person who brought the fish back to life.
Who is Grandfather or Old Man Rattlesnake?
What the little Fawn said to the hunter.
What is that she will be the one to kill him if she doesn't approve.
These two animals helped Koyoda bring the fish up the river.
What are sea gulls and sea dogs?
Animals are referred to this in their stories, because in their culture they believe animals were created before humans.
What is "elder relatives"?
The young boy was changed by his experience in this way.
What is he learned to respect the salmon and became a teacher to his village.
The significance of twins.
What are children of the salmon?
What Coyote turned the Beaver women into.
What are sandpipers?
Grandfather's spirit went here after he stepped over the salmon the fifth time.
What is into the Salmon.
The purpose of telling the hunter how to bury the deer.
What is to teach future generations the ritual for burying deer.
The great spirit instructed Koyoda to this to keep salmon on the Columbia River.
What is to drive the salmon up the river two times a year for six years so that they would learn to return own their on?