Terms to Know
Name the adverbs
Trickster Tales
Creation Myths
NA in Context
100
The earth viewed as the divine source as terrestrial life
What is earth mother?
100
Karen jumped neatly over the puddle, but ended up getting wet anyway.
What is "neatly"?
100
Whale turning into a man is an example of this characteristic of NA myths.
What is magical transformation?
100
The muskrat bringing up soil from the bottom of the ocean for the woman to create the earth with, is an example of this function of a myth.
What is explain the workings of the natural world.
100
Most often, Native American literature will include this very important aspect.
What is nature?
200
folk tales that feature an animal or human character who engages in deceit, violence, and magic.
What are Trickster Tales?
200
The parts of speech modified by an adverb.
What are verbs, adjectives and other adverbs.
200
Coyote wanting revenge on Buffalo Bull is an example of this characteristic of NA myths.
What is animals acting like humans?
200
In The World on the Turtle's Back, the twins gambling with the colored plum pits is an example of this function of a myth according to Joseph Campbell.
What is support and validate social customs?
200
Native Americans do not believe that humans have this over nature.
What is dominion?
300
A traditional story, passed down through generations, that explains why the world is the way it is. Events usually result from the actions of supernatural beings.
What is a Myth?
300
John was very tired after a full day of playing hockey.
What is "very"?
300
The explanation of why whales are not found in rivers is an example of this characteristic of NA myths.
What is the explantion of natural phenomena?
300
All creation myths are essentially this.
What is religious?
300
The reason most NA Lit is lacking in details.
What is it was originally oral literature?
400
Explains how the universe, earth, and life began.
What is a Creation Myth?
400
Sometimes my mom plays Bunko with her friends, and she is quite good at it.
What are "sometimes" and "quite"?
400
The three roles of tricksters according to Stith Thompson.
What are helpful culture hero, clever deceiver, and numskull?
400
In myths, events usually result from the actions of these.
What are supernatural beings?
400
In NA religions, there are no long, standardized religious cycles about just one of these.
What is a supreme divinity?
500
A story coming down from the past, especially one popularly regarded as historical although not verifiable, i.e. the Fountain of Youth or Big Foot. A characteristically anonymous, timeless, and placeless tale circulated orally among a people, i.e. Goldilocks and the Three Bears.
What are a legend and a folktale?
500
My dog Auggie is super energetic, and he loves to play outside even when it is raining too hard to see your hand in front of your sopping wet face.
What are "super", "outside", "too" and "sopping"
500
The three contradictory qualities found in tricksters.
What are clever yet foolish, immoral yet moral, and greedy yet helpful?
500
Creation Myths contain the cosmic views of whom?
Who are the cultural groups who create them?
500
Nature and humans are seen as this one thing.
What is a sacred whole?
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