About Myths
Common Elements
Native American Myth Themes
Plants and Animals
Vocabulary
100
teaching, defining, entertaining, glorifying, and explaining how elements of nature were created
What is the purpose of a myth?
100
the Bible and the Big Bang Theory
What are common theories about creation?
100
The relationship between human beings and other creatures in the Native American Myth?
What is all living creatures are equal?
100
A small animal who proves that size does not always determine success.
What is the muskrat?
100
an area that is fenced in or surrounded
What is enclosure?
200
Trickster stories Creation myths
What are some types of myths?
200
Native to a particular area
What is indigenous?
200
What is determination rather than size determines success. You cannot judge worth by what a person looks like. Never give up, and you may succeed.
What are the themes of "The Earth on Turtle's Back"?
200
A large animal that once walked on two legs and talked
What is the grizzly bear?
200
torn up by the roots, removed
What is uprooted?
300
It becomes a story, movie, and other purely literary work. Ex: Avatar, Thor, Beowulf
What happens when myth is no longer used by a society for explanations?
300
The most important person in a tribe whose task was teaching the history
What is the storyteller?
300
Children should always obey their parents.
What is a theme of "When Grizzlies Walked Upright"?
300
These were formed by leaves that the Sky Spirit dropped.
What are birds?
300
someone who pushes in where he is not wanted
What is intruder?
400
There were no written languages and important information about tribes was passed down this way.
What is the oral language?
400
Objects, animals, and activities that show how Native Americans lived
What are cultural characteristics?
400
Children should always obey their parents.
What is the theme of "When Grizzlies Walked Upright"?
400
The white ear of corn and the yellow ear of corn
What plants changed into man and woman?
400
joined by membranes
What is webbed?
500
Ideas, characters, or motifs that appear in cultures across the world
What is an archetype?
500
America's earliest form of literature
What is the oral tradition?
500
Order and ritual are important to the life of a tribe.
What is one of the themes of "The Navajo Origin Legend"?
500
The Duck and the Beaver
What animals tried to bring up earth before the muskrat?
500
jutted out
What is protruded?
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