Native Americans

Native American Lit 2

Open Ended

Mention 3 aspects that called your attention from the myths you read. 

Open Ended

Mention 2 aspects that you considered close to our current moment. 

​The Sacred Earth

• ​The Cycle of Life for the native Americans was seen in every being present in nature. Their religious ceremonies look for establishing contact with the spirits that inhabited those beings.

• ​When European explorers first arrived in the New World, thousands of languages, some as unlike each other as English and Chinese, were spoken in the Americas. Each of these cultures developed its own stories and mythology.

​The Cherokee were ...

• Myths helped the Cherokee understand the world​.

• ​the Cherokee government was made up of two sets of officials: a white chief, who ruled during peacetime, and a red chief, who ruled during wartime.

• ​In 1838–1839, the Cherokee were exiled from their ancestral home and forced to march 1,000 miles to present-day Oklahoma

​The Huron were ...

• They believed that Earth was an island resting on the back of the Great Turtle.

• ​"Wendat" was their original name meaning "Islanders"

• ​The name Huron was given by the French conquerors = trading furs.

• ​They were in conflict with the Iroquois when the Europeans arrived.