From the Native Americans to Booker T. Washington

What are tales that explain how Earth came to be?

• fiction stories

• fairy tales

• origin stories

• creation myths

Oral traditions teach:

• lessons and pass on cultural traditions.

• math and scientific explanations.

• only about animals.

• Native Americans to hunt animals.

Major roles in Native American origin myths were played by:

• people.

• chiefs.

• animals.

• tribes.

What is a moral?

• A lesson or teaching about right & wrong

• Ethics

• How to live

• All of the above

Many creation myths begin with:

• nothing or water.

• the earth with no people.

True or False :: The trickster may actually be helpful to one or more characters in the story.

• True

• False

The natives passed down stories by word of mouth from generation to generation in order to preserve historical continuity and stories of the ancestors. This was called:

• verbal importance.

• oral tradition.

• storytelling.

• storytime.

This type of story explains how the world came about:

• trickster tale

• song

• creation myth

• myth

"The Earth on Turtle's Back" explains the origin of?

• The sky
• The sea
• The earth
• Where animals come from

Where do people live at the beginning of the world in “The Earth on the Turtle’s Back”?

• In an Ocean World under the Ocean.

• There are no people anywhere.

• Inside the world, like babies in a womb.

• In a Sky World above the world.