Roles of Stories in the Nez Perce Culture

What kind of toys did Nez Perce children play with?

• Dolls and action figures

• Video games and board games

• Baskets, pots, bows and arrows, horses, and tipis

• Cars and trucks

What did Nez Perce girls often play?

• House

• Sports

• Hunting

• Fishing

What did Nez Perce boys pretend to do?

• Cook

• Garden

• Hunt

• Clean

What did the children use to move their toys around?

• Cars

• Travois

• Bicycles

• Skateboards

What did the girls do if the boys caught an animal?

• Roast it over a fire

• Keep it as a pet

• Release it back into the wild

• Sell it at the market

Reorder the following

• Governor Isaac Stevens establishes a reservation

  for the Nez Perce, preserving most of the Nez Perce

  homeland as part of the reservation.

• The U.S. government takes back 90 percent of the

  reservation land they had set aside for the Nez Perce

• Gold is discovered on Nez Perce lands.

• Several Nez Perce bands refuse to sign the treaty

  that would force them to move onto a reservation

  outside their homeland.

• Large numbers of settlers begin moving into Nez

  Perce country.

• Which meaning of de- helps you understand the word descendants: “Coyote scolded Muskrat. He said, ‘I told you to hurry up! I told you you didn’t have much time left, but you just dawdled along. From now on, all of your descendants will be reminded of your pokiness.’ That’s why today Muskrat has no fur on his tail.”

• undo, reverse in action

• offspring, kin

• away from, off

• down, lower

Sort the following synonyms to the correct word

Groups:

(a) devour

,

(b) deprived

• gobble

• denied

• consume

• refused

Which sentence shows "personification"?

[1] Once, before there were any people in the world, the different animals and trees lived and moved about and talked together just like human beings. [2] The pine trees had the secret of fire and guarded it jealously, so that no matter how cold it was, they alone could warm themselves. [3] At length an unusually cold winter came and all the animals were in danger of freezing to death.

• 1

• 2

• 3

• 4

Compare means to examine two or more things for​ (a)   ​

• similarities
• contrast
• personification
• differences