The Native American Voice Practice

True or False: Native people preserved their stories and history through the oral tradition of storytelling.

• True

• False

A________ story is a narrative that explains the origins of existence according to the traditions and understandings of a culture or religion. 

• Earth diver

• Emergence

• Creation

_______ is a conqueror, especially one of the Spanish conquerors of Mexico and Peru in the 16th century.

• Missionary

• Conquistador

• Native American

• European

True or False: According to "How the Spaniards Came to Shung-opovi" Kachina dolls represented elements of the natural world in the Hopi culture.

• True

• False

Which creation story states that the creation of life comes from nothingness.

• World parent

• Earth diver

• Ex nihilo

• Emergence

Earth diver stories portray the creation of Earth from a vast expanse of _____. 

• water

• space

• nothingness

• clouds

In world parent creation stories, world parent Sky is considered the ____ figure

• Father

• Mother

True or False: In world parent creation stories, Earth is the mother figure.

• True

• False

In which creation story does the union of the Earth-Mother and Sky-Father result in the creation of all life?

• Ex nihilo

• World Parent

• Earth Diver

• Emergence

According to World Parent creation stories, the creation of the world and the heavens results from the union of the parents.

• True

• False