WorksheetsThe Native American Voice Practice
Total questions: 27
Worksheet time: 1hrs 21mins
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
Native people preserved their stories and history through the _____ tradition of storytelling.
Written
Visual
Digital
oral
Who might be the main characters in a world parents type of creation story?
a turtle and a raven
a higher power and a human
the sky and the earth
the spirits of humans
_____________ stories tell how Earth was created from a vast expanse of water.
Earth Diver
Ex Nihilo
World Parent
Emergence
Which of the following lines from “How the Spaniards Came to Shung-opovi, How They Built a Mission, and How the Hopi Destroyed the Mission” best shows the narrator’s point of view that the Spaniards were trying to change the religion of the Hopi peoples?
"When the priests started to build the mission, the men were sent away over near the San Francisco peaks to get the pine or spruce beams."
"Now during this time the men would go out pretending they were going on a hunting trip, and they would go to some hiding place, to make their prayer offerings."
"When this mission was finally built, all the people in the village had to come there to worship, and those who did not come were punished severely."
"The Spaniards, whom they called Castillia, told the people that they had much more power than all their chiefs and a whole lot more power than the witches."
Which of the following lines from Of Plymouth Plantation best show the author’s view that Native peoples wanted to make peace with European colonists?
"He became profitable to them in acquainting them with many things concerning the state of the country in the east-parts where he lived, which was afterwards profitable unto them; as also of the people hear, of their names, number, and strength; of their situation and distance from this place, and who was chief amongst them."
"But about the 16th of March a certain Indian came boldly amongst them, and spoke to them in broken English, which they could well understand, but marveled at it."
"Being, after some time of entertainment and gifts, dismissed, a while after he came again, and 5 more with him, and they brought again all the tools that were stolen away before, and made way for the coming of their great Sachem, called Massasoyt; who, about 4 or 5 days after, came with the chief of his friends and other attendance, with the aforesaid Squanto."
"All this while the Indians came skulking about them, and would sometimes show themselves aloof off, but when any approached near them, they would run away."
Which TWO characteristics are found in many Native American creation stories?
They explain through storytelling how the world came into existence.
They explain through written texts how the world came into existence.
They feature characters that are usually animals, powerful energies, or human beings.
They feature characters that are usually ghosts, human beings, or plants.
True or False: Earth diver stories feature the planet emerging from water.
True
False
True or False: In emergence creation stories, life from another world surfaces into this one, leading to creation.
True
False
True or False: The emergence of life from another world is not a common theme among the traditions of Native peoples
True
False
In an Earth Diver creation story, the feature character (earth diver) is _____
Earth
Sky
Human
Animal
True or False: in emergence stories, they begin with the Earth being fully formed.
True
False
True or False: The Native American literature of the colonial period mostly talks about the peace and harmony between Native peoples and European colonists.
True
False
True or false: Once the earth diver is successful, the bit of mud or sand expands to become dry land.
True
False
True or false: Emergence stories make up a unique category because they often begin with the world already fully formed but uninhabited.
True
False
True or false: In "How the Spaniards Came to Shung-opovi", when the Spaniards came, the Hopi thought that they were the ones they were looking for—their white brother, the Bahana, their savior.
True
False
True or false: The Spaniards did NOT take advantage of the Hopi peoples’ incorrect assumption to establish missions on Hopi land. This misunderstanding between the Spaniards and the Hopi peoples, as well as the subsequent Spanish occupation of Shung-opovi, led to a culture clash.
True
False
True or False: William Bradford wrote about conflict and tension in Of Plymouth Plantation.
True
False
