Native Americanfinal review

The World on the Turtle’s

Back

Coyote and Buffalo

Fox and Coyote and

Whale

The Man to Send Rain

Clouds

The Way to Rainy Mountain

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Turtle’s Back for 100:

What is the source of the roots that the woman from the sky planted on

the turtle’s back?

They come from the Great Tree in the Sky-World

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Turtle’s Back for 200:

How did the woman form land after falling from her world?

She used the dirt from the bottom of the ocean and walked around on the turtle’s

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Turtle’s Back for 300:

Why are the twins in conflict even

before their birth?

One wants to be born in the normal way and the other through the arm pit

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Turtle’s Back for 400:

How do the twins create balance in the world?

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The animals they create – plant-eating vs. meat-eating, population of animals

was controlled

Turtle’s Back for 500:

What happens to the left-handed twin and the grandmother after the

duel?

He dies by reigns as the night and the grandmother’s head became the moon.

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Coyote & Buffalo for 100

What does this story explain in the world?

Why buffalos are not present on Okanogan lands

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Coyote & Buffalo for 200

What does Coyote do when he finds Buffalo Bull’s skull?

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Kicks and spits on it

Coyote & Buffalo for 300

How do Coyote and Buffalo Bull help each

other?

Coyote gives Buffalo Bull new horns and Buffalo gives Coyote a cow

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Coyote & Buffalo for 400

What are the consequences of Coyote disregarding Buffalo Bull’s

warning?

Buffalo Bull will not give him another cow, returning to his country without a buffalo

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Coyote & Buffalo for 500

What social values are presented in this story? (Name 2!)

Condemning greed, vanity, laziness; respect the dead; gender roles

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Fox & Coyote & Whale for 100 Points

The main struggle within this story is between whom?

Fox and Whale

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Fox & Coyote & Whale for 200 Points

Why is it that Fox’s “heart was heavy” and how does he try to fix

the situation?

His wife has fallen for the Whale; he travels with Coyote to find her

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Fox & Coyote & Whale for 300 Points

Who do Fox and Coyote bribe and what do they promise him/her?

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Mouse and they promise money

Fox & Coyote & Whale for 400 Points

Name 2 things that this tale explains.

Land People and Water People have not loved each other; why Whale lives in the ocean; why the water

is rapid at Kettle Falls along the Columbia river

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Fox cuts Whale’s head off with a flint knife

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Fox & Coyote & Whale for 500 Points

How does Fox defeat Whale and with what tool?

Very calm

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The Man to Send Rain Clouds for 100 Points

How do Leon and Ken react to the discovery of Teofilo’s body?

Paint his face; wrap him in a blanket; sprinkle him with corn meal and pollen; put a feather in his hair

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The Man to Send Rain Clouds for 200 Points

Before moving the body, what do Ken and Leon they do to it?

Very calm and they don’t mention that Teofilo is dead to the priest, just that they had found him.

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The Man to Send Rain Clouds for 300 Points

What is the first interaction like between Ken, Leon, and the Priest?

(What do they talk about)

Shiwanna-Cloud People

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The Man to Send Rain Clouds for 400 Points

What is the name of the people that the Laguna’s believe they turn into

after they die?

Conflicted with what his religion tells him to do and helping his friends

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The Man to Send Rain Clouds for 500 Points

Explain the internal conflict of Father Paul in detail. What is the eventual

outcome?

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Visit his grandmother’s grave

The Way to Rainy Mt. for 100 Points

What is the narrator’s main reason for going to Rainy Mountain?

To trace the migration of the Kiowa people

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The Way to Rainy Mt. for 200 Points

Why does the author make a pilgrimage?

7 sisters and 1 brother went out to play, brother turned into bear and chased sisters up a great tree, tried to climb the

tree but it just kept growing, sisters became the Big Dipper

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The Way to Rainy Mt. for 300 Points

Explain the legend of the seven sisters.

Before their was a lot of activity- feasting, talking, prayer meetings-

now there is funeral silence

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The Way to Rainy Mt. for 400 Points

How is Momaday’s visit to his grandmother’s house so different

from the previous?

The sacred Sun Dance doll

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The Way to Rainy Mt. for 500 Points

What is Tai-me?