The Earliest Days Pre-history to 1750
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The Earliest DaysPre-history to 1750
Origins and Encounters
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Native Americans
Central Traditions-land is sacred- a living entity to be respectedNo one can own land-lives are organized around cycles of nature, not concepts or past, future and progress-traditions are passed verbally through folktales, fables and sacred stories-speechmaking and storytelling are important aspects of life
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Native American Tribes
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Native American Literature
Oral literaturemythscreation myths- how the world and human life came to existorigin myths- explain how natural phenomenon came to be or why a society has certain beliefs and customstricksteranimal charactersdefy authority and create trouble and chaoscurious, creative and reveal wisdom
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Creation Myth
How the World Was Made• Cherokee• Forest of the Great Smoky
Mountains• Written down by
anthropologist in 1891
The Sky Tree• Huron• Northern New York • Written down in 1991
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Active Reading: Cause and EffectWhat Exists? What Caused It To Be?
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Wisdom of the Native Americanshttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Evh-trlGAlw
Who does he credit his “wisdom” to?Is he grateful? Why?
What has he learned?What have you learned?
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Iroquois ConfederacyLeague of Five Nations
• Mohawk-Oneida-Ondondaga-Cayuga-Seneca
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The Iroquois Constitution
• Tribes continually fought with one another– Vulnerable to attack
• Denkanawida– 1550-1600 (vanished)– Destined to “stop the shedding of blood among
human beings”– Worked with Hiawatha to establish the
Confederacy
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“We are a powerful Confederacy; and by your observing the same
methods our wise forefathers have taken, you will acquire such
strength and power”
Canassatego
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Tone
• Attitude that a writer expresses toward his or her subject
• Word choice (diction) and sentence structure (syntax)
• http://satdude.wordpress.com/2012/02/06/tone-questions-on-sat-critical-reading/
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DictionDiction (choice of words) – Describe diction by considering the following:
– Words may be monosyllabic (one syllable in length) or polysyllabic (more than one syllable in length). The higher ratio of polysyllabic words, the more difficult the content.
– Words may be mainly colloquial (slang), informal (conversational), formal (literary) or old-
fashioned.
– Words may be mainly denotative (containing an exact meaning), e.g. dress, or connotative (containing a suggested meaning), e.g. gown.
– Words may be concrete (specific) or abstract (general).
– Words may be euphonious (pleasant sounding), e.g. butterfly, or cacophonous (harsh
sounding), e.g. pus.
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Syntax
• Examine the sentence length• Are the sentences telegraphic (shorter than 5 words
in length), medium (approximately eighteen words in length), or long and involved (thirty words or more in length)?
• Does the sentence length fit the subject matter, what variety of lengths is present?
• Why is the sentence length effective?
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Cannassatego
• Leader of Onondaga people• Served as a representative of the United
Iroquois at meetings with British colonists• Urged British colonies to unite to form a
strong centralized government like that of the Iroquois
• Rallying cry of the patriots---United we stand, divided we fall
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Offer of Help
• European settlers rarely respected the cultures and traditions of the Native Americans
• Cotton Mather-”We, God’s chosen people, must conquer the earth…”
• Superiorty led to “generosity”• Representatives from Virginia invited to send a
group of Native Americans to attend college for free
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Analyzing Literature
• How would you describe the tone of Canassatego’s speech? Cite words or sentences that you feel indicate tone
• In your opinion, why did Canassatego choose this particular tone?