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Download full textMonroe, Suzanne S. – 1995
Historically, among American Indians, the respect for the power of language has been expressed through the oral tradition: stories, myths, folklore, poetry, and song. As life experience has changed for American Indians, they continue to value these stories, recording tribal oral tradition as well as personal biography and life history. The status…
Descriptors: American Indian Culture, American Indian Literature, Authors, Females
Peer reviewedBeidler, Peter G. – American Indian Quarterly, 1995
Examines seven Hopi narratives that focus on the first death that occurred after the Hopis' emergence into this world. Provides questions to use in teaching this myth and other cultural texts, including questions concerned with use of sacred texts, parallels with Anglo stories, translation issues, audience, storytellers, quality, art of the…
Descriptors: American Indian Literature, Cultural Awareness, Higher Education, Hopi (Tribe)
