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The Sky TreeCoyote Finishes His Work
  • Myths and Archetypes

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Essential Question(s)
  • What are myths and archetypes?
  • Why are they important to Native American
    literature?

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The Sky Tree and Coyote Finishes His Work
  • The Sky Tree is a creation myth of the Huron, a
    Native American people of the eastern woodlands.
  • Coyote Finishes His Work has been handed down
    through the tradition of the Nez Perce, a Native
    American people of the Plateau culture who lived
    in what is now Idaho, Oregon, and Washington.

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Myth
  • A myth is an anonymous traditional story that is
    basically religious in nature and that usually
    serves to explain a belief, ritual, or mysterious
    natural phenomenon.
  • Myths are usually connected with religious
    rituals and explain the world the people live in
    and their traditions.

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Archetype
  • An archetype is a very old imaginative pattern
    that appears in literature across cultures and is
    repeated through the ages.
  • An archetype can be a character, a plot, an
    image, a theme, or a setting.
  • Examples
  • Plots- the death of the hero, boy wins girl, the
    journey
  • Characters- the trickster, the savior, the
    rescued maiden
  • Images- a place where people never die, a golden
    cup, hoarded treasure

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Understanding Cultural Characteristics
  • It is important to recognize difference in
    literary traditions when reading works by members
    of different cultures.
  • Since American Indian literature was handed down
    orally by storytellers, these pieces lose some of
    their power in written form.

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Assignment
  • Read The Sky Tree on page 24.
  • Then, read Coyote Finishes His Work on page 25.
  • Page 26-Reading Check and Thinking Critically

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The Sky Tree
  • What was the world like in the beginning?
  • How does the myth explain the origin of the earth
    as we know it today?
  • What aspects of the settings in this myth are
    archetypes? What other stories have used the
    same archetypes?

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Coyote Finishes His Work
  • What aspects of life on earth are explained in
    this myth?
  • Metamorphoses, or shape changes, are common in
    myths of all cultures. What metamorphoses take
    place in this myth?

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What other archetypes did you find?
  • The tree in the Huron myth is an archetypethat
    of the life-giving tree.
  • Coyote in the Nez Perce myth is an archetypethat
    of the trickster hero.
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