Assignment 1

Please send all assignments to arielkingston.hol@gmail.com with the subject line including the month or number of the lesson and your hol id.  In the body of the email please include your full hol name.  Extra credit can be sent with homeowrk or seperate but if you send them seperate please lable which you are sending  ex) Sept hw/ec ar910; or homework 1 ar910

Short Answers - 10 points

1. Why was Buzzard important?

2.  What did Younger Brother and Older Brother give the people?

3. What did coyote make stars out of?

4.  Who is Old Man Napi?

5.  Why is the first Island known as Turtle Island?

Multiple Choice - 5 points

1. In Blackfeet's Creation Myth who brought up land?

    A) Duck

    B) Muskrat

    C) Duck

    D) Beaver

2. Whose blood formed the Yuchi tribe?

    A) Coyote

    B) The Stars

    C) Napi

    D) The Sun

3. Who scratched Chipmunks back?

    A) Bear

    B) Coyote

    C) Wolf

    D) Otter

4. What is the name of the myth that involve animals brining up the earth from the waters?
    A) Earthbringer

    B) Earthdiver

    C) Mudweaver

    D) OceanDiver

5.  What is the name of the Great Mother in Iroquois

  Myths?

    A) Athena

    B) Ahatini

    C)Estanatlehi

    D) Aataensic

True/False - If false make the statement true (5 points)

1.  Wolf is snubbed by the other animals so he howls out of loneliness.

2. In the Yuchi's version of the myth the Wind asked the animals to bring him earth.

3. The Hopi climbed the world on a great tree.

4. There are six world in Hopi myths.

5.  Chipmunk would sing "The light must come we must have light.”

Essay question - 5 sentences or more ( 10 points)

With the creation myths there is often flood myth in several cultures and Native American myths are no different.  Find one Native American Flood story and tell me about it.
 

Extra Credit

Each choice is worth 15 points so please choose two to gain full points.

1.  Research - Select a creation myth from another culture and compare it to Native American creation myths.

2.  Creative Writing - Make your own creation myth involving how the animal of your choice helped make the world.

3. Artistic - Illistrate a scene from a Native American creation myth.

4. Puzzle - complete the word search and then scan and send me the link to an image hosting site like photobucket.  If you don't have a way of loading just give me the position of the first letter of the word such as (horizontal 3 veritcal 7)

https://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d106/vampkestrel/NApuzzle1.jpg