Early American research project

My topic is Native American oral histories. The purpose of the native Americans oral stories were mostly to inform of the value of nature. To show people how close they were to nature and all the animals. They explained the importance of living a nice and calm lifestyle. These oral speeches took the form of myths and legend stories. Such as "when grizzlies walked upright"

Qualities myth makers see in nature

The qualities that the myth makers see in nature in all these stories is caring and helping others. All the nature animals in the stories help to create life and humans. In "the earth on the turtles back" the muskrat helps to bring the earth that is needed to create the earth and help the sky lady survive.  In "When grizzlies walked upright" the grizzlies helped rescue and raise the chiefs daughter. Then the chiefs daughter and a grizzly helped to create the first humans which were Indians. And lastly in "The Navaho origin legend" the wind helps to bring life to the corn to creat human life. All in all nature helped to creat life. It was always kind and helpful.

Essential question blog #1

In stories made by people who respect nature I expect to find details about everything that concerns nature. This would include details about recycling or global warming. They would go in depth to the causes of these things and their outcome. Also they would talk about things to help reduce the impact we are having on the earth. Mainly pollution. They would also go in details about the nature lovers. Our the nature protesters. In the native Americans case they were very attached with nature. They believed nature was a spirit that controlled many things. They held ceremonies to honor the spirit. They also didn't believing in harming nature because it would in turn harm the spirit. The native Americans also didn't believe in wasting anything.