Native American essays

Native American essays Native American stories reflected their lives and beliefs vividly. Through stories Native Americans could explain natural phenomenon such as earthquakes and thunderstorms. They would often blame these events on gods that were responsible. Creation stories are also common among Native American storytellers such as Stone Boy. For better explanation they would often add human traits to animals or Natural things that otherwise would not be able to talk to move. By personifying things they could add dialogue to animals talking with trees, or the sun talking to farmers. This gave them more room to expand their stories and explanations of events. The stories told by different tribes were often directly associated with their every day life. For example the Iroquois tribe, since they were a tribe based around agriculture their stories often explain bad growing seasons or harsh winters. Some stories that refer to hard growing seasons are Hiding Sun and Seedling Shower. In Hiding Sun it explains how the sun is afraid to come out because it fears that it will be hurt from warring tribes. This explained to the people that when there was conflict with other tribes it often led to a hard growing season. It personified the sun which otherwise would not have been able to talk or explain the reasons it had to hide. Even though this was most likely coincidence the people believed that if there was conflict it would be bad for agriculture, it is said that this is one of the reasons that the Iroquois were such a peaceful tribe. In the story Seedling Shower it explains how the Iroquois believed that the rain was sometimes seeds. This expl ained the woven weeds in their crops. The Native Americans embraced their stories as much as everyday possessions. They would pass the stories on to the next generation and try too keep the stories alive. Over time these stories evolved into more...