Native american myths jeopardy

Native American Myths Jeopardy
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Characteristics Origins
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Final Jeopardy

$100 Question from Terms
This is a category of literature,
art, music, film, etc.

This type of story explains how
life began, how a feature of the
world was formed or how a social
custom began.

$200 Answer from Terms
Creation (or Origin) Myth

This is something that stands for
something other than itself.

This type of description creates
a word picture.

Imagery

Symbols, patterns, or character
types that repeat across cultures
(universal themes
and ideas) are called this.

Archetypes

$100 Question from Cultural
Characteristics
In “The Earth on Turtle’s Back,”
the Chief says his wife’s dream has
power, allowing the reader to infer
this.

$100 Answer from Cultural
Characteristics
The Onondaga believe dreams
convey messages (the dream
must be true).

Characteristics
In “The Earth on Turtle’s Back,”
the animals are personified and play
an active role in creating the Earth,
indicating the Onondaga’s respect
for this.

Characteristics
Nature

Characteristics
In “When Grizzlies Walked
Upright,” the daughter’s disobedience
to the Sky Spirit’s long ago instruction:
“…be careful not to stick your head out
at the top” may indicate this about the
Modoc’s belief toward obeying parents.

Characteristics
Obedience to parents must have
had a prime value to the Modocs.

Characteristics
As the Modoc believed that Native
Americans came from Grizzlies, it
is apparent that they feel this way
about the bears.

Characteristics
Modocs have great
respect for
the grizzly bears.

Characteristics
“The Navajo Origin Legend” describes
a precise ceremonial order allowing
the reader to infer that the Navajo culture
values this.

Characteristics
Respect for order
and ritual.

$100 Origins
“The Earth on Turtle’s Back” explains
these two things.

$100 Origins
Creation of the Earth and the
marks on turtles’ backs.

$200 Origins
“When Grizzlies Walked Upright”
explains these three things.

$200 Origins
The creation of Native Americans and other
Forms of life, the creation of Mount
Shasta, and the reason grizzlies walk on all
fours and do not speak.

$300 Origins
“The Navajo Origin Legend” explains
the creation of this.

$300 Origins
The first man and woman.

$400 Origins
The ceremony in “The Navajo
Origin Legend” ends with the words:
“Live together now as husband
and wife,” making the ceremony
similar to this.

$500 Origins
Details of Creation Myths reveal
this about the culture that produced it.

$500 Origins
The tribes values and beliefs; and/or
how the world and the things in it
came to be.

$100 Ideas and Details
The lesson learned from “The Earth
On Turtle’s Back” is this.

Determination can lead to
Success

In “The Navajo Origin Legend” wind
symbolizes this.

The source of life

According to the myth, “When Grizzlies
Walked Upright,” whenever a grizzly killed
an Indian, his body was burned on the spot
and all who passed that way cast a stone there
until a great pile of stones marked the place of
his death, indicating this.

Great respect for the grizzly as
an ancestor of the Native American

In “The Navajo Origin Legend” these
specifically were the source of the first
man and the first woman.

White Corn = 1st
man;
Yellow Corn = 1st
woman

In “Earth on Turtle’s Back,” marks
on the turtle’s back came from this.

Muskrat’s paws

$100 Analyze This
The opening words of “The Earth on
Turtle’s back,”: “Before this Earth existed,
there was only water,” identify this story as
this.

$100 Analyze This
A Creation Myth

$200 Analyze This
In the following excerpt, “The Duck dove first,
some say. He Swam down and down, far
beneath the surface, but could not reach the
bottom and floated back up,” these two literary
devices are used by the author.

$200 Analyze This
The whole quote is an example of
imagery, while “down and down” is
an example of repetition.

$300 Analyze This
The cardinal directions (north, south,
east and west) can be found in the myths,
“Earth on Turtle’s Back,” When Grizzlies
Walked Upright,” and “The Navajo Origin
Legend,” indicating this is a universal idea
known also as this.

$400 Analyze This
This evidence in “When Grizzlies
Walked Upright,” suggests the Modoc
saw the spirits and gods as veangeful.

$400 Analyze This
In anger, the Chief of the Sky Spirits
cursed the grizzly so that he could no longer
walk on two legs and took away his ability to
speak. The Chief also killed his daughter’s
Mother-in-law with a stare.

$500 Analyze This
This tribe portrays the creation of
Earth as unintentional or almost accidental,
compared to this tribe where creation is the
result of a series of deliberate actions.

$500 Analyze This
The Onondaga tell that Earth resulted
when someone fell from the sky, while
The Navajo recount steps that made
human beings.

Final Jeopardy
The name and location of the three tribes
associated with “The Earth On Turtle’s Back,”
“When Grizzlies Walked Upright,” and
“The Navajo Origin Legend,”
are named this and are from these locations,
Specifically (be sure to match the tribes to the
m. myths.

Final Jeopardy Answer
“The Earth on Turles Back,” -
Onondoga, from Central New
York. “When Grizzlies Walked
Upright,” - Modocs from Northern
California and Oregon, “The Navajo
Legend” – the Navajos from Utah,
Arizona and New Mexico.

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