Kachinas | | god or goddess |
spiritual | | this kind of myth talks about how the world was created |
Inuits | | Tribe of Southwest Indians who were not cliff dwellers |
Americans | | ceremony that follows a set pattern |
trickster | | These kinds of ________forces can be sensed through the natural world |
living | | Native American mythologies are _________ based |
mythage | | mythical figure who gives people the tools of civilization, such as language and fire |
personification | | Animals can _________ and be gods in Native American mythologies |
GreatSpirit | | A common type of Native American trickster (can be seen in Looney Tunes) |
deity | | The people who live where the buffalo roam are this type of Indian |
Raven | | from the earliest times |
Hopi | | The people of the Subartic region of inland Alaska are called this |
clan | | The indigenous people of North America |
Coyote | | presenting in human form or wtih human qualities |
Europeans | | This tribe believed a woman fell from the sky and was kept afloat at first by a fish hawk |
turtle | | A common type of Native American trickster (reproduces easily) |
creator | | According to tradition, this time period came before people and animals became fixed in their present forms |
lost | | Tribe of Southwest Indians who were cliff dwellers |
NativeAmerican | | Ancient migrations of people crossed this sea when it froze |
talk | | This tribe believed a woman fell from the sky and had 2 divine sons that were to prepare the earth so taht humans could live on it |
Plains | | Tribe of Southwest Indians who were cliff dwellers |
Rabbit | | A female creator deity |
Navajo | | Native American myths and legends remain a _______spiritual foundation for Native Americans who pracitce their traditional religions |
oraltradition | | A __________ fell from the sky and landed in the primeval sea |
nature | | group of people descended from a common ancestor or united by a common interest |
creation | | Bt the 1820s and forward, many Indian societies had already been disrupted and some of the ancient traditions__________ |
Shoshone | | Spirits of the dead who link the human and spiritual worlds |
Pueblo | | Indian tribe that says long ago Wolf and Coyote got into an argument |
totempole | | The _______ gods and heroes usually establish or restore order |
woman | | It wasn't until the 1820s that ___________ started to collect and record Indian myths |
ritual | | It wasn't until the 1820s that ___________ started to collect and record Indian myths |
Bering | | A common type of Native American trickster (Odin has 2) |
Zuni | | Many Native American mythologies have a high deity referred to as the_________ |
SpiderWoman | | Tribe of Southwest Indians who were cliff dwellers |
Iroquois | | This animal has dirt thrown on its back to create land |
primeval | | Myths and legends that are passed from generation to generation in oral form |
bear | | mischievous figure appreaing in various forms in the folktales and mythology of many different peoples |
culturehero | | An animal pole used to present stories by Native Americans |
Huron | | This animal is regarded as a close relative of Native American people |