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Directions: Storytelling is one of the ways that many Native American
tribes passed down the beliefs, values, and knowledge of their cultures.
Passed down from generation to generation, Native American legends
and myths are a rich part of American cultural history. Visit the
Web sites below to learn about Native American legends and read
some of these fascinating tales. First, print out the crossword
puzzle so you can write down your answers. (Click on the puzzle
for a printable version.) Then click on the links below to find
the answers to the questions.
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Native American legends about the origins of the natural world
are sometimes called “
__tales.” These tales tell
why certain events happened or how natural features came to be.
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In the Ojibwe folktale “How the Fly Saved the River,”
a tiny fly tries to frighten away a giant
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up the river.
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Dream Catchers were originally made
by tribes such as the Ojibwe. Constructed of bent willow and sinew
webbing, according to legend, if a dream catcher was hung near a sleeping
area, bad
_ would catch in the web, while good ones would
flow through.
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The Cow Creek legend of “The
Mountain With a
__ in the Top” is about the volcano
at Crater Lake, Oregon.
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In the Sioux tale “The Buffalo
and the Field Mouse,” the mouse learns that if you are
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you will lose all in the end.
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According to one Mohawk legend, the North American continent balanced
on the back of a
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A Native American legend that tells
the story of the origins of the members of the tribe and the world
they live in is called a
_story.
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According to one Native American legend, the rainbow was created
when all the colors began to
and separated.
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Native American legends often teach
a lesson or
about human nature, or the relationship between
humans and the natural world.
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According to the Cherokee legend of the origins of the Earth, long
ago the Earth was a great
_floating in a sea of water.
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Oral legends often have a basis in
fact. The Pocumtuck have a legend about a giant beaver that used to
live in a lake in the Connecticut River Valley. At the end of the
last ice age, about 12,000 years ago, when a large lake covered this
valley, a giant beaver species the size of a
_ lived in this
region.
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In the Cherokee story about the origin
of fire, Raven tries to bring back fire to the animal people and scorches
his feathers black. Water
__ is successful and brings back fire
in a bowl upon her back.
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Many Native American legends tell
the story of the origin of the Earth, sun, moon, and other natural
features. According the Apache legend of the origin of fire, a wily
fox steals fire from the
_ village.
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In the Ojibwe folktale about the origin
of the word Chicago, the hunter calls the site he discovers “The
Place of the
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In Native American legends the
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is often a trickster figure. In the Goshute legend “Pia Toya”
(Big Mountain) the hawk gets even with the trickster.
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One kind of Native American folktale
is the “trickster story.” Trickster figures such as Saynday
of the Kiowa of southwestern Oklahoma, were brave and reckless, helpful
and dangerous. In the Kiowa story “How Saynday Got the Sun,”
Saynday decides to
_ the sun from the other side of the
world.
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Native American legends and myths
are forms of
literature. They are told out loud by storytellers
and passed down through generations.
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