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How are creation stories represented in Native American poems?

Creation Stories

are

Alternative History

Mysterious

are

Reality

become

Explanations

Life Lesions

Different Perspectives

Symbols

"The Man from Washington" by James Welch

Describes a end of the "world"

New world is about to start

"Grandmother" by Paula Gunn Allen Uses a woman's body to explain how Earth was created

Quote

"she was given thew work of weaving the strands of her body, her pain, her vision into creation, and the gift of having created, to disappear" (10-13).

"The man came down a slouching dwarf with rainwater eyes, and spoke to us. He promised that life would go on as usual," (6-8).

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