Period 5 Samantha Fonseca, Madeleine Moghini, Sabrina Norris, and Nethra Rajendran Interactive Activity  1. Take the white strip and cut it to your head size 2. Write one stereotype of Native Americans that you have or have heard 3. Decorate your headpiece with feathers Oral Tradition   No written form of language  Passed on by elders  Word of mouth  Often rhythmic and contained repetition • Epic Narratives • Creation myths • Poems, songs, etc.

Indian Council. HORIZONTAL. Encyclopædia Britannica ImageQuest. Web. 26 Oct 2014.

Transition to Written Language   Aspects of written language in cave drawings  Cherokee Syllabary by Sequoia  Columbian Exchange influenced transition . Written Alphabet . Means of conversion to Christianity

Aboriginal/Native American translation of the Bible - by John Eliot.. Photograph. Encyclopædia Britannica ImageQuest. Web. 20 Oct 2014.

Cherokee Alphabet, from Pendelton's 'Lithography', 1835 . Fine Art. Encyclopædia Britannica ImageQuest. Web. 26 Oct 2014. http://quest.eb.com/#/search/108_298083/1/108_298083/cite Significant People   Sequoyah – developed Cherokee Syllabary  – Author, expresses struggles of being a modern day Indian  Samson Occum – Native American preacher (1700s)  Leslie Silko – author, poet  Sarah Winnemucca - first known autobiography written by a Native American woman (1800s) 1. Sequoyah FROM 'HISTORY OF THE INDIAN TRIBES ..', VOL. 1. Fine Art. Encyclopædia Britannica ImageQuest. Web. 26 Oct 2014. 2. Samson Occom. Photographer. Encyclopædia Britannica ImageQuest. Web. 26 Oct 2014. Important Works   The House of Dawn by N. Scott Momaday – started Native American Renaissance  Love Medicine by Louise Eldrich – different narrator each chapter, analyzes important themes, different generations  Journals of Samson Occum – considered important historical documents  The Roundhouse – political novel, US court vs Reservation court

“The Last of the Race” 

Tompkins Harrison Matteson (1813–1884), The Last of the Race, 1847. Oil on canvas. New-York Historical Society, Gift of Edwin W. Orvis, 1931.

Indian Renaissance   Began in late in 1960s  Renaissance = rebirth of knowledge  Started with N. Scott Momaday’s House Made of Dawn  Kenneth Lincoln – critic, pinned the name “Native American Renaissance”  Made Native American novels popular  People also used this period to reflect on old oral traditions

Central Themes   Resistance to Colonization  Nature and Animals  Figurative Language  Loss of tradition, land, morale  Self-representation and independence  National identity, changing identities (mixed-blood people)  Art

Relevance to Now 

 Words and names of states/cities

 Native American presence on reservations

 Central themes still presented in daily life (Self-representation, nature, loss of culture)

 Increased literature presence (Sherman Alexie and Janet Campbell Hale

 Works have helped piece together history

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