Native America: an Introduction
AMERICAN LITERATURE Native America: continental drift glaciation (like Ice Age) "Baelin"strait used by people to migrate DIFFERENCE between settlers occupants colonizers and invaders Settlers: not harmful; may possibly gradually take over; nomadic Occupants: authoritarian, encroach Colonizers: set of people sent by "mother" country to get gold, silk, spices etc. Supposedly outsiders can support the natives in ttheir quest for upward mobility; Romans did it first Invaders: take, loot, leave - like Scandinavians Most info available about Native America is through the Europeans' questionable translations Native America seen as: -pagan -respected women greatly no side-lining -stories would largely depict beliefs about (i) nature of physical world (ii) social order and appropriate behavior (iii) *problem of goood and evil -oral narratives 1 origin/emergence (creation, evolution) 2 historical (ancestors (lifestyle, tales of nomadi...