Ghost Dance songs (songs) Stories of the Beginning of the World (oral narrative)

What is the relationship between Native American identity and American identity? How does Native American literature reflect or help create a sense of what it means to be Native American in the United States? What does this literature help reveal about the experience of having a multicultural identity? How does the conception of American Indian identity depend upon the writer’s identity? What is Native American literature? What makes Native American traditions from different regions distinctive? How has Native American literature been influ-enced by politics on and off the reservation? How are Native American oral traditions shaped by the landscapes in which they are com-posed? What role does the land play in oral tradition? How does the notion of time in American Indian narratives compare with notions of time in Western cultures? How does the chronology of particular narra-tives reflect differing notions of time? How do Yellow Woman stories and the Night-way or Enemyway chant influence Leslie Marmo