Assignment: Watch a 28-minute video on Resistance and Renewal in American Indian Literature. Be patient with the video. Watch five minutes at a time and take notes. When you are done, post your notes for each five-minute interval here. Your notes should explain what is being covered (ideas, topics, images) in each five-minute section. (You can get a copy of the video from Al Banan)
Before starting: Google one of the contemporary Native American authors mentioned below under "Points covered in the video" (example, Luci Tapahanso), read about the author and read a piece of her writing (example, "They are Silent and Quick").
What to think about while watching:
What are some of the characteristics of Navajo and Pueblo oral traditions? In what sense do these writers draw on native oral traditions and beliefs? How do they speak to the experience of being American Indian? What does their written literature hope to do or achieve?
Points covered in the video:
• American Indian oral traditions link people to the culture, myths, and land. Traditionally, the oral storyteller is a human individual who relates the mythological to others. Contemporary American Indian written literature draws on oral traditions even as it translates them into European forms. These stories are necessary for the culture to survive in the era after European contact. A kind of "cultural contact," this written literature deals with the interaction of Native and European cultures and identities. This video focuses on three Native American writers from the Southwest: Luci Tapahonso (Navajo), Simon J. Ortiz (Acoma Pueblo), and Leslie Marmon Silko (Laguna Pueblo).
• Luci Tapahonso's poems "They Are Silent and Quick" and "A Breeze Swept Through" draw on and are a product of Navajo language, tradition, and landscape.
• Simon J. Ortiz's writing reflects a renewed transmission of Acoma Pueblo cultural memory, as in "My Mother and Sister." It also conveys the often fractured and besieged state of being a Native American today, as in his poem "8:50 AM Ft. Lyons VAH." These poems reflect the bicultural world of contemporary Native Americans.
• Like "8:50 AM Ft. Lyons VAH," Leslie Marmon Silko's novel Ceremony deals with the post-World War II experience of Native Americans. The novel attempts to reintegrate the shattered experience of its protagonist, Tayo, with the old stories and worldviews. The Laguna ceremonies must be adapted to cope with the current world, or else the old ways will die. In Storyteller, Silko demonstrates the ways in which language does not merely reflect the world, but can directly affect it.
• Native American literature is particular to tribal people in its invocation of the concrete power of language to heal and guide, but it is also like all American literature in probing what it means to be American.
Photo: George A. Addison, KIOWA GIRLS (1890) courtesy of Denver Public Library/ Western History Department.
This late 19th century photograph shows two young Kiowa women. Their dress is an example of bicultural production; they are wearing moccasins and European-style dresses, and have fringed blankets adorned with tribal designs around their waists. Writer N. Scott Momaday is of Kiowa ancestry, and spent most of his childhood growing up on reservations in New Mexico and Arizona. He was exposed to the rituals and traditions of tribal life, as well as the great social change caused by the influence of postwar material cultural, unemployment and alcoholism. His many works include HOUSE MADE OF DAWN, THE WAY TO RAINY MOUNTAIN, and THE NAMES: A MEMOIR.
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- The oral traditions are profound respect for the world and the power of the world.
ReplyDelete- Stories are everything. They are life, traditions, and heritage. If you don’t have stories, you have nothing.
- Ancient stories are still told by new native voices in the American south-west that has been across of cultures and civilizations like Zoni, Hobi, Nabaho, Bwaba.
- Three Indian-American writers raised in the south-west who are part of a new native voice. They combined the Indian-American experience to the land, culture, and transferred these contemporary traditions into literary work which is connected to the land.
- The stories say that we are emerged with the earth and we are part of the earth, and we strongly are connected to the earth. In order for knowing ourselves, at any level, at any depth, we have to return to the earth in the stories associated with that.
- No one made these stories up. The understanding of the traditions not only in the spoken words, but also in understanding the culture, the environment and life with all its aspects in order for understanding these stories.
- The sound of the stories has been carried on from generation to generation to generation.
- If people don’t speak this language of stories, these stories will be gone in the next generation.
- Today’s native writers describe a deep power to the stories that are told.
- Today’s native writers created new stories addressing contemporary issues of immigration, assimilation, and identity, to tell them that they borrow literary convention of a foreign language of English.
- New stories are intense of culture contact.
- They are recreating their traditions in a literary format. By doing this, they are (native voices) varying these stories.
- These stories are silent.
- some contemporary native writers retell their stories in poems and these stories are complete and understood.
- They tell stories of their relationships to their daughters.
- These retold stories are talking the secret of the birth of the world, and these stories are telling the re-born people for four times.
- Ortis represents the large metaphor of the native life.
- Contemporary native writers are documenting and addressing these old stories with new ones, remembering them is for purpose, not only for sake of.
- Ortis’ poems dramatize the disorientation in America. These poems image the horse of the identity or the remigration.
- World War I is significant for Indians because Indians may has been chosen to be taken away from their homes and lands, being disoriented, putting in ugly battle and fight.
- The contemporary story is the same as the old one; telling a guy’s life that had been disoriented and displaced not only in the war, but also in the foreign culture.
- Those guys are trying to make their own ceremonies to retell their stories of WWII. They see themselves in the poems, in the story and in the ceremony.
- After WWI&II, people’s faith in God is shattered. So, native writers don’t deny this experience, but they put in un context of a larger battle between good and evil, disconnection and connection.
- A circle creates a story about its own family out of old generation stories.
- The ancient stories still have the power that we as writers have to retell these stories in a new native voice to the whole world.
- Recognizing the ancient stories, we will be able to move to the present and to the future with real strong thing of identity.
- These stories heal the cultures to the modern world
- These stories will not help us to feel their powers unless we feel the power of the world. That something can affect and change the world by feeling the power under our skin and inside our hearts and minds.
- These stories give people their own history and energy to the modern literature because all cultures have gone through us the way to the future and to show us they way where we are.
- Moreover, these stories speak the heart of the American experience in the literary work.
*oral tradition is profound respect for the power of the world.
ReplyDelete*stories are not just entertainment, you do not have anything if you do not have the stories.
*Zoni, Hopi and Navajo are examples of ancient civilization.
*Leslie Marmon Silko, Simon Ortiz and Luci Tapahanso are part of new native voice combining contemporary American Indian experience with ancient connection to the land, culture and story telling.
*the new stories like the old began with land, as the writer Rex Lee Jim said, "we emerge from the earth, and so we strongly connected to the place and in order to know our self at any level we need to turn to the earth and the stories that associated with it.
*oral tradition tells stories about the land that nobody made them up, the land told the stories and then we got them into human articulation.
*most literature of the world you find it as oral tradition, which is not just spoken word.
*if people stop speak to the language, the stories and the values of these stories will be gone.
*the story teller is not representative of a fixed God or fixed text, the story teller is part of process and passing that on you.
*native writer create new stories addressing contemporary issues of immigration, assimilation and identity.
* Luci Tapahanso in one of her poem, she borrows from the Navajo creation myth to tell the story of her relationship to her daughter, and she consider the beginning of her daughter's life as sacred thing.
*Simon Ortiz born in Acoma Pueblo, he is documenting his culture's stories. He uses the image of horse for identity and remigration in his poems.
*for native writer WWII take a special significance.
* WWII is the first time that Indian man where taken away from their home.
*it became necessary to create new ceremonies by changing in rituals, and god will keep ceremony strong.
*the ceremony give direction, the song will lead you in the direction you need to go.
*Silko's book "ceremony" can be seen as a story about ceremony or a ceremony itself.
*even if these people are changing, but there is something still the same.
*oral tradition is not something happened long ago, it is something going on.
*there is power in speaking of the word or even thinking of it. These words and sounds have power.
*native American writer consider changing as something healthy, it does not mean assimilation or loss.
*native writer hope that these stories and oral tradition will give people a sense of their own history as Luci Tapahanso said, "it is show us the way of our future and show us that we do not have to give up anything, we can be strong in the way that we are."
*native American modern literature speaks to the heart of the American experience.
In this video, we see the changes that have happened to the oral tradition of the Native American literature. The stories are joined today by contemporary Native American voices including
ReplyDeleteLuci Tapahonso, Leslie Marmon Silko, and Simon J. Ortiz. These writers connect their oral literature with contemporary works. That is, "they merged the past and present." What is common between the new stories and the old stories is that they begin with the land. However, the difference between them is that the first are written while the latter were spoken. The secret of the strong relationship between Native Americans and land is because the lives close to the land. As a result, this interaction is shown in their literature. The American Indians are deeply connected with the earth that if the want to understand themselves better, they return to the stories of the earth. This because they "emerged from the earth and are of the earth." Their language is also important in order to keep their literature from being lost. The new stories of the Native American authors deal with contemporary issues such as immigration, assimilation, and identity. These written stories are a kind of bicultural contact.
Luci Tapahonso is one of the most famous Native American authors. In her poem "They Are Silent and Quick," she combines the Navajo language with English. She narrates stories within her poems. What is more interesting is that she connects the Navajo creation myth with her personal experiences. For example, in her poem "A Breeze Swept through," she tells the story of her relationship to her daughters by borrowing from the Navajo origin myth.
Another famous American Indian author is Simon J. Ortiz. His poetry reflects the present state of the Native Americans. He shows the changes in their landscape because of the industrial development, and how they are tired as a result of the three American wars in which they were recruited. For example, in World War 2, large numbers of them were taken away to fight, and they did things that were against their values. They engaged in a completely new thing that they have never heard or seen. This war had a great influence on the Native's conventions. That is, they had to invent new ceremonies to cope with this problem. If people stick to a specific tradition, and they are not able to adapt to new situations, this will lead to their end.
Silko connects the past oral tradition with present one by creating new myths out of the ancient ones. She tells stories about her family in her book Storyteller. She believes in the power of the stories to bring the Native Americans together.
Some anthologists say that Native American oral tradition had died, while others say that it is something that happened and still ongoing.
The contemporary writers who renew the oral tradition go to stories that heal illnesses of the modern world. Such writers believe in the power of the word to make changes in the modern world.
•Oral traditions is message transmitted orally from one generation to another.
ReplyDelete•The song of speech take from the folklore, saying, ballads, songer, or chants.
•Oral tradition is important in all societies because all poeple shold study the past accurtely.
•Oral traditions can be categorizd into different type including lengends, myths, folktales and memorates.
•The passing along of knowledge, from one generation to the next, by word of mouth. “ Oral tradition “ is also the name given to the body of knowledge passed on this way.
•Most literature is oral tradition.
The changing is oral traditional of the Native America Literature and many writers thing to join their oral. Literature and work hard to keep their oral traditional.
At the beginning, the stories in American native takes many issues that relate with immigration and identity and the land. For example, Luce Tapahano was famous Native American auther, she create one at least of myth from her life and make relationship between the Navajo origin myth.
In general the native American wrote many stories and oral traditionthat are give to people to make attractive sence in their history and they give tips to people to be strong in their life.
On the other hand, they consider the changing in their life and they own the power in their speaking of the word and also the sound has a power, they believe that people should speak in their language that contian the values, thoughts, and culture and the people shouldn’t stop that because these things will be gone and disappeared.
* There is a profound respect for the world in the oral tradition.
ReplyDelete* Land is very important for native American, if you hold land it will hold and carry your life.
* Simon Ortiz, Leslie Silko, and Lusi Tapahanso are part of new native voice.
* You do not have anything if you do not have stories. These stories like the old began with the land.
* Stories that we are of the earth, so we connected to a place, so when we want to understand ourselves we must study land. And the land told these stories.
* Most literature of the world are from traditions. Songs and stories hold between generations. What you study will go in the next generation.
* Today native writers create new stories talked about contemporary issues but at the same time they maintain their own identity. They write in English and they use many aspects from the native cultural context ( oral tradition).
* World war 2 is the first time that native people taken a way to fight in ugly war and killings. They did not know the experience of war. So world war 2 takes special significance for native writers.
* Ceremonies began to shift when white people came and change in ritual.
* Oral tradition are not static they are things continue going, and relate them to the present and future to make the identity.
* Silko concentrated in her writing about ceremonies and about her family. But Ortiz and tapahanso were writing about land and storyteller.
* Native writers give people sense of their history they are not just telling story but give identity of native American, and talk about the heart of the culture of American.
At the begining of this video, we want to talk about the Native American literature, and what are the changes that happened for them. I think this video appears that the oral traditions are the important point for Native Americans. There are a lot of writers who connect and join a literature with works. And also they interested in traditional stories that they considered it very useful for themselves such as Luci Tapahonso, Simon J.Ortiz, and Leslie Marmon Silko. That means they connect the new thing with the old. For example, they interested in the new stories and connect it with the old stories that they knew in the past. There is a strong relationship between Native Americans and their land. This reaction is appeared in their literature. Shortly, Native Americans are connected with their land, and they interested in their literature strongly. When we talk about the American indians, we say if they want to understand themselves in the best way, they are connected themselves with their earth. They talk about the origin stories from the begining. For example, they make refresh to their writings to keep their literature from being lost. So, they move their literature and their writings from generation to another generation. In addition, there are many writers and poets who want to express their feelings, customs, traditions, life styles, and their stories during their poems. For instance, in our book, Anne Bradstreet was expressed about her feelings in her poet "Upon the Burning of our house" Here luci Tapahonso in her poem "A Breeze Swept through" talks about a particular story; she tells her relationship to her daughter. She creats a myth from her life, and she makes relation between the Navajo origin myth. Finally, these stories give the Americans a strong aim to rewrite their literature during their experience with a modern way.
ReplyDelete-This video about the oral tradition of the nation American, ancient stories are still be told today by the new native voices.
ReplyDelete-Three writers raised in neighboring south West Indian nation: Leslie Marmon silko, Simon J.Ortiz, Luci Tapahanso are part of new native voice, they told stories these stories lie the old begin with the land.
-The story about their existence said that they emerged and that they are connected to place and in order to now their selves at any level, they need to return to the earth in the story that associated with that.
-If the people do not remember or if they no long speak the language the tradition, the stories, and the value of these stories will be gone next generation.
-Today’s native writers describe a deep power to the stories telling as we hear Leslie’s novel “ceremony”
-In this video Luci Tapahanso read something from one of her poem, which is silent and quick. She tells story in her poem and she borrowed from the Navaho creation myth to tell her relation with her daughter.
-Native American modern literature spokes to the heart of the American experience
The general idea about the American Indian is a profound respect to the world, and to the big power of the world. And through that respect and believe they can fight against death and illness .
ReplyDeleteAnd the Indian writers like: Silko, Tabahanco, Ortez) through their writing they compiled contemporary Indian experience with ancient connection to the land, culture, story telling, they wave they tradition to contemporary writing.
The Indian have this idea which is: the existent that they emerge from the earth and they are from the earth and they connected to place. And in order to know themselves at Indian depth, or level they need to return to the earth.
And during the pictures I saw and what I heard, the oral tradition of the Navaho are: dancing, ceremonies, object in painting. And literacy was in English, like reading and writing. And if people stopped speaking the language, the principle, the value, the tradition, and the stories. And it will be gone the next generation and that is important.
The connection with the earth was pretty obvious I the literary format, that the writers create their tradition in it. Like Tabahanco in her poem (priest swept through)she is talking about her relationship with her daughter she start talking about a holy person, and she said: she is born, 4times . and that connect to the birth of the Navaho value of the harmony. And ortez has document and remembered textually those story and that culture and he do it in a way that many ways mix the oral tradition. Also, silko talked in her ceremony about a Japanese man who suffered in the world war 2 and, and how he turned to the tradition and to the earth to heal after the pain he had, to find peace, and justice. And she write in her ceremonies a conflict between good and bad, connection and not connection. So she heals from the illness of though modern world. What all the writes try to say is: our understanding to the world can affect the change in the world if we understand the power of the world ilke they did.
-The film at the first five minutes express the Native American roots, their historical and cultural roots, and how they are connected with their land. The writers express that Native American have civilization, stories songs, and ancient oral tradition. As they said, the modern Native American writers connected temporary American Indian experience with their ancient culture. Rex Jim and Paula Allen said that we should connected with the earth which told us the stories. In these minutes many pictures appeared like fire which represents power, eagle is a traditional symbol to them, chains which are maybe give us a hint about how Native American suffered and faced many obstacles . and the picture of old trees which represent the history of them and how they are connected with the land as these trees.
ReplyDelete- The native writers are inspired by old tradition and native language. They wrote modern stories which have relationships with their old culture. They stated how their own language is important and how if the people stop using it, the principles, songs and stories will be gone. In the film, Tapahonso used her old language beside the English language to show how she is related to her past. The picture of old building and very old woman said that they have old tradition and they resist to protect their own culture as this woman who didn’t change.
- Luci Tapahonso continued talking about her old language proudly, and she said “ there is no English word to describe this feeling. This because everyone can use his own language more easier than the one which he learn it and is related to others. The picture of sun it is image of freedom and rebirth to their own tradition. The film show a man is making pottery, and this is related to the land, and make the person return to his origin when he make it.
- The writer talks about the war when the Native American joined the service of the American army. And how their people greeted them when they returned, while they did not know the condition of the war. This what the novel of ceremony expressed. Many pictures of Native American appeared, they wore modern and American clothes, and they put the American flags in their houses . This show how they adapted and melted in the American society without knowing the consequences.
- Silko talked about how she listened to traditional songs and stories, and she felt it’s power. So she wrote about it in their books. Tapahonso stated how language constitute the identity, she was wearing tradition jewelry. There is also a picture of horse which is related to their land and tradition.
- At the last five minutes,the writers voiced their concern with the American Indian literature and how they used it to express the tradition and nationhood. Tapahonso talked about this with sad voice which tell us how she is strongly related to her origin and want it to remain.
The renewal in American Indian literature that made by new native voices contemporary authors in characteristics of Navajo and Pueblo oral traditions,
ReplyDeleteWhich joined with the ancestors in their historical roots and ancient civilization such as Zoni, Hopi and Navajo . Three writers from the Southwest: Luci Tapahonso (Navajo), Simon J. Ortiz (Acoma Pueblo), and Leslie Marmon Silko (Laguna Pueblo), they combined the contemporary American Indian experience with ancient connection to the land, culture and stories, telling the profound respect to the oral traditions, and the strong relationship to the land "The land told us the stories", and that’s what really their literature reflex.
The importance of the respect to the language which is carry the stories with its values and principles will come up with the next generation, and that what they hope to convey to the other generations. These contemporary authors create new stories addressing contemporary issues of immigration, assimilation, and identity as a part of literary conventions. Luci Tapahonso creates and renewal the ancient Navajo creations myth in her poem" A Breeze Swept Through " to tell the story of her relationship to her daughter .
Simon J. Ortiz's writing reflects the experience of the native Americans in the wars and the special significance of its effect by the way, especially in WW11. By these effects its become necessary to create a new ceremonies. Almost Changing situations require to be flexible and not to be stick to the specific traditions.
Silko's novel Ceremony deals with the ancient ceremony and stories of her culture and the modern world and "she feels the power which the stories still have to bring the Americans together".
oral tradition can be lost ,and can be ongoing. But these writers believe in the power of the word to change the world.
[Part one]
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Oral tradition is one of the traditional aspects of any civilization that occurred on this earth and continues to survive because they have a profound respect of the power of the word.
These traditions have a very close relationship with the land because it creates these stories by waking up the human articulation. In order to know and evaluate themselves at any level, any depth people have to return and venture to the land and the stories that are associated with it.
Oral tradition is not just the spoken word. It contains a wild range of various aspects for example dancing, clothes, ceremonies, objects, materials and instruments.
Most of the spread stories can not be found in books. They are oral traditions. Homer, for example, was a great Greek oral poet of the Illume epic.
These stories are preserved by invariant it from one generation to another besides learning their original language. As they see the language is the only instrument to protect these stories, poems, and songs from being forego.
South west America, for instance, was the cross road cultures of the ancient world tribes such as Navajo and Acoma Pueblo as well as the cowboys and strip miners to the modern technological life as in nuclear science. A number of contemporary native voices emerged and try to combine the Indian American experience to the ancient correlative relation with the land, culture and story telling. The land is the main factor that indicates the strong relationship with the people because they emerged from it. Even though native writers chose mythical, historical, and personal voices, they stick to talk about the same issues for example, immigration, assimilation and identity. They write it in foreign English language in order to put these stories in a cultural context and presenting the bicultural experience alike.
Luci Tapahonso a descendant from the Navajo used her poems to retell her tribe traditional stories such as the origin creation myths.
[Part TWO]
ReplyDeleteAnother instant is Simon J. Ortiz from the Acoma Pueblo which is the oldest inhabitant city in the United States. He used his literal works to express eagerly the native lifestyle by documenting the culture and stories of his tribe. As he backlogged he believed that it is his responsibility to jot down the memories not just as past events but as active and useful stories for the present as well as the future. His poems dramatize disorientation in America where Indians are reduced to sports mass Scott. He also talked about the spoil of the sacred landscape with the industry expansion and development. Moreover, he characterized the brokenness of the Indian warrior experience in three wars. He chose to put an image of a horse on his book cover to show the broken identity and the possibility to re-immigrate.
In general, World War II was the harshest experience for the Indians in America. This period occupied a wild territory in the native records significantly. It was the first time the Indian has to leave their houses because they were chose to join the military serve. They were taken away from their ordinary social harmonizing community and were put in the ugliest battle field where they were forced to committed unethical doings such as killing innocent people.
Native writers wrote about the Vietnam war was also. They focused on the post affect of this war upon the soldiers who went to fight there. For example, Silko in her novel Ceremony talked about the affection of this war on soldiers.
People are usually persuaded to go back to these oral traditions because they have a remedial prescription. It can heal from any sort of pain and relief at the same time. It has a strange power because it is not as books that provide you with certain information. This progressive power is derived throughout engaging the person in certain practices to make him feel that he is a part of the story. They saw in these traditions the only cure for the contemporary diseases and illnesses. These oral stories play an active role in strengthen the social life by bringing people together. Oral tradition is not static that happened long time ago, it is important to predict and see the future obviously, meanwhile explore their roots and enable them to identify their identity. They are also useful because it interprets the power of the world
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ReplyDelete*There are many characteristic things in the history of any nation’s life. As you will see in the Native American life and traditions. Specially; the oral tradition, which gives the respect to the all world.
*The story gives you the power. So if you don’t have the story...you don’t have any thing.
The ancient stories not just brought back by the new native voices, but also they insert new thing in it.
*The ancient civilization has had many examples like Zone, Hopi and Navajo.
The new native voices like the old one start with the land in their story. Why? Because as they said: we emerge from the earth, we strongly connected to the place, and if we want to know our selves! We must return to the earth (land), and to the story which talk about it.
*The oral tradition not just the spoken part. It's the dance, the ceremonies, and the objects that we use in the ceremonies. For example the painting, what you wear, the dance it self. All of these are messages and information you can read and see.
*If people didn’t use the language in their tradition, like songs, stories, poems. The language will disappear and die in the next generation.
*They make connection between past and present literature. So myth becomes history becomes memoirs becomes myth. Here we have Leslie Mormon silko and Luce Tapahanso. New native voice creates myth from their life then they make a relation to the Navajo origin myth. By this they create new forms and new tradition.
*Tapahanso in one of her poem borrow a myth from the Navajo creation, to tell the story of her relationship to her daughter.
*Simon Ortiz was born in the” sky city” or Acoma Pueblo. He uses the horse image to represent remigration and identity.
*The Indian suffered from three American wars, but for the native voice the second war benefit the writing very much and lead them to writ stories. Moreover" WW2" was the first time for the Indian man to leave his land or to be taken away from it. To join the army and did many ugly battle, killing other people "experience of war" things they never seen or did before.
*Silko in her first novel (Ceremonies) tells the similar story of house made of down; about pueblo war patterns.
*Many people after WW1 and WW2 lose their belief in god and justice. But silko and other writers didn’t deny this and they wrote about it to make benefit from it in the future.
*Simon, Lucy connected myth and land.
*Oral tradition is not some thing static just happen but it is still going on.
*The new voices have the responsibility to renewing oral tradition because the word has the power, the energy, and the life.
*Finally the three writers tells new stories that all is old, but still the same story. They did that to let the people know about their own history even they are Navajo or not, and this will show them their way to their future because it speaks to the heart of the American experience.
This video talks about Native American literature
ReplyDelete-Oral traditions are profound respect for the powerful world.
-We are from the earth, so if we want to understand ourselves, we must return to the earth. As what Rex Lee Jim said, `we emerge from the earth so we are strongly connected to the place. And in order to know ourselves in any level, in any depth, we want to return to the earth, to the story associated with that.
-There were many native writers, like luci Tapahonso, Leslie Marmon, and Simon J. Ortiz; they compete with each other to reject the past and the present to make a connection between them.
-Stories are very important to understand other world, so if you do not have stories you don not have any thing.
-The story tell us about the land, which no body made it, and the land tell us the story, so we have to understand the oral tradition, not to focus on the word. There were dances, ceremonies, objects, all that will help us to understand the content level, information, that can we read.
- If the people do not remember the stories, or they do not speak the language, every thing will be gone, like the tradition, stories and the value in the story.
-We are part of the process, and we still people, not all the thing that we create is fixed like what our god’s said.
-Today native writers describe the story telling as what we hear. Also they create anew stories addressing contemporary issue of imagination, assimilation, and identity.
-Native American writer share with the American experience, so they can write about it.
- Lucie used the poem to tell the story; she used some of narrative in her poem. Her creation the myth; to tell the story of the relationship to her daughter
-The story about the rebirth of the world, in the poem she tell it for many time.
-The ceremony gives us the direction, and the song will show to us the write direction. Also it is the time to create a new ceremony because god will keep it.
-Many people faith in God, injustice, insensible word, Silko’s talked about that, he said that it is away to integrate the experience that happen, and put it between the good and evil, connection and disconnection.
During my watching to this film I understood many things about Native American voices:
ReplyDelete*The oral tradition of Native American is profound respect for the world.
*Sories are just all what they have to fight illness and death; they don’t have any thing if they don’t have stories.
*Acient civilization for Native American, has many names of tribes passed over,
Zoni, Hopi and Navajo, are examples.
*Form this land stories will born and the stories will tell us about ancient oral tradition.
*Three writer raised in Leslie Marmon Silko, Simon Ortiz and Luci Tapahanso,
They are part of new native voices and have American experience with ancient connection to the land, culture, and story telling.
*They changed all their traditions into complex contemporary literary works, and all these stories like the old began with the LAND.
*As Rex Lee Jim said, that they are from this land and they are connected to the earth, and in order to know themselves they need to return to the land.
*The land told the stories and then we got them into human articulation.
*Most of the literature in this world is written about oral tradition. Which is not only spoken.
*Most of the writer writes about in new issues like contemporary issues of immigration, assimilation and identity.
*Luci Tapahanso use in here poem a myth which from Navajo creation myth and connect it with her daughter and how the relationship is create.
*WWII takes a special significance because it was the first time that native people taken away from their own land.
*The changing to the ritual happened when the white people attacked, so it becomes necessary to create new ceremonies.
* Native American modern literature speaks to the heart of the American experience.
Oral traditions join native American with teir land. The stories meant alot for them. Three writers(new native voices)risen from southwest India nation: Silko,Luci Tapahonso, and simon Ortize, they compined India experinces with anctionts. Their stories are like the old begin with land which tells them their stories. The forms of the traditional cultures are dancing, cermonies, parties, and what they wear and these forms give us messages and information about how did they live. Many contemporary native writers make connections with the mythic world, for example, Luci's poem(A breez swept through)in which she is connecting the birth of her daughter to Navoh value of harmony completion.
ReplyDelete1. Traditions are important to the next generations.
ReplyDelete2. Traditions can be sumariesed into stories oraly.
3. Native Americans managed to tell way of there lives by stories.
4. Every nation must hav traditional stories.
5. Every generation must pass his cultural stories to the next generation in order to servive.
6. These stories are simple and easy to understand.
7. Traditions are the source of these stories.
8. Native americans consider these stories as a source of power.
9. These stories can also be told into poems or songs.
10. Many poems talk about america.
11. These traditions gives the people their idintity .
12. These stories are evidences of belonging to a land.
13. Many native american stories talks about their suffering.
14. Good and evil are main subjects in native american sories.
15. Native americans had a good family relations.
16. We have to think about these stories when we read them.
17. These stories can be useful in the future.
18. These stories can solve many social problems.
19. These stories has a great kind of literature.
20. We can use these stories to inprove our literature these days.
* The oral tradition is profound respect for the power of the world. By this vedio show us the importance of the heritage to the native American's everything in their heritage had it's own important, such as the stories about the native Americans, these stories are very important for htem because they thought that if they didn't have stories to tell, then they did'nt have anything. As aresutl, the stories carred out alot of the informations which were very important to tell us about people and culture and identity that we didn't know about them before.
ReplyDelete* Leslie Marmon Silko, Simon Ortiz and Luci Tapahanso are part of new native voice who combining contemprorary American Indian experience with ancient connection to the land, culture and story telling. These three writers showed us different things about their Oral tradition and identity. The oral tradition tells stories about the land that nobody made them up and the land told the stories and then we got them into human articulation. The land tell us the stories it's not spoken words its all the cermonies like music and songs, stories which carried out by generations.
* If the people cant understand and know the language our stories will be gone. So it was very important for them to know how much the land was important. It's everything they had, it's representing their culture and identity and their heritage.Which included the stories that were old began from the land, which thy emerge from the earth, and so they strongly connected to the place and in order to know their selves at any level they need to turn to the earth and the stories that associated with it.
* when the World War 2 was started, alot of the Indian men were choose to fight in ugly was and killings. Although, they didn't know to fight and the experince of the war.
* Like these contemprorary writers take the responsibility to keep their tradition active and keeping it alive, by documenting and remembering all their memories from their tradition. For example, Luci Topohanso used here poems to tell a completely stories like some of here poems were talking about the Navaho myth. As Rex Lee Jim said," the three myths become history and the history bcome memoir". And Simon Ortiz who born in Acoma Pueblo, documented his culture stories, by using the image of the horse as identity and remigration in his poems.
* In Silko book " Ceremony" was talking about a story of the cerremony it self.
* Finally, all the contemproray writers were sharing the same goal of talking about their identity abd ethnisity that hare is the land and here is there tradition and here is America.
The native American traditions was and still being practiced as oral stories, dances, ceremonies and the way of dressing. It is mainly shows their strong connection to the land which come from their belief that they emerged from the earth and the fact that they are from the earth. All their traditions were passing from generation to generation orally without recording it in documents UNTIL the time of Europeans arrival to the new world and becoming part of America.
ReplyDeleteIt was a fact that this is a new nation that native Americans are suppose to live side by side with the new settlers, so the native American concern about saving their tradition and culture as an important part of their identity as native American which is an unalienable part of the hole American identity.
As a result of the development, the Indian-American way of life changed. The tribes( Zuni, Hopi, Navaho, Bueblo ) became caw boys, scientists, strip miners. In other words they become citizens of the development society of America the new nation. Moreover, to build this new identity which is a combination of the basis, the old traditions, and adapting the new life native American writers record their oral stories, not just that but also renew them to adapt the new life and become part of it because literature is an important role of shaping identity.
Native American contemporary writers were writing fore a purpose, not just to produce literary works, but taking into consideration that if the language of these oral traditions no longer use this mean they will be forgetting as the language that carrying them. From that point writing them in English begin, not just to record but to build new literary works emerged from the three voices (myths, history, personal). In using all these elements, the native American contemporary writers show their subjectivity in building new literary complex literature. Also they are addressing issues of integration, identity, assimilation as Americans.
One of the native American contemporary writers is Luci Tapahanso from Navaho country. She is a poet, in her poems she told complete stories, in that stories she was moving between past and present, myths and personal experience, between English and Denay (Navaho language) . fore example her poem " they are silent and quick".
Another writer is Simon J. Ortiz from Acoma Bueblo country. He was documenting the original stories in a way to mimics the oral traditions. As a person who grow up in Acoma Bueblo he represents a larger metaphor of native way of life. Ortiz poems represented the disorientation in America at that time when native Americans was treated not equally with others white Americans, also it represents the fracture of identity and the possibility of reintegration after coming out of three frustrating wars.
World war two took special significance in the native American contemporary writers outcome, it was a new experience for native Americans to fight in an ugly war and to kill people. All this affect their feelings in a negative way. In Lislie Marmon Silko's story named "ceremony" this issue discussed. Her story talked about a native American solder who go to the war and get back to his tribe carrying new kind of illnesses, illnesses of the ugly war, emotional illnesses. And how he had been healed by ceremony, anew one that adapt the new illnesses. In ceremony this man was going back to his connection to the land. In the story the writer did it in away that not just telling this new story but also her being part of the myth and the story.
Native American contemporary writers. Luci Tapahanso, Simon J. Ortiz, Lislie Marmon Silko were examples to the coming authors, whom working together to shape the native American identity as a part of the American identity by resisting their traditions and renew it in a way to go along with the development that America is going throw. Because America is what you are now with respect of the all different backgrounds that different American have.