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22 Cards in this Set
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Talk Concering the First Beginning
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Zuni
Collage of Origin Stories |
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The Origin Stories
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Seneca
outcast Gaqka, Crow, has flying canoe, goes the mt. and receives stories from man in mt., returns to old community handsome, with girl, with stories >Gift Exchange, Wholeness, Transformation, Tradition |
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Iktomi and the Dancing Ducks
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Oglala Sioux
Man tricks ducks to eat them, but coyote outsmarts him and eats the ducks. coyote kicks man into fire. Trickster Tale |
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Creation of the Whites
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Yuchi
First came over on a log, then ships. Wanted to live on Indian soil. |
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Sayatasha's Night Chant
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Zuni
boy prepares things for priest meeting >#4 special, Gift giving (prayer sticks, seeds), completion, good relationship b/w men and spirits >We have this, because of this |
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Formulas to Cause Death and Secure Love
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Cherokee
Secure Love - man chooses among 7. >red for victory, power Death - stalking, covering w/black, victim's soul is blue >black is death, oblivion >blue is failure, depression |
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Elegie XIX
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Jon Donne
sexual, exploring nation like exploring a woman's body. something to be possessed >powerful justifying exploration |
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Journal of the 1st Voyage to America
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Columbus
Lets Indians think they're Gods. Trying to get to China, lang. of justification exaggerated for Queen >Noble Savages, wanted to convert then to christians |
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Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca
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Cabeza de Vaca
Supported NA slaves until captured. then anti-slavery. wrote about excursions. became a healer and trader. feels lost, no native food, now slave, finds christians undone now. he's become an indian |
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A Modell of Christian Charity
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John Winthrop
Some must be rich, others not. Prep speech for new world. What God does is good, Predestined, no free will |
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The Journal of John Winthrop
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John Winthrop
Against Anne Hutchinson, her baby. she fights hard. Deputy gives grand speech |
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Of Plymouth Plantation
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William Bradford
not written in one setting, allegorical, uses models, plain style >3 threats: wilderness, starvation, greed >hardship bc: repression, satan feels challenged |
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The General Historie of Virginia by John Smith
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Indians want to kill him. "he who does not work shall not eat" Poco saves him.
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New English Canaan by Thomas Morton
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endorses Cavaliers(support King, oppose Puritans)England's colonial effort is being hampered by Separatists and Puritans.
Indians move with seasons, dress scarcly, honor elders, were caring- Noble Savage, more civil than Puritans He writes in essays, cartoonlike,does selling and trading,keeps returning to upset Puritans |
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Sor. Juana Ines de la Cruz
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couldn't hide intelligence or serve a man, mocks sexist men
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The Prologue
The Author to her book To her Father To her Husband In Memory of Grandchild Upon the Burning of our House To My Dear Children by Anne Bradstreet |
Brother vouched that she did, indeed, write it.
She admits you wouldn't expect it from her. Her child is disabled Can't pay off debt He's gone, she's sad All things have a time, but God must have meant for this one It was all vanity anyway, better one in heaven Her autobiography for them-she has questioned her faith Secure in Puritan Hierarchy, stays in line -publishing, uses rhetoric, sarcastic with insultor (builds him way up). Angry w/kids death, can't blame God |
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Autobiography by Thomas Shepard
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Spiritual Autobiography, stories help rationalize bad, look w/in for patterns, must testify faith
Conversion= awaken, relapse, conviction, consolation In the depths of despair, God is calling us back Ed at Cambridge, Marraige men in control (sex good, often, w/o bc) First trip to New World failed, biblical "held by a thread", temptation to love earthly family too much Problems w/ Anne: direct revelations, seeing w/in others, prophesizes their afterlife |
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John Cotton
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Sermon: serve men to serve God, use God's gifts to you, find his calling for you
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God's Determinations
Huswifery Preparatory Meditations by Edward Taylor |
Conceit, dog barking, spinning wheel, crumb of dust, gem in jewelery store, bread to go to soul, bird in cage, mother hen
Preaching about things that were happening (adultery), Looks upon Lord's supper seriously, Peoples souls are temples,Justice and Mercy argue Preparing for sermons and Lords Supper |
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The Selling of Joseph a Memorial by Samuel Sewall
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chronicles of his time: Equality!
typology- an ideal world mirrored below points out wrong that: all men have equal right to liberty, except slaves christians shouldn't be ok with this. Masters need to be good |
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Day of Doom by Wigglesworth
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introspective diary, scared that he can't control his body (wet dreams), compulsion to empty self of bad
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A Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration by Mary Rowlandson
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Captivity Narrative-she tries to hang on to Englishness. she becomes acculturated -eating gross things, different views
people in Eng. read it sensational fantasy. suffering of one is also of all, sufferer turns to God, enacts Calvanist conversion process, like Job in bible, read for colonists to feel better about war, different voices, wrotes years later, language mediates reality, written in removes, loses family sense, obsessed with food, now a savage, keeps bible and hope, removed of security very one-sided, keeps chastity, autonomy(sewing bus., bible), religion Puritans need to limit grieving over others.Signs of Post traumatic syndrome |
