Compare and Contrast the Sioux creation story with similar accounts from Genesis in the Bible,

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Native American Stories: Background
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Native American Stories: Sioux Creation Story & Navajo Trickster Tale

Compare/Contrast the Sioux creation story with similar accounts from Genesis in the Bible, especially the role of the natural world in these accounts. (To fully answer this question, you must carefully read the pertinent flood and creation stories from Genesis first. Do not just rely on prior knowledge! For example, after reading the Genesis accounts you should have seen that in Noah’s final set of instructions, he was supposed to get much more than a single pair of certain animal species…) Use specific quotes and examples from the texts to support your answers.
Why do you think Smith depicts the Amerindians as “savage devils”? Is it just cultural biases that are driving his opinions, or could he be thinking of his audience in England? What impressions or ideas would his descriptions give a reader in 1624?
What characteristics of promotional literature are found in Columbus’s Letters OR in Smith’s History and Description of New England? In what ways do you see your chosen author as being honest in his presentation of events, and in what ways do you see him “fudging” the truth or facts? Use specific quotes and examples from the texts in the content to support your answers.
Compare Winthrop’s definitions of “civil liberty” and “natural liberty” from his “Speech to the General Court.” In what ways does his “Speech” exemplify the ideals of a theonomic society grounded on biblical law and mores? In what ways could his definitions of liberty have affected his attitude toward Anne Hutchinson? Use specific quotes and examples from the texts in the content to support your answers.
Winthrop’s opening sentence in A Model of Christian Charity presents a providential world view, in which a sovereign God is in control and all things are in the place he wants them to be, all for the good of man and society. What points or illustrations does he present in the speech to support this view? What is Winthrop’s purpose? Does he have a self-interest in promoting a class structure? Use specific quotes and examples from the texts in the content to support your answers.
Discuss the way(s) in which “The Prologue,” “The Author to Her Book,” OR the poem on Queen Elizabeth reflect Bradstreet’s attitude toward the role(s) of women in the mid-seventeenth century. Or you may discuss how one of Bradstreet’s poem illustrates a Calvinistic philosophy or a rebellion against this theology. Use specific quotes and examples from the texts in the content to support your answers.
At times Rowlandson demonstrates a heroic sense of mission, exhibiting traits under duress that bespeak a remarkable courage and strength of character; at other times, she seems to not always uphold her Christian ideals during her captivity. Discuss her heroism and “backslidings,” to use a Puritan word. If she did assimilate somewhat into the Amerindian culture (i.e. food), why might that be seen as a problem to the Puritans? What is her overall attitude toward her captors and why do you think she feels this way? Use specific quotes and examples from the texts in the content to support your answers.