Question

Identify three comparisons bruchac makes between American Indian and Western views of the world

Answer 1

Native Americans would usually use stories to illustrate their culture. They would use oral tradition, which their ancestors had passed on from one generation to another. The oral tradition tells how the Native Americans see the Westerners, which are not often found in books.

Answer 2

Answer: Joseph Bruchac makes several comparisons between Native American and Western Cultures in his essay 'The Sun Still Rises In The Same Sky: Native American Literature.'

Explanation:

Joseph Bruchac was born on October 16, 1942, in Greenfield Center, New York. He is a poet and storyteller, authoring more than 120 books. Bruchac is from the Abenaki, a Native American tribe, from his mother's lineage. The interest to write Native American stories were inherited in Bruchac as a part of his cultural heritage.

In his essay “The Sun Still Rises In The Same Sky: Native American Literature”, Bruchac seeks the audience's attention to often neglected heirloom of Native American literature. He differentiates between Classic Western Literature and Native American Literature to present the uniqueness of Native American Culture. The differences that he makes in the essay are:

1. Oral Tradition: storytelling is a part of Native American literature with a moral and as a practice to pass the literature from generation to generation.

2. Natural World: Native American is more inclusive that the Western Culture, which means that it includes humans, animals, and nature, and in myths and folktales humans and animals are often interchangeable.

3. Metaphors: Bruchac shows that in Native American tradition words are powerful and have life and can make things happen.