Question

As far as we know no people is native to Americans how does the author explain Native Americans?​

Answer 1

Answer:

Native American literature

WRITTEN BY

Erna Gunther

Professor of Anthropology, University of Washington, Seattle, 1941–67; Director, Thomas Burke Memorial Washington State Museum, 1929–67. Author of Art in the Life of the Northwest Coast Indians and...

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Alternative Titles: American Indian literature, Indian literature

Native American literature, also called Indian literature or American Indian literature, the traditional oral and written literatures of the indigenous peoples of the Americas. These include ancient hieroglyphic and pictographic writings of Middle America as well as an extensive set of folktales, myths, and oral histories that were transmitted for centuries by storytellers and that live on in the language works of many contemporary American Indian writers. For a further discussion of the literature of the Americas produced in the period after European contact, see Latin American literature; American literature; Canadian literature; Caribbean literature.