In the national bestseller Green Grass, Running Water, Canadian author Thomas King deals with several social and cultural issues, the most prevalent being the perpetual demand on the Natives to assimilate themselves with the predominant Christian Caucasians. King sheds much light on the...
., and thereby acquire a knowledge of the value of property; second, arithmetic, to calculate that value; third, writing, to keep accounts, and here they begin to enclose farms, and the men labor, the women spin and weave; fourth, to read Aseop's Fables and Robinson Crusoe are their first delight. ...
Native American Voices The book of Genesis V.S. The Cherokee creation myth. In the book of Genesis there was a God that created the earth and heaven. On the other hand, in the Cherokee creation myth in the beginning there is only water and a beetle accidentally created earth. In the Cherokee creation myth the animals created the mountains, valleys, etc. ...
