Storytelling is the medium which the Pueblo Indians use to educate their children about the land and animals and communicate with their ancestors. ... The story about the Pueblo people's emergence also serves to describe their relationship with the land and animals due to their interdependence. In the Pueblo culture all plants, animals, and people emerged at the same place at the same time. ... The human beings depended upon the aid and charity of the animals. ... His supernatural powers often come to him from earth and sky spirits in dreams, or are given to him by magicians. ...

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In the nineteenth century, as white Americans proceeded to build and delineate their nation, they carried on a process they had started as colonists, settling a new world, and transforming its landscape, which had been modelled by Native Americans up to that time. Meanwhile, this landscape profoundly affected postcolonial United States. It was a time where one discovered complicated links between material conditions, ideology and power. It affected the physical context of the American environment and the changing experience of American life. The nineteenth century saw the con...

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