From your readings of the Introduction, the poems, and the notes included in the textbook, what are the key values of the speakers in these poems? Quote specific examples from the poems to support your stance.

As our book shows us, Native American Oral Literature and traditions were in place when colonizers from Europe arrived. The Introduction section of our textbook talks a lot about what settlers found from the 1630s forward, and all these hundreds of years later, we gather in this class to learn the key voices of our past so that we may find traces of these important voices in our present.
This week, we focus on early native voices as they were written down and shared over time.
Readings p. 3-25
Timeline
Native American Oral Literature 29-57
For this discussion and all discussion in this class, you’ll want to create a complete essay, 5-7 paragraphs. That essay should include an introduction that narrows to a thesis. That thesis should foreshadow the main ideas of your body paragraphs. After the introduction, you want to include 3-5 body paragraphs based on the paragraph plan shared in Module resources. And after the body paragraphs, wrap up your essay with a conclusion, then a Works Cited in MLA format. You are not required to use outside sources, but if you do, cite them also in MLA format.
*remember: no I–no first person allowed in essays.
Each essay should be 250 or more words.
Our question for this week:
In the poetry section of Native American Oral Literature, we read “Cherokee War Song,” and “Lenape War Song.”
From your readings of the Introduction, the poems, and the notes included in the textbook, what are the key values of the speakers in these poems? Quote specific examples from the poems to support your stance.

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