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Little Indians

A Native American Literature Approach

Compiled by:

Diego Andrés Ruiz Soto

María de los Ángeles Páez Niño



Content

Preface

Poems:

The Arrow and the Song.

By: Henry W. Longfellow

Lullaby.

By: Leslie M. Silko. (Laguna Pueblo)

A New Dream. (Wuski A-Baw-Tan)

By: Jennifer Pierce Eyen (Shawnee People)

Stories:

The Boy in the Moon (Vuntakutchin Story)

By: Frances Jenkins Olcott.

Bibliography



Preface

This book of activities for children on their third year of English

Learning is intended to offer little readers a survey of some

adaptations and pieces of Native American Literature.

They will be able to discover a whole panoramic view of the most

important elements of Native American Literature and more

than anything, while they have fun and receive suitable feedback

from illustrations and activities that will provide plenty of

vocabulary and grammar structures in the target language,

teachers will find an excellent tool to make an approach to

literature through the development of the necessary skills for

reading comprehension.



Poems



The Arrow and the Song

By:

Henry W. Longfellow

I shot an arrow into the air;

It Fell to earth, I knew not where;

For, so swiftly it flew, the sight

Could not follow it in its flight.

I breathed a Song into the air;

It fell to earth, I knew not where;

For who has sight so keen and strongThat it can follow the flight of Song.

Long, long afterwards, in an oak

I found the arrow, still unbroke;

And the song, from beginning to end,I found again in the heart of a friend.



Activity No.1

I. Choose the correct answer

1.

The sight could not follow the arrow

because:

a. It could not fly.

b. It flew swiftly.

c. It went to the sun.

d. It flew very far.

2. The song was breathed into:

a. A flower’s scent.

b. A Southern wind.

c. The Air

d. The Ocean’s breeze.

3. Long afterwards he found the arrow and

the song in:

a. A Mountain.

b. A lake.

c. The Earth.

d. An Oak.

II. Read again the last stanza. Draw that

moment when he find the arrow and the

song. Share your drawing with your class.



Lullaby

By: Leslie M. Silko (Laguna Pueblo)

The earth is your mother,

she holds you.

The sky is your father,

he protects you.

Sleep,

sleep.

Rainbow is your sister,

she loves you.

The winds are your brothers,

they sing to you.

Sleep,

sleep.

We are together always

We are together always

There never was timewhen this

was not so.

.



Activity No. 2

I.

Match each member of the family with its corresponding surpassing being.

Mother

Father

Sister

Brother



II.

Look at the little boy sleeping. Think about the Lullaby his mother just sang. Imagine

how his dreams would be and draw the scene.



A New Dream Wuski A-Baw-Tan)

By: Jennifer Pierce Eyen (Shawnee People)

A POEM DEDICATED TO OUR ELDER, HORSE MAN

WHO PASSED OVER TO THE LAND OF THE

DEATH DREAM ONE STORMY NIGHT

I have seen the rain speak

and the wind dance

I have seen the lightning knife

cut the sky

I have seen the hills

at the first light of the day

whispering secrets

to the Southwind People’s ear

I am happy

I am no longer thirsty

I dance a warrior dance

I am not sick, I am free!

This night I dream a new dream!

Now, I come to drink the stars!



Activity No. 3

I. Choose the correct answer:

1. When the rain speaks

a. You may hear the rain falling to the

ground.

b. You may hear the rain drops speaking.

c. You may see words on the sky.

2. When the wind dance

a. Wind comes from the mountains.

b.

Wind blows.

c. You cannot feel the wind.

3. When the lightning knife cut the sky,

it happens because.

a. It is going to rain.

b. It is not raining yet.

c. It is a stormy night.

4. The poem is dedicated to horse-man

who probably was a:

a. Leader.

b. Beloved member of the tribe.

c. Chief.

5.

Horse man was very sick. But at theend he could rest and he:

a. danced a warrior dance.

b. sang a victory song.

c. danced with the stars.



II. Let’s do a mask! Follow these steps and a

nice mask to play the final dance of chief

Horse man.

1. Cut out! Look at the cartoon board

your teacher just gave you. Cut out by

the dotted line.

2. As a real artist… Paint your mask, and

use spark materials and glue. But be

careful with glue… you don’t want to

ruin your art piece.

3. Wear your mask! Now that your mask

is ready, let the fun begin. In groups

tell the horse man’s New ream and

practice your intonation and

pronunciation.



Stories



The Boy in the Moon

By: Frances Jenkins Olcott

Do you see the mark in the middle of the Moon that looks like a

man? Well, that is really a little Indian boy. It happened this way:

Many years ago, there lived a Vuntakutchin boy. One Winter when he

saw that his people had nothing to eat, he dreamed they killed a lot

of Caribou. He told his dream in the morning, and the braves set out

to hunt.

But before they went, the boy made his uncle promise that he would

give him the meat of the leader Caribou. The uncle killed the leader,

but when he came back from the hunt, he gave the boy the wrong

meat, and kept the right meat for himself.

Well, the boy felt so badly that he cried for two nights. And on the

third night he disappeared. He wore Marten-skin pants, and in the

morning his uncle saw the left leg of the pants, hanging to the tent

pole in the hole where the smoke goes out. And when the uncle went

outside the tent, he found that all the Caribou, which had been killed

the day before, had come to life again, and run away.

As for the boy, he had gone up to the Moon, and there he is now,

with one leg bigger than the other, because the right leg has pants on

it. From his hand hangs a little bag full of the wrong Caribou meat,

and during the Autumn and Winter, when the sky is clear, you may

see him standing in the Moon.



Activity No. 4

I.

Let’s find the hidden words. Use different colors to

highlight them.

V U N T A K U T C H I N L Q S

W X C E Q I I A R N A W S I B

Q T S R W D O U H Y I P W L R

Y G J A U G R P U R R U O N A

S E W T M T W I N T E R I B V

T S R L L I O U T A F T U T E

E R S I L N C J M L D Q A L S

N S B H X K S M E R Y D O E T

T H Q K W T H E G N Z Y R X T

F B L E A D E R C A R I B O U

C T S M Y N A G F U E P Y N F

V B D R E Z O P D T X E P O M

R M O O N U G E L U E A D G J

T A B Z R U L N Y M W K J O L

I L V F T Z D S P N N Z S F M

VUNTAKUTCHIN

HUNT

WINTER

AUTUMN

LEADER CARIBOU

TENT

BRAVES

MOON



II. Words Jumble! Take into account the words you just

found in the word search. Once you discover the word

hidden in the mixed letters.

NTHU: ___________

TTEN: ____________

LAEDRE: __________

MNOO: ____________

WNTIER: __________

AUTMUN: __________

VBREAS: ___________



III.

Draw the sequence of the story taking into account the statements.

One Winter, Vuntakutchin people had

nothing to eat.

A Little boy dreamt his people killed

many caribu people.

Uncle promised to Little boy to give

him good meat, after war.

Uncle broke promise. Little boy cried

for two nights.

Caribou people who died during battle

came to life again.

Little boy flied to the moon and

shows himself during autumn and

Winter.



Bibliography

Jenkins, Frances. The Red Indian Fairy Book. Houghton

Mifflin Company. Boston and New York. 1917.

Longfellow, Henry. The Arrow and the Song. 16 september1845. Online text copyright © 2003, Ian Lancashire for the

Department of English, University of Toronto. Published by the

Web Development Group, Information Technology Services,

University of Toronto Libraries.

Osorio-Hoyos-Gómez, The United States in Poetry. A Brief

Anthology. Universidad Pedagógica Nacional. Bogotá, 2007.

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