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Folklore Teaching Native American Folklore Term Paper
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Multicultural education does not only have to be comparative, however. "Family Drama" tales may lend themselves to creative involvement with the narrative. Children can use modes of expression from modern culture, like creating a play that depicts the different protagonists of a tale such as "The Spider Woman" of the Navajo (Norton 2005: 85). This sense of personal involvement and using everyday objects, even modern artifacts to recreate a myth is a way to make folkloric lessons and Native culture real and relevant.
Threshold tales are also likely to be popular for children, as they examine transitional phases like adolescence or transformation. Reading a book like Storm Boy about the protagonist's "separation, initiation, and return" may be useful to examine during transitional phases, like the end of the school year or the coming of spring (Norton 2005: 86). Change is common to all cultures during childhood, and provides a useful point of connection when children are, for example, going through a Bar or Bat Mitzvah, going away to camp for the first time, or making their first communion.
Combination Tales" that draw upon elements of the other tales would be, for older children, an ideal way to introduce literary genres and points of comparison, a useful method of analyzing literature of many cultures (Norton 2005: 87). What storylines are present in this single tale, a teacher might ask, or ask younger children to imagine what a trickster like the coyote might do, if his tale became mixed up with someone from another tale, like the Spider Woman?
Works Cited
Starr, Christopher. (1999). "Anasi the Spider Man: A West African Trickster in the West
Indies." Arcarology Conference. Aug 1999. Retrieved 18 Mar 2007. http://users.carib-link.net/~rfbarnes/anansi.htm…
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Works Cited
Starr, Christopher. (1999). "Anasi the Spider Man: A West African Trickster in the West
Indies." Arcarology Conference. Aug 1999. Retrieved 18 Mar 2007. http://users.carib-link.net/~rfbarnes/anansi.htm
Norton, Donna. (2005). Multicultural Children's Literature. 2nd Ed. New York: Pearson.
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