1. Native Americans of the PNW
Origin Stories/Oral Histories

2. Origin Stories/Oral Histories
Agenda
Review
Objective
Notes
Defining terms
Stories
Preview
Finish Vocabulary – due tomorrow (for full credit)

3. Origin Stories/Oral Histories
Review
Benefits of oral histories
Problems with oral histories

4. Origin Stories/Oral Histories
Objective
Upon completion of this lesson students should be able to…
identify some common characters and themes in Native American origin stories.

5. Origin Stories/Oral Histories
Defining terms (start taking notes)
Coastal Tribes – native groups living west of the Cascades
Plateau Tribes – native groups living east of the Cascades
Coyote – common character in native stories, often creates tribes

6. Origin Stories/Oral Histories
Native perspectives
Commonalities:
Monster destroys
A hero animal kills the monster
Monster’s body parts are distributed around PNW
The body parts represent individual tribes

10. Origin Stories/Oral Histories
Coyote Tale Options:
Killer Mosquito
Coyote and Flint
Cannibal
Sea Monster

11. Origin Stories/Oral Histories
Stories differ from group to group
Four stories in your text
Iltswetsix
Wishpoosh
Coyote
Charger

12. Origin Stories/Oral Histories
Iltswetsix (pg. 90)
From the Nez Perce in SE WA and NE OR
Monster – eating up everybody and everything
Eats Coyote
Coyote takes revenge and slaughters the monster
Each piece becomes a tribe

13. Kootenai and Flathead (severed head)
Page 96
Nez Perce (Blood)

14. Origin Stories/Oral Histories
Wishpoosh (pg. 91)
From groups in the Cascades
Beaver Monster living in Lake Cle Elum
Coyote kills the monster again
Causes the formation of river valleys, Columbia River and lakes
Coyote transforms into fir tree – eaten by monster
Coyote transforms back and cuts up the monster – creating neighboring tribes
Lower body of monster becomes the Coastal tribes

15. Page 96
Yakama (ribs)
Klickitat (arms)
Cayuse (arms)
Nez Perce (head)

16. Origin Stories/Oral Histories
Coyote (pg. 91)
From Clackamas in Western Oregon
Coyote helps Chinook tribe get food (similar to Stephen King-Children of the Corn)

17. Page 96
Clackamas (arms)

18. Origin Stories/Oral Histories
Charger (pg. 91)
From the Skagit in Western WA
Great Flood leaves 5 Indians alive
Two of the survivors have a son
The son creates a new world by covering Earth with a blanket
Wind disperses the new tribes
Charger is known as “New Creator”

19. Origin Stories/Oral Histories
Preview
Continue Oral Histories
Activity
Find a story not in the textbook
Read and compare it to the commonalities identified in your textbook
Turn in Chapter Four Vocabulary (if you have not done so)