Read the excerpt from "My Heart Is Bursting." I love to roam over the prairies. There I feel free and happy, but when we settle down we grow pale and die. Which of Set'tainte (Satanta)’s central ideas do these details most contribute to? White settlers and Indigenous peoples must live in peace. United States’ soldiers threaten the Kiowa tribe’s way of life. It is vital to the Kiowa tribe that they maintain their lifestyle. The Kiowa tribe is going to stubbornly remain on their land.

Read the following excerpt from The Way to Rainy Mountain by N. Scott Momaday:The young Plains culture of the Kiowas withered and died like grass that is burned in the prairie wind. There came a day like destiny; in every direction, as far as the eye could see, carrion [animal carcasses] lay out in the land. The buffalo was the animal representation of the sun, the essential and sacrificial victim of the Sun Dance. When the wild herds were destroyed, so too was the will of the Kiowa people.Which phrase in the passage most strongly contributes to its overall tone?A.day like destinyB.far as the eye could seeC.lay out in the landD.withered and died like grassSUBMITarrow_backPREVIOUS

How did Native Americans’ conceptions of the spiritual world influence their daily lives?

How did Native Americans’ conceptions of the spiritual world influence their daily lives?Most Native North Americans were animists who believed that the natural world was suffused with spiritual power. They interpreted dreams and visions to understand the world, and their rituals appeased guardian spirits to ensure successful hunts and other forms of good fortune. Although their views were subject to countless local variations, certain patterns were widespread.Women and men interacted differently with these spiritual forces. In farming communities, women grew crops and maintained hearth, home, and village. Native American ideas about female power linked their bodies’ generative functions with the earth’s fertility, and rituals like the Green Corn Ceremony — a summer ritual of purification and renewal — helped to sustain the life-giving properties of the world around themFor men, spiritual power was invoked in hunting and war. To ensure success in hunting, men took care not to offend the spirits of the animals they killed. They performed rituals before, during, and after a hunt to acknowledge the power of those guardian spirits, and they believed that, when an animal had been killed properly, its spirit would rise from the earth unharmed. Success in hunting and prowess in war were both interpreted as signs of sacred protection and power.Ideas about war varied widely. War could be fought for geopolitical reasons — to gain ground against an enemy — but for many groups, warfare was a crucial rite of passage for young men, and raids were conducted to allow warriors to prove themselves in battle. Motives for war could be highly personal; war was often more like a blood feud between families than a contest between nations. If a community lost warriors in battle, it might retaliate by capturing or killing a like number of warriors in response — a so-called mourning war. Some captives were adopted into new communities, while others were enslaved or tortured.

"Why are you following me? What do you want?" The man was afraid. The thing standing before him had the feet of a deer, and its body was covered with feathers. The man answered that the Kiowas were hungry. "Take me with you," the voice said, "and I will give you whatever you want." From that day Tai-me has belonged to the Kiowas.Once I went with my father and grandmother to see the Tai-me bundle. It was suspended by means of a strip of ticking from the fork of a small ceremonial tree. I made an offering of red cloth, and my grandmother prayed aloud.Which statement best compares the tones of the two passages?A.The first passage tells the story of the Kiowa people to achieve an instructional tone, but the second passage uses personal experience to achieve a reflective tone.B.The first passage uses sensory-based language to achieve a reflective tone, but the second passage uses factual descriptions to achieve an informative tone.C.The first passage teaches a lesson to achieve an enlightening tone, but the second passage uses historical information to achieve an objective tone.D.The first passage tells the story of the Kiowa people to achieve an instructive tone, but the second passage teaches a lesson to achieve an enlightening tone.

She was ten when the Kiowas came together for the last time as a living Sun Dance culture. They could find no buffalo; they had to hang an old hide from the sacred tree. Before the dance could begin, a company of soldiers rode out from Fort Sill under orders to disperse the tribe. Forbidden without cause the essential act of their faith, having seen the wild herds slaughtered and left to rot upon the ground, the Kiowas backed away forever from the medicine tree. That was July 20, 1890, at the great bend of the Washita. My grandmother was there. Without bitterness, and for as long as she lived, she bore a vision of deicide.Now that I can have her only in memory, I see my grandmother in the several postures that were peculiar to her: standing at the wood stove on a winter morning and turning meat in a great iron skillet; sitting at the south window, bent above her beadwork, and afterwards, when her vision failed, looking down for a long time into the fold of her hands; going out upon a cane, very slowly as she did when the weight of age came upon her; praying. I remember her most often at prayer. She made long, rambling prayers out of suffering and hope, having seen many things. I was never sure that I had the right to hear, so exclusive were they of all mere custom and company. The last time I saw her she prayed standing by the side of her bed at night, naked to the waist, the light of a kerosene lamp moving upon her dark skin. Her long, black hair, always drawn and braided in the day, lay upon her shoulders and against her breasts like a shawl. I do not speak Kiowa, and I never understood her prayers, but there was something inherently sad in the sound, some merest hesitation upon the syllables of sorrow. She began in a high and descending pitch, exhausting her breath to silence; then again and again--and always the same intensity of effort, of something that is, and is not, like urgency in the human voice.2Select the correct answer.Which aspect of the excerpt from The Way to Rainy Mountain best exemplifies how American Indian culture and themes can be passed down and changed over time? A. the American soldiers destroying the ancient Kiowa Sun Dance site B. Momaday seeing his grandmother standing at the wood stove on a winter morning and turning meat on a skillet C. Momaday watching and evaluating his grandmother praying in the traditional Kiowa manner D. the slaughter and loss of the buffalo on the American plains E. Momaday admiring his grandmother sitting at the south window, bent above her beadwork