Essential Questions:
1) What elements of nature are utilized and how?
2) How are the poems being presented? Are they being sung? Told orally? Written down?
3) How did poetry influence story telling?
4) Did women write more poems then the men in the tribes? If so what are the differences between the poems?
5) How did poetry differ between Indian tribes? Pacific Northwest tribes? Southwest tribes? Plains Indians? Eastern Woodland Tribes?
2) How are the poems being presented? Are they being sung? Told orally? Written down?
3) How did poetry influence story telling?
4) Did women write more poems then the men in the tribes? If so what are the differences between the poems?
5) How did poetry differ between Indian tribes? Pacific Northwest tribes? Southwest tribes? Plains Indians? Eastern Woodland Tribes?