The Truth About Stories: A Native Narrative

Chapter 1

Reading Check

1. a turtle’s back (Chapter 1)

2. stories (Chapter 1)

3. A woman falls from the sky. (Chapter 1)

Short Answer

1. He says that it is turtles “all the way down.” (Chapter 1)

2. She was discriminated against because she was a woman. (Chapter 1)

3. One describes a competitive world and the other describes a cooperative world. (Chapter 1)

Chapter 2

Reading Check

1. Native artists (Chapter 2)

2. They dressed them up to reflect their own ideas about how Indians look. (Chapter 2)

3. Will Rogers (Chapter 2)

Short Answer

1. He was a photographer in the early 20th century who traveled the country taking photographs of Native people. (Chapter 2)

2. Before the Romantic era, Native peoples were seen by the majority culture as inferiors, but the Romantics projected their own ideals onto Native people and recreated their image as the “noble Indian.” (Chapter 2)

3. The imagined Indian who never really existed but who is represented in photographs is what erases the existence of real, living Native people.