Iroquois Articles

The author did a good job of recording and distributing this old Iroquois tales. They used good diction to help describing the scenes and to make them believable in as much of a way as possible. They use a tone that helps best describe the different scenes in a way that not many would be able to considering they are older stories. By using certain tones and theories and different schemes the author helped paint a very important picture. I’m going to explain to you these different examples in this essay as well as give you examples of how the Iroquois story is kept on by these articles.

The first story was about the Iroquois Creation. He described the story just as it was told to him. He appealed to people who may be of some time of Iroquois decent by giving them a history of the tales of their own culture. A lot of people don’t know much about the history of their culture and this author helped do just that. How they described the different sides of the story with the Good Spirit and the Bad Spirit really captured the interest of the reader with all of it’s kind of mysterious feel to it with the whole bad versus good thing. With all of the hardships that Native Americans have experienced, it may be difficult to maneuver around those things and focus on just the actual history, which this author did a very good job of. He focused on the main points of the story by actually telling the tales that were passed down all of these generations without all of the hardships that the future held in store for them at the hands of the Europeans.

The second story is about the Pimas. It’s a story of how the chief of the tribe was afraid that when he died all of the tales, histories, and stories would be lost. The chief’s nephew went searching for somebody at a fair in New York that would take down and publish the stories of his uncle’s tribe. The author used such words as “divine, natural” and “social orders” to help the readers imagine these scenes that took place. They appealed to the audience by using evidence of these tales from actual members of the tribes. By doing this, he helped the world understand a part of the culture and society of some remote Native American tribes that not many people get a chance to experience in their lifetimes.

The last story in this essay is another tale of the creation of the earth. It describes it as an all-powerful being named “Juhwertamahkai.” Now Juhwertamahkai wanted his world to be just as he imagined it. When it didn’t turn out so great, he kept destroying it and starting over with a clean slate. The author helped put a vivid image into your mind by including the fact that he always saved the first person that he created named “Nooee.” The author seemed to tell us that he saved this particular person because they did no certain wrong. They were the first person that he created and Nooee was an almighty being in the eyes on Juhwertamahkai. The author also described how the tale states that the sun was a female and the moon was a male. The sun had a child that she did not have time to nurture so she left him in a matted down area of weeds in a mountain. The child took what it needed to live and grow strong from the earth and this child grew up to be a coyote. By including this, the author proved a point of how awesome the old Native tales could get.

The author proved how created the Iroquois could get with their folktales and how much it impacts the great society that they lead. Many of the most interesting stories are those from the ancient Natives on how life was created, started, and how things came to existence. They captured the essence of the Natives themselves in these articles and did a very well job of continuing the tradition of keeping the “histories” going.