oral+tradition

=Oral Tradition= · Oral tradition is a passing of songs, stories, and poems from generation to generation by words of mouth. The oral tradition in America has preserved Native American myth and legends, spirituals, folk ballads, and other works originally heard and memorized rather than written down. > . > **Example:** "Before this Earth existed, there was only water. It stretched as far as one could see... (The Earth on the Turtle's Back)." > > This is how Native Americans told myths and stories. Stories were always spoken because Native American tribes never wrote their stories down on paper or anything which could be legible except for totems. Usually, there was one storyteller in the tribe, whom when coming close to death would teach a youth the story to preserve over the years. Not until recently were the stories published for the whole world to know. There was a pass of knewledge in which one member would telll another but for examle in this story they pass on this story in which the turtle took the in its back for the indians to live on, but the quote itself is a tradition of how the earth went on top of the water after it was underwater for so long.

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