Social Studies

Wendy Salas

15 February, 20:25

Why was Native American literature recorded in songs, rituals, and ceremonies?

A. Most Native American peoples had not yet developed a form of writing.

B. These types of expression are best suited to express harmony with the natural surroundings.

C. The written literature of the native North Americans was unintelligible to Europeans.

D. Native Americans chose to translate their literary tradition into verbal form for the arriving Europeans.