Assignment
Choose one of the questions below for your discussion response. Your response must be 150-200 words.
1. Put yourself in the place of a group of Native American leaders presented with opportunities to develop coal and natural gas resources on sacred tribal land, which would involve allowing toxic wastes to be dumped. If you agree to these deals, your people will get much-needed financial resources to develop schools, hospitals, and industries to provide jobs. If you do not agree, the sacred land will be preserved as the symbolic "center of the universe." What would you do and why?
o Research must be conducted. Provide thorough responses based on researched information.
o Google search topics such as Native American Land and Natural Resource Developement, and Protecting Tribal Natural Resources.
o Place sources in MLA format underneath your response.
o 10 points will be deducted for not citing source(s). Do not use wiki sources.
2. Compare what you know of your own religion's creation story with either An African Creation Story or The Navajo Creation Story. Briefly share how the stories are similar and/or different.
Before responding to the question you must review:
• William Young's phenomenological method. Seek to understand the creation stories from an adherent's perspective.
• An African Creation Story (Hopfe - textbook)
• The Navajo Creation Story, click on the "Videos" link, click on the "Myths and Creation" folder.
• Navigate through the Myths folder in this week's module for additional information on creation stories.