The trail of lightening by Rebecca Roanhorse

Text: “Reckonings”

• Read the Introduction

• Select three short stories by three DIFFERENT Native American women. Please list the stories and the women who wrote them and answer the question below:
• Please place answers under the questions.
• Please cite all information at the end and in the body of the paragraph if needed (ex pg #)

• Question #1
• 1. The introduction of Reckoning presents four common themes among the Native American women authors represented in the collection: life cycles, mythic cycles, healing cycles and cycles of resistance. Which themes were present in the stories you selected?
• Question #2
• 2. Provide examples from the texts and explanations of how they demonstrate the particular themes based on their descriptions in the introduction of Reckoning.