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Authors associated with the literature of exploration were first and foremost writers.

The literature of exploration and Native American accounts have always been reconized, valued, and included in the American literary canon.

In his Report of the First Voyage, Columbus says the island natives he encountered thought he came from the sky. 

While the European concept of the Great Chain of Being established animals as inferior to humans and the Bible was understood to grant man dominion over the animals, the Native American stories suggest a sense of equality with the animals and the rest of nature.

The Puritans came to the new world with the goal of building a community constructed around religious principles that could stand as a model—a “_________________”  as Winthrop put it—for a Christian community.

The literary canon in American literature is a bronze statue of a canon on display in Philadelphia.  

King Philip appears in which of the following texts?

This Native American was called “a special instrument of God” by William Bradford:

The huge popularity of The Day of Doom is evidenced by

Trickster stories often begin with a pregnant female falling from a sky world into a watery world.