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www-britannica-com-2033		Native American literature | Definition, Characteristics, Examples, & Facts | Britannica			.html	text/html	1617	138	55	Native American literature | Definition, Characteristics, Examples, & Facts | Britannica In these videos, Britannica explains a variety of topics and answers frequently asked questions. Oral literatures North American cultures: Arctic, Northwest Coast, and California Arctic https://www.britannica.com/art/Native-American-literature These include ancient hieroglyphic and pictographic writings of Middle America as well as an extensive set of folktales, myths, and oral histories that were transmitted for centuries by storytellers and that live on in the language works of many contemporary American Indian writers. Oral literature also loses effect in transcription, because the reader, unlike the listener, is often unacquainted with the worldview, ethics, sociocultural setting, and personality traits of the people in whose culture the story was told and set. The terms myth and folktale in American Indian oral literature are used interchangeably, because in the Native American view the difference between the two is a matter of time rather than content. Native American arts	./cache/www-britannica-com-2033.html	./txt/www-britannica-com-2033.txt