1.       What does it mean to call a work "American"?
2.     What does it mean to begin a class about American literature and identity with Native American oral stories?
3.     What are the possible consequences of translating a story into not only another language, but into another genre (i.e. from an oral story to a written story)?
4.      What are the possible roles or functions of creation stories/trickster tales in a culture?