Question

Why was Native American literature recorded in songs, rituals, and ceremonies?

A. Most Native American peoples had not yet developed a form of writing.
B. These types of expression are best suited to express harmony with the natural surroundings.
C. The written literature of the native North Americans was unintelligible to Europeans.
D. Native Americans chose to translate their literary tradition into verbal form for the arriving Europeans.

Answer 1

Native Americans didn't have an alphabet to write anything down on. A

Answer 2

Option A.

Step-by-step explanation:

Most Native American peoples had not yet developed a form of writing, is the correct answer.

The native American literature is recorded in the form of an oral traditional because they have this tradition of storytelling and passing it on one generation to another. They didn't have and writing records but they have skills in depicting which can be seen in tipis where they decorated with a battle scene, animals, hunting scene.