To the American Indian

The other day in discussion an idea came up that bothered me. Was it possible to exhibit survivance without any clear conflict? More specifically, how can one resist when it isn't clear what one is resisting from? To the American Indian seems to be written to document, and it's not clear in its purpose. Does documenting counts as survivance? If that was the case, then almost everything would be survivance, which would be redundant and problematic. The author in the American Indian makes a point to tell certain stories over others, perhaps this concept exhibits survivance better. I'm not so sure.

Popil Vuh

If there is anything I'm not good at it's names. Usually to get around this problem, I usually try to remember the first syllable of each name or connect actions with faces. This method proved problematic when reading the Popil Vuh. Thrust in a world with similar first syllabled names, repetitive actions across generations and the lack of physical descriptions, I don't believe I've ever been more confused. Most of the time I was trying to remember which boy whose name started with H was doing what at what time.