Iroquois Creation Story Summary

What is a reasonable explanation for the purpose of the Native American Creation Stories? Explain the obvious differences in the effects of the creation stories being delivered in the traditional oral tradition as opposed to being read as one written narrative. Think about what happens when stories are told orally and as a "people" instead of from a single author's point of view. How reliable are the narratives as translations of oral tales?

The Seminole Indians are a proud culture with a strong heritage. Many of Seminole Indian tribes used story telling to teach children and young adolescents important life lessons. The legends that the Seminole Indians taught their children can still be used today to teach society important life lessons. Betty Mae Jumper, author of the Legends of the Seminoles, presents stories that teaches respect for the environment, importance-overcoming obstacles, and how to avoid being misled into wicked traps.

First, their language. They speak many languages but i chose the language Ottawa. They speak this language a lot! Second, there location in Canada, which is Southwest Ontario. This location has trees every where.totem poles. The Iroquois moved around following food, so their houses had to be fast and easy. Their houses were made up of branches, birch bark, and t They live in the meadow which have tons of berry bushes where they, of course, get their berries. Lastly, their myth and this myth introduced something new into the world in there own story. It's about how the mosquitos came and a good amount of people died from

Looking through the Cherokee Creation Story a reader can find three different examples of Cherokee culture. The first example of Cherokee culture in the myth found on line two, was that their heaven is called Galunlati. Most creation stories start with some kind of heaven or sky world. In the second example on line seventeen, it states that a Buzzard created a valley. The Cherokee live in the American southeast region which is mostly flat land. The final example of Cherokee culture found on lines thirty three and thirty four, was that women could only have one child per year. Most Cherokee women today still follow this tradition. Though the story did not give very many details a reader is still enlightened with information about the Cherokee

Native Americans were the first people to live in America before any other man came. It is believed that the Native Americans came from Asia way back during the Ice Age through a land bridge of the Bering Strait. When the Europeans first set foot on America, there were about 10 million Native Americans living in America, North of Mexico (“American”). Native Americans had all separated and made their own tribes. Some of the many Native American tribes that still exist are those of the Iroquoian tribes, consisting of five, now six,

All different cultures have their own creation stories, mostly all containing the elements of a Higher Power of some sort, how the power created the world, and the creation a human man. The Christian belief in the Genesis story has these key elements , as does the Iroquois creation myth, The World on the Turtle's Back. Although these two creation stories share similarities, they also have some stark contrasts. These contrasts include, how the two cultures of the Native American Iroquois tribe and then Christians view life and aspects of good and evil, the way each culture views nature and the impact that has on their culture, and finally the way the Christian God and the Iroquois gods are portrayed to

A belief is defines a true statement, something that exists, or the trust and faith in someone or something. We all have beliefs and have obtained those believes individually in many different ways and whose to say that belief is right or wrong, or true or false. As with a myth, a traditional story, mostly believed to be a false idea or false believe.

The creation story of the Ojibwa beginning with nothing but absorbing dark void because in the beginning there was nothing besides that. Nothing. Not until Manitou. Before him there was a possibility that everything that we know and also everything that we didn’t know could exist. Our human mind is not able to be capable of thinking such possibility. No person can imagine such unfathomable powers to envision such foresee of creation. It is unpassable for a human to image such a phenomenon thing and bring it all into existence, that’s why people believe in a high power then them. Some call it as God, Allah, Buddha etc. God’s are all (seemingly) super natural, imaginary some would say! and are a creation of humanity to bring a sense of hope.

Humans across all cultures try to explain why they came to be as well as where they came from, and from these explanations become stories. These stories all begin as oral traditions, they change generation to generation and at some point, they are written down or not. Native American genesis stories are often not written down as they are viewed as detracting from the story, they are meant to be oral stories and once written down they cease to be "alive". The Cherokee tribe has a very interesting origin story, that can lead to some interesting possibilities of where this story could have stemmed from. The Cherokee genesis story originates from an early group of humans crossing the Bering Strait and leaving an impact on their ancestor's memories

All humans are interested in their origins and trying to account for their existence through creation stories. Native Americans tribes are no different from the rest of humanity. The tribes’ stories explain how people came into existence, how they came to be live on the lands they do and the how people interact with nature and each other. These trends can be seen in the legends of three tribes hailing from New England to the Great Lakes Region.

All around the world are different kinds of creation myths on how earth, animals, and life came to be. Not one creation myth is the same to another. Every single creation myth is like a snowflake, unique in its own way. Creation myths can vary on how earth and humanity were created, but all creation myths always have the concept of life. The African Bushmen Creation Myth and Iroquois Creation Myth both are alike and different in many ways. These myths are similar in the way of how each paint a picture of creation. On the other hand, both are very different thus contrasting each other like day and night. In this essay, I will be discussing the similarities and differences in both The African Bushmen and Iroquois Creation Myths.

Many Americans grow up with the story of how God created the universe and all life on Earth, while people from the Iroquois Nation grow up with a different story. While both of these creation stories share the same message and events, their differences are remarkable.

What is man? From a superficial standpoint, man appears fairly simple. Once one begins to pull back the exterior layers, there is more than what meets the eye. With each layer, one realizes that man relies on not only those around him, but also God. Although man is perceived as simple on the outside, there are a great number of things that help him function, and these are only seen once you take a closer look at man himself.

As the Iroquois Creation Story begins, from my point of view it starts stating that just how the good existed there is evil as making reference to the earth having monsters and the mankind. As followed to what nature and unnatural represent since the beginning for example; the woman is representing the mother earth and its spontaneous actions, leading to the twins on the other hand who would help in the representation of balance between right and left. One of the details I saw that the Iroquois Creation focused on the good twin since the moment he was born was nature, the one who in a future would help create the universe we live on now. Not forgetting the faith, in which it represents God in the bible as well. This by him having to have a

"I think God, in creating a man, somewhat overestimated his ability" is a quote from Oscar Wilde. The quote from Oscar Wilde is fitting to both these stories because though the stories sound warm and peaceful, one person always turns evil. In the Iroquois creation story, “The World on the Turtle’s Back” is about a Sky-Woman who falls into the ocean and is challenged to survive with the help of animals. The Sky-Woman creates a daughter with clay and that daughter gives birth to twins whom are good and bad. In the Chinese creation story, “P’an Ku” the god, P’an Ku, separates the earth and sky when he awoke and successfully did so. The gods and goddesses in heaven were amazed at the sight of the Earth that one goddess thought the world needs creatures so it could be walked on. Despite the differences of the two storyline, the similarities/differences between the Iroquois creation story, “The World on the Turtle’s Back” and the Werner creation story, “P'an Ku” is evident through their relationship between humans and nature, relationship between humans and spirits, and its conflict.