Navajo Origin Legend Vs White Buffalo Woman

Origin myths are traditional stories pass down from generation to generation. The Earth’s on Turtle’s Back, When Grizzlies Walk Upright, and from The Navajo Origin Legend all revealed different customs, attitude, and beliefs. These aspects showed the lifestyles and culture of each tribe and how they all came to be. Each myths are far original and different, yet at the same time similar. They focused on natural aspects of how the world came to be. In the story of The Earth on Turtles Back, the Onondagas believed in the world came from a turtle’s back, this showed their beliefs in the animals are the original owners of earth and respects for the animals. Similarly, the Modoc’s also have great deference to animals and especially to grizzlies.

Many of the Indians that left with the missionaries were gone for many years and did not know how much had changed back at home. In the story The Soft-Hearted Sioux a young man comes back home after receiving an education from the missionaries. He had left before he was taught how to survive out in the wild. He came back to dying and starving parents. He was brainwashed by the missionaries because he went against his family’s customs and told the medicine man never to come back and that God will save his father. He started preaching God’s words to his people and they left the community. His father was growing sicker and sicker and he needed food. His son went out everyday trying to get something but had no skills in hunting. His father had told him to go two hills over and he could find meat. With no concept of ownership, the son went and killed a cow that belonged to an American. Upon leaving with the meat he was chased down and attacked by the “owner” of the cattle. The son accidentally killed the man and fled back to his father’s teepee only to realize that he was too late and that his father had died. He was so conditioned by the white man that he had forgotten his ancestors’ ways of survival.

Native American storytelling has kind of made its way into American culture. Most of the books we read as children have derived from old Native American legends. Books like Coyote and The Grasshopper, The Legend of The Bluebonnet, and Arrow to The Sun. Since these books are some of the more popular ones with everyone reading them the Native Americans legends will continue to be passed on. Most of the books teach children important lessons. They teach right from wrong, what you should do and what you shouldn’t do. The stories teach children to never forget where they came from and always stay in touch with your roots.

When the woman, fell from the Sky World and was on the turtle’s back, she created the earth out of some dirt, by walking around it and planting the roots from the sacred tree (41). This shows us that the Iroquois believed that humanity was here to work and carve the land to how we feel it best suits

There is an enormous amount of symbolism in the Navajo Creation Story. One important symbol is the number 4. The table below lists several aspects of the story that are related to the number 4.

“One general truth that threads throughout the Native American spiritual beliefs is the belief of the Mother Earth spirituality” (Coll). They often called earth their mother and called father the air. The earth to the Natives is very sacred to them and is the most important thing to them. Most of the ceremonies were in some way revolving around the earth and they called earth “home.” Most of the ceremonies were practiced for many years and were passed down through generation to generation. The Native Americans didn’t have a book like the bible or any language that was written. One big thing they had was Totems. These were everywhere in their tribes and it was supposed to represent people and the animals that represented them. The Indians were supposed to have 7 spiritual animals and the many animals on the totems were supposed to represent all the person’s spiritual

Storytelling continues to be an integral part of Native American culture, providing us with an understanding of what was important to the Native Americans. Through their stories, Native Americans expressed an understanding of the environment, and the relationship that existed between themselves and their environment. These stories also provide us with a look at Native American legends, history, and a collection of knowledge critical to their survival. Native American stories are deeply rooted in their relationship with Mother Earth. Their many years connected with land, life, water and sky has created many stories explaining these important bonds with Mother Earth. From ancient times the Native Americans have looked to their

Every culture has their own way of life, their own religious beliefs, their own marriage beliefs, their own values and feelings on life and the options it has to offer. Each culture has their own way to run things within their own government, and own way to keep their economy up to their standards. Also each culture and society have their own primary mode of subsistence that makes them unique. Among the Navajo culture their primary mode of subsistence are pastoralists.   Pastoralists have an impact on different aspects with in the culture.   The aspects that I will be discussing will be the Navajo’s beliefs and values, economic organization, gender relations and sickness and healing.

The myth of the Navajo Origin Legend was about people of a culture thinking that if they did certain things they would find It helped them. The women of the group washed and cleansed themselves. Rubbed corn meal on them and used different ones for each color of the corn. The gods would appear and bring corn feathers and buckskin. The wind forms the corn into natural human beings. They placed corn over the buckskin and laid it a certain way. The life of the wind turned the corn into humans.

The Navajo, also known as the Diné, are one of the largest Native American Tribes in the world. Their culture is made up of very distinct and unique characteristics that have been passed down from generation to generation. They have been taught to adapt to their surroundings and to the land. Each moral, standard, belief and value are what make the Navajo so unique to the Native Americans. In the following, their primary mode of subsistence, kinship system, beliefs, values, and economic organizations will be briefly examined to gain a better knowledge of the Navajo culture.

Today same the past in the Native American Culture (USA and Canada) the White Buffalo is synonymous of Peace, harmony and balance in their life. Miracle, the Sacred White Female Buffalo Calf, was born on the farm of Master Wolf in Hollywood near Miami City. All the community of Native American are happy, they talk about the new times is coming, and the Prosperity is for all the world, is not a dream is a reality to share every time in the new path. I hope the humanity receive this gift of the Great Spirit with humility and gratitude.

Like a coin dropped between the cushions of a couch, traditional oral storytelling is a custom fading away in current American culture. For Native Americans, however, the practice of oral storytelling is still a tradition that carries culture and rich history over the course of generations. Three examples of traditional oral stories, “How Men and Women Got Together”, “Coyote’s Rabbit Chase”, and “Corn Mother”, demonstrate key differences in perspectives and values among diverse native tribes in America.

The motifs found in the creation myths are undoubtedly different from those found in any other type of myth. Contrary to popular belief, the purpose of the creation myths is much greater than a primitive attempt to explain the mysteries of creation. Behind each creation myth is a vast variety of symbolism along with a number of motives which are often shared between cultures, despite vast geographical differences. My intention here is not only to discuss the purpose of the creation myths, but also to compare and contrast common themes which can be found in three selected works. These being, an Eskimo creation myth, the Ongwe creation myth and the Navajo creation myth.

I say that the myth that provides an anthropological insight is the one with the white buffalo woman she is a cultural hero as in paragraph one it states anthropologists call her a cultural hero she is a woman of many things she teaches the people how to live. She teaches the people how to do life chores and how to set up a sacred display and smoke from the sacred pipe, when she is done she turns into a buffalo and allows herself to be killed so they have meat. White buffalo woman is not selfish one

In The Creation Myths of the North American Indians, anthropologist Anna Rooth categorized and “compiled 300 creation myths” by kind and location (Rooth). Rooth makes myth circumstantial, binding it to those culture and their environment. Through mapping creation myths and categorizing by type, mythology's past “takes on traditional forms of fiction with geographical boundaries” (Rooth). The results of her data reveal more about the present times than the nature of