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when I say Native American tribes you think of Indians banging on drums telling store is there a fire all around North America these tribes bang on their drums telling stories about how things came to be but mostly how we came to be you see in next time around the world they are great God to create the world and everything on it like the Greek creation story for example for most Native American creation story suggests more than those are the most important part of creation and at the world will not exist in animals did not exist you will see that these three great stories from three great tribes in North a long ago let's start with the first and most famous story dismiss comes from the Iroquois tribe manga for the world is created there was an island floating in the sky everything was perfect and no one ever died or was sad but one day a sky woman told her husband she was going to have twins her husband flew into a rage center of the island there was a tree which gave light to the entire Island since the son had been created yet he tore up this tree creating a huge hole in the middle of the island curiously Pier down the hall and at that moment her husband pushed her in and she fell into the waters below the Earth was completely covered in water but animals had already existed on Earth animals like sea animal of the floating island for the sky woman fall and just before she reached the waters they caught her on their backs the other animals turn it to help the woman they drove into the waters to get mud from the bottom of the Seas the animals kept trying and failing to bring up the mud finally little toe tribe play reappear its mouth was full of mud the animals took it and spread on the back of big turtle the mud began to grow and grow and grow until it became the size of North America then the woman stepped out onto the land she sprinkled dust in the air and created the stars then she created the moon and the sun she didn't give birth to she named one sapling he was kind and gentle and so sweet she named the other flipped who became mean and cold hearted I feel the I forgot Creations sampling gate everything good and play give everything bad I destroyed all of saplings work then she decided to fight she got to fill the Earth with their Creations finally fled the bad one was  this quote was taken directly from one of the passages the Iroquois do I had a great respect for Animals this is mirrored in their creationist by the roll the animals play without the Animals help the sky woman may have sunk to the Bottom of the Sea cast me not have been created  the next story comes from the Seminole Indian tribe the semenova cat is that when the Creator the grandfather of all things created the Earth he made all the animals and all the birds and put them into a large shell when the Earth was ready he set them in the Shell along the backbone the mountains of the Earth when the timing is right he told the animals the shovel open and you will crawl out someone or something will crack the shell and you must take your respective places on the face of the Earth the Creator then sealed up the shell and left hoping the panther is favorite an repeat the first to American time passed and nothing happened alongside the shelves to the great tree As Time passed the tree grew so large that its roots star in bring Michelle eventually the Shelf the wind started in larging the crack and it reached out to help the panther take its place on Earth next to crawl out was the fur the bird had picked and picked around the whole I went it was the time and time was right he stepped outside the shell bird took flight immediately after that the other animals emerged I'm Different sequences bear deer snake frog otter there was thousands of others so many that no one besides the Creator could even begin to count them all I went out to see their proper places on Earth and that's how everything was created in this store put animals on Earth First instead of people showing how connected these Dancewear to animals and it shows how much respect they have towards animals enough to think that the Creator created animals instead of people first not they weren't worthy of being created first and now our final store icons in the Cherokee tribe starts like this in the beginning there was just water tell me animals lived above it and the sky was overcrowded they were all curious about what was beneath the water and one day that you need the water Beetle volunteer takes kicks for the surface but cannot find any solid graph he explore below the surface to the bottom and all he found was mud which he brought back to the surface I collect in the mud in the size and spread outward until it became decides of North America after all that happened one of the animals attached this new land stop with 4 strings the land was still so wet that they sent a great Buzzard from glonti to prepare for them the blizzard food down by the time and by the time he reached the Cherokee land he was so tired that is winds began to hit the ground forever they hit the ground amount or Valley formed the animal then decided what was too dark so they made the Sun and put it in the past which still runs today and that story to suggest that the world was created by an animal and not by human power crappy stories I think that you can really tell the connection between animals and Indians the amazing thing though is that they were three different trap from three different completely what does a North America but they all share the same common themes animals creating Humanity do you look at other creation stories from around the world you fine not like the Greek myth stories they just put animals on the world because they felt the world was empty and it needed animals but to the Native Americans that's not why animals were there animals were there because to them they were a symbol they are connected to them they were all connected to each other  so now when I see Native American the first and they come my mind is an animal

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