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Legend->Creation: Pima Creation Story
Posted on Thursday, February 13 @ 10:07:33 PST (26436 reads)

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SOURCE: Pima Oral Story (Arizona Indian tribe)

In the beginning there was nothing at all except darkness. All was darkness and emptiness. For a long, long while, the darkness gathered until it became a great mass. Over this the spirit of Earth Doctor drifted to and fro like a fluffy bit of cotton in the breeze.

Then Earth Doctor decided to make for himself an abiding place. So he thought within himself, "Come forth, some kind of plant," and there appeared the creosote bush.

He placed this before him and set it upright. But it at once fell over. He set it upright again; again it fell. So it fell until the fourth time it remained upright.

Then Earth Doctor took from his breast a little dust and flattened it into a cake. When the dust cake was still, he danced upon it, singing a magic song.

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Legend->Creation: Creation and Longevity
Posted on Tuesday, February 11 @ 19:57:02 PST (2843 reads)

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SOURCE: Achomawi Oral History

Coyote began the creation of the earth, but Eagle completed it.

Coyote scratched it up with his paws out of nothingness, but Eagle complained there were no mountains for him to perch on. So Coyote made hills, but they were not high enough.

Therefore, Eagle scratched up great ridges.

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Legend->Creation: Origion of the Iroquois Nation
Posted on Sunday, February 17 @ 02:04:44 PST (6692 reads)

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About 1390, today's State of New York became the stronghold of five powerful Indian tribes.

They were later joined by another great tribe, the Tuscaroras from the south. Eventually the Iroquois, Mohawks, Oneidas, Onondagas, and Cayugas joined together to form the great Iroquois Nation.

In 1715, the Tuscaroras were accepted into the Iroquois Nation.

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Legend->Creation: Origins of the Apache Indians
Posted on Tuesday, February 05 @ 22:42:49 PST (22940 reads)

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Source: As Told by Geronimo, Public Domain Document

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Legend->Creation: Chinook Creation Story
Posted on Wednesday, January 02 @ 03:19:48 PST (14857 reads)

AUTHOR: Oral Legend

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This story explains how the Chinook Indians were created.

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Legend->Creation: Wyandotte Creation Story
Posted on Monday, November 12 @ 03:52:25 PST (3044 reads)

"In the beginning, the people were all Wyandots. They lived in Heaven. Hoo-wah-yooh-wah-neh, the Great Spirit or mighty chief, led them.

His daughter, Yah-weh-noh, was a beautiful virgin. She became very ill and could not be cured. At last the chief medicine men of the tribe held a council.

They said: 'Dig up the big apple tree that stands by the lodge of Hooh-wah-yooh-wah-neh. Have the beautiful virgin laid on a bed of boughs near it, so that she can watch the work. She will then be cured.'

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