Creation Story: Native American Version Essay

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" In other words, there will be land and between "firmament" there will be water. Continents and oceans were created this way. It is interesting to note that the Christian God spoke but the Sioux Creating Power sang. The Native Peoples had creative ideas.

Sioux Creation Story / Christian Creation Story: At first, the animals and people drowned in the Sioux story. Then the Creating Power pulled four animals from his pipe bag: a loon, an otter, a beaver and turtle. Soon there also came "the shapes of men and women." In the Christian story, God created heaven and then He also created: grass, fruit trees, seasons, stars, "great whales" and "every living creature" that moves, including birds. On the sixth day "God created man in his own image…male and female created he them." Then He "breathed" the breath of life into the man and humanity was born.

The similarities are obvious but with the Sioux story the Creating Power made animals pay a price through punishment before allowing animals and humans to have a second chance.

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There was no such plot in the Christian version. The question of how Europeans and Natives might have viewed each other differently is a philosophical question with no answer. However, if there had been an opportunity for verbal interaction between the arriving white man and the native peoples, fewer deaths and less destruction may have occurred.

Ottawa Society Creation Story: These natives believed that some humans came from bears, some from moose, and that there was an entire generation that died before the Great Hare (rabbit) brought forth mankind from the corpses of the previously existing animals. The natives learned to make strong weapons in order to kill "large beasts"; they learned to make fire in order to eat the meat they killed. This is quite different from the European concept, or even from the Sioux version of creation. But it explores the issue of providing food and building fire to cook the food; hence it is unique and very creative.

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