There are many known creation stories of Native Americans, some may be factual and others may be myths. These indigenous people were known to be very nature-savvy. When hunting they take only what they need, leaving behind supplies for other people or other animals to feed on. This really helped with building Earth year after year. They were not like this way for no apparent reason. They believed that everything that moved was a God, the flowing waters, the floating clouds, the orbiting moon and sun, the animals in which they hunted, and even thought of themselves as Gods in a way. All of the elements in which they could not understand they thought of as super-natural. They thought to believe that in the beginning nothing existed; no earth, …show more content…
He rubbed his eyes and face with both hands as if he were just waking up from a slumber. When he looked into the endless darkness, light appeared above. He looked down and it suddenly became a sea of light. To the east, he created yellow streaks of dawn. To the west, shades of many colors appeared everywhere. Clouds of different color were also seen. Creator wiped his sweating face and rubbed his hands together, thrusting them downward. It was stories like these that helped them cope with the un-explained, giving power to something they could understand. Another tribe consoled their beliefs in another story on how they thought the world came about. The Cherokee believed that before there were any people, the world was young and water covered everything. The earth was an island floating above the seas, held up by four rawhide ropes representing the four sacred directions. It hung down from the clear sky. There were no people, but the animals lived in a home above the rainbow. With minimal space, they sent Water Beetle to search for room under the seas. Water Beetle dove deep and brought up mud that spread quickly, turning into land that was flat and too soft and wet for the animals to live on. The wind from his