Native American Creation Myth Summary

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Native Americans could not write or read at the time and so the author of the Native American Creation Myth is actually a European person. This European is writing down what the Native Americans are saying about this story. This is why throughout the myth the words “goddess”, “God”, or “heaven” show up. The European does not believe in what they are saying since they have their own beliefs. That being said, they don’t know what to call the things the Natives are describing to them, so the European twists some of the ideasand writes the story down using some influence from his religion. In the 1400s Europeans believed in Christianity and the Native Americans believed in diffrent things than them religiously and culturally. The Europeans believed