Native American blog

Claire Thacker 

Mr. Roddy 

IHSS 

15 October 2021 

Native American writings blog

A theme that I saw in the creation story was the theme of good vs evil. This is also similar to the Christian creation story. For example in the Iroquois creation story, it’s two brothers. In Christianity is adam and eve vs the snake. Another thing I thought was interesting was that it was a woman who was more focused on, she was seen in a more good-natured light than Eve is in Christianity. For example, Eve was blamed for banishing them out of the garden but it wasn’t really her fault. But, the woman in this story died and I dont know if she’s thought of the same way. For example, she had twins and one of them was evil so “she’s the reason we have the evil spirit.” In the Iroquois story, it says “and by his breathing into their nostrils he gave them the living souls.” This is also similar to Christianity because it’s thought that having someone’s breath in your nostrils means you are alive and well. This could mean that it’s actually part of the story of it is what the colonizers wrote either on purpose or unintentionally. Personally, I think it was the colonizers since it would be a huge coincidence for them to mean the same thing and both use the breath in the nostrils and used it in two different places but I could be wrong. 

“The Iroquois Creation Story.” HCCS Learning Web, https://learning.hccs.edu/faculty/tina.schwettmann/engl-2327/unit-1/the-iroquois-creation-story/view.  

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