ENGL 2270 : Complete ENGLISH MIDTERM Study Guide
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Native creation stories (17-24: iroquois: mohawk, seneca, oneida, onondaga, and cayuga nations, calls it a history even though it is just a myth because of supernatural events and monsters. Good mind wins because he used the horns as mentioned as the instrument of death. The bad mind became an evil spirit and the good mind eventually retired on earth: pima stories of the beginning of the world: Juh-wert-a-mah-kai (doctor of the earth) had no body, just floated in the darkness. could sit down: doctor created earth and enlarged it with ants so he own eye, to be like him and to assist him in creation. Ended up killing and eating each other: 2nd humans: became old to young so killed them again, 3rd humans: smoked younger and each generation to kill them. younger, until infants wanted to smoke. Sky fell again: 4th time: created earth as it is now.
