The Nature Of Native Oral Stories In Thomas King's The Back Of The Turtle

In Thomas King’s book, The Back of the Turtle, he reveals the nature of Native oral stories while consequently juxtaposing westernized written histories, most notably, in creation stories. King expounds, “Inside creation stories help define the nature of the universe and how cultures understand the world they exist”. The westernized Judeo-Christian narrative, as King continues, “is a very familiar one”; a God that creates the universe and then in sequential order; the world, plants, animals, and finally Adam and Eve. The two humans “eat of the tree of knowledge of god and evil” and they are forever banished and dissipated from the Garden (or paradise). They are castigated into a barren world, full of conation and abashment. The women is cursed