Iroquois

The Huron, the deemed enemy of the Iroquois, in actuality was not so different from the peoples of the Iroquois confederation. The Huron had a smaller population but overall similar social organization and environment. However, the more northern and climatically cooler location of the Huron was seen to be quite advantageous by the Iroquois. The Huron settlement had lighter, more fertile soil and was bounded by water resources that provided plenty of fish for subsistence (Trigger 1990, 6). The…

Two Worlds Become One How does the Iroquois Creation story show similarities and differences from the Christian Creation story? In “The Iroquois Creation Story” by David Cusick, connections can be made with the Christian Creation story. He begins by discussing that there were two worlds that existed before the creation of the universe. The two worlds were known as the lower world and the upper world. The lower world consists of great darkness and monsters, while the upper world contains…

In the Iroquois Creation Story and the Navajo Creation story, the common theme is the Manifest Destiny. Both stories talk about the origin of the some of the American groups. In the Iroquois Creation Story and the Navajo Creation Story, they talk about how the world came into existence, and the only places which are mentioned are on the American continent. The theme of manifest destiny is well spread out in both stories as the first talks about the fight between the good and the evil. The theme…

cultures and tribes, but they all have their similarities and differences. In the Iroquois creation story, animal and man work together to create their world to share. But thinking back to Native American cultural traditions, they praised animals and have always treated them kindly. In the Judeo-Christian story, man is dominating to animals. Which is still true today, people claim ownership over animals. The Iroquois story doesn’t just have a single “ruler,” but instead, a whole team of people…

compare to one another. Also how their creations myths and legends compare to my current beliefs and the Christian and other teachings I grow up with. I will be looking at the Apache, Navajo, and Iroquois creation myth and legend stories. One of the first American Indian creation I read was the Iroquois creation legend. Their story tells us that immortals one where also no new sky people where born. They lived on floating island in the sky. The world below them was covered in water. Where…

alike, but there is always some differences. Hundreds of years ago the writing stile was was very different from today, but back then it was normal to write what we now see as weird. The documents "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God”, and "The Iroquois Constitution” are perfect examples, but while being similar they are still different. How are these two documents alike? Both Documents use a great amount similes and metaphors in their texts. For example one metaphor found in "Sinners in the…

main point in the bibles, is that some powerful being in some form, created the Earth and everything on it. The bible of the Iroquois and Judeo-Christian are both different, but similar in some way or another. They both talk about a supreme being and how it created the Earth, but the being is completely different in the Iroquois than in the Judeo-Christian bible. The Iroquois bible talks about how the Earth was formed from the back of a turtle's shell. The Judeo-Christian says that the Earth and…

The Iroquois tribe was composed of five different tribes in the 17th century. This qroup of Native Americans was considered the strongest tribe of indigenous people. Originally the group included, Mowhawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga and the Seneca Indians. When the Europeans came over, they learned many things from the tribes. This gives away to the reason that the Iroquois fought mostly with the British. The Iriquois Induans were used to teach how to grow crops, hunt, how to live on the land, and…

to the twins in the Iroquois origin story. No mention is given as to who this woman is or how she came about, just like there is no mention of where these monsters came from or who made them and why they where even in the story. Like you said the bible does not have a turtle or any other creature partake in the actual creation part of the story. The introduction of evil seems to permeate into inanimate things such as waterfalls, high mountains and steep crevices in the Iroquois recount. In the…

In the creation myth “The World on Turtle’s Back” the Iroquois Native Americans describe their beliefs about the creation of the world and humanity. The myth exhibits many archetypal settings and greatly resembles the story of Adam and Eve in the Book of Genesis. The differences between the two creation stories’ archetypal settings, however, illustrate the greatest difference between the two cultures; monotheism and polytheism. Both “The World on Turtle’s Back” and the Book of Genesis involve a…