Iroquois

Back” descends from a tribe called the Iroquois who lived in the American northeast, while the Yoruba, the creators of the myth “The Golden Chain” originate from Nigeria. Since they are from two completely different parts of the world, the Iroquois and the Yoruba approach their lives differently. These myths help emphasize the similarities and differences between their core beliefs, values, and morals. While both believe that one’s flaws are inescapable, the Iroquois disregards the world below…

World on the Turtle’s Back” is a an Iroquois creation story that displays the Earth beginning, and the balance of “good” and “evil.” “Creation stories often serve many purposes. According to Larry Evers and Paul Pavich, scholars of Native American literature, such stories’ remind people of who and what they are, why they are in this particular place, and how they should continue to live here” (Literature, p. 41). It is a successful creation myth because the Iroquois gave relatable comparisons…

tell you about three of them. I will show you their differences and their similarities.The Inuit,Haida, and the Iroquois have different environments,art,and traditions and houses. These three are different but they still have some similarities. All three of these tribes live in Canada. The Inuit live northern Canada, the Haida live on the west coast of British Columbia, and the Iroquois live in southwest/southern Ontario and Quebec. All three of these tribes have elders to lead them. The Inuit…

All pieces of literature are assured to have comparisons and contrasts. For instance the creation myths African Bushmen and Iroquois have a lot of comparisons and contrasts. The most easily anticipated comparison is that they both tell their theories and aspects of how the world was created. They each have a very contrasting way of defining how it happened, but the theory is the identical. The African Bushmen consider that their god Kaang designed everything. “Kaang, the Great Master and Lord…

Beaver pelts (6). The demand for beaver pelts resulted in the Iroquois expanding their hunting territory into what was deemed Huron territory, and it led to bloody warfare, since Iroquois had larger populace they were able to obtain more pelts and thus more guns, ending in an atrocity for the Huron (Trigger 1990, 6). Yet, the European dominance did not fare well for the Iroquois either, their population also severely dwindled and the Iroquois resorted to taking in…

THESIS: Tongan and Iroquois political and social organization were different in several ways. Tongan political organization was by chiefdom, and social structure was through rank stratification divided by genealogical relationships of the primarily patrilineal line. The Iroquois’ political system was by tribe, and the societal organization was egalitarian with clans as matrilineal. Both are similar because of the heavy impact of European culture on both societies. European influence changed the…

similarities they had differences also. In both of these stories had a forbidden tree that no one should mess with. In the story Iroquois it says “ they were also warned not to bring harm to this tree which was a great source of nutrients for the people”. The whole village relied on this tree for food. This is a rule that the great power had set for them. In the story Iroquois, the tree gave the small village food to eat. In the Judeo-Christian story there were multiple trees that they could…

The Constitution of the Iroquois expressed as well as described a variety rituals they performed that were part of the confederation. They performed these rituals because they helped maintain their union together. Their confederation benefitted from these rituals because they helped maintain them united as well as out of trouble. It also created a safe environment for them to express freely themselves without judgement or ny kind of persecution. Also the point for these rituals was to remind…

thought Earth has been made. After reading the creation story from the Native American tribe, Iroquois, and reading the creation story from Christian Bible, one could make some comparisons between the two. (Throughout the rest of the essay the Christian creation story will be referred to as “Genesis” although the source material doesn't include all of book of Genesis written in the Bible, and the Iroquois creation story will be referred to as “The Sky World”) The first thing to notice is how…

are tall, why the water surrounds islands, and where people came from. The Iroquois have an interesting interpretation of where things come from. Its truly an interpretation that hadn’t been touched by any other cultures for hundreds of years. In comparison, the Judaeo/Christian creation story has been around for millennia, but has been passed around to other cultures as well on the other side of the planet. in the Iroquois’ story, they say that people came from the sky, that one mother who was…