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Iroquoian Cosmology
J. N. B. Hewitt (Tuscarora) · 1903, 1928 · English, Onondaga, Seneca, and Mohawk
Scholarship
Iroquoian Cosmology
J. N. B. Hewitt (Tuscarora)
Texts and translations of Haudenosaunee creation accounts recorded by the Tuscarora ethnologist Hewitt, published in the 21st and 43rd Annual Reports of the Bureau of American Ethnology.
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Texts and translations of Haudenosaunee creation accounts recorded by the Tuscarora ethnologist Hewitt, published in the 21st and 43rd Annual Reports of the Bureau of American Ethnology.
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Sky Woman and the Making of Turtle IslandcreationA woman falls from a torn-open hole in the Sky World, is caught by waterfowl, and set on the back of the Great Turtle, whose back the diving animals build into Turtle Island.
The Twins: Sapling and FlintcreationSky Woman's grandsons, the good-minded Sapling and the hard-minded Flint, shape the young earth's features in opposite directions, one toward ease and abundance, the other toward difficulty.
The Origin of the Three SistersoriginSky Woman's daughter dies giving birth to the twins Sapling and Flint, and from her grave grow the corn, beans, and squash the people live on.
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