Native American Writings- "How the World was Made"

In the literary Native American writing "How the World Was Made" it shows great relationship between between the animals/nature, with the humans. The animals of the country acted as one with Mother Nature. It tells of the Great Buzzard sweeping down from above to make sure the land was ready for all the animals, and in doing so made mountains with his sweeping movements. The story shows their values of religion when they state that the "conjurers" (definition: one who performs magic) helped with the suns distance from Earth. That shows that they believed in gods who performed magic to help them survive. Animals acted one with nature another time when everything on Earth had to stay awake for seven days and seven nights. That decided what animals were nocturnal and what animals were not (animals like the owl and the panther). It also decided what trees would keep their leaves year round and which ones would not (like the holly, laurel, spruce, pine, and cedar). This proves that nature acted as one with the animals. Native American writings were about religion, nature, and human nature to just name a few. I think this story is a good example of those three things.

Knowing what trees stayed green all year long also helped the people know what trees where good for medicine, and if so, what type of medicine. Another thing that the story helped its people understand was the fact of how often women could have babies. Another things that the Native American writings did, was that it taught the people lessons, rules, and gave them advice. The two examples above prove that their story telling helped generation after generation survive when it matter the most. Not to mention that this story also tells of how the world was made to its people as well. The writing produced were overall a great help to all of the people that read them and gave them tips on how to live one with nature.