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    The story is about the creation of the world according to Iroquois tradition. When the chief's daughter fell ill, digging a hole caused her and a tree to fall through the sky and into the water below, where two swans rescued her. The swans took the girl to the Great Turtle, who agreed to support the land on his back if animals could bring up dirt from where the tree landed. Many animals tried and failed before an old toad was able to bring up a mouthful of magical dirt, which grew into the island that became the known world, floating on the Great Turtle's back in the water.

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    The story is about the creation of the world according to Iroquois tradition. When the chief's daughter fell ill, digging a hole caused her and a tree to fall through the sky and into the water below, where two swans rescued her. The swans took the girl to the Great Turtle, who agreed to support the land on his back if animals could bring up dirt from where the tree landed. Many animals tried and failed before an old toad was able to bring up a mouthful of magical dirt, which grew into the island that became the known world, floating on the Great Turtle's back in the water.

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    The story is about the creation of the world according to Iroquois tradition. When the chief's daughter fell ill, digging a hole caused her and a tree to fall through the sky and into the water below, where two swans rescued her. The swans took the girl to the Great Turtle, who agreed to support the land on his back if animals could bring up dirt from where the tree landed. Many animals tried and failed before an old toad was able to bring up a mouthful of magical dirt, which grew into the island that became the known world, floating on the Great Turtle's back in the water.

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    THE

    GREAT
    TURTLE

    (1003) Mint, Pat, Ping, Min, Kul

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    This story comes from the Iroquois


    people in North America.

    The leaders of America even approve this!

    In the 1400s they formed a federation of five


    separate tribes in what is now New York state.
    The Iroquois did not use writing, so they told
    this story orally until settlers from Europe wrote
    it down.

    And da story
    beginnnnns!!

    The first people lived


    beyond the sky because
    there was no Earth
    beneath. One day, the
    chief's daughter became
    ill, and no cure could be
    found.

    A wise old man told them to dig up a tree and lay the girl
    beside the hole. People began to dig.

    But as they did the tree fell right through the hole,
    dragging the girl with it.

    Below lay an endless sheet of water where


    two swans floated. As the swans looked
    up, they saw the sky break and a strange
    tree fall down into the water.

    Then they saw the girl fall


    after it. They swam to her
    and supported her,
    because she was too
    beautiful to allow her to
    drown.

    Then they swam to the Great Turtle, master of


    all the animals, who at once called a council.

    When all the animals had arrived, the Great


    Turtle told them that the appearance of a woman
    from the sky was a sign of good fortune.

    Since the tree had Earth on its roots, he asked them to find
    where it had sunk and bring up some of the earth to put on
    his back, to make an island for the woman to live on.

    The Swans led the animals to the place where the tree had fallen.

    First otter, then muskrat, and then beaver dived.


    As each one came up from the great , he rolled
    over exhausted and died. Many other animals
    tried, but they experienced the same fate.

    At last the old lady toad


    volunteered. She was under so long
    that the others thought she had
    been lost.

    But at last she came to the surface and before


    dying managed to spit out a mouthful of dirt on
    the back of the Great Turtle.

    It was magical earth


    and had the power of
    growth. As soon as it
    was as big as an
    island, the woman was
    set down on it.

    The two white swans circled it, while it continued to grow until,
    at last, it became the world island as it is today, supported in
    the great waters on the back of the Great Turtle.

    Thank you for listening!


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