Pima Creation Story

Since the beginnings, creation stories have been a key part to the foundation of a culture. Creation stories were told and past own to generations by word of mouth until they could later be transcribed. In the early twentieth century, the creation story of the Pima, was transcribed by one of their own, Edward H Wood. The creation story of the Pima was created by Thin Leather, the uncle of Edward H Wood. According to “Voices”, these native people tried their best to stay away from influences such as the European, to accomplish this task the Pima resided on the banks of a the Gila and Salt Rivers which are located in the desert of the southwestern parts of the United States. In the retelling of the creation story according to the Pima people
It is said according to Voices, that a woman and her virgin daughter lived in the land of crooked tongues. The virgin daughter had a dream that she was about to have a child and in the dream a the name Dekanawida was giving to the son. The daughter was told that her child would become a great man and that he should live in the midst of the Flint people. The Ongwe-oweh people love to fight,they even claimed that the sun loved war so it gave them power, they would fight between each other and other nations. Dekanawia rose in power and helped make this possible with the reformation of Adodarhoh a evil man.this reformations what brought these people together and stopped fighting. Everyone wanted to help the evil and man and heal him from his evil sprits. After this took place, these people decide that they should establish a great peace and so they did, but they needed men to run this confederacy and help make it a good place.These men would be the best of the best and help make new rules when needed. Lastly, they would be crowed with deer antlers when named and giving names that were greater and more pure in power. This is how the creation of the Confederacy took