Summary Of The World On The Turtle's Back
Living like Native Americans In the story “The World on the Turtle’s Back”, there live a people that act and behave very similar to Native Americans. In what is defined as the Sky-World, human like characters have their way of living. There is man and woman, they eat and drink, and they grow plants and they produce offspring. All of these characteristics relate to the Native Americans and their way of living. But can these few attributes give us enough information to answer the questions, who and what they are, why they are in this particular place, and how they should continue to live here. Answering the question of who and what they are helps define what kind people they are. It explains how they think, the way they operate, and what relations
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“And the woman said to herself she would die”(Iroquois 40), after the woman had fallen through the Sky-World, she knew that this was where she would die. That was the place she would stay till the day she died. The Native Americans settle into a place of land that is resourceful and we'll fitted to benefit the group. When they do find that bit of land, they will stay there for many years even till elders and founders of the land pass away. “So she fell through the hole”(Iroquois 40), once she had fallen, she knew that there was no way of getting back, so she made the best out of her surroundings. The Native Americans are exceptional at making do with what they have. Through the engineering of the Native Americans they learned how to farm and grow crops to help out the people, just as the woman who fell through the Sky-World knew she could not leave, she made the best out of what she had. “However, between her fingers there clung bits of things that were growing on the floor of the Sky-World and bits of the, root tips of the Great Tree”(Iroquois 40), this is what she worked with to set the foundation for earth and watch the earth flourish with plants and later animals. When a certain group of people have established a foundation in a certain area, there must be reason for them to continue living
“And the woman said to herself she would die”(Iroquois 40), after the woman had fallen through the Sky-World, she knew that this was where she would die. That was the place she would stay till the day she died. The Native Americans settle into a place of land that is resourceful and we'll fitted to benefit the group. When they do find that bit of land, they will stay there for many years even till elders and founders of the land pass away. “So she fell through the hole”(Iroquois 40), once she had fallen, she knew that there was no way of getting back, so she made the best out of her surroundings. The Native Americans are exceptional at making do with what they have. Through the engineering of the Native Americans they learned how to farm and grow crops to help out the people, just as the woman who fell through the Sky-World knew she could not leave, she made the best out of what she had. “However, between her fingers there clung bits of things that were growing on the floor of the Sky-World and bits of the, root tips of the Great Tree”(Iroquois 40), this is what she worked with to set the foundation for earth and watch the earth flourish with plants and later animals. When a certain group of people have established a foundation in a certain area, there must be reason for them to continue living