Summary: The Earth On Turtle's Back

his objective summary is covering a Native American legend titled, “The Earth on Turtle's Back”. It describes in full detail how these indigenous people believed how the entire earth and our existence came about. In short, the author starts off this story with an impregnated woman, the “sky woman”. She has had a very disturbing dream of the tree in the center of the village being uprooted, so her husband (the chief) had the tree uprooted and the woman had fallen in. Because of this, the animals on the earth that was solely comprised of water feared the “sky woman” would die. This in turn caused the animals to save the “sky woman.”

In order for the earth to be habitable by this new creature, the animals would have to create the Earth we know