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Iroquois 'Selection: The Iroquois Creation Story'
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The selection "The Iroquois Creation Story" is very much similiar to the bibles version of how the Earth was created. In "The Iroquois story" there was a woman who gives birth to two boys and shorty after falls to her demise. She gave birth to a good and evil son. The good son is the creator of good and uses his parents remains to creat the sun, moon and stars. He also goes along to create insects and animals to inhibit and live in the different habitats he created such as rivers, forest etc. The bad son went after the good son and created disruptive things. Things such as huge mountains in the forests the good son created, deep falls at the end of rivers and reptiles that were harmful to the ones created for good. As the bad

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