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The World On Turtle's Back: An Iroquois Story
“The World on Turtle’s back is an Iroquois Legend that's been passed down from generation to generation, this myth is an american tradition. In this story the skyland chief's wife had a dream that the big tree needed to be uprooted so the next day the chief uprooted the tree but after that his wife fell through the hole the tree left and that's when all the animals pulled together and try to help her out. When the chief's wife fell though their was a small muskrat who was willing to risk her life to save the chief's wife. In the end the muskrat pulled up the earth so the chief's wife could stand and the moral of the story “small is mighty.”
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