Study Guide for the Iroquois Creation Story and the Pima Stories of the Beginning of the World

Please word process your responses.

For the Iroquois Creation Story

1. Be able to summarize the plot line of the Iroquois creation story.

2. The Iroquois lived in long houses. What might this suggest about their social and political

customs?

3. What does the good mind accomplish?

4. What does the bad mind accomplish?

5. How does the good mind deceive the bad mind and what might this suggest about Iroquois

attitudes toward good and bad?

For the Pima Stories of the Beginning of the World

1. How did the world come to be?

2. Juhwertamahkai tries many times to correctly place the sun, moon, and stars. Explain the

possible value of this trial and error method in an oral tradition.

3. The sky falls three times. For what reasons?