The Native Americans like every other civilization in the known world have creation stories. These creation stories basically tell the origins of the world as the they know it. For the Native Americans these stories were passed down orally, they did not keep written records of the stories. These oral stories are in some sense the Native American version of the bible. It was a way of thinking and perceiving the world around them. It provided answers to why things happened the way they did and it gave the Native American a sense of morality. Although Native Americans often participated in warfare, they did it with a sense of honor and being not commonly employed by their Caucasian counterparts. As a whole Native American culture is a thing of beauty, celebrating not only the physical world around them but also the spiritual. They did not believe in a single deity ruling over them, but instead used myths and teachings about the Great Spirit to explain things. The Great Spirit was in essence Mother Nature. It was akin to the force in Star Wars in the sense that it was a part of all of us, from the smallest insect to the mightiest war chief. It was not

The God that holds you over the pit of hell, much as one holds a spider or some loathsome insect over the fire, abhors you, and is dreadfully provoked: His wrath towards you burns like fire; He looks upon you as a worthy of nothing else but to be cast into the fire; He is of purer eyes than to bear to have you in His sight; you are ten thousand times more abominable in His eyes than the most hateful venomous serpent is in ours. (Edwards 480)

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