The Great Spirit: A Moral Capstone

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I’m writing about this story because I thought the name of it was so weird so I read it. It was a very interesting story even though none of it was real. But continued to read it because I liked it and it had me thinking like what if this isn’t real what if the earth was like that before us. You already know that the story is a myth on how people had hopes for the natural world. Then it all came down to the Great Spirit being the source all living things. Then it starts off by introducing you an ancient Chief wife who had a dream about a tree being uprooted. Unfortunately that was bad news for the chief, but he got others involved to make the dream a reality. The chief uprooted the tree and later on he figured out there was a whole in the tree.

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