Native American Creation Stories: The Osage Creation Account

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Native American Creation Myths Compare and Contrast


Many oral traditional stories have been told and passed down from person to person and family to family for thousands of years. Almost every story that has been told has either been altered or told in a different way so after 100 years of one story being told someone will decide to create their own version of it.



For starters, The Osage Creation Account has been changed in many different ways. In one story there was a part of Wazha’zhe that lived in the sky that desired to know where they originated from. They went to the sun and found out that the sun was their father and then the decided to go to the moon and she told them that she was the mother of them. They were told by their mother to go to earth but found it covered with water. Searched for help but found none until they found the finest, most stately, and inspiring elk of all creatures. They took this elk and dropped him into the water and he started to sink. The he called to the winds which blew until the waters went upward as in a mist. First there were only …show more content…

One day Bigochiddy decided that we would return to the Lukatso, and found the people very excited. He told them that he had met many people above and that the world was good. They were very happy to hear that so Bigochiddy sent badgers up to see the world but when he reached the hole, he tried to jump onto the crust but he broke through and that is the reason his paws are black today. Bigochiddy asked he he could dry the wet earth so they sent up to the fourth world white thunder, white cyclone, the white hail, and black, blue and yellow cyclones. When the hail and thunder and cyclones hit the petrified wood, they were all broken. Then the cyclones blew till they dried the mud, then dust-devils trimmed the rocks. After all of the storms were gone the ants had led the people back to the

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