Myths
These myths are a narrative of how the world began and how people first came to inhabit it.
What is creation myth?
One of the oldest native crafts.
What is basket weaving?
After the animals banned together to have a negative effect on humans, this item developed a healing remedy, but people had to learn how to use them.
What is plants?
This god was the first of all living things to die. He has been killed by his own words.
What is Sedit?
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These myths explained how things came to be the way they were.
What is Origin Myth?
This carved and painted doll was given to Hopi children to help them identify the various spiritual figures and their costumes.
What is kachina dolls?
Before Europeans brought the horse to North America this animal was one of the most important in Native American daily life.
What is dog?
This god controlled many things. He created plants such as reeds and sunflowers and four kinds of ants, red, black, gray, and yellow, as well as many other insects.
What is Begochiddy?
This Goddess instructed her husband to kill her. She explained that seven moons later her flesh would bloom from love, and it would nourish her children forever.
Who is Mother Corn?
The Dance was meant to return the natural world to its stable and orderly state.
What is White Deerskin Dance?
Sandpainting was a critical element of this Navajo ceremony.
What is healing ceremonies?
Of the California region, Coyote was a trickster but earned the respect of the people by bringing them this.
What is fire?
Cheyenne mythology includes the story of an orphaned boy named Motzeyouf, who later became known as this name.
What is Arrow Boy?
Married off to a raven in disguise. Her father would not save her in fear of his own life.
What is Sedna?
In the Southeast woodlands there are many myths about the Little People, or this word.
What is Yundi Tsundi?
When the Native Americans painted this, they imprinted it with the images that gave it life and power.
What is pottery?
The spirits raised strange animals called this term (also known as Horses).
What is Elk dog?
This creator god of the Pawnee people of the Great Plains gave them fire, hunting, agriculture, and speech, and he taught them many important rituals.
What is Tirawa?
This creator controlled the underworld. Using only their thoughts, she shaped animals from clay.
Who is Spider Woman?
This myth depicts a multilayered world that often included an underworld, a natural world, and a sky world.
What is Earth-Diver myth?
This art was not meant to be permanent.
What is sandpainting?
This spirit could strike a disrespectful hunter with a crippling disease.
What is deer spirit?
To the Lakota people, before time began there was only this creator in a great, dark emptiness.
What is Wakan Tanka?
The story of this goddess is a central myth of the Lakota that tells how they first received their sacred pipe.
What is the White Buffalo Woman?