Your final paper for this course will be a brief exploration of the creation story or stories of an indigenous American culture that interests you.
All cultures tell a story or stories about who they are and from where they come.
These stories lie at the root of what is important to a people and how they envision themselves, and so knowledge and study of a people's creation story are crucial to any understanding of that culture. The creation story or stories of Judeo-Christian civilization, for example, might be considered to be contained in the biblical Book of Genesis, or more generally, much of the Old Testament. Your task is to research the creation story or stories of the culture that you choose. You must first share or re-tell the story or stories. Then you must investigate as fully as you can any relationships you can discover between the creation story and the astronomical interests, knowledge, and stories of that culture.