North American Creation Myths for Kids - Who made the world? Where did the first people come from?

North American Creation Myths

Spiro Mound
A cross-legged man from Spiro Mound
(modern Oklahoma), 900-1450 AD

Each group of people in North America had their own story about where the world came from and where they came from.

Here are some examples:

Nobody really knows whether people brought these stories with them from Asia when they came to North America about 15000 BC, or whether people created these stories after they got to North America. Probably some of both. You might want to compare these stories to similar stories from other cultures like these:

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