The Huron People Essays - First Nations In Ontario,

The Huron People Primary source center850008549640 October 4, 2017 Dennis McKim Rizwan Ramzan1000000 October 4, 2017 Dennis McKim Rizwan Ramzan The following source The Huron Creation story was a story that was passed down generation to generation of the Huron people which was mainly told during the winter times in a gathering. The following reading was interoperated by Catherine Johnson in 1912 who was from the Huron decent. The following source is about how the Huron people came to be and the land they live on, the author obviously found the story interesting and wanted to show people how different cultures had different beliefs on how the world came to be. The source is about a woman who doesn't have a name but in other versions of the tale her name is Aataentsic who basically made a mistake on cutting all the crops her siblings used to eat and in anger they threw her in a hole which fell to the ocean. She fell on top of wild geese and the animals took turns holding the woman on their backs while she was on the water . At one point the woman was on the turtles back and the toad gave her sand and told her to sprinkle it , as she did the land came to creation. Then there are two versions but the woman finds two twin boys, the younger being bad and the older being good. The older brother created all the Huron people and the living things. While the younger who also wanted to create people created monkeys in perspective of them being human. Though the younger brother was portrayed bad he doesn't do anything terrible in the story itself but he would be considered the bad of the two. The other version of th e story the woman gave birth to these two twins and dies during the delivery of the boys. Overall the story itself is about the woman and the twin boys who create the land and the people of the Huron people and all living creatures. The main theme of this story is about the creation of the Huron people. How the twins create the good, bad and all living things on the land. And the woman who was thrown to the ocean created the land itself with the animals that took care of her. It also shows or one can portray that the respect of animals is very important for this group of indigenous people. This is shown how the animals help the woman stay afloat on the water and then help her by telling her ow to create the land. The animals also took turns on carrying the woman as well. So overall you can see the importance of animals in the story and it can make one believe that animals had a very important part in the life of these people. There is no real reason why the story was translated or shown, but obviously the main readers of this would be historians or people just in general. This story shows a different view and how different people of the world believe how they came to be. Every culture or religion has different stories on how the world was created and how they came to be and this was their story. For myself personally looking at this story and my cultures belief on how we came to be is very different since we believe we came from Adam and Eve but through the Islamic way and in a Muslim perspective over Christianity , but still it is very different but very interesting at the same time that for them one male twin created all of them and the world around them. Furthermore the main purpose of this story was to be passed down generation to generation for the Huron people so they knew where they came from and since it was passed down orally you can tell it was very special si nce there was no written versions of this story. Overall the main purpose of this story was to show the people how different cultures believed the world was created and how the story was for the Huron people. Ultimately the main purpose of this