Haida Creation Story Analysis
This paper looks into the Haida and Anishinaabe creation stories, as well as looking at the bear clan and using the bear clan perspective to analyze both those stories.
According to the lecture entitled “Anishinaabe Governance Structures” the bear clan takes on a protective role amongst its people, with roles that include patrollers, peacekeepers, healers, and solitary warriors.
The Haida creation story is about a raven who finds himself in a town in the sky country. The raven takes the place of the chief’s grandchild by going in the child’s skin, thus becoming raven child. Raven child soon becomes hungry and so he eats one eye from everyone in the village during the course of five nights. A woman made out of stone had seen him do this and …show more content…
This man advises raven child to put two stones, a speckled stone and a black stone into the water and then to take them out and take a bite from each stone. Raven child follows the man’s advice and subsequently creates the trees that then become the Haida land. He then goes on to create different aspects of the world as well as summoning four different groups of people onto the earth, one of whom is the Haida people.
The Anishinaabe creation story begins in a state of total darkness and nothingness. When the first sound soon comes forward “it became thought, awareness, awareness of being, and spirit”. The creator (gizhe- manidoo) began creating the world and all that inhabit it as he envisioned, including “crimson sunsets and star laden skies, a vision of various forms of beings living together and sharing a bounty of creation”.
When Gizhe-Manidoo first made the world he had to keep on revising his creation because he believed that no living thing could live on the planet as there was too much ice and too much water. Finally, on his fourth revision, the earth was made in such a way that the creator believed that every aspect of the planet was perfect enough for living creatures to live on it. He then made the four basic elements from which the sun, earth, moon and stars were created from. And finally he made the people of the
According to the lecture entitled “Anishinaabe Governance Structures” the bear clan takes on a protective role amongst its people, with roles that include patrollers, peacekeepers, healers, and solitary warriors.
The Haida creation story is about a raven who finds himself in a town in the sky country. The raven takes the place of the chief’s grandchild by going in the child’s skin, thus becoming raven child. Raven child soon becomes hungry and so he eats one eye from everyone in the village during the course of five nights. A woman made out of stone had seen him do this and …show more content…
This man advises raven child to put two stones, a speckled stone and a black stone into the water and then to take them out and take a bite from each stone. Raven child follows the man’s advice and subsequently creates the trees that then become the Haida land. He then goes on to create different aspects of the world as well as summoning four different groups of people onto the earth, one of whom is the Haida people.
The Anishinaabe creation story begins in a state of total darkness and nothingness. When the first sound soon comes forward “it became thought, awareness, awareness of being, and spirit”. The creator (gizhe- manidoo) began creating the world and all that inhabit it as he envisioned, including “crimson sunsets and star laden skies, a vision of various forms of beings living together and sharing a bounty of creation”.
When Gizhe-Manidoo first made the world he had to keep on revising his creation because he believed that no living thing could live on the planet as there was too much ice and too much water. Finally, on his fourth revision, the earth was made in such a way that the creator believed that every aspect of the planet was perfect enough for living creatures to live on it. He then made the four basic elements from which the sun, earth, moon and stars were created from. And finally he made the people of the