Native American Collection: Myths and Legends – The Living Stories of Turtle Island | Chapter 8: The

Chapter 8: The Flood And The Survivors
Part of the series: Native American Collection: Myths and Legends – The Living Stories of Turtle Island

In this chapter:
• The flood myth is nearly universal, but in Native American stories, it is rarely a punishment from a single god. It is more often a consequence of imbalance, a resetting of the world.
• The Ojibwe story of the great flood, where only the great spirit Nanabozho survives on a raft with a few animals. He sends them to dive for mud to recreate the earth, a story of cooperation and sacrifice.
• The Mandan story of the flood and the lone survivor, who is saved by a turtle and later becomes the ancestor of the Mandan people. This story is tied to the Missouri River and its cycles of flooding.
• The Hopi story of the destruction of the Third World by a flood, because the people became corrupt. The righteous were saved by the Maasaw and guided to the Fourth World.
• The chapter explores the scientific evidence for massive, catastrophic floods in North America's past, like the Missoula Floods that scoured the Pacific Northwest. Could these events have been preserved in oral tradition for 10,000 years?

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