“The World on the Turtle’s Back” is a myth how the world began. The story begins with a woman who was digging a tree root for medicine. As she was digging in the tree root, she makes a hole in Sky-World and falls in the hole. When she lands safely on a turtle’s back, she plants the roots on the turtle after she was given dirt from a muskrat. She eventually has a daughter who has twin boys who compete against each other until one is defeated. This myth explains how the world started and why things work the way they do. The story implies humans should maintain a balance between good and evil. In the story, there was a man, who had a wife and the wife was expecting a child. One day, the wife was hungry so she told her husband to go get
