Michael Delahoyde, PhD

Professor of English

Creation Myths

Native American Creation Myth Commentaries

Cherokee
Iroquois
Kiowa
Mayan
Miwok

 

Links to Native American Creation Myth Sites

Apache
Hopi

 

Other Creation Myth

Creation Mythologies Around the World
Cheesy Film


Works

“The Creation.” (Iroquois.) Writing About the World. 2nd ed. By Susan McLeod et al. Fort Worth: Harcourt Brace and Co., 1995. 36-39.

“The Creation or Age of Beginning.” (Navaho [sic].) Writing About the World. 2nd ed. By Susan McLeod et al. Fort Worth: Harcourt Brace and Co., 1995. 175ff.

Eddy, Steve. Teach Yourself Native American Myths. Chicago: Contemporary Books, 2001.

Ferguson, Diana. Native American Myths. London: Collins & Brown, Ltd., 2001.

“How the World Was Made.” (Cherokee.) The Portable North American Indian Reader. Ed. Frederick Turner. NY: Penguin Books, 1977. 86-88.

Momaday, N. Scott. The Way to Rainy Mountain. University of New Mexico Press, 1969. 16.

One Million Years B.C. Starring Raquel Welch. Seven-Arts / Hammer, 1966.

“The Popul Vuh.” (Excerpt.) Writing About the World. 2nd ed. By Susan McLeod et al. Fort Worth: Harcourt Brace and Co., 1995. 491-494.

“Shakti.” Writing About the World. 2nd ed. By Susan McLeod et al. Fort Worth: Harcourt Brace and Co., 1995. 487-488.

“Silver Fox and Coyote Create Earth.” Native American Animal Stories. Ed. Joseph Bruchac. Golden, CO: Fulcrum Press, 1992. 3-4.

“Yoruba Creation Story: The Descent from the Sky.” Writing About the World. 2nd ed. By Susan McLeod et al. Fort Worth: Harcourt Brace and Co., 1995. 494-497.