Apache Creation Story

Where did the animals live in the beginning?

• In the forest

• In the jungle

• Under water

• In the desert

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Which animals were comfortable in their underwater home?

• The nocturnal creatures

• The daytime creatures

• Meat eaters

• Plant eaters

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What was the result of the discomfort?

• Death

• The animals began to play a game.

• The animals began to eat each other.

• It led to arguments.

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How did the animals settle their dispute?

• the people agreed to play a game that would decide whether there would be dark or light

• The killed each other.

• They looked for a thimble-like object.

• They took their concerns to the sun.

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CCSS.RL.4.9

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Who decided to settle the disputes between the animals?

• The animals

• The sun

• The people

• No one

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Which animals were better at this game?

• The day animals

• The nocturnal animals

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What was the reward for winning the game?

• They could rule the world.

• more nighttime

• a trip to the surface world

• the rising of the stars and of the sun

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Who found a hole at the top of the underworld?

• the day animals

• the night animals

• the people

• the sun

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CCSS.RL.4.9

CCSS.RL.8.9

The mounds that the animals built to reach the surface world grew until they could exit from the underworld.

• True

• False

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1. 1. In the beginning there was only water, and all the animals and plants lived in the underworld where it was dark. So the people made a ladder out of the buffalo’s horns.

2. 2. They sent up the moon and the sun to provide light. And they sent the four winds to blow away the water that covered everything up there. They sent animals up to test the new world, and then they finally went up themselves.

These two sentences/episodes illustrate which characteristic of an emergence creation story?

• 1. Life from another world surfaces into this one leading to creation. 

• 1. Begin with the world already fully formed but uninhabited.

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