Who's Your Creator?
Eng 230B Term Paper
March 7, 2006
Instructor: Dr. Alec Globe


There are many different stories of creation throughout the world, two of the most well known to North Americans being the Christian story and the First Nations story. Both of these stories contain all the elements of a folktale, so why is one more believable and worshiped that the other? When the Europeans discovered North America, the people living there surprised them; they were ignorant to their way of life. They thought that by "helping" them adapt into the Western way of life they would be doing them a favour. Unfortunately with the placement of residential schools hundreds of First Nations groups experienced not only physical abuse but also a serious loss of culture and language. Without their own language being learned by any of the children, cultural stories had to be passed down verbally in a new language; English. The oral style of First Nations storytelling can be attributed......

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Title: Who's Your Creator?
Approximate Word Count: 2154
Approximate Pages: 9 (250 words per double-spaced page)

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