Not a single of these tribes is exactly the same, differing in ethnicity, language, geography, and culture. The Indian Self-determination and Education Assistance Act of 1975 “favored tribal control over their own destinies”, over their land and resources, in order to revive their cultures, separate from American government. These tribes remain prominent and thriving in today’s world, still practicing the ways of their ancestors with the help of oral tradition. The prominence of oral tradition continues for multiple purposes, including “performance”, “sense of community”, “living tradition”, and “love of language and playing with language”. The creation stories, in particular, tell of “how the first parents came to be or tell the story of a mythic hero who creates the universe”. Following this pattern, the creation stories of the Algonquin, Iroquois, and the Papago tribes each tell of their version of how the world and its contents came about from