PRINT No. 3

Kalsitsianí:ionte, Hanging flower.
From our mother's body grew
Tionhékon, the Three Sisters;
corn, beans, and squash.
From her head grew onienkwaón:we,
the native tobacco.

At the time when the young woman gave birth to twins, one of them caused her death by violently bursting through her armpit The name of the culprit twin was Flint and his brother was called Taharonhiawá:kon. Their grandmother was angered by the death of her daughter. She asked the twins, "Which one of you killed my daughter?" Flint quickly replied and accused his brother and she believed him, and she cast Taharonhiawá:kon into the bushes. He did not die but grew very rapidly to manhood. The grandmother was very fond of Flint.

Taharonhiawá:kon began his task Creating all kinds of animals, birds, and plants; and the Holder of Heavens, ordained that his mother will have a duty for things to grow: grasses, bushes, fruits, trees, tobacco, corn, beans, and squash; and from her body man-beings will use the sustenance and it will grow again when the air changes and becomes warm on earth. So when the twins and their grandmother buried their mother's body, she became "mother earth" and from her head grew the native tobacco, from her breast grew the corn, from her stomach grew the squash, from her fingers grew the beans, and from her feet grew potatoes.

PRINT No. 4

Wa tewatsitsiané:kare,
Mature flower, falls from
Onheón:we Tionhontsiá:te,
the Creator's land, onto the turtle's back. Now
this begins the creation of the Onkwehón:we, the
original people of Turtle Island.

The people in the upper world uprooted the "tree of light" and there caused to be a deep hole where the tree was uprooted. The owner of the "tree" looked into the hole and after awhile he said to his spouse, Do look  into the hole to see what things are occurring beyond. Then she bent forward to look into the hole and he placed his fingers against her back and pushed her and she fell into the hole. So truly the woman-being fell in the hole into the darkness. After awhile she passed through the thick darkness to another world and there she saw a great body of water where there were all kinds of water fowl. There a loon noticed her and he shouted. He said, "There is a female one coming up from the depths of the water!" Then the bittern spoke and said, "She is not coming up out of the depths of the water!" He said, "She is falling from above!" So the water fowl carried her safely onto the turtle's back. Then the muskrat said, "I will get some earth below," and he went under the water and later his body floated up and the animals found some earth in his paws and in his mouth, and they gave the woman the earth to place on the turtle's back. This is how it became the "turtle island."