Turtle Island
Name for Earth or North America used by Indigenous peoples in Canada and the United States / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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For other uses, see Turtle Island.
Turtle Island is a name for Earth[1] or North America, used by some American Indigenous peoples, as well as by some Indigenous rights activists. The name is based on a creation story common to several Indigenous peoples of the Northeastern Woodlands of North America.[2]
A number of contemporary works continue to use and/or tell the Turtle Island creation story.[2][3]