Creation Stories : Edward Bassett Jr. MORE CREATION STORIES
Edward Bassett Jr., Member of the Passamaquoddy tribe at Sipayik
(Pleasant Glooscap came to this land, had special powers, had
special abilities and a lot of knowledge. When he came here the
people were living in kind of like a darkness of some sort,
psychologically. And very primitive in some ways, I guess. And
his purpose was to teach and enlighten and he, along with
canoes, taught other things to the Wabanaki and one of them was
the canoe and, you know he did other things too, like
transforming animals that were, at the time dinosaurs, into
other animals that would not harm mankind. To him mankind was
precious and he wanted to leave mankind with gifts and one of
them was a canoe and then other gifts would be how to live
properly and how to hunt, how to fish, making baskets and all
kinds of different things in native life was brought to the
native people by Glooscap. So that's the story basically, I
don't know if I can remember the other one. It ju