Turtle Island (North America)

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Indigenous cosmological concept mythological toponym sacred geography concept

Turtle Island is an Indigenous name and worldview concept for the landmass known as North America, central to many First Nations’ creation stories and cultural identities.

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Observed surface forms (1)

Surface form	Occurrences
Turtle Island	1

Statements (48)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Indigenous cosmological concept ⓘ mythological toponym ⓘ sacred geography concept ⓘ
alsoKnownAs	Turtle Island NERFINISHED ⓘ
associatedWith	Anishinaabe creation story ⓘ Haudenosaunee creation story ⓘ Lenape creation story ⓘ
centralTo	many First Nations creation stories ⓘ many Indigenous origin stories ⓘ
contrastsWith	colonial name "North America" NERFINISHED ⓘ
embeddedIn	Indigenous storytelling ⓘ Indigenous teachings about land stewardship ⓘ ceremonial practices ⓘ oral traditions ⓘ
emphasizes	Indigenous sovereignty ⓘ relationality with land ⓘ spiritual connection to territory ⓘ
hasConceptualOriginIn	pre-contact Indigenous cosmologies ⓘ
hasCulturalSignificanceFor	many First Nations peoples ⓘ many Indigenous peoples of North America ⓘ
hasTheme	cooperation among animals and beings ⓘ creation from water ⓘ responsibility to the land ⓘ sacredness of the land ⓘ
invokedIn	Indigenous rights movements ⓘ environmental justice movements led by Indigenous peoples ⓘ land back discourse ⓘ
partOfWorldviewOf	Algonquian-speaking peoples NERFINISHED ⓘ Anishinaabe peoples NERFINISHED ⓘ Haudenosaunee peoples NERFINISHED ⓘ Lenape peoples NERFINISHED ⓘ Ojibwe peoples NERFINISHED ⓘ
recognizedIn	Indigenous studies scholarship ⓘ decolonial theory ⓘ environmental humanities ⓘ
refersTo	North America NERFINISHED ⓘ
relatedConcept	Indigenous land-based pedagogy ⓘ Mother Earth NERFINISHED ⓘ land as relative ⓘ
symbolizedBy	a giant turtle ⓘ
symbolizes	the interconnection of all living beings ⓘ the landmass emerging on a turtle’s back ⓘ the relationship between land and water ⓘ
transmittedThrough	ceremony and ritual ⓘ generational oral history ⓘ
usedAsNameFor	Indigenous homelands in North America ⓘ North America in contemporary Indigenous discourse ⓘ the lands now called Canada and the United States ⓘ

Referenced by (4)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Biigtigong Nishnaabeg First Nation → indigenousTo → Turtle Island (North America) ⓘ

Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation → isIndigenousTo → Turtle Island (North America) ⓘ

Nipissing First Nation → isIndigenousTo → Turtle Island (North America) ⓘ

Skarù∙ręʼ → isIndigenousTo → Turtle Island (North America) ⓘ

this entity surface form: Turtle Island