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The Iroquois creation story originates from the Haudenosaunee Confederacy, a group of six Native American nations located across the northeastern woodlands of North America, existing for centuries. It tells of a pregnant Sky Woman falling from the Sky World to a watery world below, where animals help her create land and where she gives birth to twins who represent good and evil, shaping the world and its inhabitants.