"...the patriotic Archbishop of Canterbuty, found it advisable - "
" Found what?" said the Duck.
"Found IT," the Mouse replied rather crossly, "of course you know what IT means."
"I know what 'IT' means well enough, when I  find a thing," said the Duck,
"IT's  generally a frog or a worm.
The question is...what did the archbishop find? "
(Alice's Adventures in Wonderland)

Coyote and the Jar

Coyote was given a big jar to carry when the people came to this
world. He was told not to lift the lid... but the jar was heavy and coyote
was curious to know what he was carrying. He set the jar down,
lifted the lid and peeked inside. All the stars rushed out and they
burned his nose as they flew past. Poor coyote could only catch a
few and these are now in their proper places in the skies (the
constellations), the others are just tossed about, and some of them,
not tightly held in place, fall back to earth. This is why
there are few constellations and why there are shooting stars and why
coyote has a black nose.

(Hopi)

Haliksai! This Is How It Was
(This is but one version based on Hopi Creation)

A very long time ago...the world was nothing but water.
 Far to the east and to the west lived two female goddesses.
Hurung Whuti...of the East was the goddess of rocks, clay, and minerals.
Her house was a kiva. She usually had one gray and one yellow fox skin
that was tied to the top of the ladder leading  into her house.
In the West...there lived another Hurung Whuti in a similar kiva.
 She had a large turtle-shell rattle on her ladder.
The Sun rose and set on this world of water.
 Shortly before Sun appeared in the east he would dress himself in the gray fox skin.
This would create the white dawn of the Hopi.
After a bit, he would he took off the gray skin and put on the skin of the yellow fox.
This brightened the sky into the yellow dawn of the Hopi.
Then, he rose from the north end of the
kiva in which the Hurung Whuti of the East lived.
When he had crossed the sky... and arrived in the West,
Sun would announce his arrival at the western Hurung Whuti's kiva
by fastening the turtle-shell rattle on the top of her ladder.
Then he entered into the kiva and passed through an opening in its north end
and would continue his course eastward under the water.
It came to pass that the two Hurung Whuti decided there should be some dry land
in the Underworld and they caused the waters to recede
eastward and westward so that some dry land appeared.
The Sun passing over the land noticed that no living being could be seen.
When he mentioned this to the goddesses,
the one in the West invited the one in the East to come and talk about it.
Hurung Whuti of the East journeyed over a great rainbow to confer with her sister of the West. After
a long council they decided to create a little bird.
Huruing of the East made a wren of clay and covered it up with a piece of native cloth.
They sang a song over it and after awhile, a live bird came forth.
Since Sun always passed over the middle of the earth,
the deities thought that he might not have seen living creatures in the North or South.
They sent the little wren to fly all over the earth,
but it returned and said that no living being existed anywhere.
 (Actually, Spider Woman, Kohkang Wuhti, lived in a kiva
somewhere in the southwest at the edge of the water, but Wren failed to notice her.)
Thereupon, the Hurung Whuti of the West created many birds and animals in the
same way as the wren had been created. She sent them out to inhabit the earth.
As her sister had created the birds and the animals, the Hurung Whuti of the
East created a man and woman out of the same kind of clay and covered them with
the same cloth. Again the Hurung Whuti sang their special songs, and the man and
the woman were endowed with life.  The two Hurung Whuti taught the man and the
woman a language, and the deity of the East led them back over the rainbow to
her home. There they lived for a short time before they and their children
wandered out over the eastern land to make homes of their own.
While the Hurung Whuti were busy creating the birds, the animals, and the first
man and woman, Spider Woman decided that she, too, would create men and women.
Thereupon she gave life to all kinds of people...
and with the help of Mockingbird, Yaupa,
she taught each group its own language before sending it off to live.
After a talk with her sister, the Hurung Whuti of the West decided that she
must create more people to inhabit the lands of the West. These were the
ancestors of the Hopi. After this was done,  the Hurung Whuti parted and
went to live for all time in their homes under the waters far to the East and far to the West.
The Hopi still remember the Hurung Whuti and make many prayer offerings to them.

(Hopi)