Emergence Analysis

      Some of the tenets most important to Native Americans were family, animals, and the sacred number four.  This is apparent in The Emergence.   Towards the beginning, two winds come together to form the First Man and First Woman.  These two "people", along with First Boy and First Girl, leads the creatures of the Fourth World into the Fifth World.  A family of four, with two parents and two children, boy and girl, is one of the most appreciated family structures of Native Americans, partly because there are four members.  The number four is considered very balanced and sacred.  Every number in the myth, save once, was either four or a multiple thereof.  When new characters are introduced, they are in groups of four, for example the four types of insects mentioned, the four great birds, the four common features of Third World people, the four gods, the four cardinal directions, etc.  The insects found the perfect The four animals represented all of the Native American people when they came together to find a leader.  Those animals, Lion, Wolf, Bluebird, and Hummingbird, became the ruling council for the Natives.  Turkey saved the seeds of all the Natives' important crops, and is consistently honored.  It is always the animals that make the key decisions for the Native Americans.  Family, four, and animals were very important to the Native Americans, and that is demonstrated in The Emergence.