The Native American's Creation

It struck me as something of interest that the Native Americans seemed to have a similar creation/destruction tale as the pilgrims. Their idea that God had made one man and one woman is very similar to the christian belief. Other instances of similarities are that the men and women did not live up to God's standards, and as a result God punished them with a flood. This to me was the most interesting. It reminds me of the bible story of Noah's Ark. This made me wonder where the Native Americans might have come up with this. The story seems entirely too familiar for them to have simply made it up. I wondered if their stories were the aftermath of previous encounters with settlers and explorers. The pilgrims were not the first Europeans to touch down in "The New World." Were the Native Americans previously encountered by religious people? The fact that the Native Americans had the story a little washed down makes me think, it may have been several generations past since their "religious intervention." The only other explanation is that perhaps the Mormons were right. The Mormons believe that Jesus Christ visited America, and that the Native Americans are those who killed the original tribes of Israel that settled here. My guess is that previous interventions caused their current belief system.