The Earth on the Turtles Back

In Dr Prestons class we read a myth called the earth on the turtles back. I’m pretty sure that this was a story on how earth was “created”. I don’t know what I thought about it, I just took it as another adaptation on how earth was created. A tutle holds land on it’s back to help human and boom, earth is created. It was a nice story I guess. It had morales and themes like never giving up help those in need etc. I do wonder what culture created this story? Dr Preston said native Americans but I think he was just giving out an example on how different cultures remember story’s