In the short flood story I read created by the native Americans the earth was flooded because a man named Nanabozho tried to receive his cousin from the river serpent. He angered the river serpent, which caused him to flood the earth, everyone who ran to the top of the mountains survived by making boats and some animals survived too. The river serpent however did not survive because he was shot in the heart. A main similarity between this flood story and the one told in Gilgamesh is that the flood was given as a punishment. This also brings a big difference because the native American flood story was given as a punishment to only one person which was Nanabozho, in Uta- napishtis story the flood was given to kill everyone because they made too much noise. Another difference is in the native American flood story the flood time line is based on when the water covers the mountains that they people were on, in Uta-napishtis the time line for the flood was a specific 200 hundred days. Another similarity is that after the flood everything went back to normal, the native American flood story ends bt saying that the water disappeared from the land and those who survived returned home. In both cases the flood didn’t have lasting effects on the earth itself on the people on it. In Uta-Nepishtis story everyone died however the earth did recover to its normal form as well. Lastly both were started because of angry g-ds and both were saved because of g-ds who weren’t quite on the same path as the angry g-ds. Meaning that each had g-ds that helped them survive.
Source: http://www.native-languages.org/
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