What is the name of the folklore creation story originating with North American indigenous peoples ?

The creation story originating from some North American indigenous populations is called the story of the ‘Great Turtle’, first told to Europeans between 1678 and 1680. It was recorded by Jasper Danckaerts (1639 - 1702/04), founder of a colony of Labadists (Protestant religious community movement) along the Bohemia River in what is now the US state of Maryland on the east coast. The Lenape is a term that refers to the indigenous people of the Northeastern Woodlands, who lived in the U.S. and Canada.

The story is considered Native American folklore for Turtle Island, a name for the Earth or for North America, used by US indigenous and First Nations people.

The creation story is shared by the Northeastern Woodlands tribes, notably those of the Iroquois Confederacy. According to Iroquois oral tradition, ‘the earth was the thought of (a ruler) of a great island which floats in space (and) is a place of eternal peace.” Sky Woman fell down to earth when it was covered with water, or more specifically, when there was a”great cloud sea.”

Various animals tried to swim to the bottom of the ocean to bring back dirt to create land. Muskrat succeeded in gathering dirt, which was placed on the back of a turtle. The dirt began to multiple and also caused the turtle to grow bigger and bigger and the dirt continued to grow bigger and bigger, multiplying until it became a huge expanse of land that became Earth.