Turtle Island

For other uses, see Turtle Island (disambiguation).

"Turtle Island" is a name used by some Indigenous peoples of the Americas to refer to Earth or North America. It is also commonly used among both Indigenous and non-Indigenous activists for Indigenous rights. The name is based on an oral history once common to the Indigenous peoples of the Northeastern Woodlands, which today roughly encompasses southeastern Canada and the northeastern United States.

A number of contemporary works continue to use and/or tell the Turtle Island creation story.

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