In the Sioux creation story, the Creating Power flood the world because the creatures in it were bad and were destroying it. Then It put all of the living creatures on it again and humans as well, and told them that if they made the world bad and ugly once again, It would destroy that world too.
This creation story resembles the Christian flood myth, a story that the Europeans brought with them to the New World.
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Although you forgot to include the main point 1 as a reference, we can help you with the following comment.
"How do we engage with others while staying true to ourselves?"
The best to do so is to genuinely be ourselves, truly knowing ourselves after reflecting who we are, what we aspire, what are our strengths, and weaknesses. If we know what our belief system is and why, we won't have any problem in relating to other people, although they have different belief systems and approaches to life.
We can respectfully disagree with other people's ideas and show tolerance for the way other people think.
Laura judges Rita by looks instead of actually finding out by asking. Never judge a book by its cover as they say. Also Laura focused more on Rita than herself causing herself to fall behind. Hope it helped.