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In the Navajo origin story, the Earth Surface People were created by Changing Woman. Later, the Holy People taught them how to live in the Navajo Way. This is how the ways of the people were first learned by the inhabitants of the fourth world, in which the Navajo now live.
Some accounts note that when some of the Holy People became exposed to death, they became the Earth Surface People.
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Kelley, Klara Bonsack and Harris Francis
1994 Navajo Sacred Places. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.
Parezo, Nancy J.
2014 "Diné Ceremony and Ritual." The American Mosaic: The American Indian Experience. http://americanindian2.abc-clio.com/Search/Display/1481676?terms=earth+…, accessed June 26, 2014.