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Examines a lineage of Western writers who have considered the Mother Earth figure as a native U.S. goddess. Connection between the story of Mother Earth and the story told by Smohalla in 1885; Details of the books 'The Native Races,' by Hubert Bancroft and 'Primitive Culture,' by Edward B. Tylor; Scholars and authors who held the view that Mother Earth is one of the great deities of native Americans.