So he pulled out a feather and laid it beside the sleeping man. Then he left them and went off a short distance, for he knew that a woman was being formed from the feather. But the man was still asleep and did not know what was happening. When the Bald Eagle decided that the woman was about completed, he returned, awoke the man by flapping his wings over him and flew away.
This is compelling. It's compelling because there's so much of the bible in this story, specifically in the Book of Genesis, where God created man from mud and molded him. Then, God created man's partner from the man's rib. But, in this story, the Bald Eagle pulled a feather, and let the feather grow into a woman. So there's a little bit of an alteration, but they're so similar. One reason this was so compelling is because it got me thinking that if Salinan Indian tribe just made this up, or had this story passed down from generation to generation, or if the Europeans had shared the Bible with them. It seems most likely that the Europeans shared stories from the Bible and told them to the Salinan Indian tribe, and each generation passed this story down with their own version of the story. The striking similarities gives it away, or could even be a coincidence. Very interesting to learn that native American tribes believed in a higher divine being.