Across many Native American cultures, the Crow  appears as one of the most powerful and complex figures in traditional storytelling. Sometimes a creator, sometimes a trickster, and sometimes a teacher, the crow is never a simple character. Instead, these ancient tales use the crow to explain how the world came to be—and to remind people of the consequences of curiosity, intelligence, and ambition. The World Before Light In many versions of the tale, the world once existed in