Tone and Mood of "Earth on Turtles Back"

I think the tone of this story is very meaningful. I think it is meaningful because it is one cultures perspective on how the earth was created. I think the mood of this story is serious and happy beacuse when they couldn't bring the earth from under the sea it was very serious, but when the muskrat finally did bring it up and the earth started to grow on the turtles back, it became happy.