the earth on the turtle's back response

The story talked about a man and his wife and she fell into a hole that they pulled the tree that had four white roots. The wife fell into a water land place then the animals were trying to find the earth for the women to stand on. Then the tiny muskrat found earth and placed her paw onto the turtle's back and that is how earth was formed. I thought that the story was confusing but also made a little sense. a person can't live in the water life because they need to live on land.