The origin of the Milky Way & other living stories of the Cherokee /
Cherokee people have lived in the Great Smoky Mountains for thousands of years. During all this time, they have told stories to each other to explain how things came to be, to pass on lessons about life, and to describe the mountains, animals, plants, and spirits around them. The Origin of the Milky...
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| Language: | English |
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Chapel Hill :
Univ. of North Carolina Press,
2008
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| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction; Why the Stories Look and Sound the Way They Do; How to Pronounce Cherokee Words; Learning More about Cherokee People; 1 Living with People; The Origin of Strawberries: First Man and First Woman; The Origin of the Blowgun: The Old Man and the Birds; Medicine and the Wolf Clan; The Bird with Big Feet; The Origin of Stickball: The Story of the Bat; How the Possum Lost His Beautiful Tail; 2 Living with Animals; The Magic Lake; The Rattlesnake in the Corn; Getting Fire; 3 Living with Plants and the Earth; The Trees Are Alive; Mother Earth's Spring Dress; The Earth.
- Corn Woman SpiritA Medicine Story; 4 Living with Spirits; Spirit Warriors and the Nikwasi Mound; Santeetlah Ghost Story; The Cherokee Little People
- Forever Boy; Nunnehi, the Gentle People; 5 Living with Monsters; Spearfinger; The Hunter and Thunder; 6 Living with Cherokee Language; Cherokee Language; The Origin of the Milky Way; Gili Ulisvdanvyi; 7 Living with the Past and Future; The Trail of Tears; Removal; The Legend of the Corn Beads; People Singing in the Earth; Glossary; Map: Cherokee Lands; Timeline; Further Reading; About the Storytellers; Acknowledgments.
