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Kana’tï And Selu Part 2: The Origin Of Game And Corn

Part 2: Wild Game A few days later the boys went back to the swamp, cut some reeds, and made seven arrows and then started up the...

Cherokee Fables: The Journey To The Sunrise

A long time ago several young men made up their minds to find the place where the Sun lives and see what the Sun is like. They got ready...

Cherokee Fables: Origin of Disease and Medicine

In the old days the beasts, birds, fishes, insects, and plants could all talk, and they and the people lived together in peace and...

Kana’tï And Selu, Part 1: The Origin Of Game And Corn

Part 1: The Wild Boy [from Myths of the Cherokee, by James Mooney] When I was a boy this is what the old men told me they had heard when...

Cherokee Fables: The First Fire

In the beginning there was no fire, and the world was cold, until the Thunders (Ani’-Hyûñ’tïkwälâ’skï), who lived up in Gälûñ’lätï, sent...

Cherokee Fables: How the World was Made

The earth is a great island floating in a sea of water, and suspended at each of the four cardinal points by a cord hanging down from the...

Cherokee Fables: Snake that moves like an Inchworm

Ustû’tlï that made its haunt upon Cohutta mountain. It was called the Ustû’tlï or “foot” snake, because it did not glide like other...

Ancient Native American Trade: Cotton

May292014 One of my earliest memories was walking bare foot on the cool, muddy rows between tall stalks of cotton on our cotton farm in...

Killing Lean Bear, Part 3

It was probably a peaceful, happy morning for the families of Black Kettle’s warriors who were off on a buffalo hunt. Black Kettle...

Killing Lean Bear, Part 2

Lean Bear and the other Cheyenne chiefs came away from their meeting with President Lincoln in 1862 feeling good about the outcome. They...

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