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...