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...

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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