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...
Cherokee Fables: The Origin of Strawberries
When James Mooney, who worked for the Bureau of American Ethnology in the late 1800’s, lived with the Cherokee, he recorded many of their...
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