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...

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...