Preserving the Culture: Adair vs Priber
Over the centuries, since the Cherokee people’s first contact with Europeans, there have been many attempts to preserve the pre-Columbian...
Preserving the Culture: Introduction
In ancient times, the Cherokee culture was preserved and passed on to each generation through ceremony and oral stories. It was an...
White Buffalo, Part 7: Eastern Herds
On some of the early drafts of my novel, “The First Raven Mocker”, witch is book 1 of the “Cherokee Chronicles” series, I was criticized...
Cherokee Fables: What the Stars are Like
This week the sky provided us with wondrous things to observe. Sunday was this year’s “Supermoon” which is the first full moon when the...
Cherokee Fables: The Moon And The Thunders
The Sun was a young woman and lived in the East, while her brother, the Moon. lived in the West. The girl had a lover who used to come...
Cherokee Fables: How They Brought Back Tobacco
In the beginning of the world, when people and animals were all the same, there was only one tobacco plant, to which they all came for...