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Native American Antiquity

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...

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...

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: 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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