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Native American Antiquity

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 Daughter Of The Sun

The Sun lived on the other side of the sky vault, but her daughter lived in the middle of the sky, directly above the earth, and every...

Kana’tï And Selu Part 2: The Origin Of Game And Corn

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...

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...

Cherokee Fables: Origin of Disease and Medicine

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

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...

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