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Living stories of the Cherokee Cover Image Book Book

Living stories of the Cherokee

Duncan, Barbara R. (Added Author). Arch, Davey. (Added Author).

Summary: This book, the first major new collection of Cherokee stories published in nearly a hundred years, presents seventy-two traditional and contemporary tales from the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians in North Carolina. It features stories told by Davey Arch, Robert Bushyhead, Edna Chekelelee, Kathi Smith Littlejohn, and Freeman Owle - five Cherokee storytellers who learned their art and their stories from family and community. The collection also includes a story presented in the Cherokee language and syllabary, translated by tribal interpreter Marie Junaluska. The tales gathered here include animal stories, creation myths, legends, and ghost stories as well as family tales and stories about events in Cherokee history.

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  • ISBN: 0807824119
  • ISBN: 9780807824115
  • ISBN: 0807847194
  • ISBN: 9780807847190
  • Physical Description: print
    xv, 253 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
  • Publisher: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©1998.

Contents / Notes

Bibliography, etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-248) and index.
Formatted Contents Note: The origin of legends ; The bird with big feet ; Me-Li and the mud dauber ; How the world was made ; The origin of the pileated woodpecker ; The playing boys, the Pleiades ; Why the turtle's shell is cracked ; Why the mole lives underground ; How the possum lost his beautiful tail ; Getting fire ; First man and first woman ; The valley of the butterflies ; Spearfinger ; The birds and animals stickball game ; The Cherokee little people ; Nunnehi, the gentle people / Kathi Smith Littlejohn.
Participant or Performer Note: Tales told by Kathi Smith Littlejohn, Davey Arch, Edna Chekelelee, Robert Bushyhead, Marie Junaluska and Freeman Owle.

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