Table of Contents
Contents
Foreword by Joyce Conseen Dugan
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Kathi Smith Littlejohn
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
Davey Arch
Grandpa and the Turtle
The Rattlesnake in the Corn
Big Snakes
The Old Man and the Birds
The Brave, the Mighty Warrior
The Strange Husband (The Owl Man)
Legends of the Uk'tena
Removal
War
Women
Cities of Refuge
The Origin of Strawberries
How the Possum Lost His Tail
Growing Up in Cherokee
Jeannie and the Booger
Grandpa and Grandma
Edna Chekelelee
Cherokee Language
The Trees Are Alive
Mother Earth's Spring Dress
The Deer
Jesus before Columbus Time
The Legend of the Corn Beads
Santeetlah Ghost Story
Storytelling
Elders on the Mountains
The Quail Dance
Feathers
The Indian Preacher
The Trail of Tears Basket
Robert Bushyhead
The Cherokee Language
Medicine Stories
The First Time I Saw a White Person—Mrs. Lee
Yonder Mountain
Sequoyah
Formula against Screech Owls and Tskilis
The Hunter and Thunder
The Little People and the Nunnehi
Marie Junaluska
The Origin of the Milky Way
Freeman Owle
Introduction to the Nantahala Hiking Club Gathering
The Nikwasi Mound
Medicine and the Wolf Clan
The Earth
The Magic Lake
Going to Water
The Daughter of the Sun
How the Possum Lost His Tail
Storytelling
The Turtle and the Beaver
The Turtle and the Raccoon—Stealing Beauty
The Trail of Tears
The Origin of Strawberries
Corn Woman Spirit
Ganadi, the Great Hunter, and the Wild Boy
The Story of the Bat
The Removed Townhouses
Sources
Index