Cargando…

Cherokee myths and legends : thirty tales retold /

"Retelling 30 Eastern Cherokee myths and legends, this book presents the stories with important details providing a culturally authentic and historically accurate context. Background is information given within each story so the reader may avoid reliance on glossaries, endnotes, or other explan...

Descripción completa

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Norton, Terry L., 1952-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, [2014]
Temas:
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: considerations in adapting Native American traditional literature
  • Guide to the pronunciation of Cherokee words
  • Origins
  • The three worlds
  • Fire
  • Corn and game
  • Disease and medicine
  • The bear and the bear songs
  • Tobacco
  • The Pleiades and the pine cone
  • Killing the great monsters
  • The Great Yellow Jacket Ulagu
  • The leech place
  • The Uktena and the Shawano conjuror
  • The red man and the Uktena
  • Ustu-tli, the great snake of the Cohutta Mountains
  • The great hawks
  • The hunter in the Dakwa
  • Supernatural and animal adversaries and helpers
  • Spear-finger, the Nantahala Ogress
  • The Stone Man of the Mountains
  • The raven mockers
  • The immortals and the water cannibals
  • The man who traveled to the world below
  • Judaculla, the slant-eyed giant of Tanasee Bald
  • Legends of Pilot Knob
  • Yahula
  • The unseen helpers
  • Legends from history by or about the Cherokee
  • The lost Cherokee
  • Ga'na and the Cherokee
  • The Mohawk warriors
  • The false warriors
  • Jocassee
  • Some heroic acts in wars with whites
  • Cateechee of Keowee: a ballad of the Carolina backcountry
  • Notes on sources used in the retellings.