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Living stories of the Cherokee /
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 Smi...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Chapel Hill :
University of North Carolina Press,
©1998.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.
- Grandpa and the turtle ; The rattlesnake in the corn ; Big snakes ; The old man and the birds ; The brave, the might 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 / Davey Arch.
- 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 / Edna Chekelelee.
- The Cherokee language ; Medicine stories ; The first time I saw a whiter person, Mrs. Lee ; Yonder mountain ; Sequoyah ; Formula against screech owls and tskilis ; The hunter and thunder ; The little people and the Nunnehi / Robert Bushyhead.
- The origin of the Milky Way / Marie Junaluska.
- 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 / Freeman Owle.