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Retelling 30 myths and legends of the Eastern Cherokee, this book presents the stories with important details providing a culturally authentic and historically accurate context. Background information is given within each story so the reader may avoid reliance on glossaries, endnotes, or other explanatory aids. The reader may thus experience the stories more as their original audiences would have. This approach to adapting traditional literature derives from ideas found in reader-response and translation theory and from research in cognitive psychology and sociolinguistics.
Contents
Table of Contents
Preface
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
Sources Used in the Retellings
Notes
Bibliography
Index
