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Title Living stories of the Cherokee / collected and edited by Barbara R. Duncan with stories told by Davey Arch [and others].

Publication Info. Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [1998]
©1998

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Description 1 online resource (xv, 253 pages) : illustrations
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-248) and index.
Contents Origin of legends ; Bird with big feet ; Me-Li and the mud dauber ; How the world was made ; Origin of the pileated woodpecker ; 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 ; Valley of the butterflies ; Spearfinger ; Birds and animals stickball game ; Cherokee little people ; Nunnehi, the gentle people / Kathi Smith Littlejohn.
Grandpa and the turtle ; Rattlesnake in the corn ; Big snakes ; Old man and the birds ; Brave, the might warrior ; Strange husband (the owl man) ; Legends of the Uk'tena ; Removal ; War ; Women ; Cities of refuge ; Origin of strawberries ; How the possum lost his tail ; Growing up in Cherokee ; Jeannie and the booger ; Grandpa and grandma / Davey Arch.
Cherokee language ; Trees are alive ; Mother Earth's spring dress ; Deer ; Jesus before Columbus time ; Legend of the corn beads ; Santeetlah ghost story ; Storytelling ; Elders on the mountains ; Quail dance ; Feathers ; Indian preacher ; Trail of Tears basket / Edna Chekelelee.
Cherokee language ; Medicine stories ; First time I saw a whiter person, Mrs. Lee ; Yonder mountain ; Sequoyah ; Formula against screech owls and tskilis ; Hunter and thunder ; Little people and the Nunnehi / Robert Bushyhead.
Origin of the Milky Way / Marie Junaluska.
Introduction to the Nantahala Hiking Club gathering ; Nikwasi mound ; Medicine and the Wolf Clan ; Earth ; Magic lake ; Going to water ; Daughter of the sun ; How the possum lost his tail ; Storytelling ; Turtle and the beaver; The turtle and the raccoon, stealing beauty -- Trail of Tears ; Origin of strawberries ; Corn woman spirit ; Ganadi, the great hunter, and the wild boy ; Story of the bat ; Removed townhouses / Freeman Owle.
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Reproduction Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL
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Subject Cherokee Indians -- Folklore.
Cherokee Indians.
Tales.
North Carolina.
Tales -- North Carolina.
Storytellers -- North Carolina.
Storytellers.
Genre/Form Folklore.
Electronic books.
Conference papers and proceedings.
Conference papers and proceedings.
Added Author Duncan, Barbara R.
Arch, Davey.
Other Form: Print version: Living stories of the Cherokee. Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©1998 0807824119 (DLC) 97035037 (OCoLC)37594383
ISBN 0807866474 (electronic book)
9780807866474 (electronic book)
0807824119 (cloth ; alkaline paper)
0807847194 (paperback alkaline paper)
9780807824115 (cloth ; alkaline paper)
9780807847190 (paperback alkaline paper)