Eastern Cherokee Stories
Title | Eastern Cherokee Stories PDF eBook |
Author | Sandra Muse Isaacs |
Publisher | University of Oklahoma Press |
Total Pages | 371 |
Release | 2019-07-10 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 0806165529 |
“Throughout our Cherokee history,” writes Joyce Dugan, former principal chief of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, “our ancient stories have been the essence of who we are.” These traditional stories embody the Cherokee concepts of Gadugi, working together for the good of all, and Duyvkta, walking the right path, and teach listeners how to understand and live in the world with reverence for all living things. In Eastern Cherokee Stories, Sandra Muse Isaacs uses the concepts of Gadugi and Duyvkta to explore the Eastern Cherokee oral tradition, and to explain how storytelling in this tradition—as both an ancient and a contemporary literary form—is instrumental in the perpetuation of Cherokee identity and culture. Muse Isaacs worked among the Eastern Cherokees of North Carolina, recording stories and documenting storytelling practices and examining the Eastern Cherokee oral tradition as both an ancient and contemporary literary form. For the descendants of those Cherokees who evaded forced removal by the U.S. government in the 1830s, storytelling has been a vital tool of survival and resistance—and as Muse Isaacs shows us, this remains true today, as storytelling plays a powerful role in motivating and educating tribal members and others about contemporary issues such as land reclamation, cultural regeneration, and language revitalization. The stories collected and analyzed in this volume range from tales of creation and origins that tell about the natural world around the homeland, to post-Removal stories that often employ Native humor to present the Cherokee side of history to Cherokee and non-Cherokee alike. The persistence of this living oral tradition as a means to promote nationhood and tribal sovereignty, to revitalize culture and language, and to present the Indigenous view of history and the land bears testimony to the tenacity and resilience of the Cherokee people, the Ani-Giduwah.
Living Stories of the Cherokee
Title | Living Stories of the Cherokee PDF eBook |
Author | Barbara R. Duncan |
Publisher | Univ of North Carolina Press |
Total Pages | 276 |
Release | 1998 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 9780807847190 |
Traditional and modern stories by the Cherokee Indians of North Carolina reflect the tribe's religious beliefs and values, observations of animals and nature, and knowledge of history.
Long-Ago Stories of the Eastern Cherokee
Title | Long-Ago Stories of the Eastern Cherokee PDF eBook |
Author | Lloyd Arneach |
Publisher | Arcadia Publishing |
Total Pages | 86 |
Release | 2014-04-01 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 162584459X |
Tragically, relatively little of this flourishing nation and its rich culture has survived. Its stories, however, live on today. In this priceless and engaging collection, native Cherokee and professional storyteller Lloyd Arneach recounts tales such as how the bear lost his long bushy tail and how the first strawberry came to be.
Cherokee Americans
Title | Cherokee Americans PDF eBook |
Author | John R. Finger |
Publisher | U of Nebraska Press |
Total Pages | 276 |
Release | 1991-01-01 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780803268791 |
Finger is a descendant of the tribal remnant that avoided removal in the 1830s and instead remained in North Carolina. Most now live on a reservation adjacent to Great Smoky Mountains National Park.
The Cherokee Perspective
Title | The Cherokee Perspective PDF eBook |
Author | Laurence French |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 0 |
Release | 2014 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9781469638492 |
La 4ème de couverture indique : "The Cherokee Perspective will provide a rare glimpse inside Cherokee culture and society and a more complete view of how Cherokees see themselves, their past, their future, and their relationship with the non-Indian world. The Cherokee Perspective contains material about contemporary social problems, education, history, current events, dances, cooking, arts and crafts, legends, and outstanding individuals. The Cherokee Perspective presents the diversity which exists in Cherokee society today and the understanding and tolerance on which Cherokee society traditionally was based."
Cherokee Myths and Legends
Title | Cherokee Myths and Legends PDF eBook |
Author | Terry L. Norton |
Publisher | McFarland |
Total Pages | 231 |
Release | 2014-11-19 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1476618119 |
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.
Myths of the Cherokee
Title | Myths of the Cherokee PDF eBook |
Author | James Mooney |
Publisher | Courier Corporation |
Total Pages | 610 |
Release | 2012-03-07 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 0486131327 |
126 myths: sacred stories, animal myths, local legends, many more. Plus background on Cherokee history, notes on the myths and parallels. Features 20 maps and illustrations.