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...
| Основен автор: | Norton, Terry L., 1952- (Author) |
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| Формат: | Електронна книга |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
Jefferson, North Carolina :
McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers,
[2014]
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Print version::
Cherokee myths and legends : thirty tales retold. |
Съдържание:
- 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.