University of North Carolina Press, 2012. — 264 p. Cherokee Stories of the Turtle Island Liars' Club paints a vivid, fascinating portrait of a community deeply grounded in tradition and dynamically engaged in the present. A collection of forty interwoven stories, conversations, and teachings about Western Cherokee life, beliefs, and the art of storytelling, the book...
John F. Blair, 2013. — 295 p. Voices of Cherokee Women is a compelling collection of first-person accounts by Cherokee women. It includes letters, diaries, newspaper articles, oral histories, ancient myths, and accounts by travelers, traders, and missionaries who encountered the Cherokees from the 16th century to the present. Among the stories told by these "voices" are those...
The History Press, 2011. — 168 p. The intricate designs and complex patterns of Cherokee pottery have been developed over centuries. Both timeless and time-honored, these singular works of pottery are still crafted by the proud hands of Cherokee women in Western North Carolina. Cherokee Pottery recounts the history of a tradition passed from elder to child through countless...
Chelsea House, 2005. — 120 p. — (Indians of North America, Heritage Edition). The Cherokees are one of the largest Indian tribes in the United States. They are often noted for establishing a republican form of government and an 84-character written alphabet to preserve their language.
Bear & Company, 1996. — 240 p. Discover the holistic experience of human life from the elder teachers of Cherokee Medicine. With stories of the Four Directions and the Universal Circle, these once-secret teachings offer us wisdom on circle gatherings, natural herbs and healing, and ways to reduce stress in our daily lives.
Bear & Company, 1996. — 240 p. Discover the holistic experience of human life from the elder teachers of Cherokee Medicine. With stories of the Four Directions and the Universal Circle, these once-secret teachings offer us wisdom on circle gatherings, natural herbs and healing, and ways to reduce stress in our daily lives.
American Indian Quarterly, Vol. 16, No. 2 (Spring 1992). — pp. 237-258 Analyzes Eastern Cherokee shamanism of the nineteenth century. Payne manuscripts; Ethnography collected by James Mooney in 1887; Frans Olbrechts’ 1915 commentaries on the sacred formula manuscripts; History of the Cherokee belief system; Structure of Cherokee cosmology; Tension between the celestial powers...
University of Alabama Press, 2015. — 280 p. In "Center Places and Cherokee Towns", Christopher B. Rodning opens a panoramic vista onto protohistoric Cherokee culture. He posits that Cherokee households and towns were anchored within their cultural and natural landscapes by built features that acted as "center places". Rodning investigates the period from just before the first...
University of North Carolina Press, 2010. — 328 p. Anetso, a centuries-old Cherokee ball game still played today, is a vigorous, sometimes violent activity that rewards speed, strength, and agility. At the same time, it is the focus of several linked ritual activities. Is it a sport? Is it a religious ritual? Could it possibly be both? Why has it lasted so long, surviving...
University of Alabama Press, 2006. — 168 p. In "Eastern Cherokee Fishing", life histories, folktales, and reminiscences about fish gathered from interviews with Cherokee and non-Cherokee people provide a clear and personal picture of the changes in the Qualla Boundary (Eastern Band of the) Cherokee in the last 75 years. Coupled with documentary research, these ethnographic...
University of Oklahoma Press, 2014. — 160 p. Robert J. Conley did not set out to chronicle the life of Cherokee medicine man John Little Bear. Instead, the medicine man came to him. Little Bear asked Conley to write down his story, to reveal to the world “what Indian medicine is really about.” For Little Bear, as for the Cherokee ancestors who brought their traditions over the...
The Journal of American Folklore. — Jul. - Sep., 1888. — Vol. 1, No. 2. — pp. 97-108. The Cherokees are undoubtedly the most important tribe in the United States, as well as one of the most interesting, being exceeded in point of numbers only by the Sioux, and possibly also by the Chippewas, while in regard to wealth, intelligence, and general adaptability to civilization they...
American Anthropologist. — 1890. — Vol. 3. — pp. 105-132. The Indian game of the ball play is common to all the tribes from Maine to California, and from the sunlit waters of the Gulf of Mexico to the frozen shores of Hudson bay.
The Journal of American Folklore. — 1900. — Vol. 13. — pp. 1-10. "In Cherokee ritual, the river is the Long Man... a giant with his head in the foothills of the mountains and his foot far down in the lowland, pressing always, resistless and without stop, to a certain goal, and speaking ever in murmurs which only the priest may interpret. In the words of the sacred formulas, he...
American Anthropologist. — 1889. — Vol. 2. — pp. 167-171. "In connection with my work, at the instance of the Bureau of Ethnology, in the summer of 1887 I visited the East Cherokee reservation, in western North Carolina. Being delayed overnight at a small town called Webster, about twenty miles from the reservation, an opportunity was afforded to make the acquaintance of...
A Dissertation Presented to the Graduate School of the University of Florida in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy. — University of Florida, 1988. — 916 p. Archaeologists are increasingly recognizing the importance of incorporating folk semantic analyses into their studies of past cultures. While they have acknowledged the value of...
Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina, 2008. — 133 p. — ISBN: 978-0-8078-3219-6. "The stories in this book have been told by Cherokee people, passed down in spoken words from one generation to the next, for hundreds and perhaps thousands of years. They come from a time when all knowledge was passed on in this form — told orally by one person to another, before the...
Charleston: The History Press, 2008. — 128 p. — ISBN: 978-1-59629-031-0. Tragically, relatively little of the once flourishing Cherokee nation and its rich culture has survived. Its stories, however, live on today. Native Cherokee and professional storyteller Lloyd Arneach recounts priceless tales such as how the bear lost his long bushy tail and how the first strawberry came...
Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1966. — pp. 1-111. — (Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin; Vol. 196. Anthropological Paper; No. 75). "Very little information is available for the Eastern Cherokee from 1848 until the outbreak of the Civil War," write Fogelson and Kutsche (1961, p. 103). A considerable amount of information has actually existed, but it has...
Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1966. — pp. 215-325. — (Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin; Vol. 196. Anthropological Paper; No. 78). The first intruders into the country of the Cherokee were the conquistadores of DeSoto, who encountered the Cherokee in their search for gold. From this time, early in the 16th century, the Cherokee were left undisturbed...
Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1966. — pp. 175-214. — (Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin; Vol. 196. Anthropological Paper; No. 77). In September of 1889 Wahnenauhi, a Cherokee woman whose English name was Mrs. Lucy L. Keys, sent from her home in Vinita, Indian Territory, a 70-page manuscript of her authorship to the Bureau of American Ethnology. "Please...
Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1966. — pp. 379-447. — (Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin; Vol. 196. Anthropological Paper; No. 80). The Frans M. Olbrechts collection of North Carolina Cherokee myths, legends, and miscellaneous stories and ethnographic data is not a collection in the generally accepted sense of that term, but rather a body of stenographic...
Chelsea House Publ., 2011. — 111 p. — (The History & Culture of Native Americans). The Cherokee tells the story of the Cherokee people from early times to the present, including the Cherokee Nation, the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, and the United Keetoowah Band of Cherokee Indians in Oklahoma. The Cherokees had an early turbulent history dealing with the Spanish, French,...