ISBN:
9780786494606
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (231 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Parallel Title:
Print version Cherokee Myths and Legends : Thirty Tales Retold
DDC:
398.208997
Keywords:
Cherokee Indians -- Folklore
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Tales -- North Carolina
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
Abstract:
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
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; 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
Description / Table of Contents:
Spear-Finger, the Nantahala OgressThe 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
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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