Published 2014
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“…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.…”
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