This remarkable book, the first major new collection of Cherokee Stories published in nearly a hundred years, presents seventy-two traditional and contemporary tales from the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians in North Carolina.
This format effectively conveys the rhythmic, oral quality of the Living storytelling tradition, allowing the reader to "hear" the voice of the storyteller..
In an introductory essay, Barbara Duncan writes about the Cherokee storytelling tradition and explains the "oral poetics" style in which the Stories are presented.
As new Stories are added and old Stories are changed or forgotten, Cherokee storytelling grows and evolves.
Taken together, they demonstrate that storytelling is a living, vital tradition.
The tales gathered here include animal stories, creation myths, legends, and ghost Stories as well as family tales and Stories about such events in Cherokee history as the Trail of Tears.
It features Stories told by Davey Arch, Robert Bushyhead, Edna Chekelelee, Marie Junaluska, Kathi Smith Littlejohn, and Freeman Owle--six Cherokee storytellers who learned their art and their Stories from family and community.
This remarkable book, the first major new collection of Cherokee Stories published in nearly a hundred years, presents seventy-two traditional and contemporary tales from the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians in North Carolina
