The Cherokee People: The Story of the Cherokees from Earliest Origins to Contemporary TimesCouncil Oak Books, 1992 - 368 Seiten This book depicts the Cherokees' ancient culture and lifestyle, their government, dress, and family life. Mails chronicles the fundamentals of vital Cherokee spiritual beliefs and practices, their powerful rituals, and their joyful festivals, as well as the story of the gradual encroachment that all but destroyed their civilization. |
Inhalt
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| 41 | |
LIFE CYCLE The Naming Ceremony Marriage | 71 |
GOVERNMENT AND WARFARE Early Cherokee | 85 |
HEALING AND THE CAUSES OF DISEASE Healing | 117 |
Cherokee Customs and Antiquities and consists of publications and is often less clear and always less | 128 |
ANCIENT RELIGIOUS BELIEFS Man Mortality | 141 |
THE EASTERN CHEROKEES Decline of Cohesion | 223 |
THE WESTERN CHEROKEES Getting Established | 265 |
THE FINAL VEIL Barker Dry Lydia | 289 |
McLure William Glory Sig Vann Jim Wolf Dance Grounds Archie Sam The Western Cherokees Today | 337 |
199 2 | 341 |
APPENDIX | 343 |
BIBLIOGRAPHY | 353 |
INDEX | 359 |
THE RELIGIOUS FESTIVALS The Ancient Major | 161 |
TRANSFORMATION OF A CULTURE Early Expedi | 189 |
INDEX OF ILLUSTRATIONS | 362 |
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Seite 69 - They set off abreast of each other at six yards from the end of the play-ground; then one of them hurls the stone on its edge, in as direct a line as he can ? a considerable distance toward the middle of the other end of the square; when they have...
Seite 125 - Your spittle I have put at rest under the earth. Your soul I have put at rest under the earth. I have come to cover you over with the black rock. I have come to cover you over with the black cloth. I have come to cover you with the black slabs, never to reappear. Toward the black coffin of the upland in the Darkening Land your paths shall stretch out.
Seite 63 - Listen! Now you settlements have drawn near to hearken. Where you have gathered in the foam you are moving about as one. You Blue Cat and the others, I have come to offer you freely the white food. Let the paths from every direction recognize each other. Our spittle shall be in agreement. Let them (your and my spittle) be together as we go about. They (the fish) have become a prey and there shall be no loneliness. Your spittle has become agreeable. I am called Swimmer. Yu! EXPLANATION. This formula,...
Seite 227 - ... infants laid away under the bushes with only a shawl between them and the cold ground. In their ball plays also each young man, before going into the game, is subjected to an ordeal of dancing, bleeding, and cold plunge baths, without food or sleep, which must unquestionably waste his physical energy. In the old days when the Cherokee was the lord of the whole country from the Savannah to the Ohio, well fed and warmly clad and leading an active life in the open air, he was able to maintain a...
Seite 125 - Toward the black coffin of the upland in the Darkening Land your paths shall stretch out. So shall it be for you. The clay of the upland has come (to cover you). Instantly the black clay has lodged there where it is at rest at the black houses in the Darkening Land. With the black coffin and with the black slabs I have come to cover you. Now your soul has faded away. It has become blue. When darkness comes your spirit shall grow less and dwindle away, never to reappear. Listen!
Seite 125 - I have put at rest under the earth. 1 have come to cover you over with the black rock. I have come to cover you over with the black cloth. I have come to cover you over with the black slabs, never to reappear. Toward the black coffin of the upland in the Darkening Land your paths shall stretch out. So shall it be for you. The clay of the upland has come to cover you. Instantly the black clay has lodged there where it is at rest at the black houses in the Darkening Land. With the black coffin and...
Seite 61 - O Great Terrestrial Hunter, I come to the edge of your spittle where you repose. Let your stomach cover itself; let it be covered with leaves. Let it cover itself at a single bend, and may you never be satisfied.
Seite 138 - The people had tobacco in the beginning, but they had used it all, and there was great suffering for want of it. There was one old man so old that he had to be kept alive by smoking, and as his son did not want to see him die he decided to go himself to try and get some more. The tobacco country was far in the south, with high mountains all around it, and the passes were guarded, so that it was very hard to get into it, but the young man was a conjurer and was not afraid.