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.

Table of 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 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 Sources Used in the Retellings Notes Bibliography Index