The Cherokee husband-and-wife team who recorded and translated these folktales in 1961 helped to preserve the lore of seventeen elder Oklahoma Cherokees. This volume includes a wide variety of folklore; talking-animal stories, tales of a dragon-like creature and other monsters, accounts of little people inhabiting the hills of eastern Oklahoma, variants of European tales, fragments of Cherokee mythology and cosmology, and legends and lore of historical personages and events. The authors present the stories exactly as they were told, adding brief comments to place the stories clearly in the context of Cherokee life and thought. Musical notations are included wherever a song formed part of a story.
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Jack F. Kilpatrick and Anna G. Kilpatrick both were natives of Stilwell, Oklahoma. Jack was Chair of the Department of Music at Sothern Methodist University. Anna, a descendant of Sequoyah, was in the United State Indian Service. Together the Kilpatricks wrote several books on the Oklahoma Cherokees.
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Jack and Anna Kilpatrick do a wonderful job translating selected folktales of the Cherokee nation. This book is broken down into several user friendly sections and also includes a breif section on the Storytellers and biographical information on some of the contributors. The tales are very easy to read and there does not seem to be much lost in translation. There is a great selection throughout this book, including animal, humor, and historical stories. A very good read and a great educational tool. This book is an eye-opening experience into the ways and beliefs of a people who were, and are, a very important part of our American Nation.
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There is little evidence to indicate that the Oklahoma Cherokees of today sanction any individuals, or class of individuals, as repositories for oral tradition-excepting, of course, that material relative to primitive religion and medicine. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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Little People, Cherokee Bill, Natchez Cherokee, Yellow Mockingbird, Cherokee Nation, North Carolina, Oklahoma Cherokees, Flint the Terrible, Sugar Mountain, Adair County, American Indian, Seven-clan Society, The Origin of Corn New!
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There is little evidence to indicate that the Oklahoma Cherokees of today sanction any individuals, or class of individuals, as repositories for oral tradition-excepting, of course, that material relative to primitive religion and medicine. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
seventh spot, slanting eyes Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Little People, Cherokee Bill, Natchez Cherokee, Yellow Mockingbird, Cherokee Nation, North Carolina, Oklahoma Cherokees, Flint the Terrible, Sugar Mountain, Adair County, American Indian, Seven-clan Society, The Origin of Corn New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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- Choctaw Of Bayou Lacomb, St. Tammany Parish, Louisiana (Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletins) by Jr, David I. Bushnell in Back Matter
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- The Life of Language: Papers in Linguistics in Honor of William Bright (Trends in Linguistics) by Jane H. Hill on page 336
- The Texas Folklore Society 1943-1971 - Volume 2 by Francis Edward Abernethy on page 197
- Thicker Than Water: The Origins of Blood as Symbol and Ritual by Melissa Meyer in Back Matter
- The Indians in Oklahoma (The Newcomers to a New Land) by Rennard Strickland in Back Matter
- Yuchi Ceremonial Life: Performance, Meaning, and Tradition in a Contemporary American Indian Community (Studies in the Anthropology of North Ame) by Jason Baird Jackson in Back Matter
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