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Aunt Mary, tell me a story : a collection of Cherokee legends and tales / edited and compiled by Mary Regina Ulmer Galloway ; as told by Mary Ulmer Chiltoskey ; cover and illustrations by Lib Lambert, John Barton Galloway, and Goingback Chiltoskey.
A collection of 28 Cherokee legends as told by the Eastern Bank of the Cherokee.
Record details
- ISBN: 0962863009
- ISBN: 9780962863004
- Physical Description: 81 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Publisher: Cherokee, N.C. : Cherokee Communications, ©1990.
Content descriptions
- Formatted Contents Note:
- What is a legend? -- The legends of the Cherokee -- The legend of spearfinger -- The legend of the fairy crosses -- The legend of the Cherokee rose -- The legend of the corn beads -- How selfishness came into the world or why the Smokies are Smoky -- The littel girl and her pig -- The race between the great one and the evil one -- The dog that talked -- How the Smokies were made -- Saligugi (Mud turtle) and the storyteller -- The legend of the five races of men -- The legend of the first woman -- The legend of the strawberries -- The pine tree and the pleiades -- The legend of the dogwood -- Why the redbird is red -- The first woodcarver -- The rabbit and old flint -- The legend of the Milky Way -- How the water spider captured fire -- The legend of the magic lake -- Why mountains are bald -- Why the owl has a spotted coat -- Why the possum's tail is bare -- Man learns to do housework -- Goldilocks thereafter -- The legend of the living waters -- How the bat and the flying squirrel got their wings.
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- Subject:
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Available copies
- 1 of 1 copy available at Northwest Indian College.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lummi Library | E 99 .C5 F6 C45 1990 | 271308 | Stacks | Available | - |
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History of the old Cheraws; containing an account of the aborigines of the Pedee, the first white settlements, their subsequent progress, civil changes, the struggle of the revolution, and the growth of the country afterward, extending from about A.D. 1730 to 1810, with notices of families and sketches of individuals,
Gregg, Alexander, 1819-1893.