Aunt Mary, tell me a story : a collection of Cherokee legends and tales

ISBN: 0962863009
ISBN: 9780962863004
Physical Description: 81 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Publisher: Cherokee, N.C. : Cherokee Communications, ©1990.

Book

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.

Summary:

A collection of 28 Cherokee legends as told by the Eastern Bank of the Cherokee.

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.