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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

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3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
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The Cherokee Origin Narrative: Authentic Text of William Eubanks' "Red Man's Origin" with Notes and Illustrations

The Cherokee Origin Narrative: Authentic Text of William Eubanks' "Red Man's Origin" with Notes and Illustrations

Yates, Donald N.

Paperback

Series: Cherokee Chapbooks, Book 1

Native American History

ISBN10: 197444161X
ISBN13: 9781974441617
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Aug 9 2017
Pages: 50
Weight: 0.13
Height: 0.10 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
In the world of Native Americans, oral communication takes the place of the written word in preserving their most valued texts. By a miracle of transmission, here is the earliest and most authenticated version of the story of the Cherokee people, from their origins in a land across the great waters to the coming of the white man. In olden times, it was recited at every Great Moon or Cherokee New Year festival so it could be learned by young people and the tribal lore perpetuated. It was set down in English in an Indian Territory newspaper by Cornsilk (the pen-name of William Eubanks) from the Cherokee language recitation of George Sahkiyah (Soggy) Sanders, a fellow Keetoowah Society priest, in 1896. We do not have anything anterior or more authoritative than Eubanks and Sanders' Red Man's Origin, presented here as The Cherokee Origin Narrative. Mystic and plain-spoken at the same time, it tells how the clans became seven in number, reorganized their religion in America and struggled to maintain their half-sphere temple of light. You will hear in Cornsilk's original words about the true name of the Cherokee people, the deathless Uktena serpent, divining crystals of the Urim and Thummin, terrible Sa-ho-ni clan and other Cherokee storytelling subjects. The brief narrative is edited with an introduction, notes and line drawings by Donald N. Yates, author of Old World Roots of the Cherokee and other titles in Cherokee history. If you own one book about the Cherokee Indians it should be this one.

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