Cherokee Mythology (Illustrated Edition). James Mooney

86. Yahula

       87. The Water Cannibals

       Historical Traditions

       88. First Contact with Whites

       89. The Iroquois Wars

       90. Hiadeoni, The Seneca

       91. The Two Mohawks

       92. Escape of the Seneca Boys

       93. The Unseen Helpers

       94. Hatcinoñdoñ’s Escape from the Cherokee

       95. Hemp-carrier

       96. The Seneca Peacemakers

       97. Origin of the Yontoñwisas Dance

       98. Gaʼna’s Adventures Among the Cherokee

       99. The Shawano Wars

       100. The Raid on Tĭkwăli′tsĭ

       101. The Last Shawano Invasion

       102. The False Warriors of Chilhowee

       103. Cowee Town

       104. The Eastern Tribes

       105. The Southern and Western Tribes

       106. The Giants from the West

       107. The Lost Cherokee

       108. The Massacre of the Ani′-kuta′nĭ

       109. The War Medicine

       110. Incidents of Personal Heroism

       111. The Mounds and the Constant Fire: The Old Sacred Things

       Miscellaneous Myths and Legends

       112. The Ignorant Housekeeper

       113. The Man in the Stump

       114. Two Lazy Hunters

       115. The Two Old Men

       116. The Star Feathers

       117. The Mother Bear’s Song

       118. Baby Song, To Please the Children

       119. When Babies are Born: The Wren and the Cricket

       120. The Raven Mocker

       121. Herbert’s Spring

       122. Local Legends of North Carolina

       123. Local Legends of South Carolina

       124. Local Legends of Tennessee

       125. Local Legends of Georgia

       126. Plant Lore

       Notes and Parallels to Myths

       Glossary of Cherokee Words

      PL. I

       PHOTOGRAPH BY AUTHOR, 1888

       IN THE CHEROKEE MOUNTAINS

      I. Introduction

       Table of Contents

      The myths given in this paper are part of a large body of material collected among the Cherokee, chiefly in successive field seasons from 1887 to 1890, inclusive, and comprising more or less extensive notes, together with original Cherokee manuscripts, relating to the history, archeology, geographic nomenclature, personal names, botany, medicine, arts, home life, religion, songs, ceremonies, and language of the tribe. It is intended that this material shall appear from time to time in a series of papers which, when finally brought together, shall constitute a monograph upon the Cherokee Indians. This paper may be considered the first of the series, all that has hitherto appeared being a short paper upon the sacred formulas of the tribe, published in the Seventh Annual Report of the Bureau in 1891 and containing a synopsis of the Cherokee medico-religious theory, with twenty-eight specimens selected from a body of about six hundred ritual formulas written down in the Cherokee language and alphabet by former doctors of the tribe and constituting altogether the largest body of aboriginal American literature in existence.

      Although the Cherokee are probably the largest and most important tribe in the United States, having their own national government