CONTENTS

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• I—Introduction      11
• II—Historical sketch of the Cherokee      14
  • The traditionary period      14
  • The period of Spanish exploration—1540–?      23
  • The Colonial and Revolutionary period—1654–1784      29
  • Relations with the United States      61
    • From the first treaty to the Removal—1785–1838      61
    • The Removal—1838–1839      130
    • The Arkansas band—1817–1838      135
    • The Texas band—1817–1900      143
    • The Cherokee Nation of the West—1840–1900      146
    • The East Cherokee—1838–1900      157
• III—Notes to the historical sketch      182
• IV—Stories and story-tellers      229
• V—The myths      239
  • Cosmogonic myths      239
    • 1. How the world was made      239
    • 2. The first fire      240
    • 3. Kana′tĭ and Selu: Origin of corn and game      242
    • 4. Origin of disease and medicine      250
    • 5. The Daughter of the Sun: Origin of death      252
    • 6. How they brought back the Tobacco      254
    • 7. The journey to the sunrise      255
    • 8. The Moon and the Thunders      256
    • 9. What the Stars are like      257
    • 10. Origin of the Pleiades and the Pine      258
    • 11. The milky way