Karahkwa - First Nation Tales From America's Eastern States

Karahkwa - First Nation Tales From America's Eastern States

Karahkwa - First Nation Tales From America's Eastern States

Karahkwa - First Nation Tales From America's Eastern States

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Overview

These stories cover a broad range of nations and tribes from North Americas eastern and south-eastern regions. Many of the stories have been told as part of the Iroquois and Cherokee traditions.

The Iroquois are a historically powerful northeast Native American confederacy in North America. They were known during the colonial years to the French as the Iroquois League, and later as the Iroquois Confederacy, and to the English as the Five Nations, comprising the Mohawk, Onondaga, Oneida, Cayuga, and Seneca. After 1722, they accepted the Tuscarora people from the Southeast into their confederacy and became known as the Six Nations.

Like many cultures, the Iroquois' spiritual beliefs changed over time and varied across tribes. Generally, the Iroquois believed in numerous deities, including the Great Spirit, the Thunderer, and the Three Sisters, the spirits of beans, maize, and squash. The Great Spirit was thought to have created plants, animals, and humans to control the forces of good in nature, and to guide ordinary people. Orenda was the Iroquoian name for the magical potency found in people and their environment. The Iroquois believed in the spiritual force that flowed through all things, and they believed if people were respectful of nature, then the orenda would bring about positive results. There were three types of spirits for the Iroquois: 1) Those living on the earth, 2) Those living above the earth and, 3) the highest level spirits controlling the universe with the most high being known variously as the Great Spirit, the Great Creator or the Master of Life.

Cherokee spiritual beliefs are held in common among the Cherokee people - Native American peoples who are indigenous to the south-eastern woodlands, and today live primarily in communities in North Carolina (the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians), and Oklahoma (the Cherokee Nation and United Keetoowah Band of Cherokee Indians). Some of their beliefs, and the stories and songs in which they have been preserved, exist in slightly different forms in the different communities in which they have been preserved. But for the most part, they still form a unified system of theology.

For my part, the journey through these many and varied stories is a delight and a wonder. I can almost smell the woodsmoke…


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781913500276
Publisher: Clive Gilson
Publication date: 03/31/2020
Series: Tales From The World's Firesides - North America , #5
Pages: 310
Product dimensions: 5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

I was born in 1962 into a predominantly sporting household - Dad being a good footballer, playing senior amateur and lower league professional football in England, as well as running a series of private businesses in partnership with mum, herself an accomplished and medal winning dancer. I obtained a degree in History from Leeds University before wandering rather haphazardly into the emerging world of business computing in the late nineteen-eighties. A little like my sporting father, I followed a succession of amateur writing paths alongside my career in technology, including working as a freelance journalist and book reviewer, my one claim to fame being a by-line in a national newspaper in the UK, The Sunday People. I also spent 10 years treading the boards, appearing all over the south of the UK in pantos and plays, in village halls and occasionally on the stage of a professional theatre or two. Following the sporting theme, and a while after I hung up my own boots, I worked on live TV broadcasts for the BBC, ITV, TVNZ, EuroSport and others as a rugby "Stato", covering Heineken Cups, Six Nations, IRB World Sevens and IRB World Cups in the late '90's and early '00's. I try to combine my love of storytelling with a passion for information technology, and am currently Vice President - Technology with a major UK FinTech company. You can find out more about my work and contact me at: https://www.boyonabench.com

Table of Contents

Preface

How The World Was Made

Hi-Nuⁿ Destroying The Giant Animals

Gluskα̨bε The Transformer

Kana'ti And Selu: The Origin Of Game And Corn

Creation

The Thunderers

The Daughter Of The Sun

Great Head

Origin Of Strawberries

Tashka And Walo

The Stone Giant's Wife

The Rabbit Goes Duck Hunting

The Warrior Saved By Pigmies

How The Rabbit Stole The Otter's Coat

The Flood

The Origin Of Fire

Koto And The Bird

Origin Of The Seneca Medicine

The Gifts Of The Sky God

How The Wildcat Caught The Gobbler

Origin Of The Human Race

Rabbit And The Tar Baby

How The Terrapin Beat The Rabbit

How The Bear Lost His Tail

Origin Of The Constellations

The Rabbit And The Possum After A Wife

Rabbit And Bear

How Rabbit Snared The Sun

Infant Nursed By Bears

The Rabbit Escapes From The Wolves

The Man And His Step-Son

The Ants And The Katydids

How The Deer Got His Horns

How A Hunter Encountered Bmule´, Visited His Country And Obtained A Boon

Why The Blackbird Has Red Wings

The Dead Hunter

Why The Mole Lives Underground

Why The Birds Have Sharp Tails

The Old Man's Lessons To His Nephew

The Groundhog's Head

The Wildcat And The Turkeys

The Charmed Suit

The Wolf's Revenge

The Brant And The Otter

The Boy And The Corn

The Ball Game Of The Birds And Animals

The Tiny Frog And The Panther

A Sure Revenge

How The Man Found His Mate

Why The Opossum Plays Dead

The Moon Person

Why The Turkey Gobbles

Kingfisher And His Nephew

How The Kingfisher Got His Bill

The Wild-Cat And The White Rabbit

How The Redbird Got His Colour

How The White Man Came

The Race Between The Crane And The Hummingbird

The West Wind

The Owl Gets Married

How A Boy Was Cured Of Boasting

The Adventures Of Wesakchak

The Hunter And The Buzzard

Why 'Possum Has A Large Mouth

The Uktena And The Ulûñsû'ti

What The Ash And The Maple Learned

Âgan-Uni'tsi's Search For The Uktena

How The Woman Overcame The Bear

The Red Man And The Uktena

Why The Ice Roof Fell

The Ustû'tli

How Mice Overcame The Warriors

The Bullfrog Lover

Why Crows Are Poor

Ûñtsaiyi', The Gambler

Why Men Love Their Dogs

The Nest Of The Tla'nuwa

Greedy Fawn And The Porridge

The Hunter And The Tla'nuwa

Corn Plume And Bean Maiden

Nûñ'yunu'wi, The Stone Man

How Morning Star Lost Her Fish

The Hunter And The Alligator

Atagâ'hi, The Enchanted Lake

How The Fairies Worked Magic

The Ice Man

The Underground Panthers

The Bear Man

The Spirit Defenders Of Nikwasi'

The Man Who Married The Thunder's Sister

The Star Feathers

The Raven Mocker

Historical Notes

About The Editor

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