Cherokee Stories of the Turtle Island Liars' Club

Name: Cherokee Stories of the Turtle Island Liars' Club
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ISBN: 9780807835845

ISBN-10: 0807835846

ISBN-13: 9780807835845

Edition: 2012

Authors: Christopher B. Teuton, America Meredith

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Cherokee Stories of the Turtle Island Liars' Clubpaints a vivid, fascinating portrait of a community deeply grounded in tradition and dynamically engaged in the present. A collection of interwoven stories, conversations, and teachings about Western Cherokee life, beliefs, and the art of storytelling, the book orchestrates a multilayered conversation between a group of honored Cherokee elders, storytellers, and knowledge-keepers and the communities their stories touch. Collaborating with Hastings Shade, Sammy Still, Sequoyah Guess, and Woody Hansen, Cherokee scholar Christopher B. Teuton has assembled the first collection of traditional and contemporary Western Cherokee stories published in…

Book details

List price: $30.00
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Publication date: 10/8/2012
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 264
Size: 6.12" wide x 9.25" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.144
Language: English

Christopher B. Teuton (Cherokee Nation) is associate professor of English at the University of Victoria and author of Deep Waters: The Textual Continuum in American Indian Literature.



Note on Pronunciation of Cherokee


Introduction: Opening the Door


Sagwu (One): Alenihv (Beginnings)


Tali (Two): Adanvsgvi (Movements)


Joi (Three): Dideyohvsdi (Teachings)


Nvgi (Four): Ulvsgedi (The Wondrous)


Afterword: Standing in the Middle


Acknowledgments


Works Cited