Author : John C. Standingdeer, Jr.
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 42,85 MB
Release : 2016-08-15
Category :
ISBN : 9780997849400
Your Grandmother's Cherokee; Level 1 Course is a textbook for learning Cherokee language. It uses a new, easy method developed by John C. Standingdeer, Jr. (Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians) and Barbara R. Duncan, Ph.D. The textbook includes 18 chapters (topics) with worksheets, exercises, dialogues, and information about Cherokee culture. It is supported by a website at www.yourgrandmotherscherokee.com
Author : Sandra Y. Roberts
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 127 pages
File Size : 40,37 MB
Release : 2013-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1491711051
Cherokee is old. His joints ache. His nose can no longer distinguish between the scent of bacon and a clump of dirt. His eyes see only shadows. On the eve of his death, he lies in a cage in an animal hospital, with a needle in his forepaw, and reflects on his life and purpose of being a faithful companion to his beloved mistress and best friend, Alicia Baxter. Alicia and Cherokee's friendship begins when Alicia wanders into a pet shop and finds herself drawn to the puppy prancing before the window with his food bowl in his mouth. From the moment Alicia brings him home, Cherokee becomes an integral part of her journey of self-discovery as she struggles with insecurities, a lack of identity, and an unimaginable loss. Even as Alicia makes a life-altering decision to start over in a place where she is forced to rely on herself, Cherokee's love and loyalty to her never waver. Narrated in a voice filled with wisdom, humor, and astute awareness, The Seasons of Cherokee's Life tells the story of a dog's deep bond with his mistress as he walks beside her and watches her transform into the courageous and independent woman he has always believed her to be.
Author : Sandra Muse Isaacs
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 22,76 MB
Release : 2019-07-10
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0806165529
“Throughout our Cherokee history,” writes Joyce Dugan, former principal chief of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, “our ancient stories have been the essence of who we are.” These traditional stories embody the Cherokee concepts of Gadugi, working together for the good of all, and Duyvkta, walking the right path, and teach listeners how to understand and live in the world with reverence for all living things. In Eastern Cherokee Stories, Sandra Muse Isaacs uses the concepts of Gadugi and Duyvkta to explore the Eastern Cherokee oral tradition, and to explain how storytelling in this tradition—as both an ancient and a contemporary literary form—is instrumental in the perpetuation of Cherokee identity and culture. Muse Isaacs worked among the Eastern Cherokees of North Carolina, recording stories and documenting storytelling practices and examining the Eastern Cherokee oral tradition as both an ancient and contemporary literary form. For the descendants of those Cherokees who evaded forced removal by the U.S. government in the 1830s, storytelling has been a vital tool of survival and resistance—and as Muse Isaacs shows us, this remains true today, as storytelling plays a powerful role in motivating and educating tribal members and others about contemporary issues such as land reclamation, cultural regeneration, and language revitalization. The stories collected and analyzed in this volume range from tales of creation and origins that tell about the natural world around the homeland, to post-Removal stories that often employ Native humor to present the Cherokee side of history to Cherokee and non-Cherokee alike. The persistence of this living oral tradition as a means to promote nationhood and tribal sovereignty, to revitalize culture and language, and to present the Indigenous view of history and the land bears testimony to the tenacity and resilience of the Cherokee people, the Ani-Giduwah.
Author : Kasey Eric
Publisher : Outskirts Press
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 33,90 MB
Release : 2023-03-10
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 1977267947
After watching him from across the room for two hours I found enough courage to approach him and introduce myself. We talked for two hours, I talked for two hours, he listened and answered three questions. Standing perfectly still moving his feet to the music with constant eye contact for that time. I decided he was not interested and decided to take a walk outside and he opted to escort me on my walk. From the magical kiss until that first call it was the longest days of my life. I kept saying have faith and if you believe he is your “Destiny” he will call. Did he, when and what happen? So, I called the friend that he introduced me to at the party and asked her to give her buddy a call and give him my number. He called two days after receiving the message. He kept my number in his wallet this tells me he is a person who marches to the beat of his own music. His best friend told me, he is one of the greatest people to have in your life. His best friend is female, they have been friends since Junior High School.
Author : Kelli Jo Ford
Publisher : Grove Press
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 20,72 MB
Release : 2020-07-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0802149146
“A masterful debut” that follows four generations of Cherokee women across four decades—from the Plimpton Prize–winning author (Sarah Jessica Parker). It’s 1974 in the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma and fifteen-year-old Justine grows up in a family of tough, complicated, and loyal women, presided over by her mother, Lula, and Granny. After Justine’s father abandoned the family, Lula became a devout member of the Holiness Church—a community that Justine at times finds stifling and terrifying. But Justine does her best as a devoted daughter, until an act of violence sends her on a different path forever. Crooked Hallelujah tells the stories of Justine—a mixed-blood Cherokee woman—and her daughter, Reney, as they move from Eastern Oklahoma’s Indian Country in the hopes of starting a new, more stable life in Texas amid the oil bust of the 1980s. However, life in Texas isn’t easy, and Reney feels unmoored from her family in Indian Country. Against the vivid backdrop of the Red River, we see their struggle to survive in a world—of unreliable men and near-Biblical natural forces, like wildfires and tornados—intent on stripping away their connections to one another and their very ideas of home. In lush and empathic prose, Kelli Jo Ford depicts what this family of proud, stubborn, Cherokee women sacrifices for those they love, amid larger forces of history, religion, class, and culture. This is a big-hearted and ambitious novel of the powerful bonds between mothers and daughters by an exquisite and rare new talent. “A compelling journey through the evolving terrain of multiple generations of women.” —The Washington Post
Author : Carol Schaefer
Publisher : Shambhala Publications
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 14,43 MB
Release : 2006-11-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0834824175
We are thirteen indigenous grandmothers. . . . We are deeply concerned with the unprecedented destruction of our Mother Earth, the atrocities of war, the global scourge of poverty, the prevailing culture of materialism, the epidemics that threaten the health of the Earth’s peoples, and with the destruction of indigenous ways of life. We, the International Council of Thirteen Indigenous Grandmothers, believe that our ancestral ways of prayer, peacemaking, and healing are vitally needed today. . . . We believe that the teachings of our ancestors will light our way through an uncertain future. In some Native American societies, tribal leaders consulted a council of grandmothers before making any major decisions that would affect the whole community. What if we consulted our wise women elders about the problems facing our global community today? This book presents the insights and guidance of thirteen indigenous grandmothers from five continents, many of whom are living legends among their own peoples. The Grandmothers offer wisdom on such timely issues as nurturing our families; cultivating physical and mental health; and confronting violence, war, and poverty. Also included are the reflections of Western women elders, including Alice Walker, Gloria Steinem, Helena Norberg-Hodge, and Carol Moseley Brown.
Author : Ruth Bradley Holmes
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 39,91 MB
Release : 1977
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780806114637
Contains twenty-seven lessons in the Cherokee language, based on the Oklahoma dialect; and includes accompanying exercises, appendices, and alphabetical vocabulary lists.
Author : Marguerite Guzman Bouvard
Publisher :
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 27,72 MB
Release : 1998-09
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :
Celebrating the link between grandmother and granddaughter, this collection of stories and vignettes - a multi-cultural anthology of women from diverse ethnic backgrounds - reveals how the mantle of culture and family is passed from woman to woman.
Author : Grace Steele Woodward
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 11,97 MB
Release : 1963
Category : History
ISBN : 9780806118154
Of the Five Civilized Tribes of Indians the Cherokees were early recognized as the greatest and the most civilized. Indeed, between 1540 and 1906 they reached a higher peak of civilization than any other North American Indian tribe. They invented a syllabary and developed an intricate government, including a system of courts of law. They published their own newspaper in both Cherokee and English and became noted as orators and statesmen. At the beginning the Cherokees’ conquest of civilization was agonizingly slow and uncertain. Warlords of the southern Appalachian Highlands, they were loath to expend their energies elsewhere. In the words of a British officer, "They are like the Devil’s pigg, they will neither lead nor drive." But, led or driven, the warlike and willful Cherokees, lingering in the Stone Age by choice at the turn of the eighteenth century, were forced by circumstances to transfer their concentration on war to problems posed by the white man. To cope with these unwelcome problems, they had to turn from the conquests of war to the conquest of civilization.
Author : Theda Perdue
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 36,48 MB
Release : 1998-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780803235861
Theda Perdue examines the roles and responsibilities of Cherokee women during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, a time of intense cultural change. While building on the research of earlier historians, she develops a uniquely complex view of the effects of contact on Native gender relations, arguing that Cherokee conceptions of gender persisted long after contact. Maintaining traditional gender roles actually allowed Cherokee women and men to adapt to new circumstances and adopt new industries and practices.
