Eastern Cherokee Stories: A Living Oral Tradition and Its Cultural Continuance by Sandra Muse Isaacs

This book is an amazing tour de force!  “Eastern Cherokee Stories is the most thoroughly contextualized book of Eastern Cherokee narratives to date, with rich Cherokee language information worked in wherever possible. It is a very welcome contribution to Cherokee studies and to the existing collections of Cherokee stories.” – Margaret Bender. Yes, this is not simply a collection of stories. Rather it is a treatise on Cherokee heritage and values that incorporates stories into it – in a different typeface. Many enrolled members of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians have worked very hard to promote Cherokee stories, performing them at a variety of venues, and collecting them as well, occasionally, in print. This book celebrates their contributions and transcribes their stories in their words with appropriate attribution and a different typeface, so readers can choose to just read the stories or to read the stories with the context provided. The story-tellers include “Kathi Smith Little