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Karahkwa – First Nation Tales From America’s Eastern States 

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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…

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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

عن المؤلف

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, Euro Sport 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 Fin Tech company.

You can find out more about my work and contact me at: https://www.boyonabench.com
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