Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, Volym 19

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U.S. Government Printing Office, 1900
 

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IIHistorical sketch of the Cherokee
10
The period of Spanish exploration1540?
23
The Colonial and Revolutionary period16541784
29
Relations with the United States
61
The Removal18381839
130
The Arkansas band18171838
135
The Texas band18171900
143
The Cherokee Nation of the West18401900
146
The East Cherokee18381900
157
IIINotes to the historical sketch
182
IVStories and storytellers
229
VThe myths
239
The first fire
240
Origin of corn and game
242
Origin of disease and medicine
250
Origin of death
252
How they brought back the Tobacco
254
The journey to the sunrise
255
The Moon and the Thunders
256
What the Stars are like
257
Origin of the Pleiades and the Pine
258
The milky way
259
Origin of fish and frogs
260
The Deluge
261
The Rabbit goes duck hunting
266
How the Rabbit stole the Otters coat
267
Why the Possums tail is bare
269
How the Terrapin beat the Rabbit
270
The Rabbit and the tar wolf
271
The Rabbit and the Possum after a wife
273
The Rabbit escapes from the wolves
274
How the Deer got his horns
275
Why the Deers teeth are blunt
276
What became of the Rabbit
277
VThe mythsContinued Quadruped mythsContinued Page 31 The Terrapins escape from the wolves
278
The Groundhogs head
279
The migration of the animals
280
The ball game of the birds and animals
286
How the Turkey got his beard
287
Why the Turkey gobbles
288
How the Partridge got his whistle
289
The Pheasant dance
290
The Owl gets married
291
The Huhu gets married
292
Why the Buzzards head is bare
293
The Hunter and the Buzzard
294
The Uktena and the UlûñsûtĬ
297
ÅganUnitsis search for the Uktena
298
The Red Man and the Uktena
300
The Hunter and the UksuhŸ
301
The Ustûtlĭ
302

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Sida 477 - On Lough Neagh's bank as the fisherman strays, When the clear, cold eve's declining, He sees the round towers of other days, In the wave beneath him shining! Thus shall memory often, in dreams sublime, Catch a glimpse of the days that are over, Thus, sighing, look through the waves of time For the long-faded glories they cover!
Sida 153 - States, or by the allotment and division of the same in severally among the Indians of such nations or tribes, respectively, as may be entitled to the same, or by such other method as may be agreed upon...
Sida 140 - States and their right of soil extend: provided, however, that if the saline or salt plain on the western prairie shall fall within said limits prescribed for said outlet, the right is reserved to the United States to permit other tribes of red men to get salt on said plain in common with the Cherokees; and letters patent shall be issued by the United States as soon as practicable for the land hereby guarantied...
Sida 448 - The animal fell and set up a most plaintive cry, something like that of the panther when he is hungry. The hunter, instead of giving him another shot, stood up close to him, and addressed him in these words: "Hark ye! bear; you are a coward, and no warrior as you pretend to be. Were you a warrior, you would show it by your firmness, and not cry and whimper like an old woman. You know, bear, that our tribes are at war with each other, and that...
Sida 448 - You know, bear, that our tribes are at war with each other, and that yours was the aggressor. You have found the Indians too powerful for you, and you have gone sneaking about in the woods, stealing their hogs ; perhaps at this time you have hog's flesh in your belly. Had you conquered me, I would have borne it with courage and died like a brave warrior. But you, bear, sit here and cry, and disgrace your tribe by your cowardly conduct.
Sida 178 - The Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians", with all the rights, franchises, privileges, and powers incident and belonging to corporations under the laws of the State of North Carolina. SEC. 2. That "The Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians...
Sida 208 - Church gave the head and that hand to Alderman, the Indian who shot him, to show to such gentlemen as would bestow gratuities upon him ; and accordingly he got many a penny by it...
Sida 184 - ... had long before their arrival discovered that the country east of the Mississippi was inhabited by a very powerful nation, who had many large towns built on the great rivers flowing through their land.
Sida 21 - But on whatever occasion they may have been made, they are of considerable notoriety among the Indians : for a party passing, about thirty years ago, through the part of the country where this barrow is, went through the woods directly to it, without any instructions or inquiry ; and having staid about it some time, with expressions which were construed to be those of sorrow, they returned to the high road, which they had left about half a dozen miles to pay this visit, and pursued their journey.
Sida 124 - Territory, so long as such rights shall remain unextinguished by treaty between the United States and such Indians, or to include any territory which, by treaty with any Indian tribe, is not, without the consent of said tribe, to be included within the territorial limits or jurisdiction of any State or Territory...

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