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Cherokee Earth dwellers
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- Book Synopsis
- Second place for the 2023 Chicago Folklore Prize A celebration of the Cherokee cosmos through creature names, stories, cultural concepts, and reflectionsAyetli gadogv-to "stand in the middle"-is at the heart of a Cherokee perspective of the natural world. From this stance, Cherokee Earth Dwellers offers a rich understanding of nature grounded in Cherokee creature names, oral traditional stories, and reflections of knowledge holders. During his lifetime, elder Hastings Shade created booklets with over six hundred Cherokee names for animals and plants. With this foundational collection at its center, and weaving together a chorus of voices, this book emerges from a deep and continuing collaboration between Christopher B. Teuton, Hastings Shade, Loretta Shade, and others. Positioning our responsibilities as humans to our more-than-human relatives, this book presents teachings about the body, mind, spirit, and wellness that have been shared for generations. From clouds to birds, oceans to quarks, this expansive Cherokee view of nature reveals a living, communicative world and humanity's role within it.
- About The Author
- Christopher Teuton is a professor of American Indian Studies at the University of Washington. He is the author of Cherokee Stories of the Turtle Island Liars' Club (UNC Press, 2012), DeepWaters: the Textual Continuum in American Indian Literature (Nebraska UP, 2010), and the co-editor of Reasoning Together: the Native Critics Collective (Oklahoma UP, 2008).
- Product Details
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- ISBN
- 9780295750187
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- University of Washington Press, (02 May 2023)
- Number of Pages
- 296
- Weight
- 544 grams
- Language
- English
- Dimensions
- 287 x 334 x 20 mm
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