Category: Mythology, Legends & Folklore

Myths of the Cherokee Extract from the Nineteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology

Mooney, James, 1861-1921· 2 chapters· 71,155 words

The elk--This animal ranged in eastern Carolina in 1700. "The elk is a monster of the venison sort. His skin is used almost in the same nature as the buffelo's [sic].... His flesh is not so sweet as the lesser deer's. His hams exceed in weight all creatures which the new world...

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1. volume VIII, page 71,1864, the last two wild buffalo known in Ohio

The elk--This animal ranged in eastern Carolina in 1700. "The elk is a monster of the venison sort. His skin is used almost in the same nature as the buffelo's [sic].... His fle...

2. part 1, and The Last of Our Cannibals, in Harper's Magazine, August,

108. The massacre of the Ani'-Kuta'ni (p. 392): Swimmer, Ta'gwadihi', Ayâsta, and Wafford all knew this name, which Ayâsta pronounced Ani'-Kwata'ni, but none of them could tell...