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Cherokee Creation Story

Cherokee People

Cherokee People

Origins of the Cherokee People

  • Lived in the Appalachian Mountains and Areas in the Southeast
  • From Iroquoian lineage
  • ~8,000 BCE

Cherokee Today

  • Live across the United States Today
  • Cherokee Cultural District in Cherokee, NC

Characters

The Cherokee people believed animals were the ones that created the earth as it is today

Characters in Creation Story

Water Beetle

Buzzard

Earth Before

Humans

Pre-Human Earth

Earth was made entirely of water before humans

Animals in Gälûñ’lätï were curious about what was underneath the water

Discovery

Discovery of Land

Water Beetle, named Dâyuni’sï, went down to earth and dug up dirt beneath the seas

Eventually created a land mass the size of North America

Exploring

New Land

Making Earth Habitable

After tying four stings to new land mass to keep in in the sky, a Buzzard was sent down to survey the land

Anytime his wings landed, valleys were formed and when they lifted the created mountains

Animal's

Arrival

Migration

The animals called the Buzzard back before it could make any more mountains and valleys

They got to earth, and it was so dark that they created the sun

Plants and Animals solidified there roles and characteristics in this time

Works Cited

Pauls, E. (2019)“Cherokee.” Encyclopædia Britannica, Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc., June 2019, https://www.britannica.com/event/Trail-of-Tears.

Powell, J. W. (1900). Nineteenth annual report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1897-98 (Vol. 1).

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