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Cherokee History and Oral Literature
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Texts
Myths of the Cherokee — James MooneyJames Mooney's complete historical, ethnographic, and oral-literature study of the Cherokee, including 126 numbered myths, scholarly notes, glossary, index, and documentary plates.The Cherokee Ball Play — James MooneyJames Mooney's 1890 American Anthropologist monograph on the Cherokee ball play — the dance, the shaman's rites, the scratching ordeal, the going-to-water prayers, and the game itself — with W. J. Hoffman's companion notes on the Ojibwa and Dakota game.