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Product Description: Cherokee Stories of the Turtle Island Liars' Club paints a vivid, fascinating portrait of a community deeply grounded in tradition and dynamically engaged in the present. A collection of forty interwoven stories, conversations, and teachings about Western Cherokee life, beliefs, and the art of storytelling, the book orchestrates a multilayered conversation between a group of honored Cherokee elders, storytellers, and knowledge-keepers and the communities their stories touch...read more
By America Meredith (illustrator)

Hardcover:

9780807835845 | Univ of North Carolina Pr, October 8, 2012, cover price $30.00

Paperback:

9781469629988, titled "Cherokee Stories of the Turtle Island Liars’ Club" | Univ of North Carolina Pr, August 1, 2016, cover price $27.95 | About this edition: Cherokee Stories of the Turtle Island Liars' Club paints a vivid, fascinating portrait of a community deeply grounded in tradition and dynamically engaged in the present.

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Product Description: The Sparrow family is ready for their trip south for the winter, but Papa's wing is hurt and he cannot make the trip. He asks the trees for help. One by one, the mighty, leafy trees of the forest say no! Will any of the trees help Papa Sparrow? What will happen to the selfish trees that turned him away? Discover why some trees lose their leaves in winter in this retelling of a Cherokee pourquoi tale...read more
By Sharon Chriscoe and Susan Detwiler (illustrator)

Paperback:

9781628556438, titled "El gorrión y los árboles / The Sparrow and the Trees" | Arbordale Pub, September 10, 2015, cover price $9.95 | About this edition: The Sparrow family is ready for their trip south for the winter, but Papa's wing is hurt and he cannot make the trip.

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By Susan Detwiler (illustrator)

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9781628556384 | Arbordale Pub, September 10, 2015, cover price $9.95 | About this edition: ###############################################################################################################################################################################################################################################################

School and Library:

9781628556339 | Arbordale Pub, September 10, 2015, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: ###############################################################################################################################################################################################################################################################

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By Robert Lewis (foreword by)

Hardcover:

9781937786335 | Wisdom Tales, February 1, 2015, cover price $15.95

Paperback:

9780373226832, titled "Contract Bride" | Harlequin Books, October 1, 2002, cover price $4.75 | also contains Contract Bride

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Product Description: Retelling 30 myths and legends of the Eastern Cherokee, this book presents the stories with important details providing a culturally authentic and historically accurate context. Background information is given within each story so the reader may avoid reliance on glossaries, endnotes, or other explanatory aids...read more

Paperback:

9780786494606 | McFarland & Co Inc Pub, October 31, 2014, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: Retelling 30 myths and legends of the Eastern Cherokee, this book presents the stories with important details providing a culturally authentic and historically accurate context.

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By Nancy Kelly Allen and Sherry Rogers (illustrator)

Paperback:

9781628552164 | Arbordale Pub, February 10, 2014, cover price $9.95

School and Library:

9781628552072 | Arbordale Pub, February 10, 2014, cover price $17.95

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This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not impede the reading experience. We believe this work is culturally important and have elected to bring the book back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide.

Hardcover:

9780559134272 | Bibliolife, April 30, 2009, cover price $35.99 | About this edition: This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality.
9780384399204 | Johnson Reprint Corp, June 1, 1970, cover price $37.00 | also contains Batman '66 Meets the Green Hornet
9780403002214 | Scholarly Pr, June 1, 1970, cover price $89.00

Paperback:

9781482044102 | Createspace Independent Pub, January 23, 2013, cover price $21.50
9780559134234 | Bibliolife, April 30, 2009, cover price $26.99 | About this edition: This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality.
9780559134258 | Bibliolife, April 30, 2009, cover price $20.99
9780486289076 | Dover Pubns, March 27, 1996, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Gathers folklore about the creation of the world, the characteristics of animals, the first fire, and Cherokee history and culture

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Product Description: "A long time ago, all the animals and people lived happily together," begins this story of the origins of Cherokee herbal medicine. As the people begin to outnumber the animals and then to hunt them for their hides and meat, the days of peaceful coexistence are over...read more
By Deborah L. Duvall and Murv Jacob (illustrator)

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9780826330079 | Univ of New Mexico Pr, April 1, 2003, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: When humans begin to hunt animals, the animals hold councils and decided to protect themselves by harming the people, but the plants, knowing that people took care of them, find a way to help.

Paperback:

9780826330086 | Reprint edition (Univ of New Mexico Pr, November 15, 2012), cover price $18.95 | About this edition: "A long time ago, all the animals and people lived happily together," begins this story of the origins of Cherokee herbal medicine.

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Product Description: Have you ever seen an opossum, hurrying across the road with its eyes and coat shining in your headlights? Or hanging upside down from a tree? Or lying on the ground 'playing possum' as if dead? And did you ever wonder why the opossum acts this way? The ancient Cherokee people wondered about the opossum, whose silly grin and hairless tail caught their imagination...read more
By Deborah L. Duvall and Murv Jacob (illustrator)

Hardcover:

9780826336941 | Univ of New Mexico Pr, November 30, 2005, cover price $16.95

Paperback:

9780826336958 | Reprint edition (Univ of New Mexico Pr, November 15, 2012), cover price $18.95 | About this edition: Have you ever seen an opossum, hurrying across the road with its eyes and coat shining in your headlights?

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Product Description: Cherokee people have lived in the Great Smoky Mountains for thousands of years. During all this time, they have told stories to each other to explain how things came to be, to pass on lessons about life, and to describe the mountains, animals, plants, and spirits around them...read more
By Barbara R. Duncan (editor)

Paperback:

9780807886694 | Large print edition (Univ of North Carolina Pr, June 1, 2010), cover price $31.95 | About this edition: Cherokee people have lived in the Great Smoky Mountains for thousands of years.
9780807859308 | Univ of North Carolina Pr, November 1, 2008, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: Cherokee people have lived in the Great Smoky Mountains for thousands of years.

Miscellaneous:

9780807886700 | Univ of North Carolina Pr, November 1, 2008, cover price $9.95
9780807886717 | Univ of North Carolina Pr, November 1, 2008, cover price $9.95

CD/Spoken Word:

9780807886762 | Univ of North Carolina Pr, November 1, 2008, cover price $22.00 | About this edition: Cherokee people have lived in the Great Smoky Mountains for thousands of years.
9780807886755 | Univ of North Carolina Pr, November 1, 2008, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Cherokee people have lived in the Great Smoky Mountains for thousands of years.

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Product Description: From an award-winning Native American storyteller comes this captivating re-telling of a Cherokee legend, which explains how strawberries came to be. Long ago, the first man and woman quarrelled. The woman left in anger, but the Sun sent tempting berries to Earth to slow the wife's retreat...read more
By Joseph Bruchac and Anna Vojtech (illustrator)

Hardcover:

9780803713314 | Dial Books for Young Readers, September 1, 1993, cover price $17.99 | About this edition: A quarrel between the first man and the first woman is reconciled when the Sun causes strawberries to grow out of the earth

Paperback:

9780140564099 | Reprint edition (Puffin, June 1, 1998), cover price $6.99 | About this edition: A quarrel between the first man and the first woman is reconciled when the Sun causes strawberries to grow out of the earth

Library:

9780803713321 | Dial Books for Young Readers, September 1, 1993, cover price $14.89 | About this edition: A quarrel between the first man and the first woman is reconciled when the Sun causes strawberries to grow out of the earth

Reinforced:

9780606133883 | Reprint edition (Demco Media, June 1, 1998), cover price $15.85 | About this edition: A quarrel between the first man and the first woman is reconciled when the Sun causes strawberries to grow out of the earth

Prebinding:

9781442003613 | Reprint edition (Paw Prints, April 9, 2009), cover price $15.99 | About this edition: From an award-winning Native American storyteller comes this captivating re-telling of a Cherokee legend, which explains how strawberries came to be.
9780613077835 | Turtleback Books, October 1, 1999, cover price $17.20 | About this edition: A quarrel between the first man and the first woman is reconciled when the Sun causes strawberries to grow out of the earth

Product Description: After Possum and Buzzard fail in their attempts to steal a piece of the sun, Grandmother Spider succeeds in bringing light to the animals on her side of the world.
By James Bernardin (illustrator)

Prebinding:

9781439599525 | 1 reprint edition (Paw Prints, April 9, 2009), cover price $16.95 | About this edition: After Possum and Buzzard fail in their attempts to steal a piece of the sun, Grandmother Spider succeeds in bringing light to the animals on her side of the world.

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Product Description: Cherokee people have lived in the Great Smoky Mountains for thousands of years. During all this time, they have told stories to each other to explain how things came to be, to pass on lessons about life, and to describe the mountains, animals, plants, and spirits around them...read more
By Davy Arch (contributor), Robert Bushyhead (contributor), Edna Chekelelee (contributor), Barbara R. Duncan (editor) and Marie Junaluska (contributor)

Hardcover:

9780807832196 | Univ of North Carolina Pr, November 1, 2008, cover price $24.00 | About this edition: Cherokee people have lived in the Great Smoky Mountains for thousands of years.

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Product Description: A Cherokee couple spends their days fishing and making cornmeal. When a giant dog steals their cornmeal, the neighbors all gather to help. Find out how this Cherokee legend explains the creation of the Milky Way.
By Roberta Collier-Morales (illustrator)

Library:

9781404848467 | Picture Window Books, July 15, 2008, cover price $19.99 | About this edition: A Cherokee couple spends their days fishing and making cornmeal.

Hardcover:

9780826343314 | Univ of New Mexico Pr, May 16, 2008, cover price $18.95

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Product Description: Tragically, relatively little of this flourishing nation and its rich culture has survived. Its stories, however, live on today. In this priceless and engaging collection, native Cherokee and professional storyteller Lloyd Arneach recounts tales such as how the bear lost his long bushy tail and how the first strawberry came to be...read more

Paperback:

9781596290310 | History Pr, March 21, 2008, cover price $14.99 | About this edition: Tragically, relatively little of this flourishing nation and its rich culture has survived.

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Product Description: In Cherokee mythology and legend there is no essential difference between human beings and animals.

Paperback:

9780741434999 | Infinity Pub, August 25, 2006, cover price $13.95 | About this edition: In Cherokee mythology and legend there is no essential difference between human beings and animals.

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Sa-lo-li the Squirrel knows the secret of how to plant the trees in the forest and she agrees to let Ji-Stu the Rabbit help her work, when suddenly they are seen by the Wimpus Cat.
By Deborah L. Duvall and Murv Jacob (illustrator)

Hardcover:

9780826336910 | Univ of New Mexico Pr, March 30, 2006, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: Sa-lo-li the Squirrel knows the secret of how to plant the trees in the forest and she agrees to let Ji-Stu the Rabbit help her work, when suddenly they are seen by the Wimpus Cat.

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Product Description: In this sixth volume of the Grandmother Stories, Murv Jacob and Deborah Duvall blend two ancient Cherokee tales into an adventure story. Ji-Stu, the Cherokee trickster Rabbit, sets out to prove that he can magically be transformed into a great singer whose voice will rival that of Redbird...read more
By Deborah L. Duvall and Murv Jacob (illustrator)

Hardcover:

9780826335630 | Univ of New Mexico Pr, June 1, 2005, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: In this sixth volume of the Grandmother Stories, Murv Jacob and Deborah Duvall blend two ancient Cherokee tales into an adventure story.

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Product Description: Ji-Stu, the Cherokee trickster rabbit, wakes early one morning and decides to visit his old friend Otter, who lives up the river. Along the way, he sees a huge wood duck sitting on the water and instantly recognizes the Chief of All the Wood Ducks, who is surrounded by hundreds of smaller ducks...read more
By Deborah L. Duvall and Murv Jacob (illustrator)

Hardcover:

9780826333360 | 1 edition (Univ of New Mexico Pr, September 1, 2004), cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Ji-Stu, the Cherokee trickster rabbit, wakes early one morning and decides to visit his old friend Otter, who lives up the river.

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Bored on a fall afternoon, Rabbit accompanies Bear when he sets off for the mountain where all the bears spend the winter in hibernation.
By Deborah L. Duvall and Murv Jacob (illustrator)

Hardcover:

9780826331311 | Univ of New Mexico Pr, March 1, 2004, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Bored on a fall afternoon, Rabbit accompanies Bear when he sets off for the mountain where all the bears spend the winter in hibernation.

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Fifteen traditional tales follow the adventures of Rabbit, the Cherokee trickster.
By Murv Jacob (illustrator) and Gayle Ross

Hardcover:

9780060212858 | Harpercollins Childrens Books, June 1, 1994, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: Fifteen traditional tales follow the adventures of Rabbit, the Cherokee trickster

Paperback:

9780930407605 | Parabola Books, October 1, 2003, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: Fifteen traditional tales follow the adventures of Rabbit, the Cherokee trickster.

Library:

9780060212865 | Harpercollins, June 1, 1994, cover price $18.89 | About this edition: Fifteen traditional tales follow the adventures of Rabbit, the Cherokee trickster

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When Rabbit becomes jealous of Otter's beautiful coat, which causes his own beautiful tail to be ignored, he plots to steal the coat and become popular again.
By Deborah L. Duvall and Murv Jacob (illustrator)

Hardcover:

9780826330109 | 1 edition (Univ of New Mexico Pr, June 1, 2003), cover price $16.95 | About this edition: When Rabbit becomes jealous of Otter's beautiful coat, which causes his own beautiful tail to be ignored, he plots to steal the coat and become popular again.

After Possum and Buzzard fail in their attempts to steal a piece of the sun, Grandmother Spider succeeds in bringing light to the animals on her side of the world.

Hardcover:

9780873585972 | Northland Pub, May 1, 1995, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: After Possum and Buzzard fail in their attempts to steal a piece of the sun, Grandmother Spider succeeds in bringing light to the animals on her side of the world

Paperback:

9780873586948 | 1 edition (Rising Moon, June 1, 1997), cover price $7.95 | About this edition: After Possum and Buzzard fail in their attempts to steal a piece of the sun, Grandmother Spider succeeds in bringing light to the animals on her side of the world.

Reinforced:

9780606285728, titled "Grandmother Spider Brings the Sun a Cherokee Story" | Demco Media, June 1, 2003, cover price $16.90 | About this edition: After Possum and Buzzard fail in their attempts to steal a piece of the sun, Grandmother Spider succeeds in bringing light to the animals on her side of the world.

Prebinding:

9780613496728 | Turtleback Books, August 1, 1995, cover price $18.40 | About this edition: After Possum and Buzzard fail in their attempts to steal a piece of the sun, Grandmother Spider succeeds in bringing light to the animals on her side of the world.

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