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Cherokee Earth Dwellers

Stories and Teachings of the Natural World

By Christopher B. Teuton and Hastings Shade. With Loretta Shade and Larry Shade. Illustrated by MaryBeth Timothy

Second place for the 2023 Chicago Folklore Prize

A celebration of the Cherokee cosmos through creature names, stories, cultural concepts, and reflections

Ayetli gadogv—to "stand in the middle"—is at the heart of a Cherokee perspective of the...