People of Kituwah : The Old Ways of the Eastern Cherokees.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Loftin, John D., 1955-

Contributor:

Frey, Benjamin E.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cherokee Indians--Religion.

Cherokee Indians.

Cherokee Indians--North Carolina--History.

Cherokee Indians--North Carolina--Religious aspects.

Indian cosmology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (319 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berkeley : University of California Press, 2024.

Summary:

According to Cherokee tradition, the place of creation is Kituwah, located at the center of the world and home to the most sacred and oldest of all beloved, or mother, towns. Just by entering Kituwah, or indeed any village site, Cherokees reexperience the creation of the world, when the water beetle first surfaced with a piece of mud that later became the island on which they lived. People of Kituwah is a comprehensive account of the spiritual worldview and lifeways of the Eastern Cherokee people, from the creation of the world to today. Building on vast primary and secondary materials, native and non-native, this book provides a window into not only what the Cherokees perceive and understand--their notions of space and time, marriage and love, death and the afterlife, healing and traditional medicine, and rites and ceremonies--but also how their religious life evolved both before and after the calamitous coming of colonialism. Through the collaborative efforts of John D. Loftin and Benjamin E. Frey, this book offers an in-depth understanding of Cherokee culture and society.

Contents:

Cover

Title Page

Copyright

Contents

Preface

Introduction

Part One. Before Contact

1. ᏗᏓᎴᏂᏍᎬ ᎤᏂᏃᎮᏓ: Eastern Cherokee Creation and Subsistence Narratives

2. ᎠᏂᎩᏚᏩᎩ ᏍᎦᏚᎩ: Cherokee Community

3. ᎤᎵᏍᎨᏗ ᎢᏳᎾᏛᏁᏘ: Cherokee Ceremonial Life

4. ᏅᏬᏘ: Cherokee Medicine

Part Two. After Contact

5. The Contact Era: 1540-1760

6. Contact, Colonialism, and Christianity: 1725-1799

7. Christian Missions and the Ghost Dance: 1799-1815

8. Missionaries and Medicine Men: 1815-1828

9. Cherokees, Christianity, and Myth: 1818-1830

10. Christianity and Cherokee Removal: 1830-1838

11. Cherokee Isolation, the Civil War, and Traditional Religion: 1839-1900

12. Cherokee Traditions in the Twentieth Century

Epilogue

Notes

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

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ISBN:

9780520400344

0520400348

OCLC:

1425812827