Two Cherokee Myths Used in the Sunshine Walkingstick Series
I have always been fascinated by mythology and folk tales of all kinds. When I was a teenager, I devoured every book on mythology that I could get my hands on, mostly in the Greco-Roman traditions as those were what my local libraries stocked.
Later, after wandering through other majors, I finally settled on archaeology and expanded my mythological readings into other cultures like those of the tribal peoples of the United States. I grew up in Cherokee country, so this was a natural direction for my interests.
In my readings, I discovered History, Myths, and Sacred Formulas of the Cherokees, one volume containing two books based on the tales and history of the Cherokee as collected and compiled by James Mooney. Mooney's work eventually became the basis of later histories on the tribal peoples he studied, and was so important to the tribes themselves, that they often referred back to his work as a way to cement their own historical memories.
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