I was really excited about reading this unit. I am currently
in Cherokee 3 and my professor has told us some Cherokee stories before. It was
very fun reading all of the Cherokee words in the stories. It felt cool to be
able to pronounce them correctly and some of the words I already knew. I also love that these stories have tons of animals. My
favorite type of origin stories are animal origin stories. I love learning
about the reasons why animals behave the way they do or why they look a certain
way.
This unit is once again filled with origin stories. I haven’t
read or heard this story before but I have heard that the Cherokees believe
that the earth is an island. The part of this story that caught my eye was the
part about the Great Buzzard. My Cherokee teacher’s maiden name is Buzzard so;
she has talked about the Buzzard before. I also noticed that the number seven
was used quite a bit throughout this story. In my Cherokee class, we learned
that there are seven Cherokee clans; Long Hair, Blue, Wolf, Wild Potato, Deer, Bird,
and Red Paint. I don’t know if these two things are connected but, I thought
that it was an interesting coincidence.
(Buzzard)
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