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Cherokee Stories of the Turtle Island Liars' Club
Contributor(s): Teuton, Christopher B. (Author), Meredith, America (Illustrator)

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 ISBN: 1469629984     ISBN-13: 9781469629988
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
OUR PRICE: $30.88  

Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: August 2016
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BISAC Categories:
- Social Science | Ethnic Studies - Native American Studies
- Social Science | Folklore & Mythology
- Performing Arts | Storytelling
Dewey: 398.209
LCCN: 2012014163
Physical Information: 0.6" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" L (0.90 lbs) 264 pages
Themes:
- Geographic Orientation - Oklahoma
- Ethnic Orientation - Native American
- Cultural Region - Mid-South
- Cultural Region - South
Features: Illustrated, Price on Product
 
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Publisher 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. Collaborating with Hastings Shade, Sammy Still, Sequoyah Guess, and Woody Hansen, Cherokee scholar Christopher B. Teuton has assembled the first collection of traditional and contemporary Western Cherokee stories published in over forty years.
Not simply a compilation, Cherokee Stories of the Turtle Island Liars' Club explores the art of Cherokee storytelling, or as it is known in the Cherokee language, gagoga (gah-goh-ga), literally translated as he or she is lying. The book reveals how the members of the Liars' Club understand the power and purposes of oral traditional stories and how these stories articulate Cherokee tradition, or teachings, which the storytellers claim are fundamental to a construction of Cherokee selfhood and cultural belonging. Four of the stories are presented in both English and Cherokee.


Contributor Bio(s): Teuton, Christopher B.: - Christopher B. Teuton (Cherokee Nation) is professor and chair of the Department of American Indian Studies at the University of Washington and author of Deep Waters: The Textual Continuum in American Indian Literature.
 
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