Thursday, July 24, 2014

Cherokee Fables: How They Brought Back Tobacco

 
Branta_canadensis_in_flight,_Great_Meadows_National_Wildlife_RefugeIn the beginning of the world, when people and animals were all the same, there was only one tobacco plant, to which they all came for their tobacco until the Dagûl`kû geese stole it and carried it far away to the south. The people were suffering without it, and there was one old woman who grew so thin and weak that everybody said she would soon die unless she could get tobacco to keep her alive.
 

No comments:

Post a Comment