HOW THE WORLD WAS MADE
A CHEROKEE MYTH
The Cherokee were the first Native American tribe to
accept citizenship in the United States and are still the
largest recorded population of natives. They originally
migrated from the Great Lakes region centuries ago
and settled in the Southeast, primarily the Carolinas
and Georgia. As Europeans appropriated their land,
the Cherokee were resettled in the Great Plains, and
their official headquarters is now Tahlequah,
Oklahoma.
This account was recorded by English language
folklorists in the 19th century and first published in
1913 by Katharine Berry Judson.