you are welcome, please pass them on ----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, September 10, 2010 5:52 PM Subject: Re: [Cherokee Circle] Eagles revenge - Cherokee > Thank you Blue Panther for these stories I look forward to receiving them. > Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry > > -----Original Message----- > From: "Blue Panther" <[email protected]> > Sender: [email protected] > Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2010 17:39:50 > To: summonthewolf<[email protected]>; > redroad<[email protected]>; > Native_Village<[email protected]>; > littlewolfstraditions<[email protected]>; > <[email protected]>; > indigenous_peoples_literatur<[email protected]>; > CHEROKEE<[email protected]> > Reply-To: [email protected] > Subject: [Cherokee Circle] Eagles revenge - Cherokee > > Eagles revenge - Cherokee > > Once a hunter in the mountains heard a noise at night like a rushing wind > outside the cabin, and on going out he found that an eagle had just > alighted on the drying pole and was tearing at the body of a deer hanging > there. Without thinking of the danger, he shot the eagle. In the morning > he took the deer and started back to the settlement, where he told what he > had done, and the chief sent out some men to bring in the eagle and > arrange for an Eagle dance with it's feathers. They brought back the dead > eagle, everything was made ready, and that night they started the dance in > the townhouse. > > About midnight there was a whoop outside and a strange warrior came into > the circle and began to recite his exploits. No one knew him, but they > thought he had come from one of the farther Cherokee towns. He told how he > had killed a man and at the end of the story he gave a hoarse yell, > Heeeeeee! that startled the whole company, and one of the seven men with > the rattles fell over dead. He sang of another deed, and at the end > straightened up with another loud yell. A second rattler fell dead, and > the people were so full of fear that they could not stir from their > places. Still he kept on, and at every pause there came again that > terrible scream, until the last of the seven rattlers fell dead, and then > the stranger went out into the darkness. > > Long afterward they learned from the eagle killer that it was the brother > of the eagle shot by the hunter. > > > > > > Come visit us at. "Keeper of Stories". > http://www.newkeeperofstories.com/ > > or Come visit us. "Native Village" > [email protected] > ======*====== > List archives > http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/index?list=cherokee > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > ======*====== > List archives > http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/index?list=cherokee > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >