I have a Cherokee friend raised in the old ways and he is not one to like being around many people for long at a time. He does not like arguments or to see others mistreating their people. He feels like the way of the ancient ones was a simple and good life. So while there is much he cannot tell me his way of life reads like an open book. He says when you live with the bad things all around you , all the time that it effects the way you think and the way you act. grandma