Cherokee Fiction

Das Prequel zur TikTok-Sensation »Pucking Around« Auf der Hochzeit ihres Bruders erhält Rachel Price eine niederschmetternde E-Mail: Sie hat das Barkley-Stipendium nicht bekommen. Dabei wäre dies der nächste große Schritt in ihrer sportmedizinischen Karriere gewesen. Eigentlich will sie nun nur noch ihren Kummer an der Hotelbar ertränken. Doch dort begegnet sie einem Mann, den sie auch nach einem One-Night-Stand nicht mehr vergessen kann.

Cherokee people have lived in the Great Smoky Mountains for thousands of years. During all this time, they have told stories to each other to explain how things came to be, to pass on lessons about life, and to describe the mountains, animals, plants, and spirits around them. The Origin of the Milky Way and Other Living Stories of the Cherokee collects 26 stories that are great for kids and are still being told by storytellers today.

John Greystone is a twenty year old who lands a summer job as a wildfire spotter in Sequoia National Park. A helicopter pilot drops him off on a remote mountain top with a promise to return an hour later with supplies. The next day the pilot has not returned and John is out of water.

This unique audiobook introduces the listeners to the seven Cherokee clans, found in no other American Indian tribe. They are Wolf (Ani-Wahiya), Bird (Ani-Tsiskwa), Deer (Ani-Kawi), Twister (Ani-Gilohi), Wild Potato (Ani-Gotegewi), Panther (Ani-Sahoni) and Paint (Ani-Wodi). In each section of notes appear the etymology of the Cherokee name, synonyms and related clans, the clan's in-born strengths and character, mitochondrial DNA types, symbols and iconography, famous people, ceremonies, art and monuments.

An Irish bondservant, Mary Fermoy, is sold with her infant son to a Cherokee, Billy Redhand. A veteran of the Red Stick Wars, Redhand settles on a farm and accepts Mary as his wife. Redhand names the boy John Circles-the-Tree. The death of John’s mother and the murder of Redhand leaves him orphaned and embroiled in political intrigue and danger. In an attempt to escape arrest, John flees to Texas and is caught up in the Texas Revolution. Guided by a mysterious girl in his dreams, he returns to the Cherokee Nation as the renowned warrior, The Man from Red Hill, just in time to become ...

For many generations, the Aniyunwiya (meaning the “real people” or “principal people”) lived in harmony with the land they inhabited. They worshipped their ancestors and believed that every living thing—people, animals, trees, and plants—had a spirit and an important place in the world.

Das Finale von Piper Raynes L.A. Love Stories rund um die Hollywood Hills Unser erstes Treffen brachte mein Herz zum Schlagen. Vierzehn Jahre später war unser Wiedersehen weniger Herz und mehr Kick. Es hat sich herausgestellt, dass Quinn genauso scharf darauf war, mich zu sehen wie ich sie.

All he wants is a job as a ranch foreman. He'd tried in Montana, but ended up in a gunfight with a pair of ugly-looking brothers over a horse. Leaving one dead and the other swearing revenge, Norm figures it'd be wise to make himself scarce. He heads south, to Nebraska. Instead of work, though, he finds something he never expected--a partner. Edith is a beautiful young woman with a sordid past of her own.

Verlieb dich nicht in einen Single Dad – Das Finale der Small-Town-Romance-Serie. Die anderen Männer aus dem Single Dad's Club würden sagen, dass es vor Jahren schon Zeit war. Zeit für einen Neuanfang. Zeit, über die Vergangenheit hinwegzukommen. Aber für Garrett war das Risiko, seine kleine Tochter zu verletzen, immer zu hoch. Doch Charlotte kann er nicht widerstehen. Sie ist alles, was er nicht wollen sollte: die kleine Schwester seines besten Freunds, die ihn in seinen verletzlichsten Momenten gesehen hat, und in seinen größten – die erste Person nach zwölf Jahren, die die Macht hat, ihn zu brechen.

Haunted by the blood and bitterness of the Civil War, Houston Ballou escaped from Tennessee on the proud stallion High Fire, followed by his brother, Ruff; his sister, Dixie; and the last four mares from the Ballou farm, one of them heavy with foal. Threatened with extreme danger from either army, they head west to start a new life. Adding to their peril are deserters that stalk the roads. These men would kill for a few coins, more so for valuable horseflesh.

On the rain-swollen banks of the River Etsi in South Carolina, Ophelia Blue Rivers—six years old in 1992—catches frogs and stretches to reach the swaying sunflowers. She’s an orphan raised in a rustic cabin by her Grandma Blue, a descendent of the Black Cherokee Freedmen. Caught in deep currents of history that she doesn’t understand, she is, as her grandma says: “half Black, half Cherokee, and all mixed up.” While Ophelia may not always understand where she came from, there’s no mistaking where she’d rather be: caught in the warmth of Grandma Blue’s cabin, listening to Cherokee legends.

Desde el Río de la Plata, a través del valle de Shenandoah en Virginia, y rumbo a las Montañas Humeantes de Carolina del Norte, dos seres destinados a vivir en la soledad del espíritu tomarán decisiones que los arrojarán al abismo de la tentación y, tal vez, de la salvación.

In the world of Native Americans, oral communication takes the place of the written word in preserving their most valued “texts”. By a miracle of transmission, here is the earliest and most authenticated version of the story of the Cherokee people, from their origins in a land across the great waters to the coming of the white man.

Ophelia Blue Rivers is the specificity of her circumstance. She’s not just mixed in the American binary sense of being a racial amalgamation of two races; she’s a mix of two of the distinct racial identities that make up the politics of this continent. She’s Black and she is Native American, raised by her grandmother who is a Black descendent of Cherokee freedmen.

Thirteen-year-old Uwohali has not seen his father, Sequoyah, for many years. So when Sequoyah returns to the village, Uwohali is eager to reconnect. But Sequoyah's new obsession with making strange markings causes friends and neighbors in their tribe to wonder whether he is crazy - or, worse, practicing witchcraft. What they don't know, and what Uwohali discovers, is that Sequoyah is a genius, and his strange markings are actually an alphabet representing the sounds of the Cherokee language.

Before soldiers drove the Cherokees out of the Great Smoky Mountains to the Oklahoma reservation in 1838, the Indians hid their gold mines. Many died on that infamous Trail of Tears, and their secrets died with them. Now, more than a century and a half later, solitary prospector Moses Kyle discovers one of the fabulous lost gold mines. And disappears. Hot shot pilot John Hardin and beautiful Cherokee biker Kitty Birdsong try to find Moses. But also on the hunt in the misty folds of the Smokies is a murderous family clan rooted in the worst kind of evil, along with a group of cult members ...

A brand-new Western adventure from the author of The Legend of Jake Jackson. This is a rip-roaring new adventure that puts a United States marshal directly on the trail of evil. Caleb Jacobs made a vow the day his family was unmercifully slaughtered by a cutthroat gang of outlaws. He dedicated his life to protecting those who could not protect themselves. Caleb swore that he would bring justice to the frontier by the gun or by the noose.

Set in the rugged frontier of the West, this unforgettable sequel to Janet Dailey's best selling novel The Proud and the Free begins when Lije Stuart, the handsome son of Temple and The Blade Stuart, returns to the Cherokee Nation after 4 years at Harvard. As the American Civil War rages across the country, the Stuarts, too, are torn apart by an old family feud.

Hotshot pilot John Hardin has a dark history. He and his beautiful Cherokee girlfriend, Kitty Birdsong, are enjoying life in the Great Smoky Mountains when Nolan Rader, a former BATF agent, emerges from John’s violent past and demands help to save his younger brother, Clint Rader, from the vengeance of the Satan’s Ghosts outlaw motorcycle gang. A warped genius called Brain controls the Satan’s Wraiths, an elite cadre of trained hitters within the worldwide gang, and Brain is privately conducting psychological research on Clint prior to killing him. John must agree to help Nolan Rader ...

A Cherokee couple spends their days fishing and making cornmeal. When a giant dog steals their cornmeal, the neighbors all gather to help. Find out how this Cherokee legend explains the creation of the Milky Way.