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Ibiblio: Cherokee Sacred Stories & Sacred Rituals

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Explains the traditional Cherokee rules that surround both telling and listening to oral tradition. Identifies two basic types of Cherokee oral tradition: sacred stories and small animal stories. This site also contains a video of a contemporary Cherokee storyteller telling "The Rattlesnake Tale." RL.9-10.6 cultural World Lit

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Concepts
folktales, mythology, oral tradition, storytelling
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Additional Tags
folklore, ibiblio, ibiblio.org, oral literature, sacred stories, small animal stories, cherokee, cherokee culture, rattlesnake tale, ibiblio.org: cherokee -- sacred stories & sacred rituals, legend, myth
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Classroom Considerations
  • Knovation Readability Score: 5 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)
  • This resource is only available on an unencrypted HTTP website.It should be fine for general use, but don’t use it to share any personally identifiable information
Common Core
RL.9-10.6