Talk:Cherokee mythology

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[edit] Clean-up

I can't work on this right now, but please, consult Mooney's Myths and Legends of the Cherokee if nothing else. Eek. This stuff is not necessarily correct at all and it is, of course, floating around the Internet in various forms. I've given up on ever getting rid of all the "Cherokee" crap. Now, the story involving Selu is okay. Check on the "gods" especially, otherwise. Note that all references to them seem to involve the Panthenon (sp?) site and this article in its various forms. --JNE 06:41, 13 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Agreed. This page is poorly written, and false. Since when did the Cherokee "invade" from South America? They are an Iroquoian language speaking tribe, and thus not from South America, but North America. This is well documented. Please change this gibberish.

[edit] Reverted COPYVIO

I am attempting to completely revamp this page, based on my own research while an undergraduate at Furman University. It will take some time, so sorry for the any messiness in the meantime. - Kanati 4 June 2007

Your research does not include copying whole cloth huge sections of James's Mooney's History of the Cherokee. These materials have been reverted and removed. It's ok to use the information in the book, just don't copy it. And do not remove the sections of the article written by actual Cherokee people referring to exisiting beliefs. Jeffrey Vernon Merkey 16:56, 19 June 2007 (UTC)

If you would bother to look at Mooney's Myths of the Cherokee, you would have seen that I did NOT copy anything wholesale. I summarized and paraphrased the basic story elements. If it was a citation that was missing, that could've easily been added. Now you're back to a completely unorganized run-on article. - Kanati —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.143.190.67 (talk) 04:29, 5 September 2007 (UTC)