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CHEROKEE STORIES
The Milky Way
(From Myths of the Cherokee, by James Mooney)
Some people in the south had a corn mill, in which they pounded the corn into meal, and several mornings when they came to fill it they noticed that some of the meal had been stolen during the night. They examined the ground and found the tracks of a dog, so the next night they watched, and when the dog came from the north and began to eat the meal out of the bowl they sprang out and whipped him. He ran off howling to his home in the north, with the meal dropping from his mouth as he ran, and leaving behind a white trail where now we see the Milky Way, which the Cherokee call to this day Gi'li'-utsun'stanun'yi, "Where the dog ran."
History, Myths and Sacred Formulas of the Cherokees, a compilation of Mooney's reports to the Bureau of American Ethnology, is available in the Native Nashville Online Book Store.
This story, and 20 others told by story teller Marion Ayuni Dunn are available on audio tape in the Native Nashville Online Store. Follow the link below for more details.
Stories
Told By the Cherokee of Old
Marion Ayuni Dunn
