Case file · Folklore / legend
James Mooney's Myths of the Cherokee
Ethnologist James Mooney gathered the sacred stories of the Eastern Cherokee on the Qualla Boundary from 1887 and published Myths of the Cherokee in 1900, still the main written source for the region's Native traditions.
1900 CE · 35.48, -83.31 · status: official
The account
His teachers included Ayunini (Swimmer), John Ax and others. The stories tie myths to real peaks, gaps, rivers and mounds across the southern mountains.