Episode Details

Mooney's tribal survey of the south and west, compressed for the ear in his own order and structure. The Creek confederacy and the Georgia boundary; the Creek names on the land — Coweeta, Chattooga, Coosawatee, Tali'wa; the ballplay tradition for the upper Georgia tract; Tali'wa, the hardest battle of the two tribes, from Wafford's eyewitness chain; the Yuchi among the Cherokee; the Natchez on the Hiwassee — Frog place, the mission site, Wafford's grandmother's visit by interpreter — and their last full-blood elder, Alkini'; the mysterious Taskigi; and the western tribes, Chickasaw, Choctaw, and Osage. Battle anecdotes are carried in survey clauses; two passages of Mooney's text (the Echota dance massacre telling and Haywood's Natchez slave-rising account) are omitted in compression and logged in the script notes. Source: James Mooney, Myths of the Cherokee (1900), public domain; fresh in-house renderings faithful to Mooney's record, told in Mooney's order.

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