Cherokee Earth Dwellers: Stories and Teachings of the Natural World

Cherokee Earth Dwellers is a comprehensive guide to understanding the natural world from an Indigenous perspective.

This book offers a rich understanding of nature grounded in Cherokee creature names, oral traditional stories, and reflections of knowledge holders.

With over six hundred Cherokee names for animals and plants, this collection provides a deep and continuing collaboration between Christopher B.

Teuton, Hastings Shade, Loretta Shade, and others.

This book presents teachings about the body, mind, spirit, and wellness that have been shared for generations, revealing a living, communicative world and humanity's role within it.

Through stories and illustrations, Cherokee Earth Dwellers imparts a full, rich, and exciting vision of a living Cherokee cosmos that fosters balance, health, maturity, and awareness of the interconnection of all that is.

This book is a must-read for anyone seeking to deepen their understanding of the natural world and their place within it.