ERIC Number: EJ109819
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Publication Date: 1975
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Origin of Names Among the Cherokees
Long, Sylvester
Weewish Tree, 3, 4, 17-20, Jan 75
Cherokee Indian children were named after those animals they had most frequently killed until a chief dreamed that children's names should be derived from the first animal seen at dawn. (JC)
Descriptors: American Indians, Animal Behavior, Childrens Literature, Identification, Legends, Metaphors
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