Cherokee Stories Of The Turtle Island Liars Club

Throughout my readings there were a lot of similarities to the books that I have read this semester on the way the authors would write. I’m not saying that every book was the same, but I notice that the authors would write mostly the same social problems in each of their books. In each book the protagonist would have to deal with the same issues that isn’t brought up by the antagonist. It would be issues that are brought up from the social environment that they are all in like the belief system, racism, and supernatural. Cheyenne Madonna follows Jordan Cool Water in a link of 7 short stories. The stories explore a lot of situations that Jordan has to come, but the one thing that comes up throughout the stories is racism exceptionally in the …show more content…
So I was reading this book when I notice the number four appeared a lot throughout this book. I thought it was me, but it was around frequently. Like the book focuses on four male storytellers that have something to teach and something to learn. They explain in the beginning of the book that the four members of the Liars Club represented in this book make no pretense to being better than others. All the four stories were written in the Cherokee syllabery. The book consists of four chapters that each of which circles around a particular aspect of the tradition of Cherokee and it evolves in a changing world. When Woody was explaining his vision he stated that it was about four days before Thanksgiving. So I think you get the picture on what I mean of the author putting out the word four throughout the book. But, according to the Cherokee …show more content…
Teuton put this in his stories was no surprise, but an homage so to speak for the beliefs and practices of the Cherokee Indians. Finally, in Shell Shaker there were a number of supernatural beings mentioned throughout the book. The title is Shell Shaker in which is a Choctaw ceremony in which there are turtle shells that are around a dancer’s feet to pray to the spirits to carry out a request. According to Cherokee Nation:
Women hold an important role in the Stomp Dances of the Southeastern Indian cultures: That of the Shell Shaker. The Shell Shaker is the female counterpart of the Dance Singer. The first man leads the men and the first woman leads the other women. She wears leg rattles made from box tortoise shells on her lower legs. The woman enters the dance behind the lead singer and produces rhythmic rattling sounds made by shuffling her feet. Legend has it that because of the natural designs on the tortoise shell that look like women dancing - Turtle says, "Let Women