Knowing that something special was going to happen that day, because she could feel it deep inside her soul, Charity sprung out of bed. Her grandpa had always said that she had the “gift of knowing,” the same as her grandmother, Mi 'thebe, had. Mi’ thebe was a Cherokee name that in English meant Shadowy Moon. As she stepped outside the old, log cabin she took a deep breath of the cool, fresh mountain air and then stretched her back, leaning from side to side to remove the stiffness she felt from sleeping in her not so comfortable bed, which consisted of a straw-ticked mattress atop a wooden bunk that seemed to became flatter each year as she grew older. Her grandfather had built the cabin some fifty-odd years earlier as a wedding gift for
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Being the daughter of a Frenchman and a Cherokee squaw, Gige’sdi, had been a raven haired beauty that turned the head of many a young brave. It wasn 't long before she caught the attention of a handsome, young brave named, Ugug Usdi. Ugug Usdi was an old name meaning, Little Owl.
Charity, could not remember her parents at all, and often wondered what her life would have been like, if they had lived through the yellow fever epidemic that occurred when she was only …show more content…
Charity loved her grandfather and she loved their home- it was the only home she’d ever known… Going into town with her grandfather to get supplies would be the first time he had ever let her accompany him on one of his journeys and the very first time she had ever left the cabin for an overnight excursion. She wondered if he wanted her to go with him because he was getting old, or was it because he did not want to leave her there alone; before, when he went on his trips, her grandmother was there. Maybe, he just wants me to learn the way of his people, the white men, thought Charity.
Her grandfather had told her that she could not wear her buckskins. He told her that she would have to wear the cotton dress he‘d given her. He had traded skins for it somewhere; she figured he’d gotten it from the Trading Post across the river near the Cherokee settlement of Brownstown. Charity did not like the way the dress felt against her skin- the material was thin and light; it hardly felt as if she had anything on. She had balked at wearing it, but finally gave in because she wanted to go with
Being the daughter of a Frenchman and a Cherokee squaw, Gige’sdi, had been a raven haired beauty that turned the head of many a young brave. It wasn 't long before she caught the attention of a handsome, young brave named, Ugug Usdi. Ugug Usdi was an old name meaning, Little Owl.
Charity, could not remember her parents at all, and often wondered what her life would have been like, if they had lived through the yellow fever epidemic that occurred when she was only …show more content…
Charity loved her grandfather and she loved their home- it was the only home she’d ever known… Going into town with her grandfather to get supplies would be the first time he had ever let her accompany him on one of his journeys and the very first time she had ever left the cabin for an overnight excursion. She wondered if he wanted her to go with him because he was getting old, or was it because he did not want to leave her there alone; before, when he went on his trips, her grandmother was there. Maybe, he just wants me to learn the way of his people, the white men, thought Charity.
Her grandfather had told her that she could not wear her buckskins. He told her that she would have to wear the cotton dress he‘d given her. He had traded skins for it somewhere; she figured he’d gotten it from the Trading Post across the river near the Cherokee settlement of Brownstown. Charity did not like the way the dress felt against her skin- the material was thin and light; it hardly felt as if she had anything on. She had balked at wearing it, but finally gave in because she wanted to go with