Styles For Storybook

Topic: Cherokee Storybook

My storybook will be about Cherokee myths. I want to mainly focus on their being, such has how the Cherokee came to be. The origin of their lives. I have been reading a few of the myths form Myths of the Cherokee, by James Mooney. So far my two favorite myths have been How The World Was Made and Origin Of Disease And Medicine. I already have idea about writing story based from these two myths. I have also done a little reading on Mooney's background from his Wikipedia page. The Cherokee are a very strong traditional group of Indians. I am proud to say I am a part of through my ancestors.

Bibliography: 

1. How The World Was Made, from Myths of the Cherokee, page 240, by James Mooney (1900)
2.  Origin Of Disease And Medicine, form Myths of the Cherokee, page 251, by James Mooney
(1900)

Indians by Karl Bodmer

Styles: 

The old wise one. I could tell all of my stories from the perspective of the tribe chief who knows all. It would be as if it was the storybook of the chief. He could be telling to a group of young ones sitting around the fire his stories. He would be the oldest and most wise of them all. I could even make it so at the end he tells how he was the first Cherokee and he knows these myths because he was there. 

Spirit viewpoint. I could make a the spirit that goes along with each myth. The story would be told from the viewpoint of the spirit. For example the story of the dream catcher, a spider is the spirit and weaves a web around a hoop as he tell the Cherokee Indian what to do. Instead of the regular story being told by the Indian who meets the spirit. It would be the spirits side and how the Cherokee Indian called out to them, and why they choose to help the Indians. 

Through a child's eyes. A young child could be presented entering the world of his Cherokee tribe trying to learn their ways. As the young child grows up he will learn they myths of how the Cherokee came to be. As each story is told the boy will experience a new part of him and what his tribe represents and lives by. Then by the end of the story the young child will have grown into a wise Cherokee man. He will know his past and his place in the present. He will understand the meaning of being Cherokee. 

A white man. This style would be told through a white mans perspective. He has chosen to learn they ways of the Cherokee an  how to live among them. As he lives with them he learns how and why they do the things they do. He learns the meaning behind them as they tell their stories. In the final story he could have a vision of his own and he is being fully excepted into the Cherokee tribe. The Cherokee now trust this white man.