Karen Raley
Karen Raley formerly taught history and women’s studies at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, where she studied Cherokee environmental history as a doctoral student.
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- Maintaining balance: The religious world of the Cherokees
- In Two worlds: Prehistory, contact, and the Lost Colony, page 2.7
- In the 1880s, Cherokee elders in the North Carolina mountains allowed a white man named James Mooney to observe and record information about their culture. The Cherokee myths that Mooney gathered and wrote down in English help explain the world of the Cherokees. These myths show that, for the Cherokees, the world was primarily a relationship of proper balance.
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- By Karen Raley.
