How Medicine Came to the People: A Tale of the Ancient Cherokees

by Deborah L. Duvall

Book Overview

"A long time ago, all the animals and people lived happily together," begins this story of the origins of Cherokee herbal medicine. As the people begin to outnumber the animals and then to hunt them for their hides and meat, the days of peaceful coexistence are over. The animals take their revenge on the people by making them sick, creating rheumatism, coughs, and colds, aches and pains, fevers and swellings and rashes and allergies. The people...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 082633007X
• ISBN13: 9780826330079
• Release Date: April 2003
• Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
• Length: 32 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 8.5" x 10.0"
• Age Range: 5 to 8 years
• Grade Range: Preschool to Grade 3