@LostCityMagic@mastodon.social
2026-04-05 21:31 UTC
Your Cherokee words for today.
The top word is English followed by how it is written in the Cherokee language followed by how it is spelled in English then how to pronounce it phonetically.
The Cherokee had no access to sugar, but made many sweets and cakes with honey, since nearly every Cherokee household had a kept beehive and were experienced beekeepers. We used the wax combs and honey for sweetening our food and a type of candied jerky meat for trading,
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@LostCityMagic@mastodon.social 2026-04-05 21:31
along with being brew masters with a personal distillary. The Cherokees made a type of mead from the honey with corn and potatoes, as well as a disinfectant, poultice for wounds and medicine for fevers, guaranteeing them wealth as they were sought after by every trader that came by. After the forced removal and genocide of the Cherokee on what became the trail of tears, the beekeepers, brew masters secrets disappeared along with the Conjurers, victims of a racist smear campaign against the