@LostCityMagic@mastodon.social
2026-08-06 03:27 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.
Some warriors were hunting in the woods, and one morning, on starting out for the day, they left two boys behind to take care of the camp. Soon after they had gone, a war party came up, and finding the boys alone took them both and started back to the south, traveling at such a rate that when the hunters
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@LostCityMagic@mastodon.social 2026-08-06 03:28
returned in the evening, decided that it was of no use to follow them. When the war party reached their own country they gave the boys to an old man, whose sons had been killed by the Seneca. He took the boys and adopted them for his own, and they grew up with him until they were large and strong enough to go hunting for themselves. But all the time they remembered their own home, and one day the older one said to his brother, "Let's kill the old man and run away." "No," said the other,