A Childs hands and fingers painted over the cover page of Elementary Arithmetic printed in Cherokee and English. 
 
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Hands That Count

Storytelling has always been a part of the Cherokee culture as a way of education, entertainment and explanation. Storytellers are always animated and is a performance art of a sort. The single line drawing of the different characters is symbolic of how stories are intertwined and move from one to the next. Cherokee storytellers normally start with the explanation of how the story was originally heard from elders, mothers, fathers etc 
 
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Hands of the Storyteller

Hands holding the Cherokee Language New Testament with a cross and eagle feather. Original watercolor on heavy paper. 
 
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Hands Of Faith

Original watercolor with hand lettered Cherokee syllabary as the background. 
 
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Hands Of Language

Hands of the optometrist offering gold rim glasses painted over the hand lettered Cherokee syllabary eye chart. 
 
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Hands of Vision

The 1762 map drawn by Henry Timberlake is reproduced and serves as the background for Hands of the Warrior. It details the Headmen of each Cherokee town and the number of Warriors each town could send to war. John Guthrie 
 
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Hands of the Warrior

A Trail of Tears watercolor painting over the background of a map showing the routes taken by the different detachments of Cherokee. The Cherokee people were forcibly removed from their traditional homeland and made to walk across the frozen landscape to Indian Territory in the winter of 1838-39. 
 
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Hands Against The Cold

A potter working on a clay pot with a pottery stamp nearby. the potters hands and pot are super imposed over the header of the Cherokee Phoenix published at New Echota in 1828. John Guthrie 
 
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Hands of a Potter

A basket weavers hands , weaving a double wall basket from reeds super imposed over a Cherokee Nation Dawes Roll Card. 
 
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Hands of the Basket Weaver

The love between two people creates a spirit that you only have to look inside yourself to see. 
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Loves Reflection

A watercolor, ink and pencil painting of an original Cherokee Land Office Allotment Certificate. The clouds around the words Certificate of Allotment has some irony and can be seen as an ominous warning that much of the land would be in white hands in a few short years The hands holding the dirt with a sprig of growth symbolizes the Cherokee willingness to roll up their sleeves and plant for future generations. 
 
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Hands of the Land

The Cherokee Orphan Asylum Press newspaper serves as the background for this watercolor. The monarch butterfly migration is a colorful part of Oklahoma in the fall, September through October and represents the change the new orphan faced as she was placed in the Cherokee Orphanage. NULLI MALUM PRO MALO REDDENTES is Latin and means “render to no one harm for harm”. My wife’s grandmother was number 44 on the Saline district orphan roll and was part of the inspiration for the painting. I hand draw and letter the documents I use as background to avoid pixilation and to be able to produce the aged and weathered appearance. 
 
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Hands of the Orphan

The Three Sisters, corn bean and squash are seen as three beautiful loving sisters. 
The Three Sisters are the three main agricultural crops of various Indigenous peoples of North America: squash, maize (corn), and climbing beans (typically tepary beans or common beans). Originating in Mesoamerica, these three crops were carried northward, up the river valleys over generations, far afield to the Cherokee who, among others, used these Three Sisters for food and trade 
The Cherokee Almanac was written in Cherokee and English and was much like today's Old Farmers Almanac. 
 
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Hands of Three Sisters

A baby in the arms of grandfather painted over a document for the allotment to a minor child in 1906. 
 
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Hands of Generations

With painted faces and wearing the wolf caps warriors move silently along the snowy creek bank. Their reflection is how they perceive themselves.

Way of the Wolf

African American hands painted over the hand drawn and lettered Cherokee Freedmen Roll Card. Important dates of 1901 and the1904 citizenship certificate show how long the freedmen have waited for their rights by treaty. The fathers hand with the hand of his daughter symbolizes each generation leading the next into the future. The coffee cup stain on the left is symbolic of how casual the approach to making the Freedmen tribal citizens. The red ribbon in the girls sleeve represents their bloodline going back in many cases to before the Trail of Tears. 
 
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Hands of the Freedmen

The Cherokee originally lived above the sky vault. The Cherokee people came down to Mother Earth after it had become crowded above the sky. Now after all the humans have come here to live and have become uncaring for our Earth Mother and created the poisons killing our planet. 
 
The Raven in the painting symbolizes the Raven Mocker 
 
The Raven Mocker is an evil spirit and the most feared of Cherokee witches. According to Cherokee mythology it robs the sick and dying of their heart. Normally appearing as old, withered men and women, or turning completely invisible except to certain medicine men, they take to the air in a fiery shape, with the sounds of a raven's cry and a strong wind as they hunt for their next victim. After tormenting and killing their victim by slitting the victim's head they consume his heart (doing so without leaving a mark on the victim's skin), and add a year to their life for every year that the slain would have still lived. 
 
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Tears for Mother

This painting on an eagle feather, deals with the Cherokee tragedy now called the Trail of Tears. During the winter of 1838 and 1839 sixteen thousand Cherokees were forced on to what would become known as the Trail of Tears, overland to Indian Territory. On the Trail of Tears over 4,000 Cherokees died. We still remember 
 
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Cherokee by Blood

During the harsh winter of 1838-39 thousands of Cherokee were forced to leave their mountain homes and marched overland to Indian Territory. During the forced march across the snow covered land, over four thousand of the Cherokees died. The hardships suffered by the Cherokee people as they were forced to walk what later would be named The Trail of Tears, to a new home in Indian Territory, would be forever remembered. Like the people who took advantage of the Cherokee Removal the Ravens in the foreground of this painting tear apart a scarf that has Cherokee Nation written in embroidery. 
 
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Morning Tears

Long ago the beings that now inhabit the earth lived above the sky vault. It had become crowded and the Great Spirit saw that he must make a place for all the animals, birds and people to live. He created our world for everyone to share. At first the world was covered with water and the Raven flew all around the world to find a place for the people and creatures to live but could not find a place. The Water Beetle said " I will make a place for us" and everyone laughed. The Water Beetle dove down in the water and brought up the mud for Turtle Island. But the the mud was barren and would not support the weight of all the beings wanting to live there. So Suli the buzzard flew down and with his majestic wings began to fan and dry the new earth that had been dredged up. As he flew his wings would touch the new ground and as his wings lifted and descended the Great Smokie Mountains with its valleys and streams was created. So now the Cherokee and all the creatures had a home to cherish

Standing at the Pool of Creation

In the winter of 1838-39 the cruelty of the Trail of Tears was forced on the Cherokee People. Forced to walk more than 850 miles a full quarter of the Cherokee Nation, over 4000 people died in the freezing cold. 
 
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Shadow of the Owl

The Wolf has been known throughout time to be the largest clan. During the time of the Peace Chief and War Chief government setting, the War Chief would come from this clan. Wolves are known as protectors. At some Cherokee ceremonial grounds, the Wolf arbor is to the left of the Blue arbor. 
 
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Wolf Clan Mother

Members of the Deer Clan were historically known as fast runners and hunters. Even though they hunted game for subsistence, they respected and cared for the animals while they were living amongst them. They were also known as messengers on an earthly level, delivering messengers from village to village, or person to person. At some Cherokee ceremonial grounds, the Deer arbor is to the left of the Wild Potato arbor. 
 
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Deer Clan

The Cherokee, like other Native American tribes and indigenous people around the world, have many legends going back centuries about how the world was formed and how the world works. 
 
These ancient Cherokee stories tell of the nature of the animals, plants, trees, mountains, streams and rivers of the land in the Smokey Mountains and the Appalachian Mountain region. 
 
Old Cherokee tales include accounts of "the little people," the "Yunwi Tsunsdi." These beings are sometimes described as being spirits, and other times as small human-like people, about two feet to four feet tall. 
 
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Putting on he Spots

We all have spirit guides and for some it is the wolf. The wolf clan is the largest clan of the Cherokee, where warriors and War Chiefs were chosen. 
 
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Spirit Wolf

Deer Clan Mother

Winter holding open the portal releasing the birds to sing about spring. 
 
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Winter Releasing The Birds Of Spring

After a long study, Seqouyah realized that there were 85 individual syllables, which were used to make up the many words of the Cherokee language. He was then able to limit the symbols to a much smaller number than he originally developed and they could be used in combinations to form any word. His first student was his brother-in-law, Michael Waters, and the first to read and write with the invention was his daughter, A-Yo-Ka. 
 
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Sequoyah's Gift To The Cherokee

A Cherokee Cowgirl, at home on a horse or in a social setting. Cherokee women are now and have always been the strength of the Cherokee Nation. 
 
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Cherokee Cowgirl

The Cherokee believe that there is the Great Thunder and his sons, the two Thunder Boys, who live in the land of the west above the sky vault. They dress in lightning and rainbows.

Kanati - Great Thunder

Cherokee Confederate soldiers on horseback with the Cherokee Braves flag painted over the hand drawn Cherokee Confederate money. General Stand Watie was the last Confederate General to surrender. 
 
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Cherokee Braves - Before the Battle

The Cherokee Advocate, published at Tahlequah, reported on November 13, 1844, that the Cherokee National Council had passed a bill authorizing a Lighthorse Company. It was to be composed of a captain, lieutenant and twenty-four horsemen. Their assigned duty was to pursue and arrest all fugitives from justice. The other Five Tribes imitated the Cherokee Lighthorse for their nations. These lawmen performed as tribal police; criminals apprehended by them were turned over to the Indian courts for trial and punishment. 
The Cherokee got the name "lighthorse" from Revolutionary War hero, General Henry Lee who was called "Lighthorse Harry" due to the rapidity of his cavalry movements during the conflict. 
 
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Cherokee Lighthorse

Sequoyah and the Talking Leaves is a representation of Sequoyah the only man to create a syllabary for a Native American Language. 
 
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Sequoyah and the Talking Leaves

She was a Full blood of the WolfClan, born in Chota, the City of Refuge and Capitol of the CherokeeNation. Her Great grandfather was Moytoy of Tellico Supreme Chief 1730 --1760. Moytoy's second daughter, born about 1663 and her husband, The "Raven" of Chotawere Nancy's grandparents. Nancy holds a position of great significance in Cherokee history. 
 
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Nanyahi at Taliwa

Cherokee Wolf Clan Warrior with shaven head and red paint symbolizing the woodpecker. 
 
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Cherokee Wolves

Selu is corn, pictured with her companions, the wolves of Thunder (Kanati) as shereturns home through the grassy field.

Selu and Her Companions

A long time ago, there was a Cherokee man named Yahula, who was a horse trader in the 
East. The people knew when he was coming because of his singing and the tinkle of 
bells he had braided in his ponies manes. One day Yahula became lost during 
the early spring hunt when a snowstorm covered the mountains. Cherokee searchers 
were unable to find him and gave him up for lost. Two seasons later Yahula appeared 
at his friends door and told how the Immortals had found him and taken him in. 
Since he had eaten the Immortals food, he was unable to rejoin the Cherokee but 
would come and visit periodically. Eventually the visits ended. 
 
There were rumors of the removal and the Cherokee said, perhaps when we get to Indian Territory, 
we will see Yahula again, but they never did. Some of the old people say they hear someone singing 
and the tinkle of bells on soft summer nights in Northeastern Oklahoma. 
 
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Yahula and His Horses

Hands with a feather quill over the hand drawn and lettered Cherokee Constitution which was printed in the Cherokee Syllabary. 
 
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Hands of the Constitution

In the bitter cold of 1848, 16,000 Cherokee were forced to walk 900 miles to Indian Territory resulting in the deaths of over 4,000 people. Chief Seattle of the Suquamish tribe in Washington state said "they made us many promises, more than we can remember. They never kept but one, they promised to take our land and so they took it."

The Promise

Lifting someone else will do the same for you. 
 
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Hands of Trust

Red sorrel horse with mans hand across his nose. Painted over the hand lettered fair bulletin for the Sixth Annual Fair in 1876 at Muskogee. The fair featured several horse races and other equine events. In Cherokee written in red it says King Red Bird race and has the final race of the fair underlined. 
 
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Hands of the Horseman

Lady's hands holding a beaded stethoscope painted over the cover page of The Cherokee Physician. Original watercolor painted over hand lettered artwork, on heavy watercolor paper. 
 
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Hands of The Healer

Hands of Cherokee Flute artist, Tommy Wildcat, over the sheet music Amazing Grace in the Cherokee Syllabary. 
 
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Hands of the Music Maker

The Cherokee Prayer Card serves as a background to honor Cherokee soldiers that have served and those that are serving our country. The Prayer card was carried by Woodrow Wilson “Woody” Roach during his military service in World War II and is now displayed in the Smithsonian. The Lord’s Prayer is first printed on the card in the Cherokee syllabary, a writing system developed in 1821 by Sequoyah (Cherokee, ca. 1770–1843). With the syllabary’s rapid spread, Cherokees became literate virtually overnight, and their literacy rate quickly surpassed that of surrounding non-Natives. Many Cherokees had adopted Christianity, and the Bible and Christian hymnals and prayers were translated into Cherokee soon after the syllabary was created. 
 
Our American Soldiers serving in peacetime and in war is what makes America strong and keeps us free from tyranny. The symbols in the painting need no explanation. 
 
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