The First Strawberries — North America Indigenous (Lesser-Known) | Bedtime World Tour
Tonight we travel to the homelands of the Cherokee, where the first couple parts after an angry quarrel. The Sun places fruit after fruit beside the woman's eastward path, until a small red berry gives her a place to pause and look back.
Source & tradition: Cherokee story “Origin of Strawberries,” documented by ethnographer James Mooney in Myths of the Cherokee, published by the Smithsonian Bureau of American Ethnology in its Nineteenth Annual Report (1900/1902). Original prose retelling.
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