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Proposed edits to Wikipedia's Cherokee mythology article for Your Class
1. The Great Spirit

2. Signs, visions, and dreams

3. Green Corn Ceremony

4. Evil

5. Animals, plants, and disease

Reading List
A numbered list of all your readings go here. Use the following format:

1. James Mooney. (1966). Myths of the Cherokee.

2. Legends of America. (2003). Native American Legends.

3. Jocelyn Daher. (2014). Ancient Cherokee Indian Tale of the Origin.

4. American Indian Legends. (2016). Native American Legends.

5. Tala Barr. (2008). Creation in Myth and Literature.

Original
It is also believed that all human disease and suffering originated from animal spirits, ghosts or witchcraft. It is also believed that the plants, in response to witnessing the suffering in the world, made a medicine to cure each sickness that entered the world. When the Medicine Man does not know what medicine to use the spirits of the plants tell him.[7]

Revised
It is believed that in the beginning, after Earth was created, animals, plants, and people could all communicate with one another. Over time they all began to increase in population. When they increased, the animals began to get threatened by the humans for killing so many of them. The animals thought that the humans needed to be eliminated. They held animal councils to try and figure out how to kill the humans before the humans could kill them. The bear council decided that they would make their own bow and arrows, but the bear's claws were to long to make the bow and arrow work. The fish and reptiles decided they would make humans have awful dreams to terrify them into not killing them anymore. The birds, insects, and smaller animals thought of more ways, such as diseases to make the humans suffer. The deer also had a meeting, and when a human killed the deer they would have to ask pardon for killing them. When the humans didn't ask for pardon, they would be followed home by the spirit of a deer. That deer would then lay a disease upon the human. While the animals were trying to figure out how to kill the humans, the plants decided they wanted to help cure the humans of the diseases. They thought that the humans needed to learn from their mistake and not be eliminated. They thought if they were eliminated they would not be able to learn anymore. When the humans didn't know what to use for the cure, the plants would let thm know.

Original Contribution
In the beginning after creation, the animals, humans, and plants could all communicate with one another. As time passed and everything began to increase in population, the humans began to kill the animals for food and for their skin. Man invented weapons such as bows, knives, blowguns, spears, and hooks to assist in their killing of the animals. When the animals found out that their friends were being killed, they decided to take action against the humans. The bears were the first to council. They decided they would use man's own weapon against them. They decided that weapon would be the bow and arrow. When they tried to use it their claws were to long, and the chief decided they would just use what they were given. The deer decided that if the humans did not pardon them when they killed them, they would lay a disease upon them. All the reptiles and fish decided they would make the humans have horrifying dreams about them. Since the animals wanted to torture the humans, the plants decided they would help the humans when they got into trouble. The rocks also wanted to help when the humans got into trouble. The plants would help the humans cure diseases and the rocks would help them build places to live in. Now whenever the medicine man doesn't know what to use for the sock man, the plant spirits will tell him.