Cherokee Tribe
of
Northeast Alabama
P.O. Box 66 Grant, AL 35747
Spirit of Little Deer
(Obtained from Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma website. Please visit www.cherokee.org for more traditional stories).
Little Deer was the protector of the deer. The Cherokee hunters were instructed in the ways of hunting the deer and prayed to the Deer Spirit for pardon when they were killed for food. If a hunter killed a deer needlessly and without asking the Deer Spirit's pardon, Little Deer would track down the hunter and give him rheumatism so that he could hunt no more.
