{"id":1193,"date":"2023-02-10T15:21:34","date_gmt":"2023-02-10T15:21:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/straightarrow.org\/stories\/?p=1193"},"modified":"2023-02-10T15:21:34","modified_gmt":"2023-02-10T15:21:34","slug":"the-two-old-men","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/straightarrow.org\/stories\/indigenous-stories\/cherokee\/the-two-old-men\/","title":{"rendered":"The Two Old Men"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Two old men went hunting. One had an eye drawn down and was called Uk- kw\u00fbn\u00e4gi&#8217;ta, &#8220;Eye-drawn-down.&#8221; The other had an arm twisted out of shape and was called Uk-ku&#8217;s\u00fb\u00f1ts\u00fbt\u00ef, &#8220;Bent-bow-shape.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They killed a deer and cooked the meat in a pot. The second old man dipped a piece of bread into the soup and smacked his lips as he ate it. &#8220;Is it good?&#8221; said the first old man.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Said the other, &#8220;Hay\u00fb&#8217;! uk-kw\u00fbn\u00e4gi&#8217;st\u00ef (Yes, sir!) It will draw down one&#8217;s eye.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thought the first old man to himself, &#8220;He means me.&#8221; So he dipped a piece of bread into the pot, and smacked his lips as he tasted it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Do you find it good?&#8221; said the other old man.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Said his comrade, &#8220;Hay\u00fb! uk-ku&#8217;s\u00fb\u00f1ts\u00fbt\u00ebt\u00ef&#8217; (Yes, sir!) It will twist up one&#8217;s arm.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thought the second old man, &#8220;He means me&#8221;; so he got very angry and struck the first old man, and then they fought until each killed the other.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Go Back To:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/straightarrow.org\/stories\/indigenous-stories\/cherokee-nation\/\">Cherokee Nation<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two old men went hunting. One had an eye drawn down and was called Uk- kw\u00fbn\u00e4gi&#8217;ta, &#8220;Eye-drawn-down.&#8221; The other had an arm twisted out of shape and was called Uk-ku&#8217;s\u00fb\u00f1ts\u00fbt\u00ef, &#8220;Bent-bow-shape.&#8221; They killed a deer and cooked the meat in a pot. The second old man dipped a piece of bread into the soup and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[331,332],"tags":[213],"class_list":["post-1193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cherokee","category-cherokee-stories","tag-cherokee"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/straightarrow.org\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1193","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/straightarrow.org\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/straightarrow.org\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/straightarrow.org\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/straightarrow.org\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1193"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/straightarrow.org\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1193\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1194,"href":"https:\/\/straightarrow.org\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1193\/revisions\/1194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/straightarrow.org\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/straightarrow.org\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/straightarrow.org\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}