Blogs: Ned Day

Native Heart tells the story of Ned Christie, a nineteenth-century Cherokee who belonged to the Keetoowah band, the more traditional of the Cherokees. He lived in Oklahoma and spoke, in the 1880s, for the Cherokee who accused the ...

Each and every day they get more hair, grow out of more clothes and make new sounds. As I pick Ned up to carry him upstairs to bed in the evening he rests as light as a feather in my arms and puts his sweet smelling head in to my neck. ...