AKA: Tsvdigewi; singular: Yvwi Usdi Tribal affiliations: Cherokee Thousands of years ago, several young Cherokee men set out to see what was in the world. They traveled far south, where they met a tribe of little people called the Tsvdigewi. They had strange shaped bodies － very plump and squat, like a child － that barely reached a grown man’s knee. They did not live in houses, but nests dug out of the ground and covered with dried grass. The little people were so weak and tiny that they could not defend themselves; they lived in constant fear of wild geese and other large flocks from the south that preyed on their communities. Just as the Cherokee men arrived, the Tsvdigewi were becoming more antsy; strong winds were blowing from the south, bringing white feathers along with them. The men asked the Tsvdigewi why they did not defend themselves, discovering that they never learned how to. They didn’t have enough time to teach them how to make bows or arrows, so they taught…