Cherokee Formula Poems Cherokee formula poems were considered to be useful to a person's life. They were meant to make a person's life easier by making another person fall in love with them or to a certain extent to kill someone else. Obviously the person with the misfortune to die due to a formula poem was not on the "easy" side of the poem. What is very surprising is that the Cherokees believed that these …showed first 75 words of 623 total…

…showed last 75 words of 623 total…whether the Cherokees come up with the concept of a soul before the coming of the Europeans or after being introduced to the Christian religion. It also uses the color of black as symbolizing death, something that is used widely around the world. Another interesting point on Cherokee culture one can learn from reading this poem is that they buried their dead. Line 11 shows both the concepts of black symbolizing death and also the burial