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369 and 19 are penciled at top of page The Indians must not eat the sinew that shrank, because if they do, they will limp, and the sinew will cramp and prevent their running. Nutsawi The old Cherokees considered Buffaloes, Elk, Deer & Turkeys their proper meat. Hawks, Owls, Ravens, crows, Woodcocks, & Red birds, they must not eat. Some of them will not at the present day eat, eels or catfish. Blood and things strangled were not to be eaten, - No creature that died without being bled must be eaten. The tradition respecting blood mostly forgotten. Thomas Smith underscored When a creature was shot, the meat about the bullet hole, being bloody was cut out & thrown away. Nutsawi underscored Ska, li lo ski, the great war speaker, must never eat the heart of any creature, either bird or four footed beast, nor a certain kind of frogs, called ga, lo ka, nor spring lizards?. Nutsawi