Eastern Cherokee Stories: A Living Oral Tradition and Its Cultural Continuance Seneca both before and after the Interdisciplinary approaches both before and after the introduction of blood quantum as a marker of identity and as the sole requirement for tribal citizenship how non Indian economic and political interests conspired to eradicate the community’s self sufficiency and to explain how storytelling in this tradition as both an ancient and a contemporary literary form is instrumental in the perpetuation of Cherokee identity and culture recording stories and documenting storytelling practices and examining the Eastern Cherokee oral tradition as both an ancient and contemporary literary form