I agree with you. She's a smart cookie. She does her research also. She studies Cherokee history and folklore (much of it available via internet). It doesn't hurt for us to let our story become somewhat educational as well, does it? According to Cherokee history, stories handed down carefully from generation to generation, a Cherokee man encountered a rattlesnake and killed it. The other rattlesnakes had to get revenge, which was the Cherokee custom, so they told the man that he must sacrifice his wife's life or all the rattlesnakes would attack all the Cherokee and the tribes would die. They even told the man how to go about the sacrifice. When the wife returned home from her day, the man asked her to get him a goard of fresh water because he was very tired. She got him some water from the bucket but he insisted she go to the well and draw fresh water. He knew the black rattlesnake would be waiting for her just outside the door. She went out the door and the rattlesnake bit her and he held her in his arms while she died. The snakes vowed to never bite a Cherokee again. Then the rattlesnakes taught the Cherokee a song of healing, so that if a snake bit a Cherokee by accident, the song would cure him and he would not die.
If you think that's an “interesting” story, you should hear the story of creation as told by Cherokees. It has been told from long before the white man brought “Christianity” to them, yet there are many parallels and ironies - to many similarities to be mere coincidence.