This is a collection of works, poems and quotes from Ronald David Shaw, Eastern Band Cherokee.His Lineage began with the marriage of his Great Grandfather, William B. Smith to Miley Brown, Eastern Band Cherokee.William was a Doctor who lived with the Cherokee, worked with them, and learned many of their ways and as a doctor studied healing herbs from the Medicine Men. His Daughter, Sabra Amanda Jane Smith also followed her father's work as his assistant, later worked as a Medicine Woman among the Cherokee and learned enough to create a book of cures and remedies passed down to his family.Ron has studied their history along with the Cherokee People, their stories, traditions and Spiritual Ways which he keeps alive in his work and in his person.