Lit Thursday Prompt | November 20, 2025

Cover image credit: Photo by Frank Cone., originally sourced from Pexels.

Cherokee National Treasure Robert Lewis tells the story of Uktena and Thunder. He opens by saying the animal stories he heard from his Navajo father and Cherokee grandfather were his favorite.

We don’t want to spoil this tale for you, so throw on the 3-minute video to meet Robert and learn Thunder’s fate.

Prompt: Consider the symbols and themes from the story, including natural phenomena like animals and thunder and the moral conflict faced by the boys. How might some of these tropes inspire your creative practice today?