My Tribe : The Cherokee Indians

The Choctaw Indians were an important tribe, and the largest of the Muskogean tribes. The Choctaws have two stories about their origins in their traditional homeland in central Mississippi. One is that their ancestors came from west of the Mississippi River and settled in what is now the homeland. The other is that the tribe is descended from ancestors who were formed by a spirit from the damp earth of Nanih Waiyah, a large mound in northeastern Mississippi. Either way, the Choctaws resided in places, holding most of Southern Alabama and Mississippi with adjoining parts of Louisiana.

Cherokee Indians have been around for many years, but when the topic of Native Americans is discussed it is only about the struggles and hardships they went through but never their actual culture of how and where they originated or how they came to be. There are many interesting things to learn about Cherokee Indians such as their heritage, religion, language, and their traditional songs, dances, and food.

Our ancestors came from Alabama, Kentucky, Mississippi, Missouri, and Tennessee. The Chickasaw Tribe is located in south-central Oklahoma with the headquarters being in Ada. They were forced to move to Oklahoma in the 1800’s. This removal from there to here is called the Trail of Tears. My paternal great great grandmother was a small child when she came on this removal. This journey was very costly and many young children and elderly died while coming to Oklahoma,

I am a Native American born and raised in Jamestown, Virginia. It was always just my father and I, my mother passed away when I was an infant, so my father raised me to be an independent woman. My father is the head commander of the tribe. He only allowed me to go to the village near our tents. I never went further than the village, till this one day that I was feeling so curious about what was out there, so I decided to walk beyond the village to see what there is to explore.

To begin with, the Cherokee tribe was one of the three primary Native American tribes in South Carolina that called themselves “the real people.” Upward in the mountains, they lived in these villages called “longhouses.” For the girls, their daily lives consisted of doing work in the field, planting and hoeing corn, then harvesting it. On the other hand, the boy’s daily lives consisted of being taught to fish and hunt. Their food was examples of fruits, nuts, corn, pole beans, squash, pumpkins, bottle gourds, and tobacco. Next, the Catawba tribe was another one of the three primary Native American tribes in South Carolina that called themselves the “river people. They used Carolina clay to make their pottery which they were known for. The Catawba dwellers lived in villages that had an open rounding on the top. The Catawbas were primarily farmers because every day they planted crops by the river, fished and hunted. Therefore, the Yemassee tribe was the third primary tribe in South Carolina that was from Spanish Florida. Throughout the summer, they lived on a beach, staying in Wigwams concealed in palmetto leaves. However, during the fall, winter, and spring they stayed in wattle and daub homes with a roof of leaves like the Cherokee. Every day they would eat clams which were part of their diet and equip the land for crops. Women were obligated for child rearing, making clothes, and served food and the men congregated the rest of the food in fishing and hunting.

Have you ever heard of the Cherokee Indians? Sure you have! Just as a reminder, they are the biggest tribe, and most known of out of all the Indian tribes there has ever been in the southeast. They are very important to American History and helped shaped us to be the Americans we are today, which is clearly what I 'll be explaining in this paper. Throughout the paper, I 'll tell you everything you need to know about the Cherokee Indians and continue to relate to the thesis.

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Cherokee Indians had a hard life during the trail of tears. They were forced to move out of their homes. They had to leave their land and farms. 4,000 Cherokee Indians died of hunger, or exposure of disease. The journey became cultural as the “Trail where they cried” for the Cherokees and other removed tribes.

Body One of the most heartbreaking events in the history of Native American tribes has been the Trail of Tears. This event targeted the five Indian tribes in the east: the Cherokee, Choctaw, Creek, Chickasaw, and Seminoles tribes. These tribes were all targeted by the United States government, but the tribe that was impacted the most was the Cherokee Nation. This all started in early 1830s when President Andrew Jackson devised a plan to remove all Native Americans from the east coast.

In the tradition of Native American culture, there is no custom of written records of personal life or tribal history. Even though they have written language, the major way to record history is by oral storytelling. Those stories focus more about creation time, tribal and family history rather than individual life. Recording autobiography from different Native American tribes is a convention way for anthropologists to preserve the Indian traditions, which gradually decline and lost after Native American contact with Western culture. Moreover, the autobiographies of Native American individuals also fulfill the public curiosity about their culture. Nevertheless, the culture differences create the confusion and misunderstand in the written records. For the people does not familiar, and understand the Indian cosmology, the autobiography provides us as a tool to reveal the secret veil of Native American. In the same time, it leads a certain degree of deduction about the narrator original meaning.

Between 1820 and 1845 tens of thousands of Choctaw, Cherokee, Chicksaw, Creek and Seminole were pushed out of their land in the southeastern US and forced to walk west, past Mississippi, relocating them hundreds of miles from their previous homes. Many of these Native Americans died because of the tough winter. This march was later called as the Path of the Tears

They were removed from their homes by force and gathered into temporary forts where they lived in unspeakable conditions with little food, shelter or water. The Cherokee Nation was then forced to travel one thousand miles mostly by foot in horrible conditions with little food and water to be relocated by the white man to the land designated to be their “new home” by the white man.. This has become know in history as the ”Trail of Tears” since approximately 4,000 of the 16,000 total American Indians died along the

The Cheyenne were a powerful,resourceful Native American Indian tribe.They often allied with Sioux and Arapaho,the Cheyenne tribe originally lived in stationary villages in the eastern parts of the country.Their town got destroyed by the Ojibwa (Chippewa)the Cheyenne settled along the Missouri River near the Mandan and Arikara tribes.

I’m a concerned American citizen that feels ashamed of being part of the inhuman act of death over the Indians removal. I see now what my country is capable of doing for power and wealth. The Trail of tears caused the death of hundreds of Indians. I saw the poor little children walking nearby all tired from the long journey I tried to help, but a government official told me that if I helped the Indians I would be a disgrace for our country. The children and the parents hadn’t eaten for days I gave them food and somewhere to sleep for the day. Others thought of my act as betrayal and disobedience towards the United States and the president. When morning came the family found the strength to leave and to keep walking towards their journey. It’s

The American Indians are also known as Native Americans who are present within the United States and comprise varying ethnic groups and tribes and hold distinctive attributes which makes them different from the white Americans who are present in the society of the United States. The immigration to the US started from the 15th century due to which the society of the United States was seen to be holding distinctive tribes and immigrants who formed groups in the US and started achieving recognition in the US society.