The Cherokee Native American Tribe

The law was passed that all Natives had to leave. Cherokees believed even if they stayed they would still have to deal with all the troublesome White neighbors, therefore their best option was to leave. There was nothing they could do because the whites were too powerful as said in doc 5. “It is argued that they can never remain quiet where they are;n that they will always be infested by troublesome whites; and that the states, which lay claim their territory, will always preserve in measures to vex and annoy them.” The Natives didn’t understand why the white people wanted them gone so bad, because the white people tried so hard to change the Natives culture to make them act like the white people. The Natives changed they way they acted, worked, and how they looked. In doc 7 it says “ The Cherokees have been reclaimed from their wild habits. Instead of hunters, they have become the cultivators of the soil instead of wild and ferocious savages, thirsting for blood, they become the mild “citizens.” The Cherokees were really upset, because not only were they leaving what had now become their norm they were also leaving their land which had been passed down through their family. The Cherokees started a petition to the United States asking for them to fulfill their treaty they had made. In doc 9. It says “ Cherokee people used no violence but humbly petitioned the Government of the United States for a fulfillment of treaty

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.

Like the Oneida, the Cherokee men were the hunters and the women were the farmers. Although the women did most of the farming, the entire Cherokee community would come together to plant and harvest the big fields of corn, pumpkins, beans, gourds, and potatoes. The women would keep personal gardens outside their homes to have fast growing corn and other produce that they could quickly use to make a meal. The Cherokee were famous for the many dishes that they made with corn. They made breads, soups, used corn as a side dish, and used it in stew. Corn was a necessity in the Cherokee community.

The geographies of the Iroquois and Cherokee tribes are alike in multiple ways. For instance, the Iroquois lived in the Northeast region; they lived in New York and near Ontario River, Canada and along the Saint Lawrence River. The Cherokee tribe lived in the Southeast region and in parts of Georgia, North Carolina, and South Carolina, mostly. This means that both the Cherokee and the Iroquois tribes lived in the East. Additionally, the Iroquois tribe got around by walking and using canoes. The Cherokee tribe travelled on foot, wagons, and boats. This shows that both tribes walked and used boats to transport themselves from place to place. In summary, the geographies of the Iroquois and Cherokee are similar in a numerous amount of ways.

The Cherokees had lived in the interior southeast, for hundreds of years in the nineteenth century. But in the early eighteenth century setters from the European ancestry started moving into the

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.

To start off, most people figure that the Cherokee Indians lived in tee-pees, but they did not. They lived in homes built out of mud and other materials around. By the 1700s they lived in cozy log cabins that they had built themselves. Although most of them lived in cabins, a tiny population lived in clapboard houses. Other than the help from Sweden, the log cabins you and me see in the Untied States of America in our daily life 's originated from the Cherokee Indians! Isn 't that cool?!

In 1830, congress passed President Andrew Jacksons Indian Removal Act. This policy allowed the United States government to extinguish the Cherokee, Chickasaws, Choctaws, Creeks, Seminole and many other tribes title to their land. The Indians had to leave the land and life they had always known in the Southeastern United States behind. This disturbing event was named the Trail of Tears because many Native Americans died during the process of marching to an area west of the Mississippi River due to disease, starvation, and the long journey.

One famous Indian tribe is the Cherokee. The Cherokee are original residents of the American southwest region, but now they occupy most of Oklahoma.There are three recognized Cherokee tribes. Most Cherokee people speak English today, but many still speak the Cherokee language. Children had jobs to do after school just like men and women had their own jobs. Many Cherokee Indians died when president Andrew Jackson forced them to leave their homes in Georgia. In the following essay I will be talking about the Cherokee life before,during,and after the Westward Expansion.

To continue, the Cherokee mostly originated in the southeast region. For example Georgia, North and South Carolina, Virginia,Kentucky, and Tennessee. Along the Trail of Tears the Cherokee was made to move to Oklahoma. In order for the Cherokee to escape the Trail of

     The Cherokees lived in the valleys of rivers that drained the southern Appalachians (Perdue, 1). The British first came into Cherokee country in 1700. They came for two major reasons: deerskins and war captives. They brought guns and ammunition, metal knives, hoes, hatchets, fabrics, kettles, rum, and trinkets. They took the Cherokee and made them slaves. The British built two

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.

This torturous trend did not stop with the settlers. Even the American government that had previously promised, through the words of American founders like Thomas Jefferson, to protect the Indians, treated the Indians cruelly. For example, President Andrew Jackson’s vision for America was not accommodative of the Native American. His policies were notorious for punishing the Cherokee community especially the most assimilated and civilized members. The American government made and broke all the vows it made to the Cherokee community concerning the protection of the native people and their lands. By 1838, the American government was not even attempting to make vows of friendship. Instead, it gave the Cherokee the choice of voluntarily leaving their productive lands or facing a forced eviction. This ultimatum set pace for what was to become a Trail of

The Federal government forced the Indians tribes from their native lands and had to live on reservations. According to history in the 1830s, President Andrew Jackson moved five civilized tribes, the Cherokee, Choctaw, Creek, Chickasaw, and the Seminole tribes from their lands. Several surrender for peace because of unfavorable conditions they faced along the way such as starvation, diseases and weather. On the other hand, the Crow allied with the United States, other tribes stayed and fought for the land. A case in point, the Nez tribe tried fleeing to Canada never succeed. The Cherokees suffered hunger, exhaustion and diseases along their way, and that path known as “Trail of Tears.” Cherokees at the end relocated in present Oklahoma. For

A new cultural group that should appear in Peoples of the Worlds next semester, are the Cherokee, also known as Ani-Yun’wiya. The Cherokee are a Native American tribe and are part of the North American region. Artifacts that have been discovered indicate they have been living in North America for more than 11,000 years. The Cherokee Nation has a population of around 300,000 tribal members, making them one of the largest federally recognized tribes in the United States.