The Southern Native Americans

The Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians are indigenous of parts of the Southeastern United States. They have members all the way south as Georgia and are spread out across the Appalachian mountain trail in both North and South Carolina and stretching across into Tennessee. The land in which each tribe is from has a particular way is shaping how they live and defines the important aspects of that culture. In the Eighteenth Century the Cherokee Indians were one of the most heavily populated Indian societies in the Southeastern United States. These Indians have many unique political and spiritual ideas and world views.

The federal government's cylical policy towards native Americans evidences the fact that the melting pot did not apply to them. Fort he majority of the period from 1871 to 1969 the federal government attempted to, and failed to, assimilate native Americans. This can be seen in the 1871 reservation policy and the stepping up of policy in the 1887 Dawes Act, more exteme because it continued the policies of post 1871 reservation policy, but also

It is important to learn about our histories regions so that we can understand their Culture, Economic Growth, Tribes,where they lived, and how they survived. Three regions are located in North America are California, Eastern Woodlands and Great Plains. Along with the three regions are also three indigenous tribes, The Shoshones from California, The Iroquois from Eastern Woodlands and the Mandans from Great Plains California is Along the Pacific Coast of North America and It extends down to baja California. California’s Climate depends on the elevation, the Southern part of California is hot, dry, more droughts type of climate and in the Northern part is more wet, moist, and rainy. The South were hunters and gatherers who hunted for fish like salmon, and meat like deer.

The northern tribes used bones and deer antlers to make knives, scrapers, awls, fishing tools, whistles, and pendants. The first tribes denpended on agriculture were those that lived on the Atlantic Costal Plain. They learned how to make pottery and cloth. The cloth was woven with thread made from soft layers of splint baskets. They made musical instruments like pipers, rattles, drums, nd they were played during ruitals and ceremonies dances. They built two types of houses, long houses, and wigwams. The first type was formed by bending poles into a cone or dome shape and by tying the poles together with vines. The frame was covered with woven mats, bark, or hide . These people grew corn, squash, beans, pumpkins, and tobacco.

The Apalachee were a group of farming Indians who inhabited Northwest Florida ever since around one thousand A.D. The Apalachee were concentrated around the present day city of Tallahassee, the capital of Florida. In this essay, the diet, traditions, family life, clothing, government, architecture and more about the Apalachee Indians will be explored. A precis of their timeline in the Florida panhandle will also be examined.

Just like locals somewhere else in North America, those in the South working on moving occasional subsistence, adjusting their eating methodologies and nourishment gathering procedures to comply with the evolving seasons. In spring, a season which brought gigantic keeps running of shad, alewives, herring, and mullet from the sea into the waterways, Indians in Florida and somewhere else along the Atlantic beach front plain depended on fish brought with nets, lances, or snares and lines. In fall and winter—particularly in the piedmont and uplands—the locals swung more to deer, tolerate, and other diversion creatures for sustenance. Since they required diversion creatures in amount, Indians regularly set light ground flames to make brushy edge

The Comanche Tribe is made up of brilliant horsemen who took control of the Southern Plains. They are most known for playing a large role in Texas frontier during most of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Although the Comanche’s lived near the upper reaches of the Platte River in eastern Wyoming, they later established themselves from western Oklahoma to the Texas Panhandle into New Mexico. Today, currently 5,000 Comanche’s live near Lawton, Oklahoma; their tribal headquarters.

A consequence of the first contact was that many Europeans had brought disease into the world. “Before 1492 Native Americans had never been exposed to smallpox, measles, malaria, or yellow fever”. Europeans lived in close proximity to animals that acted as disease victims and suffered outbreaks more than once. Native Americans didn’t have immunity with the diseases because they never had experienced what europeans were diagnosed as childhood diseases. Native Americans that got smallpox, measles, influenza, chicken pox, and typhoid had high fevers and ended up dying quickly. “In some cases, people who were sick may have otherwise survived if provided with basic care.” The First Nations weren’t prepared with quality health care during this time

Imagine a person bought something that the person valued. The person was the owner of the product and took good care of it.Then, all of a sudden, a stranger comes and takes that product and declares it “discovered”. Now since the stranger “discovered” it, the product now has to be shared among them. This is similar to what happened to Native Americans in North America. Native Americans owned and lived in North America for several thousand years. Then, all of a sudden, European explorers came to North America and claimed the land “discovered”. Europeans started moving into the land and later, started sharing the land. Encounters between Europeans and Native Americans in the colonial era led to the exchange of diseases with Native Americans,

The people dwelt in "towns" located in scattered autonomous tribal areas related by kinship throughout the southern Appalachian region.

After the readings and discussions this week on Native Americans, the information conflicts with my previous knowledge.

At the start of 1830s, about 125000 Native Americas were living on more than 25 million acres of land on Tennessee, Georgia, North Carolina, Alabama, and Florida, the region that would be referred to as the Deep South. However, by the end of the decade, only a few of these Native Americans remained in this region . While following the interests of the white settlers, who wanted to cultivate cotton on Indian Lands, president Jackson and the federal government forced the natives to vacate their homeland and have thousands miles walk to a designated “Indian territory” which was at the west of the Mississippi river. The journey and the route that they travelled was hindered with many adverse and sometime deadly challenges and it came to be referred to as the trail of tears from the Cherokee phrase “Nunna daul Tsuny” that directly translates into “The Trail Where They Cried” . This Population transfer led to the removal of many members of the tribes that did not want to assimilate into the European lifestyles.

The Cherokee tribe is known as one of the earliest and largest Indian tribe in North America. They are federally recognized even today among several states(museum). While they slowly became Americanized by the Europeans who came over to America, some still practice their typical Indian rituals publicly today. Most converted to Christianity and their government in Oklahoma is based off the American government with three branches. One would believe that the Trail of Tears could have completely vanquished these Indians but many made it through the horrendous trial and kept the Indian bloodline going even present day (Conley).

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.

Saskatchewan was focused upon in this essay for two reasons. The first being that the author had lived in that province for the majority of time they have been in Canada and so is more familiar with the various customs and cultures that exist in the place. The second reason is that the natives have lived on this land for tens of thousands of years, hence an incredible amount of diversity exists among the cultures here . The two cultures focused upon in this essay are the Cree and the Lakota.