...My great grandfather was part Cherokee Indian. Cherokee Indians have a very unique culture and that culture they have built has been from other culture’s influences. They have traditions and customs that they hold close and practice still to this day. I am going to go into detail about their dances and everything that goes a long with it such as music and their costumes. The Cherokee have many traditional dances, ancient, modern, religious, social and there are some that are no longer practiced. The stomp dance is the most important of all. The stomp dance ritual occurs throughout a time span of a whole day. They prepare for the dance all day long. Creating a fire, cooking food, give sermons, and play stickball, a game resembling...
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...Cherokee is pronounced"CHAIR-uh-kee." It comes from a Muskogee word meaning speakers of another language. Cherokee Indians originally called themselves Aniyunwiya "the principal people," but today they accept the name Cherokee,which is spelled and pronounced Tsalagi in their own language. The Cherokees are original residents of the American Southeast region, particularly Georgia, North and South Carolinia, Virginia, Kentucky and Tennessee. Most Cherokees were forced to move to Oklahoma in the 1800's along the Trail of Tears. Descendants of the Cherokee Indians who survived this death march still live in Oklahoma today. Some Cherokees escaped the Trail of Tears by hiding in the Appalachin hills or taking shelter with sympathetic white neighbors. The descendants of these people live scattered throughout the original Cherokee Indian homelands. Trail of Tears was the Cherokee name for what the Americans called Indian Removal. During the 1800's, the US government created an "Indian Territory" in Oklahoma and sent all the Eastern Native American tribes to live there. Some tribes willingly agreed to this plan. Other tribes didn't want to go, and the American army forced them. The Cherokee tribe was one of the largest tribes, and they didn't want to leave their homeland. Thousands of Cherokee Indians died on the Trail of Tears. Many Native Americans from other tribes died too. Cherokee hunters used bows and arrows or blowguns too shoot game. Fishermen generally used...
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...The Cherokee people are derived from the region of the country within the Blue Ridge and Smoky Mountains. They have claims to homelands within the states of West Virginia, Virginia, Tennessee, South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Kentucky. These states have river Valleys, mountains and swamp with a climate that was hot and humid in the summer and mild in the winter. The main point of the homeland being the Blue Ridge which is sometimes applied solely to the eastern edge of the Appalachian Mountains, the geological definition of the Blue Ridge province spreads westward to the Ridge and Valley area; The Blue Ridge encompasses also far north as Pennsylvania. The blue Ridge is also contained with the greater Smoky Mountains. They did have access to many unique foods that would go onto to change the basis of their cooking which in turn changes their culture. Food is a main aspect of culture that you cannot unentwined from each other. Any pre-contact culture that the Cherokee would have had would have been solely based on their access to different types of foods, and how that access lead to the establishment of culture through the easy access to said foods. This culture was put to the test when the Indian Removal act was passed after gold...
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...The Cherokee Indians used weapons for many different reasons. Some Major weapons were the hammer,Tomahawk, Darts, Blowguns, Battle axes, and spears. Each had a unique way of being made and used (cherokee.org). The Cherokee used the battle hammer for battle, The regular hammer was used to forge arrowheads and other tools. They were made from rocks of the correct overall shape by sharping one edge and grinding a binding groove around the stone using other, harder stones. They also used battle axes, which ranged from roots of trees or sharpened stones attached to a branch (cherokee.org). To Sharpen the stones they used a hammer or a sharpening stone. To bind the sharpened stone to the handle they used raw hide. They used a blowgun that was about...
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...The person that I picked to talk about is Chief Doublehead. My grandma told me that Doublehead was my ancestor. Chief Doublehead was born in 1744. Doublehead was a warrior in the Cherokee Indian Tribe. He had a brother that was named Pumpkin Boy. The Indians and the Americans were at war with each other. It was in 1791 when Doublehead, Dragging Canoe, Bloody Fellow, Lying Fawn, John Watts, and Little Turkey signed a treaty to end the battles. Something very important happened in 1793 that was horrible. Doublehead, Pumpkin Boy, and Bench ambushed two Americans in Kentucky. They all scalped them. After they were done scalping them, they stripped the flesh off their bones, roasted it and ate it. Something else that happened later that year was...
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...The forced removal of the Cherokee Indians from their own homeland to the middle of America was barbaric and disgusting. The starting point was the capture of men in their fields, along the road, or in the middle of the road. They took women off their spinning wheels and snatched children from playing. The fiery red flames burned the Cherokee homes to the ground in front of their very own eyes. Eyewitness testimonies claimed that it was worse than the civil war, and the civil war had people shot to pieces and slaughtered. After that, the authorities enclosed the Cherokee Indians in camps after they surrendered. On June 6, they jammed 800 Cherokee Indians into six float boats. After surviving the rocky passage, a few Cherokee Indians escaped...
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...Mr. P believes he deserved to be hit in the face for what he did to the Indians. Mr. P feels that every white person, and all the Indians on the reservation (rez) should get smashed in the face, for what they have done to the Indians – they beat the rowdy Indians up, and they tried to kill Indian culture. They were supposed to make the Indians give up being Indian. Their songs, stories, language, dancing and everything. Junior was shocked because Mr. P was furious. 4. Junior burst into tears because he feels that he did not deserve better, and he did not feel smart. So he did not want to say it out loud, because he felt that it was all a lie. And when Mr. P says ‘‘you are a good kid. You deserve the world.’’ Junior wanted to cry, but he did not. Afterwards Mr. P nagged on Junior to say it out loud. It was the last straw; Junior could not take it anymore so he started to cry. 5. Rowdy is so aggressive because Rowdy’s dad hits him. Mr. P says in the book...
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...Woman of Color Project on Wilma Mankiller My presentation is on Wilma Mankiller, the Cherokee Nations first female Indian Chief Can a young Cherokee girl grow up to be a Chief? Before Wilma Mankiller grew up to be her tribe’s chosen leader many Indian girls believed that answer to be no. Wilma had a lot to overcome personally in order to be a leader as Wilma was a shy and quiet person who didn’t like to speak in public or talk in front of a camera. One day while driving along the reservation, Wilma saw something that changed her mind. Looking at the plight of her people from an outsiders view, Wilma decided she needed to do something to help her people become the great people she knew they could become. Overcoming her shyness, Wilma set out to campaign her way to deputy chief a step just below Chief. Why wouldn’t she win? It wasn’t easy for Wilma in the beginning. Many Cherokees didn’t want to be governed by a woman; only “good ole boys” could run the Cherokee Nation. Even though Indian women had always been medicine women, warriors and council members, basically having equal rights to the men, people were talking behind her back and not happy with a woman becoming chief. She had to endure slashed tires and even death threats. Wilma believed sexism was the white man’s culture and it was creeping into the Indian culture. She set out to prove them wrong. When Wilma was only ten, her whole family was relocated to California as part of a Federal Government’s...
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...Apache Indians The Apache Indian tribes have gone thru many changes thru the years. Most every area of their lives have been affected and changed. How, when, and where they live has changed a lot over the years. In the past, their ways were the very set, and the same for many years. Now like most Americans, their ways have changed, they are not as structured, and they have changes frequently. Many Apache Indians now live in the Midwest. They live in Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas, but they did not always live there. Some of the Apache Indians have had to move across the border into New Mexico. The Plains Apache Indians live in what is now Oklahoma, but their traditions are different from the other tribes. Many Plains Apaches got captured by the other Apache Indians tribes. The Apache Indian population today is about 30,000 Indians. Currently, there are 13 different Apache tribes in the U.S, in 5 different states. The Apache Indians must obey American law enforcement because they do not live on Indian reservations, which means they are legal American...
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...Cherokee Indian Tribe Robert W. Dockett SOC/262 October 6, 2015 Veretta Nix Cherokee Indian Tribe The Cherokee Indian Tribe has a long and rich standing in North America. The Cherokee Indians were one of the first non-European ethnic groups to become citizens of the United States. The Cherokee tribes have dealt with attempts to relocate them to less desirable lands in North America along with being in wars such as the French and Indian War, and Cherokee-American Wars. Cherokee tribes were quick to latch on to European and American ideologies and used them to their benefit. The Cherokee Nation has been a large part of the Native American tradition in North America. The Cherokee Indian Tribe has dealt with their fair shares of ups and downs in the United States. It is believed that the Cherokee Indians were originally settled in the Great Lakes region of North America, and then migrated south. They did so knowing that there were other Iroquoian-speaking tribes in the south. Early Cherokee Indians were primarily found in what is now Georgia, Tennessee, North and South Carolina. In the 1830’s the Indian Removal Act forced many Cherokee Indians into Oklahoma and Arkansas. Today the Cherokee Nations headquarters is in Tahlequah, Oklahoma. There are also satellite communities within the Cherokee nation, many of them being in the southern states in North America. This resulted due to the forced relocation of the Cherokee Indians. In the 1800’s many different Indian tribes...
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...several other individuals were found multiple times within the Cherokee nation without a license and they also didn’t take the oath to support and defend the constitution and laws of the State of Georgia. Worchester opposed the laws because he didn’t believe that Georgia could not maintain the prosecution of the Cherokee nation because it violated the constitution and treaties between the US and the Cherokee nation. (oyez.org) Samuel Worchester is a native or Vermont and was a minister with the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions. The board sent Worchester on a mission in the Cherokee nation in Brainerd, Tennessee. He was then transferred to the capital city of New Ecota in Georgia where he was tasked with...
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...| The Cherokee Tribe “The Principal People” | HIST105 | | Christy Price | 2/10/2013 | | The Cherokee Tribe “The Principal People” The word Cherokee, which is pronounced CHAIR-uh-kee, comes from a Muskogee word meaning ‘speakers of another language’. Cherokee Indians, pronounced Tsalagi in their own language, originally called themselves Aniyunwiya, "the principal people," but today they accept the name Cherokee. There are 350,000 Cherokee people that still exist today, mostly living in Oklahoma and North Carolina. Most Cherokee do speak English but there are still 20,000 that also speak their native Cherokee Indian language. The Cherokees were peaceful allies of the Americans and the white settlers called the Cherokee, as well as, the Creek, Chickasaw, Choctaw, and Seminole “The Five Civilized Tribes”, probably because these tribes were early converts to Christianity. The five tribes never considered themselves part of an alliance and did not call themselves the Civilized Tribes in their own languages. The Cherokee Indians adopted the customs, laws and religion of the white settlers and many became prosperous merchants, traders, teachers, writers and tribal statesmen. The Cherokees were one of the largest Native American tribes who settled in the American Southeast portion of the country. The Cherokee Tribe “The Principal People” "The Principle People", as they were sometimes called, originated with seven brothers in eastern Asia, from which came the...
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...Johanna Perez The Long March It began in 1838 a long line of Cherokee Indians Trudged through the Georgia countyside. These Native Americans were heading for the Indian Territory in Oklahoma. It was not the Cherokees that chose to make, this long, difficult and kaotic trip. The U.S government forced them out of their homes and set them on this long and disturbing journey. A few Indians traveled by water. Most traveled by land. Woman carried their babies and the sick and elderly traveled by wagons. In fact A gentleman by the name of George Hicks led one of the cherokee groups in fact before departing he sent a letter to the leader of the departing cherokees and stated that it was with great sorrow that they were being forced by the white man out of the state away from home were they were born and raised and sent him a farewell.The trip to the Indian territory took about six months. They were about sixteen thousand cherokees that marched through the rain, snow, and bitter cold. Traveling about one thousand {text:soft-page-break} miles away. Traveling without food, clothing,or shelter. How horrific it was for the four thousand people that died on this route and in doing so never had a proper burial they had to be buried in shallow unmarked graves. Having to bury forteen and fifteen people at every stop. How? We ask the U.S could not be bothered to share America's riches with a different race which whom they viewed as inferior and ...
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...Indian Removal Act The United States of America found gold in Georgia in 1838. This was found on the Cherokee’s ancestral land. Andrew Jackson, who was the president of the United States at the time, ordered all of the Cherokees to move to territory that is now Oklahoma. In 1831, the Cherokee nation sought a federal injunction against laws passed by the state of Georgia depriving them of their rights within its boundaries. The Supreme Court didn’t hear the case. They ruled that it had no original jurisdiction in the matter, as the Cherokee was a dependent nation. In 1832, the United States had forced the Choctaw tribe to move west. In 1833, the Choctaw completed their move west. In 1834, the Bureau of Indian Affairs had the responsibility of trading with the tribes. In 1835, The Treaty of New Echota, which ceded Cherokee land to the United States was signed on December 29, 1836. This also provided the legal basis for the Trail of...
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...of these Indians died of disease, famine, and warfare. The Indian tribe was called the Cherokee and we call this event the Trail of Tears. As you will soon learn, it is one of the most brutal and racist events to happen in America. The Trail of Tears happened when Hernando De Soto took his adventures to America. After he came to America more and more Europeans came and began to invade on Indian land. The Indians became lost in bewilderment and anger. Some tribes didn’t feel this way until later on, for some helped the new comers win wars during the colonial periods. Often when the Indians’ side lost the war, the Indians would have to give...
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