THE CHEROKEE INDIANS Richard T. McLamb Jr. American InterContinental University Abstract The following pages will talk about the Cherokee Indian Tribe. It will talk about some of the events that occurred before the first Americans arrived from Europe. I will also talk about things that happened to the tribe after the fact of the Americans arriving. It talks about some of the events that involved the Americans push for more land and the effect it had on the Cherokee. It also tells of one historical
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Bilal Daoudi Professor: Mr. David Carter Class: ENG111 123A FA13 Date: 09/11/13 The Cherokee Tribes During a recent trip to Lake Lure in western North Carolina, I was taking a boat ride with my fiancée and her family and we were sharing many stories. When her mother, Martha, tried to show us the Great Smoky Mountains on the west side, she mentioned the Cherokee tribes where her ancestors used to live as the Native Americans who inhabited North America before the settlers came from Europe
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CHEROKEE INDIANS “They took the whole Cherokee Nation…” by Miya Oliver 4th Grade Saint Agnes School I picked the Cherokee Indians to do my research paper on and when I was looking for stories about them we (me and my dad) found some good things. When we searched we saw a lot of good pictures. We saw some good stories and a sad story about these Indians. |The Cherokee Indians that I picked were of the Southeast part of the North American Continent and were known as the Cherokee |
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were forced to leave their home in Southeast Georgia and move to the new Indian Territory in moderate-day Oklahoma. People in Georgia continued to take American lands and force both Cherokee Indians and Creek Indians out of Georgia. By 1825 the Lower Creek was completely gone. In 1827 the Creek was gone. In 1838, the Cherokees were the fifth major tribe to be forced to relocate to Indian Territory. More than 15,000 Indians were forced out by the U.S. Army. The name of the other five tribes that were
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