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Learn about the origins, culture, and contact of the Cherokee people, an Iroquoian-language tribe in the Southeastern Woodlands. Explore their written and oral traditions, archeological sites, and genealogical records.
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This article is about the Cherokee people, a North American Indian tribe of Iroquoian lineage. It provides information on their history, culture, religion and lifestyle before European colonization. The article also covers the events that took place after European colonization such as treaties with different countries, assimilation of American sett...
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North American Indians of Iroquoian lineage who constituted one of the largest politically integrated tribes at the time of European colonization. They controlled approximately 40,000 square miles (100,000 square km) in parts of present-day Georgia, eastern Tennessee, western North Carolina and South Carolina.
Bark-roofed windowless log cabins with one door and a smoke hole in roof; council house where general meetings held and sacred fire burned.
Traditional life greatly resembled that Creek tribe; composed confederacy symbolically red & white towns; cultivated corn maize), beans & squash; deer bear & elk furnished meat & clothing.
Some escaped to mountains to furnish nucleus for several thousand living in western North Carolina 21st century.
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Aug 10, 2023 · Learn about the history of the Cherokee Nation, from its original territory, contact with Europeans, land cessions, removal, and civil war to its modern status. Explore the key events, treaties, and leaders that shaped the Cherokee Nation and its culture.
Another major source of early cultural history comes from materials written in the 19th century by the didanvwisgi (ᏗᏓᏅᏫᏍᎩ), Cherokee medicine men, after Sequoyah's creation of the Cherokee syllabary in the 1820s.
The Cherokee Nation (Cherokee: ᏣᎳᎩᎯ ᎠᏰᎵ Tsalagihi Ayeli or ᏣᎳᎩᏰᎵ Tsalagiyehli), formerly known as the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma, is the largest of three federally recognized tribes of Cherokees in the United States.
Apr 29, 2020 · Learn about the Cherokee people, their origins, culture, and history from 8000 B.C. to the present. Discover how they interacted with Europeans, signed treaties, faced forced relocation, and rebuilt their nation.
Learn about the Cherokee people's connection to their ancestral homeland, their oral histories, and their land dispossessions. Explore the three Federally Recognized Cherokee tribal nations and their worldview.
