The Cherokees are original residents of the American
southeast region. Particularly Georgia, North
and South Carolina ,Virgina ,Kentucky,
and Tennessee .Most Cherokees were forced to
move to Oklahoma.
LOCATION OF MY TRIBE
It comes from a Muskogee word meaning speaker of
another language. Talladega was an Indian name it meant border town.
Cherokee Indians originally called themselves
Aniyunwiya the principal people.
NAME
Cherokee tribal councils and chiefs can be either gender and are popularly elected ,
like senators and governors.
GOVERNMENT
There are three federally recognized Cherokee tribes
the Cherokee nation of Oklahoma, the United
Keetoowah band in Oklahoma, and the eastern band of Cherokee in North
Carolina.
NATIVE ALABAMIAN LIFE
The Cherokee Indians lived in settled villages, usually
located near a river. Cherokee houses were made
of river cane and plaster with thatched roofs.
HOMES
Cherokee men wore breechcloths and leggings.
Cherokee women wore wraparound skirts and
poncho-style blouses made out of woven fiber or
deerskin. The Cherokees wore moccasins on there
feet.
APPEARANCE
The Cherokees were farming people. Cherokee woman harvested crops of corn, beans, squash, and
sunflowers. They also gathered berries, nuts and fruit to eat. Cherokee men
hunted deer, and wild turkeys.
FOODS
The Cherokee Indians used to make long dugout canoes from hollowed out logs out
logs. Over lands, the Cherokees used dogs as
pack animals. There were no horses in North America until colonists brought them
over from Europe
TRANSPORTATION
Cherokee hunters used bows and arrows or
blowguns to shoot game . Fisherman generally used spears and fishing poles . Warriors fired arrows or
fought with a melee weapon like a tom hawk or spear.
WEAPONS
Traditional Cherokee art included pipe carving, river cane baskets, gourd art, and
pottery. After moving to Oklahoma, the Cherokees couldn't get the materials they used for traditional
crafts, so they concentrated on other crafts like
beadwork and textile arts.
ARTS AND CRAFTS
Most Cherokee people speak English today, but 20,000 people also speak
the Cherokee Indian language. Cherokee is a
complex language with soft sounds. If you’d like to know
a few easy Cherokee “ osiya” is a friendly greeting,
and “ wado” means thank you.
LANGUAGE
They had the first new moon of spring ceremony was the
first and the ripe corn ceremony, the green corn ceremony, and the great
new moon the last ceremony was the bounding bush
ceremony.
TRADITIONS AND RITUALS
There are many traditional Cherokee legends and fairy tales. Story- telling is very important to the Cherokee Indian Culture. Here is a legend. There was this
couple they got mad at each other the woman said she
was never coming back the man began to get worried
he went looking.
LEGENDS
I think they left behind some pottery, names, weapons. I think they left behind there
belongings.
WHAT MY TRIBE LEFT BEHIND