I am speaking of Cherokee Indians‚ because I have Indian in me from down the line. Cherokee Indians colonized to the United States. They are residents of the United States in the southeast region‚ such places as Georgia‚ North and South Carolina‚ Virginia‚ Kentucky‚ and Tennessee‚ but most of them were forced to move to Oklahoma in the 1800s. Cherokee Indians engaged the discriminatory policies so that the African Natives could not receive the tribal benefits and so that they wouldn’t have the
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Cherokee Tribe ANT 200 September 24‚ 2013 Samantha Carney & Amanda Vance Summary The Cherokee tribe splits up into three different tribes; Cherokee Nation‚ United Keetoowah Band of Cherokee Indians‚ and Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians. Cherokee was one of the first‚ if not the first non-European ethnic group to become US citizens. This is one of the largest groups with an estimated population of 25‚000 members. It is the largest of all of the Southern tribes. The Cherokee Nation had approximately
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The Cherokee Removal Book Review The Cherokee Removal is a brief history with documents by Theda Perdue and Michael Green. In 1838-1839 the US troops expelled the Cherokee Indians from their ancestral homeland in the Southeast and removed them to the Indian Territory in what is now Oklahoma. The removal of the Cherokees was a product of the demand for land during the growth of cotton agriculture in the Southeast‚ the discovery of gold on the Cherokees land‚ and the racial prejudice that many
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they were fighting over what land was theirs‚ what they were able to trade‚ and loyalty through the Indian tribes. The Cherokees’ had trouble keeping up their traditions and culture due to the fact that they were adapting to the white culture. Cherokee Voices first talks about the relationship between the Cherokees’ and the Anglo-Americans and how they did not get along. White men would constantly attack the Cherokees’ for their land‚ since they established in a foreign land that belonged to the
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The Cherokee a large Native American tribe that previously inhabited large areas of land in the southeast‚ specifically the lower Appalachian Mountains (Gilbert‚ 178). Currently‚ they reside in a reservation in western North Carolina‚ and two in Oklahoma‚ one of which is the largest reservation in the United States (Cherokee Ancestry). The Cherokee were a warrior society‚ often traveling as far north as Ohio‚ and as far west as the Mississippi river to wage war on other tribes (Gilbert‚ 187). The
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It is speculated that the Cherokee tribe migrated to the Southeast between the years 600 and 1000; centuries before the first regular contact with Europeans. In the years before the 1500’s‚ when the Europeans started settling in America‚ the Cherokee lived an exceptionally sedentary lifestyle with the women doing mostly farm work while the men hunted. However‚ as contact with the white Europeans grew more common‚ the Cherokee developed a sense of dependence on them for goods and a more “civilized”
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settlements were expanding westward. This threatened the Cherokee land which was located in the Southeastern part of the United States. This left the Cherokee with a big decision to make for their entire tribe. Would they relocate West ‚or stay for the White settlements to invade where they call home. After all‚ the Cherokee had owned the land for over 10‚000 years. It was not the United States’ land to take. This is why many of the Cherokee Nation felt the need to stay. Others wanted to move because
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Myths are sacred to all Native American Tribes‚ and the two popular myths for the Cherokee Indian tribe is The Creation Myth‚ which explains how the world was made‚ and the other myth is The First Fire which is about how the fire was discovered. The Cherokees are a very large and powerful American Indian tribe and has a lot of history background and interesting facts. They use their cultural myths in their day to day lives in many different ways. The creation myth is used more
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The word Cherokee comes from a Creek word "Chelokee" meaning "people of a different speech." In their own language the Cherokee called themselves the Aniyunwiya or "principal people" or the Keetoowah‚ "people of Kituhwa." The Cherokee are perhaps one of the most interesting of Native American Groups. Their life and culture are closely intertwined with early American settlers and the history of our own nation ’s struggle for freedom. In the interest of promoting tolerance and peace‚ and with
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Cherokee Way of Living In the beginning Cherokee Indians were called Aniyunwiya Indians. They were the largest Native American Tribe. They lived in southeastern North America; George‚ Kentucky‚ North Carolina‚ South Carolina‚ Virginia and Tennessee. They were very friendly. In the early 1800’s they were forced to leave George‚ Kentucky‚ South Carolina‚ Virginia and Tennessee because of President Andrew Jackson’s Indian Removal Policy. The Cherokee Indians called their journey the Trail of Tears
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