The Cherokees

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The Cherokee

• By Matthew L., Josh, Rahul, Katie

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Cherokee Homes

• The Cherokees had two homes.
• They had a winter house and summer house.
• The summer house was made of plaster with clay
  inside and out and shingled with tree bark.
• The winter house was made of wattle and daub.
• A fire burned all night and all day inside of the
  winter house.
• Several families lived inside the houses.

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The Cherokee Man

• Men would clear the fields for planting and
  cutting down trees.
• They would make houses and weapons
• The men would use spears, blow guns, bow and
  arrows to hung and fish.
• Cherokee men played stickball.
• Men had to be strong athletes to be in the game.

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The Cherokee Woman

• The women would smoke the meat, plant seeds,
  tanned the hides, make and repaired cloths, and
  care for live stock.
• They made baskets, rugs and they made mats.
• The woman could chose her husband.
• She would take care of the children and the
  house.
• The women owned the house, property and children.

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Children

• Fathers showed their sons how to hunt and fish.
• The most important person in a childs life was
  his uncle.
• For the children, childhood was a very happy
  time.

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Children

• Cherokee children were never slapped.
• Children lean about house duties by their
  mothers.
• Children play together until the age of ten.
• Children learned to respect everything.

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Clothes

• Men wore breechclouts.
• The breechclout was made of deerskin.
• The breechclout was twenty inches wide.
• It was forty inches long.
• They would tie a skinny piece of leather around
  his waist like bells.
• The woman wore skirts.
• They wore dresses made from deerskin.
• They wore blouses.

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Crafts

• Dugout canoes were made by men.
• Men also painted the canoes .They made form
  plants, bark, and clay.
• Beautiful basket were made by woman by using
  river cane and white oak.
• Woman made splint baskets made form white oak.
• They put the splints in to water to make them
  soft.

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Cherokee Language

• Sequoyah was a Cherokee. His mother was a
  Cherokee and his father was a white trader.
• In 1809, Sequoyah wrote a Cherokee alphabet that
  had 85 symbols in it.
• Sequoyah created the Cherokee Phoenix Newspaper.
  
• When he first wrote his alphabet he first taught
  his daughter
• His alphabet was a great accomplishment, the
  people could learn to read and write.

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Cherokee Flags

• The Cherokee has two flags.
• The peace flag and the National flag.
• On the Peace flag red and white stand for peace
  and war.

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Flags

• On the National flag in red letters on the white
  stripe appeared the words Cherokee Baves.
• Today employing black letters are southern
  Cherokee Nation.

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The Trail of Tears

• During 1829 gold was found and it was in Cherokee
  land.
• On May 28,1830 President Jackson passed the
  Indian Removal Act.
• All of the Cherokees were removed from their
  homes.

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The Trail of Tear

• All of their weapons were taken away.
• The were force to walk to Oklahoma. Many people
  died and many babies were born on the way.

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References

• The Cherokees by Driving Hawk Sneve
• The Cherokee by Barbara A. McCall
• The Cherokee by Herb McAmis
• The Trail of Tears by D. L. Birchfield
• The Cherokee by Lisa Sonneborn
• Cherokee by Richard M. Gaines
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• http//www.wordlink.net/Cherokee/HistoricVillage.h
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