Cherokees

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Cherokees

• By
• Matia F.

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Physical Features

• Cherokees live near the Smoky Mountains.

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Climate

• When it rains, it gets colder in the winter.
• The climate changes.
• In the summer, it is warm.

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Plants

• Cherokees eat plants like mushrooms, berries,
  nuts, and corn.

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Animals

• Cherokees have a herd of buffalos.
• Cherokees see amazing deer.
• Cherokees have birds that sing like opera people.
  

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Clothing

• Cherokees wore moccasins.
• Women wore wraparound skirts.
• Cherokees killed animals to make their clothing.

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Food

• Cherokees eat yummy corn bread.
• They eat deer, and they eat little squirrels too.
• Cherokees eat all kinds of nuts.
• Cherokees used bows and arrows and blow guns to
  get their food.

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Winter Shelter-Asi

• The roofs are made out of reeds.
• The houses are shaped like a cone.
• They had thick mud walls to keep it warm.

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Summer shelter

• It is made out of logs with tall skinny grass.
• The grass was covered with layers of mud.
• The door was made with deerskin.
• It had a fire place in the center of the house.

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Family Life

• Festivals were held every year.
• These festivals celebrated important events.

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European Influence

• Thousands of Cherokees died on The Trail of
  Tears.
• The Trail of Tears was the Cherokees name for
  what the Americans called Indian removal.

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Cherokees Today

• Many Cherokees live in Oklahoma.
• Others live on traditional lands in North and
  South Carolina, Georgia, Tennessee, and Alabama.

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Other

• A person named Sequoyah helped Cherokees learn to
  read and write in their own language.