Cherokees and Creeks

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Cherokees and Creeks

• A view into their history

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Cherokees

• The Cherokees houses were made of rivercane and
  plaster.
• Chiefs were men and landowners were women.
• War chiefs were men, but the peace chief could be
  a woman.

3
Sequoyah

• Sequoyah created the Cherokee syllabary, which
  enabled the Cherokees to read, write, record
  their laws, and publish newspapers in their own
  language.

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Cherokees

• During the 1800s the US government created an
  Indian Territory in Oklahoma.
• In 1839, US troops expelled the Cherokee from
  their ancestral homeland in the Southeast to this
  Indian Territory.
• This was known as the Trail of Tears.

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Creeks

• The Creek Indians often fought with the Cherokee
  Indians.
• The Creeks formed the Creek Confederacy as a
  defense.
• They lived in an area near the Ocmulgee Creek.

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Creek Indians

• The Creeks homes were also built of rivercane and
  plaster.
• When the Creek population reached about 400-600
  people they would split and half would move to a
  nearby site.

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Creek Removal

• Creeks avoided the American revolution, but their
  lives changed afterwards.
• Georgia viewed the Creeks as impediments to the
  expansion of slavery.
• In the Treaties of New York(1790), Fort
  Wilkinson(1802), and Washington(1805) the Creeks
  ceded their lands east of the Ocmulgee River.

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Creek Removal

• The Treaty of Indian Springs of 1825, is when
  Georgia agents bribed Creek leader William
  McIntosh to sign away all Creek territory in
  Georgia.
• The Creeks were furious with the Creek leader and
  put McIntosh to death for his treachery.

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Research

• Using the websites listed we will now research
  more about the Cherokee and Creek Indians on the
  internet.
• Then we will create a graphic organizer on
  Inspiration listing the details that we learned
  about them.
• Finally we will create a Venn diagram using
  Inspiration that compares and contrast these
  Native American cultures.