The Cherokee TribeBy: Tabatha T.

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Important EventsIn History

Role in Revolutionary War

Interesting Facts Bibliography

DAILY LIFE• The food that the Cherokee ate was corn, squash, beans, deer, elk, fox, bear, and fish.• The Cherokee held many feasts and dances.•Their houses were round, dome shaped, made of wood and covered in mud.

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CUSTOMS & RELIGIONThe Cherokee religion

honored nature.Shamans were religious

leaders and they could also heal people with plants and herbs.

Some Cherokee would wear or sleep on animal skins hoping to gain that animal’s skills.

The Cherokee had many ceremonies.

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IMPORTANT HISTORICAL EVENTSThe Cherokee were

moved to Oklahoma on the Trail of Tears. The Trail of Tears is the trail that the soldiers directed the Cherokee to go to Oklahoma. It is called the Trail of Tears because many Cherokee died on the long journey to Oklahoma.

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ROLE IN REVOLUTIONARY WAR The Cherokee

sided with Britain in the French and Indian War.

After the war was over the colonists were still mad at the Cherokee for siding with Britain.

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INTERESTING FACTSThe Cherokee was one of

the largest Indian tribes.

There are seven clans of the Cherokee tribe and each child is a part of the mother’s tribe.

Each clan has a chief and six other men that run the tribe and make laws

Boys learn to hunt and girls learn to plant, cook, and make clothing.

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BIBLIOGRAPHYWorks CitedTabatha “Cherokee.” EMusuem@Mimmesota State University. N.p., n.d.

Web. 5 Feb. 2011. <http://mnsu.edu/ emuseum/ cultral/ northamerica/ cherokee.html>.

Coates, Julia M. “Cherokee Indians.” World Book Online. 2011. World Book Online Reference Center. Web. 5 Feb. 2011. <http://wordbookonline.com/ student/ article?id=ar108980&st=thetcherokee#backtotop>.

Lund, Bill. The Cherokee Indians. Mankato: Capstone , 1997. Print.McCall, Barbara A. The Cherokee. Vero Beach: Rourke Publications

inc., 1989. Print.Todd, Anne M. The Cherokee. Mankato: Brigestone, 2003. Print.Williams, Suzanne Morgan. Cherokee Indians. Chicago: Heinemann

Library, 2003. Print.

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