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The Cherokees have been known for making all of their life necessities by hand using natures materials like trees, animals, and other things. The Cherokee lived in the mountains and valleys of the southern Appalachian Mountains. They moved into the area which is now present day North and South Carolina, Tennessee, northern Georgia, and Alabama. Women make clothes out of animal skin. The Cherokees grew most if not all of their food. They grow a lot things like beans, corn, squash, pumpkin, and so much more. Some people from the past called them "Aniyunwiya" which means the principal people, but they later accepted being called Cherokees which means "speakers of a different language" and pronounced "Tsalagi" in their languge. There are more than 11,000 Cherokee indians in weastern North Carolina including about 7000 on reservations. Some of the Cherokee lived in the same part of east and northeast Texas as the Caddo. The Cherokee farmed in cleared pine forests that were abandon by the Caddo. They were in contact with the Europeans for about 200 years before going to Texas. After 1800, Cherokee were remarkable for their adoption of American culture. In Oklahoma, the Cherokee joined four different tribes, the Creek, the Chickasaw, Choctaw, and Seminole. Spanish, French, and English tried to settle into southeast areas including the Cherokee area. Cherokee clothing was made mostly of animal skins.

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Dear Diary, The weather is nice today. This is good because we need more corn for our family dinner tonight. I will be going out to hunt so my wife can make some more clothes for my family. I am quite happy because we get to work as a family. Working as a family is the one thing I live for because we love each other dearly. Tonight will be an amazing night. My wife says she is excited to feast with us because she misses family time. Oh how busy she has been helping the other wives with their dinners and family clothing. That is one thing I love about her. She will give up so much so that she can make others happy. That is the sign of a true Cherokee Indian wife. I couldn't be happier with who I love and live with. My wife, my children, my family. Every thing is perfect.

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Dear Diary, WOW!! We learned a lot about this really cool group, the Cherokee Indians in school today. It’s amazing how they live. They are so intelligent and it amazes me how they build, farm, and hand make all of their every-day things. They teach their children all of this at a young age. Cherokees are just a spectacular group of people. I wish we lived like that today. Actually…I like other people making my food and every-day things. J Some things we learned are that mostly all of their clothes are made from animal skin. The men hunt the animals and skin them and the women clean the hide and sew. That is really cool that they work together to make just clothes. Everyone farms and harvest. The children, women, and men all work together so they have food to eat all year. That’s just a few facts about them. To me, just those facts by them self makes them seem really really cool. I can’t wait to learn more about them tomorrow!!!!!


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The Way of Our People. We are the people. The people who work. We work for a living. It gives us much joy. We hunt. We harvest. We work as a way to be happy. This is the way of our people. The way we live daily. The way of our people. We are Cherokee Indians. __Cherokee Indians Battle of Horseshoe Bend-1814__

Today is an important day, the Creek war was fought and a pivotal movement in Cherokee history. In this battle, about 500 Cherokee fought the Red Stick Creek. In this war, the Cherokee fought along with who was later President Andrew Jackson, during this war he was also captured. Sixteen years later in 1830, when Andrew Jackson became president, he signed an Indian Removal Act which would eventually remove the Cherokee from their land.

This was just another fight between the Americans and Indians. There was a lot of tension between the Americans and Indians, there was even tension in the tribe. The reason this is called The “Battle of the Horseshoe Bend” is because it was fought by a river. The curve was called The Horseshoe Bend.

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The Cherokee Indians are quite interesting and very creative people. The way they make everything they wear, and grow and hunt everything they eat. The wife cooks and sews while the husband hunts, skins the animal, and trades with the other families and the children harvest the corn and the rest of the garden. They are very family based and do everything with their family. They are an amazing group of people. <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;">The Cherokee people make and do all of their everyday things by hand. They teach their children to do everything they know how to do at a young age like skinning the animals, sewing, and a lot more. They wear skin from the animals they hunt as clothes. They also eat the meat from the hunted animals. They are totally based on the wild and it amazes me that they can live like this.

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<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;">Constance and Star had just met up after school. They decided to talk about their history lesson on the Cherokee Indians. Constance thinks they are cool, interesting and an awesome topic while Star thinks they are boring little people with no technology. Let’s see where their argument will lead.

<span style="color: red; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;">Constance: Hey Star. <span style="color: #7030a0; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;">Star: Hey Constance. <span style="color: red; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;">Constance: I really liked that lesson in History class today about the Cherokee Indians. <span style="color: #7030a0; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;">Star: I didn’t. That was really boring. I was literally on the verge of falling asleep right there. <span style="color: red; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;">Constance: Why do you hate EVERY History lesson?! <span style="color: #7030a0; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;">Star: Because every History lesson is boring. I mean why we have to learn about a bunch of stuff that already happened. BOOOOORRRRIIIIIINNNNGGGG! <span style="color: red; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;">Constance: But its soooo awesome because they do everything by hand. They farm, they hunt, and they sew. Its soo fascinating! <span style="color: #7030a0; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;">Star: Why don’t they just buy it from Target. SO MUCH EASIER! <span style="color: red; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;">Constance: (giving Star a dumbfound look) you’re so stupid. They did not have stores back then. That’s what makes them soo awesome. They do everything by hand and they teach it to their young so they can continue the heritage. <span style="color: #7030a0; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;">Star: Whatever. I think they it’s a boring topic. <span style="color: red; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;">Constance: You don’t think outside the box. You don’t have an open mind to new things and I think you should. If it had not been for them we would not have those people to grow the veggies we buy at the store or the animals we eat. You need to think about what they did for the world today. <span style="color: #7030a0; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;">Star: Did they really do all of that for us? <span style="color: red; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;">Constance: Yes. They were an inspiration to a lot of things we do and the things we have. <span style="color: #7030a0; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;">Star: Wow. I didn’t realize what importance they had on the society today. <span style="color: red; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;">Constance: You see? History is important. And you would know that if you could keep your head up and slob off the desk. <span style="color: #7030a0; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;">Star: Shut-up. 7th bell is a hard bell NOT to fall asleep in. <span style="color: red; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;">Constance: Now do you have an open mind to history? <span style="color: #7030a0; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;">Star: NOPE! <span style="color: red; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;">Constance: WHAT?! <span style="color: #7030a0; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;">Star: I see where you’re coming. I mean I can learn a lot from this topic but…..I still think it’s boring. Well…history I mean. The topic is fun and cool….now….but history is not. <span style="color: red; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;">Constance: If this topic is interesting…how do you know the rest won’t be? <span style="color: #7030a0; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;">Star: They might be. I guess I will have to figure out by trying not to dream about boys during the class. <span style="color: red; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;">Constance: Yeah. I think you should try that. (Giggles) <span style="color: #7030a0; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;">Star: How do you think they made their shoes? I’m looking at pictures on Google and they are like really cute! <span style="color: red; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;">Constance: I think like out of animal skin. <span style="color: #7030a0; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;">Star: Ohhh…well….that’s kinda gross…..but id still wear them because they are really cute! <span style="color: red; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;">Constance: I totally agree!!! <span style="color: #7030a0; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;">Star: How do you think they get married? <span style="color: red; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;">Constance: Probably like arranged marriage. We need to look that up. <span style="color: #7030a0; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;">Star: Ewwwww. I would never marry some creep my parents just found for me. <span style="color: red; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;">Constance: They didn’t have a choice. <span style="color: #7030a0; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;">Star: I would run away. <span style="color: red; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;">Constance: Let’s not get into another stupid argument. <span style="color: #7030a0; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;">Star: Whatever (playfully) <span style="color: red; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;">Constance: So you wanna come over today? <span style="color: #7030a0; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;">Star: After finding out we gotta do that big of an English project…..uhhhhhh YEAH! And we are working together!! <span style="color: red; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;">Constance: I know that’s right <span style="color: #7030a0; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;">!

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