Cherokee
Tribe
By: Julia Murray, Dyana Burke,
Jack Walsh, Daniel Resto, Ryan
Noia
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Table of Contents
Ge ography Ryan
Religion Daniel
Julia
Achievements Jack
Politics
Social S tructures Dyana
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THE CH ER O KE E
by Ryan Noia
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Ge o grap h y
Geography is the study of Earth’s
landscapes, peoples, places and
environments. Geography you learn a ll
sorts of information about the world
including other countries, oceans,
continents, rivers, cultures, and
governments. It’s about how the
Cherokees live in the Smoky Mountains.
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land f orms
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Cherokee lived in the Great Smoky Mountains in Tennessee,
Kentucky, North Carolina and Virginia. Some of the landforms in this area
are:
- mountains- big, steep, rocks, snow, slippery, mud, boulders
- How did they travel? Before the Europeans came and brought horses,
the Cherokee travelled by foot or by canoe. They used trails and rivers to
travel between villages. They made canoes by hollowing out large tree
logs.
Climat e
Climate is the average weather in a place over many
years. While the weather can change in just a few
hours, climate takes hundreds, thousands, even millions
of years to change.
In the Summer the climate is so warm that kids
literally didn’‛t have to wear clothes. In Winter it was
cold and men and women wore animal skins. They wore
animal fur such as bear, panther, and beaver.
Additionally, the men and women also wore moccasins.
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CHE R OKEE R E L IGI ON
By: D aniel Resto
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SP ECIAL H U NTING CE REMONIES
After they came, the C herokees hunted and traded. Everyone in the village
started doing animal dances because the hunters got plenty of food. Dance. When the
Cherokees had a bad hunt, they thought that there was something wrong with their
ceremony. The Cherokees believed that all animals have their own spirits. The C herokees
must respect the animals lives before they hunt. Hunters must pray to the animal’‛s spirit
and ask the animal god to take it’‛s life. If he/she does not pray to the spirit, he/she
would get ill. (Because animal spirits get angry and make them sick)
Different animal dances
The different animal dances were the Beaver
Dance the Bear Dance, the Racoon Dance, and
the Buffalo Hunt dance.
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WO RSHIPPING
T he C herokees were very religious. The Cherokees believed spirits created sun, moon, and
stars. The Cherokees a lso believed that eagles fire, snakes rattle, smoke, corn, crystals,
and #7 were all sacred. Priest were figured out when they were young kids, twins had a
better chance for priest. Training started when they were kids.
TH E SU PREME C H EROKEE GO D
Did you know there was a supreme C herokee god named
Yowa? A priest would say Yowa’‛s name out loud because Yowa
was so sacred.
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C CHEROKEE ELEBRATIONS
F estivals were held every year. Festivals celebrated important seasonal
events.The dances are the green corn dance, the booger dance, and the chief
dance. To make an enemy look foolish, men would roam into a Public Social house.
Other men would wear masks and costumes and goof off in front of their child
and they would figure out which one is their father. Women would wear leg
rattles made of tortoise shells and move around in a circle. There were two
ceremonies: a friendship ceremony, and a ripe corn ceremony
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IL LNESS
If a Cherokee got ill, they thought it was because the illness came from animal
spirits making them ill. (If you hurt them or kill them) Your Mother or Grandmother
would take care of you if you were very ill. Your Mother would call a C herokee v illage
medicine man If the sickness does not go away.
DI D YOU KN OW?
The C herokees had 400 plants that
have special healing powers. They would
send you into a coffin if you die.
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Cherokee Achievements
By: Julia Murray
Transportation
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Food
Men and boys would do the Cherokee women and girls Men and boys would do
the fishing. Cherokee
hunting. They would hunt would harvest the crops. They Tribes did their fishing in
lakes, streams and rivers.
deer, bear, wild turkey and grew corn, pumpkins, beans, The fishermen
would use bone hooks or
small game. Hunters would squash, sunflowers, potatoes, box traps.
use bows and arrows, persimmons, mushrooms, and
spears, blowguns and darts. berries.
MORE ABOUT FISH
Fishermen had another way to fish. First, they would make a dam in the
stream. Then, they would use horse-chestnut juice to put the fish to sleep. They would
put the horse-chestnut juice in the water.The fishermen would wade into the water
and pick up the fish that they needed. After they got the fish, they would knock the
dam down. The running water was what woke the fish up then the fish could swim
away.
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Weapons *vs* Tools
WEAPONS
This is a spear. Hunters
(males) used this weapon to
kill big game animals like
deer and bear.
TOOLS
These are arrowheads. Men and
boys used arrowheads for
hunting and fishing. The
arrowheads are made by
chipping away at rocks to make
them a pointed shape.
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Transportation
How did you get around the water?
*O siyo (oh-sy-yo)! My name is Adahy
(a-dah-he). I make canoes for the tribe.
First, I cut down a tree. I need a thick
tree to make a canoe. Then I burn the
inside, in the middle, just enough for the
fishermen to sit in. I make the canoes big
enough to hold fifteen to twenty-two
fishermen.
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How Did You Get Around Land?
*G aliheli t sidenalv (Gol-i-ellie) (sid-en-olv)! My
name is Nanye- Hi (Non- yay- hi) I am always
walking around. That is pretty much the only
way that we can get around land. I walk
around the village to collect food. My son is
Adahy, the one who makes the canoes. He
also has to walk around the forest to get the
wood for canoes.
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Home s
Summer Homes Winter Homes
Your summer home Your winter home was
was made out of small made out of tree saplings
trees or grasses. The bent, covered by mud.
roof was made out of The winter house was
tree bark. Your door was round. There was a fire
covered with deerskin. inside to do the cooking
You would do your on and to keep warm.
cooking outside. This home was only
Sometimes, many made for only one
different related families family because the
would live in the house was smaller for
summer house. the winter.
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CL OT HE S
This is a Cherokee family.
GIRLS
Girls wore no clothes in the warm months. In the cooler
months, girls would wear deer skin dresses.
Women
Women wore a wraparound skirt made of deer skin.
BOYS
Boys wore no clothes in the warm months. In the
cooler months, they would wear leggings and long
sleeve shirts.
MEN
Men wore breechcloths and leggings. Men
would paint their bodies with paints.
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EDUCATION
There were no specific teachers for
the children. Parents would teach
their kids from home. You would get
taught by stories or legends. You
would also get taught by doing
things. For example, you would learn
about fishing, by fishing. There was a
language with 85 characters. It took
only a couple of days to learn it.
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Cherokee Language
The Cherokee language was created by a man named Sequoia. The
Cherokee didn’t have a written language until 1821. The Cherokee
language is not made up of letters, it is made up of syllables.
Sequoia noticed that the new settlers (Europeans), had papers
with writing on them. He thought that the papers rustled and
sounded like leaves, Sequoia thought the papers were talking to
the people. Sequoia called them talking leaves. He thought that
the Cherokee needed so called talking leaves also. It took him 12
years, working hard on the talking leaves. His daughter, Ahyoka,
helped him draw the hundreds of *g lyphs. B ut, unfortunately, it
was too difficult to memorize every glyph. They decided to make
a glyph for each Cherokee sound. They used some letters from
the English alphabet and tied those in with the Cherokee
syllabary. There were 85 characters in the Cherokee syllabary. One
character for each Cherokee sound. Many Cherokee people learned
how to read and write in a couple days.
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THE CHEROKEE INDIANS
By: Jack Walsh
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Leaders
The Cherokee indians had two leaders for each village one was the peace
chief the other one was the war chief.The war chief also know as the red
chief.The war chief was in charge in time of war.He had a group of women called
the w ar women and he had 7 clan members to help him.He also was draped in red
deer skin.The peace chief was dressed in white deer skin.The peace chief was very
religious.He had 7 clan members to help him.There were other important people in
the tribe too.The priest and the h eadman were also very important. Women had
the same rights as a man but a women could not be chief. Women could be warriors
too.
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WHAT CHANGED WHEN THE U.S WAS
FORMED
Many things changed for the Cherokee when the U.S was formed some things that
changed were.That in 1783 the U.S government wanted the Cherokee indians to act
like other americans. But then the U.S government found gold on Cherokee land and
kicked them out.Some Cherokee people went deeper into the woods to avoid contact
with the Americans.When some of the Cherokee did not leave the U.S sent 7,000
troops to kick them out.Around 4,000 Cherokee out of 15,000 died on the trail of tears.It
was hard to find food on the trail to indian teroterotory.The Cherokee who didn’t leave
went to boot camps.The trail was 2,200 miles over land and water.It was a horrible 116
day jorny.Some tribes gave in others like the Cherokee did not.
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ENEMIES
The Cherokee indians bigest enemies were the
Creek,Shawnee,Chickasaw,Choctaw and the Seneca.You did not have to fight if you
did not want to.Warriors usally went to war to for revenge for a clan members
death.But when you attacked you only killed as many as they killed of your tribe.So
wars went back and forth.The Cherokee battled in many wars such as the War of
1812 with General Jackson vs the Creek.The Cherokee learned to s calp people from
the Europeans but they rarly used it. When settlers came they started to use
guns,knives and tomahawks for their weapons.They used battle clubs in combat and
there were three kinds. One of them was a 3ft long stick with a large knob on the
end. Second was a short club with deer antler spikes.Last but not least, was a club
with a sharp rock on the tip.
Cherokee warrior
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CHEROKEE
Social Structure
By Dyana Burke
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Cherokee Fun Facts
They lived in cone buildings.They grew crops
inside. Siblings and their parents lived in each
house. They lived in villages. There was 60-80
villages along the river.
In summer and winter the Cherokee switched
houses. In summer the house would be in the
shade to stay cool. And in the winter the the house
would be in the sun to stay warm. Siblings and
Adults lived in a house together. Sometimes you
wouldn’t live with your dad you belong to your
mother’s clan. Your parents lived in different clans.
The dad had no right to punish the children. The
men who taught the boys how to hunt and play
sports was there uncle instead of there dad.
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What the Cherokee people looked like
The Cherokee girls had long hair in a braid. Boys
shaved their hair. Young children were naked in
summer. In the winter everyone wore animal skin
clothes. They had light or dark tan skin.
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STICKBALL FACTS
Stickball, also known as ( Anesta), was a major
Cherokee sport.
Long ago stickball was used to combat with an
enemy! Sometimes in stickball they killed one
another! Stickball is today called lacrosse. Men
would play with a stick and women would play with
their bare hands.
WHAT IS HAWK-FIGHTING?
Boys enjoyed a game called Hawk-fighting.
To play two boys crouched down facing each other.
Each boy put his knees and arms. Each player tried
to trip his opponent over. The first to get tripped
over was the loser.
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WHAT WAS CHUNKY?
Chunky was another Cherokee game boys liked.
To play a stone disk was rolled across a flat field.
The players armed with spears chased the disk.
When the stone stopped rolling the player whose
spear the closest got 2 points. You needed 100 to
win.
JOBS
WOMEN AND GIRLS
Everyone helped in any way they could. Women
and girls farmed. They harvested the corn and
took care of the tobacco for religious ceremonies.
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They even helped build the houses! No one had to
hire a
babysitter because the mothers would teach the
girls how to farm,crop,and do household stuff.
MEN AND BOYS
Boys and men learn new skills. The men would
teach the boys the skills. Normally the mothers-
brothers (their uncles) would teach the boys to
hunt. They cut down trees to build houses. The
men and boys built all the weapons like a fishing
pole, a spear and other hunting weapons.
Sometimes the boys farmed! The men and boys
fished too! They loved to eat fish.
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Cool facts about names
Your named the 7th day of your life. You have
different names throughout your life. Your parents
had a ceremony. You were named from your
features ex.if you had blue sparkly eyes you would
be named on that.
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Glossary
Galilei Tsidena Lv- Pleased To Meet You
Glyphs- A hieroglyphic character or symbol; a
pictograph
Great Smoky Mountains- a r ange of t he
Appalachian M ountains
Headman- The chief or leader of a community
or tribe.
Landform- a natural feature of a land surface
Moccasins- A heelless shoe made of deerskin
Osiyo- Hello
War Chief- In charge of the attacks
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Peace Chief- In charge when not in war
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Bibliography
By:Julia Murray, Dyana Burke, Jack Walsh, Daniel Resto, Ryan Noia
Julia Murray
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Daniel Resto
1- Hakim, Joy. T he First Americans. New York: Oxford UP, 2005. Print.
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Cherokee. New York: Scholastic, 1998. Print.
Ryan Noia
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Front Cover Photo: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cherokee
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Cherokee. New York: Scholastic, 1998. Print.
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By Daniel Resto
1- Hakim, Joy. T he First Americans. New York: Oxford UP, 2005. Print.
Roop, Peter, Connie Roop, and Kevin Warren. Smith. - -If You Lived with the Cherokee. New York:
Scholastic, 1998. Print.
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Bibliography
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Front Cover Photo:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cherokee
Roop, Peter, Connie Roop, and Kevin Warren. Smith. --If You Lived with the Cherokee. New York:
Scholastic, 1998. Print.
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About the author
The author’s full name is Jack C. Walsh. He has six pets two dogs,two cats and two
lizards.His favorite food is salmon.Jack’s brother’s name is Alex.They love sports Jack
and Alex. They are both very smart.
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About the
Author
Julia Grace Murray is 11 years old in
5th grade. She lives on Martha’s
Vineyard. She has 2 older brothers,
Jack and James. Her mom and dad’s
names are Judy and Jerry. Her
whole family’s names begin with ‘J’!
She dances, plays hockey, plays golf,
and loves to have fun. She has a
great sense of humor. She loves to
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do gymnastics. Julia lives to have
fun with friends and always sees
the best in everybody. Julia’s family
is all very close and always have
eachothers backs.
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About the Author
Daniel Resto was born in December 29, 2004. He was located
in the Bronx, New York. He now lives in Edgartown, Martha’s Vineyard,
Massachusetts by the age of five. Daniel has a good sense of humor.
He has two fish and one dog. Daniel’s favorite subject is science.
Daniel has a cousin on the Vineyard named Jared Davenport. Daniel
has lots of friends on the Vineyard: Daniel Serpa, Jonathan
DeOliveira, Noah Smith, Geovane Meikel, Micah Simmons, Luke
Nascimento, Nick Prieni, Gabryal Brooks, and Ryan Noia. Daniel has a
family of 5. One young brother named Samuel, ( aka Sam & cheese)
one older sister named Breana, (but her last name is Santos) another
sister (she is a baby) named Evah, his mom’s name is Valerie, and his
dad’s name is Daniel. (He was named after his dad)
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About the Author
Dyana is a 10 year old girl. She lives in Edgartown
on Martha’s Vineyard. She also has a house in
Florida, which she goes to in January or December,
February, April, June or July, and August. She has
4 people in her family. She has no pets. Her
favorite animal is a dog. Her favorite colors are
Teal and Coral! She does gymnastics and is
starting volleyball. Thanks for learning about
Dyana!
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About the Author
Ryan Noia lives on Martha’‛s Vineyard, Massachusetts.
He is in 5th grade at the Edgartown School and is 10
years old. He enjoys playing Mario Kart 8. He has a
baby brother and a mom that also live on Martha’‛s
Vineyard. His best friend is Derek. Science is his
favorite subject.
THANKS FOR READING!
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