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Rsearch Paper Of Cherokee Indain

Barbara Huston
History 17A
Mrs. Sanchez
September 05, 2005

Way The Cherokee have live through good time and some bad time

The American Indian History of the United States is always associated with the Cherokee Indian nation. The Cherokee's were by far the largest and most advanced of the tribes. This man was Hernando de Soto was the first European explorer to come into contact with the Cherokees, when he arrived in their territory in 1540. Then he went and came in contact with Native Americans Cherokee's since many of their ways and customs is my family that the Cherokees occupied a large expanse of territory in the Southeast. Their homeland included mountains and valleys in the southern part of the Appalachian Mountain chain. Their territory stretched from North Carolina to Virginia to Tennessee, South Carolina, Alabama and Okalahoma..
The name the Cherokee's had for them was Ani-yun-wiya which has means, real people.
Villages were along rivers and streams so they have better advantage of the rich black soil for farming as if the corn was their was the sources.
In Hunting and fishing they use this weapon for different ways like spears, traps, and fishing lines with hooks to catch many different kinds of fish. They also used an interesting method of poisoning an area of water to kill the fish and gather them up as they floated to the surface.
The Cherokees were also skilled hunters. They hunted large animals, such as deer and bear, with bows and arrows. They covered themselves in entire deerskins, antlers and all, and used deer calls to lure the animals to them.
The products of their hunts were not only used for food, but for clothing as well. They dressed in buckskin shirts and skirts, made moccasins, capes and other items using their animal resources.
Cherokee families usually had two houses- a large summer home and a smaller winter home.
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