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Cultures of the Cherokee Tribe

Ms. Trina’s Fourth Grade class. Cultures of the Cherokee Tribe. Get started!. Objectives. Culture encompasses similarities and differences among people including their beliefs, knowledge, changes, values, and traditions.

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Cultures of the Cherokee Tribe

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  1. Ms. Trina’s Fourth Grade class Cultures of the Cherokee Tribe Get started!

  2. Objectives • Culture encompasses similarities and differences among people including their beliefs, knowledge, changes, values, and traditions. • This week we are going to explore these elements of society to develop an appreciation and respect for the variety of Native American groups. • Today, I want all of you to gain a better understanding of the diversity of the Cherokee tribe and be able to participate in class discussion about this group.

  3. Cherokee • Native American people originally from the Southeastern United States (Alabama, Georgia, North Carolina, Tennessee) • commanded more than 40,000 square miles in the southern Appalachians by 1650 with a population estimated at 22,500

  4. What did they live in?

  5. Log Homes!!

  6. Form of communication

  7. Sequoyah • born in the Indian town of Taskigi, Tennessee, (then western North Carolina) in about 1770 • Invented a set of written characters, or syllabary, for the Cherokee language (Tsalagi) in 1821

  8. Cherokee Alphabet http://www.native-languages.org/cherokee_alphabet.htm

  9. Significant Events

  10. Trail of Tears • relocation and movement of Native Americans in the United States from their homelands to Indian Territory (present day Oklahoma) • Result of the Indian Removal Act of 1830 • Many Native Americans suffered and died from exposure, disease, and starvation while en route to their destinations, including 4,000 of the 15,000 relocated Cherokee

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