AnswersDriveThe Cherokee Indians lived in settled villages, usually located near a river. Cherokee houses were made of rivercane and plaster, with thatched roofs. These dwellings were about as strong and warm as log cabins. Here are some pictures of Native American houses like the ones Cherokee Indians used.
Similarly one may ask, what are wattle and daub houses made of?
Wattle and daub is a composite building material used for making walls, in which a woven lattice of wooden strips called wattle is daubed with a sticky material usually made of some combination of wet soil, clay, sand, animal dung and straw.
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What are Cherokee houses made of?
The Cherokee never lived in tipis. Only the nomadic Plains Indians did so. The Cherokee were southeastern woodland Indians, and in the winter they lived in houses made of woven saplings, plastered with mud and roofed with poplar bark. In the summer they lived in open-air dwellings roofed with bark.
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What are the weapons of the Cherokee?
Other hammers and axe-type weapons also were used; sometimes a knot in a root or branch with a convenient handle made a good battle axe. The Cherokee used blowguns mainly for taking small game but occasionally used them in warfare. Blowguns ranged from three to nine feet in length. The darts were made of hard woods.
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What is the name of the Cherokee language?
There are approximately 12,000 Cherokee speakers out of more than 300,000 tribal members. It is the only Southern Iroquoian language and differs significantly from the other Iroquoian languages. Cherokee is a polysynthetic language and uses a unique syllabary writing system.
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What is the Cherokee tribe?
About 200 years ago the Cherokee Indians were one tribe, or "Indian Nation" that lived in the southeast part of what is now the United States. During the 1830's and 1840's, the period covered by the Indian Removal Act, many Cherokees were moved west to a territory that is now the State of Oklahoma.
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What kind of tools and weapons did the Cherokee use?
The weapons used by the Cherokee included war clubs, tomahawks, battle hammers, knives, bows and arrows, spears and axes. Cherokees also used blowguns, generally for small game, but occasionally for warfare. The Europeans introduced muskets and then rifles.
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Where did the creek live?
The Creeks are original residents of the American southeast, particularly Georgia, Alabama, Florida, and North Carolina. Most Creeks were forced to move to Oklahoma in the 1800's, like other southern Indian tribes. There are 20,000 Muskogee Creeks in Oklahoma today.
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What kind of games did the Cherokee children play?
The most popular game played, even today, among the Cherokee people is the game of stickball. At one time it was called "the little brother of war" and played by the men of the tribe. It was used to settle arguments and disagreements. It was a very rough game used as an alternative to actual war.
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Where did the Cherokee live in?
The Cherokee Indians were a very large Native American tribe that originally settled in the southeast portions of the United States. They settled in North and South Carolina, Georgia, and Tennessee after migrating south from the Great Lakes region. The word Cherokee translates into "those who live in the mountains".
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Who is the leader of the Cherokee tribe?
- Cunne Shote, Cherokee Chief, by Francis Parsons (English), 1762, oil on canvas, Gilcrease Museum.
- John Ross, c.
- Nimrod Jarret Smith (1837–1893) was 5th Principal Chief of the Eastern Band and a Confederate Army veteran of the Thomas Legion of Cherokee Indians and Highlanders.
- Lewis Downing.
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What was the purpose of the green corn ceremony?
The Green Corn Ceremony (Busk) is an annual ceremony practiced among various Native American peoples associated with the beginning of the yearly corn harvest. These ceremonies have been documented ethnographically throughout the North American Eastern Woodlands and Southeastern tribes.
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Where is the Cherokee tribe now?
It is not a reservation. The Eastern Band of Cherokee, also recognized by the federal government, holds 56,000 acres within the Qualla Boundary of western North Carolina. The United Keetoowah Band of Cherokees in Northeastern Oklahoma were extended a Corporate Charter by the U.S. Congress.
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Where did the Cherokee tribe live before the Trail of Tears?
Where did the Cherokee live before 1838 (the Trail of Tears)? Before European contact, the Cherokee lived in a very large area which included all or portions of the present day states of Georgia, Tennessee, North Carolina, South Carolina, Kentucky, Alabama, Virginia and West Virginia.
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What did Sequoyah invent and what was it?
Sequoyah was a half-Cherokee silversmith who invented a simple form of writing consisting of 86 symbols. He is also the namesake of Sequoia redwood trees.
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When was the Cherokee tribe established?
Government
| 1794 | Establishment of the Cherokee National Council and officers over the whole nation |
|---|---|
| 1839 | Constitution of the reunited Cherokee Nation |
| 1868 | Constitution of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians |
| 1888 | Charter of Incorporation issued by the State of North Carolina to the Eastern Band |
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Where did the Chickasaws live?
The Chickasaws are original people of the American southeast, particularly Mississippi, Alabama, Tennessee, Kentucky and Missouri. Most Chickasaws were forced to move to Oklahoma in the 1800's, and their descendants live in Oklahoma today.
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Why were the Cherokee forced onto the Trail of Tears?
The Cherokee Trail of Tears resulted from the enforcement of the Treaty of New Echota, an agreement signed under the provisions of the Indian Removal Act of 1830, which exchanged Indian land in the East for lands west of the Mississippi River, but which was never accepted by the elected tribal leadership or a majority
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Where did the Cherokee go after the Trail of Tears?
The relocation of the Native Americans to the Oklahoma Territory that became known as "The Trail of Tears", "The Trail Where They Cried " ("Nunna daul Tsuny") by the Cherokee, represents one of the darkest and saddest episodes of American history.
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Where did the Seminole tribe live in Florida?
Seminole history begins with bands of Creek Indians from Georgia and Alabama who migrated to Florida in the 1700s. Conflicts with Europeans and other tribes caused them to seek new lands to live in peace. Groups of Lower Creeks moved to Florida to get away from the dominance of Upper Creeks.
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Where do the Cheyenne live today?
By the time the Americans met them they were living on the Great Plains in what is now South Dakota, Wyoming, Nebraska, Colorado, and Kansas. The US government forced the Cheyennes to move to Oklahoma during the 1800's, but some escaped and fled north into Montana.