The First Tennesseans: The Cherokees

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The First Tennesseans The Cherokees

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• Grade 4

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Learner Expectation

• Content Standard 5.0
• History involves people, events, and issues.
  Students will evaluate evidence to develop
  comparative and causal analyses, and to interpret
  primary sources. They will construct sound
  historical arguments and perspectives on which
  informed decisions in contemporary life can be
  based.
• 5.12 Identify major events, people, and patterns
  in Tennessee.

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In this activity you will

• Identify the American Indians who stayed in
  Tennessee.
• Draw a Cherokee village.
• Describe how the Cherokee lived.
• Identify the Cherokee beliefs.
• Compose a paragraph and tell how the Cherokee
  lived and worked together.

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Tennessees First People

• American Indians lived in Tennessee for thousands
  of years before the Europeans came to America.
• They settled in Tennessee were five different
  groups of Indians.
• The largest of these groups were the Cherokees.

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Cherokees

• The Cherokees numbered over 20,000 strong and
  lived in villages across the Appalachian
  Mountains.

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Cherokee Villages were composed of

• A council house
• Summer and winter homes
• Festival grounds
• Fields

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Cherokee Beliefs

• They have three groups of beings in their world,
  people, animal, spirit.
• The spirits help them to hunt, grow crops, make
  their people strong.
• Everything in their lives should be balanced.

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Cherokee People

• The Cherokee were governed by a chief and council
  of wise men and women.
• The children belonged to their mothers clan.
• Men hunted, women harvested the crops, and
  children had specific chores.

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Writing Activity

• Compose a paragraph and tell how the Cherokee
  lived and worked together.