The Cherokees

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The Cherokees

• By Riley, Taylor, Ashley, Brittany

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Cherokee Homes

• They lived in two houses one is for summer one is
  for winter.
• They were made out of sticks and mud.
• To finish the house they added mud to the mates.
• The Cherokee coved the houses with thatches.
• The roof had a hole for the smoke to go out.

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Foods

• Their crops were corn, beans, pumpkins, squash,
  sunflower-seeds, and tobacco.
• They roasted, boiled, and grinded corn into
  bread.
• Cherokee families ate fish, deer, rabbits,
  squirrels, and turkey.
• They ate unusual foods such as yellow jacket
  soup, chestnut bread, hickory nut soup,
  mushrooms, cornbread baked on bark, and small
  frogs.
• Some spices that the Cherokees ate are maple
  syrup was boiled in the spring to make sugar
  cubes. Powdered honey was also sweeten.

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Clothing

• Women and girls wear skirts, buffalo and calf
  skin capes.
• Later, they wore cloth skirts and leather belts.
• Men and boys wore breech-clothes made from
  buckskin.
• In the summer they wore buckskin shirts in the
  winter they wore shirts of bear, beaver, otter
  and panther skin.

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Sequoyah

• Sequoyah was born in 1770.
• His mother was from a life of chiefs and his
  father was a white trader.
• In 1809 Sequoyah invented the Cherokee language.
• There were 85 letters in his alphabet.
• Sequoyahs name in English is George Gist.

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The Trail of Tears

• Three to five Cherokees died on the trail of
  tears each day.
• Only twenty Cherokee men signed the treaty of New
  Echota.
• The death toll was about 4,000 Cherokees
  including the people that died at the white mans
  camp.
• The journey was made by the five civilized tribes
  known as the Trail of Tears.
• The Cherokee walked more than 1,000 miles.

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References

• The Cherokee by Raymond Bial
• The Cherokee by Barbara A. McCall