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The Cherokee Indians made canoes to travel from place to place. Also to go fishing .

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Native Americans used canoes for much of the same reasons that we use them today: Fishing, travel, trading, recreation (to name a few).

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For fishing and transport , and they knew a canoe was easier portage than a dugout.

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