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Cherokee Indians
Historical and modern questions about the Cherokee tribe of Native Americans.
2,058 Questions
Are Indian reservations part of the US?
Yes, but they are legal designations of communities that can set their own councils.
In Theory, they are Native American Nations that have agreed in part to the 14th amendment to be part of the United States, and the land that has been reserved for them stands.
Why did Andrew Jackson bring up the Trail of Tears?
This sad relocation of the Cherokees occurred after Jackson left office, but
he set in motion the idea that Indians must be moved out of GA and Alabama
into land west of the Mississippi, so must share some of the responsibilty
He created a writing system for the Cherokee language?
He used the symbols to make a new syllabary writing system for Cherokee. It seems he knew the concept of writing but not how the English alphabet worked and could not read it. It was a brilliant invention seldom done before.
There are 85 characters one for each syllable in the Cherokee language. Some of the symbols look like Latin, Greek, Hebrew and Cyrillic but that don't have the same sound. others are made up. It is similar to the Japanese kana system.
The system that he invented was so easy to use and successful that within about 10-20 years of so about 90% of Cherokee were literate in their own language and there were several newspapers. This is a much higher rate of literacy than was common among Euro-Americans at the time. There have been very few changes needed to the system since 1828.
How do you find out if you are a Native American Indian you are of Cherokee descendant?
Cherokee names are often family names (clan names) where a characteristic is named and the last name would be the name of your clan (you would have to consult the clan elder for the name given to you). Equally as common a cherokee will be named after an action or characteristic that the person portrays, kind of like nick names in english culture. So the answer to your question is your name is pretty much whatever you want it to be.
HELLOOOO
WHAT THE HECK DO YOU THINK!!!
THEY EAT FOOD!!!!!
wow.
what a stupid world,
How did the Cherokee get their food?
The used three different methods to get their food. They grew their own food by farming, they also hunted, and they gathered plants, seeds, and nuts to eat.
Who was the first Native American Indian?
That's an interesting question and not an easy concept to understand, for several reasons:
- You are thinking of a prehistoric time long before any of the tribal groups we know today came into existence. The people were Pleistocene Siberian hunter-gatherers who had no concept of Asia or North America.
- The continents of Asia and North America were one large land mass, joined together at the Bering land bridge, so there was no feeling of people travelling to a new land, they were simply extending their existing hunting areas and following game animals.
- The migrations across the Bering land bridge happened many times by people speaking many different languages, in successive waves of migration. This explains the huge number of later language groups found throughout the Americas.
- Some historians suggest that the earliest wave of migrants were those who journeyed the furthest south into South America - the distant ancestors of the Tierra del Fuegans - but this may not be the case.
- For a very long time, historians thought that the earliest evidence for Man in the Americas was the Clovis culture of 11,500 years ago. From the late 1990s, however, archaeology has uncovered sites in Chile and Brazil that may be 12,500 years old. A rock shelter in Pennsylvania has provided dates up to 16,000 years old; some people claim to have found evidence dating to even before this time. Archaeological finds and studies continue, so science will eventually provide an answer to the oldest evidence of Man in the Americas, but as yet there is none.
I recommend that you buy and read a copy of the book "In the Hands of the Great Spirit" by Jake Page, which examines all the scientific evidence for the Siberian migrations into the Americas, as well as some of the native stories about tribal origins.
Sequoyah is famous for being the inventor of the Cherokee alphabet.
Why were the Cherokees relocated?
The Cherokee Indians were forced to move west in an event historically called the "trail of Tears" because the white man wanted their land, and they thought there was gold on their land.
What was the Cherokee name for their forced journy west?
It is said that those who witnessed the Native American prisoners forcibly relocated at gunpoint were saddened by what they saw. They did nothing to intervene; but, according to legend - they cried.
Since thousands died and neglect of prisoner injury and illness was present in this dishonorable action of the US Army, it most certainly meets the definition of a DEATH MARCH. We could call it the "Oklahoma Death March". But that is not accurate because Oklahoma didn't exist at that time. We could call it the "US Army Death March" but people might confuse it with the more well known Bataan Death March (isn't it funny how it's different when those dirty, rotten foreigners do it to us). How about "North Carolina White Trash and Rednecks After Gold Death March? No, too wordy - it'll never catch on. Same with "Five Civilized Tribes Death March". It has to be short and simple for the idiots to remember it, maybe something that rhymes. "Andrew Jackson's Death March" is pretty accurate, but that doesn't rhyme. I'm out of ideas, maybe somebody else will weigh in.
This question about removal of any indigenous people from their homeland is always difficult to answer. Read about the "Manifest Destiny" of the European people and you will encounter a belief that the North American continent from the Atlantic to the Pacific was promised by a higher creator to the European immigrants. Actual removal was powered by greed. The lands of North Carolina, Tennessee, and Georgia were good for cotton, tobacco and other cash crops. The Cherokee controlled over 100,000 square miles at one time. The ones in power assumed that removal to a new land west of the Mississippi river was of no consequence and passed the Indian Removal Act in Congress. The Cherokee organized as a sovereign nation and was forced to sign a treaty that caused the "Trail of Tears" from Georgia, Tennessee and North Carolina to Oklahoma. Over 16,000 Native Americans were forced to go and 4,000 died on the way from malnutrition and exsposure. The winter of 1838-1839 was one of the worst.
An example of how the culture of the Cherokee changed following contact with white settlers was that they adopted the settlers' new ways of farming and encouraged literacy.
Did the Cherokee return to their homeland?
No, the Sovereignty of the Cherokee (like all Native American's) was taken from them by acts defined as Genocide under International law. The USA has laws specifically requiring that the "Indian Tribe" surrender all rights under international law before they are 'recognized' by the United States and given back any form of rights; but any tribe who refuses are called "Terrorists" and arrested, jailed, or murdered for their refusal to surrender Sovereignty.
Who are the leaders of the Bantu tribe?
There are many, many leaders of Bantu tribes. Bantu is a collective term for as many as 600 groups in Africa with similar languages.
Where did the Cherokee originate from?
The Cherokee didn't immigrate from Africa, they were here several thousands of years before regular contact occurred between the two continents. Another viewpoint:
The Cherokee didn't immigrate from Africa, they came from Israel. This has been proven by a DNA link between every Cherokee and Ashkenazi Jews from ancient times.
How do you find out if you are eligible for money from the government for being native American?
..... . , how do i apply for native american benifits, my grandfather is an apache indian of native descent so is my cousin who also receives benifits write me please to eliazarp90@gmail.com me personally my family is of apache descent but i am self proclaimed cherokee because of my apearance
Why did the white settlers move west?
It brought trade and early economic development to them, but it also brought disease, firearms and alcohol into a culture that had existed for thousands of years perfectly fine without them.
It also included free land, and if a man or boy was over the age of 18 they could marry and get over 160 acres of land.What legislation allowed Georgia to push the creek and Cherokees out of the state?
The Indian Removal Act of 1830
