THERE ORIGINAL HOME OF THE CHEROKEE WAS IN THE SOUTH APALACHIAN MOUNTAINS INCLUDE TENNESSEE AND OTHER STATES. TODAY MANY LIVE IN OKLAHOMA, NORTH CAROLINA, MISSOURI, ARKANSAS, GEORGIA, AND ALABAMA.
ABOUT 1000 A.D. THEY ARRIVED IN SMOKEY MOUNTAINS. THEY WERE A BRANCH OF OF THE IROQUOIS WHO MOVED FROM NORTH ENGLAND.THERE WERE SEVEN CLANS, AND THE SMOKEY MOUNTAINS WERE BELIEVED TO BE SACRED ANCESTRAL HOME. THEIR LIVES WERE BASED ON HUNTING,TRADING,AND AGRICULTURE.. THEY MET THE FIRST ANGLOS IN 1540 WHEN HERNANDO DE SOTO LED AN EXPLORATION THROUGH CHEROKEE TERRITORY. CHEROKEE LAND COVERED MUCH OF SOUTHEAST U.S.
THEY LIVED IN SMALL COMMUNITIES ON FERTILE RIVER BOTTOMS. HOMES WERE WOODEN AND PLASTERED WITH MUD. THEY HAD A TOWN SQUARE CALLED THE COUNCIL HOUSE. EACH TRIBE HAD TWO CHIEFS WHO MADE DECISIONS IN TIME OF WAR. THE CHIEFS DID NOT RULE EVERYTHING. TRIBAL MEMBERS HAD A VOICE.
THEY LIVED NEAR THE SMOKEYS AND THEIR SOCIETY WAS MATRIARCHY. THE PROPERTY PASSED ON ACCORDING TO CLAN ALLIANCE. BY THE 1800'S THE EUROPEAN SETTLERS ARRIVED IN GREAT NUMBERS. BY 1818'S CADES COVE WAS PART OF CHEROKEE NATION. THEY CALLED IT 'PLACES OF THE RIVER OTTER'. THEY HUNTED HERE. IN 1808 A CHEROKEE SILVER SMITH INVENTED A SYSTEM FOR WRITING.
SOME CHEROKEES REFUSED TO MOVE AND LIVED IN THE WILDERNESS. IN 1859 THEY DEVELOPED A SECT OF 56,000 ACRES FOR THESE CHEROKEES NOW CALLED THE EASTERN BAND. THEIR ARE NOW 11,000 DESCENDANTS. IT IS CALLED QUALLA INDIAN RESERVATION. ONE MAN WHOWAS HIDING IN THE WILDERNESS WAS A HERO BECAUSE HE RESISTED FORCED REMOVAL. TSALI HAD KILLED SOLDIERS AND HE AGREED TO SURRENDER AND FACE EXECUTION. ALL THOSE IN HIDING EVENTUALLY CAME TO THIS EASTERN BAND OF CHEROKEE.
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