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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Where do the Cherokee Indians live? | The Cherokees are original residents of the American southeast region, particularly Georgia, North and South Carolina, Virginia, Kentucky, and Tennessee |
| What was the Cherokee Trail of Tears? | Trail of Tears was the Cherokee name for what the Americans called Indian Removal. |
| How is the Cherokee Indian nation organized? | There are three federally recognized Cherokee tribes: the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma, the United Keetoowah Band in Oklahoma, and the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians in North Carolina. |
| What language do the Cherokees speak? | English & Cherokee |
| What Do Cherokee Indians Call Themselves. ? | Aniyunwiya. |
| How do Cherokee Indian children live? | Many Cherokee children enjoy hunting and fishing with their fathers. |
| What were men and women's roles in the Cherokee tribe? | Cherokee men were in charge of hunting, war, and diplomacy. Cherokee women were in charge of farming, property, and family. |
| What were Cherokee homes like? | The Cherokee Indians lived in settled villages, usually located near a river. Cherokee houses were made of rivercane and plaster, with thatched roofs. |
| What was Cherokee clothing like? | Cherokee men wore breechcloths and leggings. Cherokee women wore wraparound skirts and poncho-style blouses made out of woven fiber or deerskin. |
| What was early Cherokee transportation like? | the Cherokee Indians used to make long dugout canoes from hollowed-out logs. |
| What was Cherokee food like in the days before supermarkets? | Cherokee women harvested crops of corn, beans, squash, and sunflowers. They also gathered berries, nuts and fruit to eat. Cherokee men hunted deer, wild turkeys, and small game and fished in the rivers. |
| What were some Cherokee weapons and artifacts? | Cherokee hunters used bows and arrows or blowguns to shoot game. |
| What are Cherokee arts and crafts? | Traditional Cherokee art included pipe carving, rivercane baskets, gourd art, and pottery. |
| What kinds of stories do the Cherokees tell? | There are many traditional Cherokee legends and fairy tales. |
| Who are some famous Cherokee Indians? | Sequoyah, and Wilma Mankiller, |