Annice's+Sources

**Annice's Sources**

 1) "Facts for Kids: Cherokee Indians (Cherokees)." //Orrin's Website//. Native Languages of the America's Website, 1998. Web. 19 Oct. 2011. .

What does Cherokee mea n? Where do Cherokee people live, and what were the men and woman's roles in the Cherokee tribe? All of this fast and quick facts are stored onto this site. This website was a great source for me the basics of the Cherokee History and start off seeing the big picture of the topic rather then starting off with the deep topics. The Cherokees live in mainly, Georgia, North and South Carolina, Virginia, Kentucky, and Tennessee. Most cherokee's were forced to move to Oklahoma in the 1800's along the trail of Tears ( which was the name for what the Americans called Indian Removal) Some of the Cherokee's escaped the Trial of Tears by hiding in the Appalachian hills or taking shelter with white neighbors.

 2) B.c., 8000. "Cherokee NC Cherokee History and Culture - What You Didn't Know About the Cherokee of North Carolina." //Cherokee NC Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians in North Carolina//. 2010. Web. 19 Oct. 2011. .

What are the roles that the men and woman of a Cherokee tribe do? The men hunted and fished; women gathered wild food and cultivated ‘the three sisters’ corn, beans, and squash cleverly inter-planting them to minimize the need for staking and weeding. This life was realized harmony with nature, personal freedom, and balance between work, play, and praise. In 1838, events reached the highest point in the tragic ‘Trail of Tears,’ the forced removal of the Cherokees in the East to Oklahoma. One quarter to half of the 16,000 Cherokees who began the long march died of exposure, disease, and the shock of separation from their home. The Cherokees in Western North Carolina today descend from those who were able to hold on to land they owned, those who hid in the hills, defying removal, and others who returned, many on foot. Gradually and with great effort, they have created a healthy society, a sovereign nation of 100 square miles where people in touch with their past and alive to the present preserve timeless ways and wisdom5

3) Anderson, William L. "CHEROKEE." //Oklahoma State University - Library - Home//. Web. 19 Oct. 2011. .

The Cherokee Nation is Oklahoma's largest Indian group and the second largest in the United States. In 1838 39 more than one-fourth of the tribe died on the trek from the Southeast to the Indian Territory. Through it all colonial battles, smallpox epidemics, the struggle to retain historic southeastern homelands, expulsion on "the trail of tears," involvement in the American Civil War, the theft and allotment of tribal lands, the coming of Oklahoma statehood, the starvation and depravation of the Great Depression, and the scattering of tribal citizens during and following the Second World War the Cherokee Nation survived. The Cherokees were the largest Indian tribe on the Southern of English America. By the eighteenth century the tribe numbered more than ten thousand and lived in sixty or more scattered villages. Through a series of agreements the Cherokee land holdings were reduced until the 1820s, when the major body of the tribe (approximately sixteen thousand) was concentrated primarily in Georgia and Tennessee. This site went a little more detailed into the subject than any of the other sites above. It gave me some information that was a little too confusing, but the other information was perfect for getting a more detailed glimpse of the topic.

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">4)"Cherokee." //CherokeeIndians.com//. Web. 19 Oct. 2011. <http://cherokeeindians.com/history.htm>.

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">Something that I really learned from this site is the language and their writing system. I learned that the launguage that they speak is called "Iroquoian" which is written in syllabary. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">It is now believed that a more ancient Syllabary that predated Sequoyah and may have inspired his great work for the Cherokee people was handed down through the Anti Kunanti, a ancient priesthood of the cherokee people.

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">5) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">"Cherokee — History.com Articles, Video, Pictures and Facts." //History.com — History Made Every Day — American & World History//. History. Com, 1996. Web. 19 Oct. 2011. <http://www.history.com/topics/cherokee>.

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">I would always watch the history channel at home, and they would always have the most interesting things to talk about. WHen I was thinking about any good sources for this project I thought about if they would have a article on "Cherokee Indian history" Luckily... They do! <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">This site is more on stories than facts. It goes really deep into the History of the states that Cherokee is apart of.