1. Ms. Trina’s Fourth Grade class Cultures of the Cherokee Tribe Get started!

2. Objectives • Culture encompasses similarities and differences among people including their beliefs, knowledge, changes, values, and traditions. • This week we are going to explore these elements of society to develop an appreciation and respect for the variety of Native American groups. • Today, I want all of you to gain a better understanding of the diversity of the Cherokee tribe and be able to participate in class discussion about this group.

3. Cherokee • Native American people originally from the Southeastern United States (Alabama, Georgia, North Carolina, Tennessee) • commanded more than 40,000 square miles in the southern Appalachians by 1650 with a population estimated at 22,500

4. What did they live in?

5. Log Homes!!

6. Form of communication

7. Sequoyah • born in the Indian town of Taskigi, Tennessee, (then western North Carolina) in about 1770 • Invented a set of written characters, or syllabary, for the Cherokee language (Tsalagi) in 1821

8. Cherokee Alphabet http://www.native-languages.org/cherokee_alphabet.htm

9. Significant Events

10. Trail of Tears • relocation and movement of Native Americans in the United States from their homelands to Indian Territory (present day Oklahoma) • Result of the Indian Removal Act of 1830 • Many Native Americans suffered and died from exposure, disease, and starvation while en route to their destinations, including 4,000 of the 15,000 relocated Cherokee