Cherokee*

=The Cherokee: A Perspective on American History= by Danielle Christine Melendrez / Loob ; )



The Cherokee are a Native American group. Pre-1492, they lived in the region now called Georgia, South and North Carolina, Virginia, Kentucky and Tennesse, which is near the Atlantic Ocean. Geographical features that would have limited this group’s ability to move include: the Appalachian Mountains and the Atlantic Ocean. Pre-1492, this group probably interacted with its neighbors, especially the Powhatan. Eventually, the Cherokee would shape American history in the following ways: by being forced to march 1,000 miles west in the Trail of Tears in 1839.
 * Introduction:**

The Cherokee believed that our world was first formed when a water-beetle brought some mud to the surface. They also believed in God's that was there higher power.
 * Religion (Worldview):**

Population in the United States: There where only about 2,000 Cherokee in the year 1776.

HISTORY: Some history about the Cherokee is that their stories talked about ab already inhabited life.

1492: Columbus’ Arrival in the Americas

1521: Cortes Encounters the Aztecs in Mexico Well in all the Cherokee there was a chief, a chief is someone in the tribe that is very powerful he makes all the distions and the chief was usually a Man. In about 1567: The Spanish built forts near the Cherokee.

1607: English Colonists Arrive at Jamestown

1687: English Colonies Expand

1776-1787: American Revolution; U.S. Constitution

1802: Tlingit Battle the Russians at Sitka

1839: The Amistad; the Trail of Tears

1850: Fugitive Slave Law Made

1863: The U.S. Civil War; Emancipation Proclamation

1890: Westward Movement; Reform Movements

2009: Today

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