Native Americans
Describe what is known of the tribe's pre-Columbian history, including settlement dates and any known cultural details.
Before Columbus came to the "New World," the pre-Columbian era, the Cherokee occupied an area that today is western North Carolina, eastern Tennessee and northern Georgia (Waddington 2006). The Cherokee traveled even further past these areas, however, to hunt and to trade their wares. The Cherokee had occupied this area for a good 1,000 years before Europeans set foot in the area in the beginning of the 16th century; however, the initial contact with the Europeans was quite scant and for about 300 years after the first contact the Europeans the Cherokee culture really didn't change at all (2006).
The Cherokee Indians were considered to be great hunters as well as farmers; they grew great crops and harvested both nuts and berries, which were considered staples in the daily diet (Native-Net 2010). Their homes were made from wood and stone and they built roads along the riverbed so that they could get to other villages to trade their produce (2010). Each Cherokee village had its own Chief who would be in charge of running the tribe and making sure that there was peace among other tribes as well. Some of the tribes that the Cherokee allied with were the Choctaw and the Muskogee (2010). The different tribes in this area often came together for parties and would come up with competitions to hold where they could compete with one another; this was all for fun and games (2010).
In the early 19th century there was an onset of major European expansion and this resulted in the need for more trade (Waddington 2006). It is this time that contact between the Europeans and the Cherokee really began....
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