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Robbinsville
Waynesville
Fayetteville
Hillsborough
Laurinburg
Mount Gilead
Pembroke
The Cherokee
The Cherokee Nation had
occupied vast areas of what are
today parts of North ans South
Carolina, Virginia,Tennessee,
Georgia and Alabama. About
200 villages in all were located
in the Great Smokey and Blue
Ridge Mountains of Virginia and
the Great Valley of Tennessee.
The Cherokee people spoke in
dialects of the Iroquian
language. They called
themselves " Ani-Yun- Wiya"
which meant "real people".
The Cherokee Nation had
occupied vast areas of what are
today parts of North ans South
Carolina, Virginia,Tennessee,
Georgia and Alabama. About
200 villages in all were located
in the Great Smokey and Blue
Ridge Mountains of Virginia and
the Great Valley of Tennessee.
The Cherokee people spoke in
dialects of the Iroquian
language. They called
themselves " Ani-Yun- Wiya"
which meant "real people".
Their homes were made of logs, bark and tree branches plastered with mud
and clay. Their villages ranged in size from 200 to more than 2000 people.
Cherokee's were farmers, hunters fishermen, artists and warriors. They
produced basketwork, pottery, masks and pipes, which were traded to other
tribes in the area. They had a republican form of government with a
constitution, a chief, a senate and a house of representatives
One outstanding Cherokee man, named Sequoyah, worked for 12 years to
reduce the Cherokee's verbal language to written form. He invented a
syllabify with a character for each sound in their language. Thus the
Cherokee were the first American Indian tribe to have its own written
language..
and clay. Their villages ranged in size from 200 to more than 2000 people.
Cherokee's were farmers, hunters fishermen, artists and warriors. They
produced basketwork, pottery, masks and pipes, which were traded to other
tribes in the area. They had a republican form of government with a
constitution, a chief, a senate and a house of representatives
One outstanding Cherokee man, named Sequoyah, worked for 12 years to
reduce the Cherokee's verbal language to written form. He invented a
syllabify with a character for each sound in their language. Thus the
Cherokee were the first American Indian tribe to have its own written
language..
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