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	Eastern Band of the Cherokee Indian History & Culture - Cherokee, NC
		Cherokee women did most of the farm work, harvesting crops of corn, beans, squash (the three sisters), and sunflowers.
		Cherokee men did most of the hunting, using bows and arrows and blowguns to shoot deer, wild turkeys, and small game; and using fishing poles and spears to fish.
		The Cherokees in Western North Carolina today are the descendants from those Cherokees who were able to hold on to land they owned, or hid out in the hills, or were able to return.
	www.cherokeesmokies.com /history_culture.html (584 words)

	Sequoyah - Inventor of the Cherokee Syllabary
		Sequoyah was born sometime between 1760 and 1776 in Overhills country near the Cherokee village of Tushkeegee on the Tennessee River near old Fort Loudoun in Tennessee.
		According to legend, the primeval Cherokee written language was lost as the tribe migrated across the continent and their numbers dwindled according to living conditions and influences of more numerous neighbors.
		Today, Cherokee is the second most widely used Native American language, spoken by an estimated 20,000 Cherokee in northeastern Oklahoma and another 5,000 near the Qualla Reservation in North Carolina.
	www.manataka.org /page81.html (1259 words)

	Cherokee Indians History - Cherokee Indians origins Native American roots
		The Cherokee raised crops of corn, beans and melon (the 3 sisters) and tobacco
		The native land of the Cherokees was the most inviting and beautiful section of the United States, lying upon the sources of the Catawba and Yadkin rivers--upon Keowee, Tugaloo, Etowab, Coosa and Flint, on the east and south, and several of the tributaries of the Tennessee, on the west and north.
		The history of the Cherokees is closely identified with that of the early settlements of the frontiers of the Carolinas, Georgia, Virginia and Tennessee, and all suffered from their vigorous and frequent hostile and murderous incursions.
	www.ashevillelist.com /Native_Americans_beliefs.htm (1583 words)

	The Trail of Tears - Cherokee Indians forcibly removed from North Georgia
		The Cherokees in 1828 were not nomadic savages.
		A Cherokee alphabet, the "Talking Leaves" was perfected by Sequoyah.
		The Cherokees attempted to fight removal legally by challenging the removal laws in the Supreme Court and by establishing an independent Cherokee Nation.
	ngeorgia.com /history/nghisttt.html (1226 words)

	Cherokee County Chamber of Commerce (Site not responding. Last check: )
		In 1816, in Turkey Town, Andrew Jackson met with representatives of the Cherokee, Creek and Chickasaw nations to settle the peace ratify a treaty to establish territorial boundaries.
		Cherokee County's boom town, Bluffton, was established in the 1880's and had, at one time, 8,000 inhabitants.
		Cherokee County is a lure for retirees, who are looking for good weather, good taxes, and easy access to the more metropolitan areas of Atlanta and Birmingham.
	www.cherokee-chamber.org /history.htm (2258 words)

	History and Culture of the Cherokee North Carolina Indians
		When the first Europeans passed through Cherokee territory in 1540, they found Cherokee hunters with great bows the Spanish soldiers were unable to pull back, propelling arrows with the power to pierce a horse from hindquarters to heart.
		The Cherokees were quick to embrace useful aspects of the newcomers’ culture, from peaches and watermelons to written language this last single-handedly created by the Cherokee genius Sequoyah, who introduced his ‘syllabary,’ or Cherokee alphabet, to the national council in 1821.
		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.
	www.cherokee-nc.com /history_main.php (810 words)

	The Texas Cherokee,
		They were; the Cherokee, the Creek, the Choctaw, the Chickasaw and the Seminoles.
		One of the tribes of the Cherokee decided they were tired of the fighting and decided to move west and look for new land where they would be left alone.
		The Cherokees, men, women, children and babies, the elderly and sick were all marched at gun point by army troops from Georgia to Indian Territory during the winter of 1839.
	www.texasindians.com /cherokee.htm (2767 words)

	Cherokee Nation - Crystalinks
		Cherokee dwellings were windowless log cabins roofed with bark, with one door and a smokehole in the roof.
		The Cherokee wars and treaties, a series of battles and agreements around the period of the U.S. War of Independence, effectively reduced Cherokee power and landholdings in Georgia, eastern Tennessee, and western North and South Carolina, freeing this territory for speculation and settlement by the white man.
		Of his mother, it is known that she was a Cherokee and belonged to the Paint Clan and Mooney states that she was the niece of a Cherokee chief.
	www.crystalinks.com /cherokee2.html (4000 words)

	Native American, the Cherokee
		The Cherokee were originally located in the Southern Appalachian Mountains including the Carolinas, northern Georgia and Alabama, southwest Virginia and the Cumberland Basin of Tennessee and Kentucky.
		Cherokee comes from the Creek word "Chelokee" which means "people of a different speech." Although the Cherokee language is Iroquoian it differs significantly from the other Iroquoian languages.
		In the 1670s the Cherokee population was estimated at 50,000 but a series of smallpox epidemics in the early to mid 1700s cut this in half.
	www.merceronline.com /Native/native03.htm (550 words)

	Cherokee syllabary and language
		Sequoyah's descendants claim that he was the last surviving member of his tribe's scribe clan and the Cherokee syllabary was invented by persons unknown at a much earlier date.
		By 1820 thousands of Cherokees had learnt the syllabary, and by 1830, 90% were literate in their own language.
		Today the syllabary is still used, efforts are being made to revive both the Cherokee language and the Cherokee syllabary, and Cherokee courses are offered at a number of schools, colleges and universities.
	www.omniglot.com /writing/cherokee.htm (237 words)

	Cherokee Font
		The Cherokee character for the syllable ‘we’ is produced when typing the ‘p’ key and the character for the syllable ‘sa’ is produced when typing the ‘A’ key.
		The proper Cherokee words are not produced unless you use the appropriate keys to obtain the syllable desired.
		Although the Cherokees were glad to see them, they were not able to provide any horses, as all of theirs had perished after their arrival in Mexico.
	www.cherokee.org /Extras/downloads/font/CherokeeFont.htm (2401 words)

	Cherokee Language and the Cherokee Indian Tribe (Tsalagi, Tsa-la-gi, Aniyunwiya)
		History: The best-known episode in Cherokee history was also the worst: the Trail of Tears, the forced relocation of the Cherokee Indians from their ancestral home in the southeast to Oklahoma.
		Fifteen to twenty thousand Cherokee Indians (along with Choctaw, Creek, and other tribes) were rounded up and herded to Oklahoma in the winter of 1838-1839.
		If you understand this, both the extent to which the Cherokees had adopted American standards of civilization before the Removal and the ultimate futility of it, you will go a long way towards understanding the Cherokee mentality and also the attitudes of other Indian peoples towards us.
	www.native-languages.org /cherokee.htm (651 words)

	McClung Museum - Cherokee Indians - Readings
		Cherokee, North Carolina: Press of the Museum of the Cherokee Indian, 1982.
		Cherokee, North Carolina: Museum of the Cherokee Indian.
		Shumate, Jane: Sequoyah: Inventor of the Cherokee Alphabet.
	mcclungmuseum.utk.edu /specex/cherokee/ch-reads.htm (261 words)

	Cherokees of California (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Cherokee alphabet is written in the syllabary form.
		A syllabary is an alphabet in which each letter in a word stands for a whole syllable (such as "ga") instead of a single letter (such as "g").
		In Western Cherokee the syllables are usually pronounced as the "j" in jaw.
	www.powersource.com /cocinc/language/syllab.htm (448 words)

	JEP: Typesetting Native American Languages
		The Apache and the Navaho languages are among the native American languages that use a Latin alphabet, while Cherokee, Inuiktitut, and Cree are among the languages that use modern syllabaries.
		For Cherokee, Omega uses a PostScript version of the official Cherokee TrueType font developed by Tonia Williams of the Oklahoma Cherokee Nation, which does not contain any Latin glyphs and does not follow Sequoya's numbering system.
		In addition to the Cherokee and the Inuktitut languages, the Blackfoot, the Dene (Carrier), the Cree and the Naskapi languages use a non-Latin script.
	www.press.umich.edu /jep/08-01/syropoulos.html (2348 words)

	The Cherokee Alphabet And How To Use It
		First, the Cherokee alphabet is technically not an alphabet, but a syllabary.
		So using the English alphabet, ama ("water" in Cherokee) is written with three letters: a, m, and a.
		Sequoyah And His Syllabary: History of the Cherokee alphabet and its inventor, the Cherokee scholar Sequoyah.
	www.native-languages.org /cherokee_alphabet.htm (342 words)

	cherokee indians
		The Cherokee were mainly farmers, although they hunted too using bow and arrow.
		The American government ordered Federal soldiers to force the Cherokee people to leave their homes in the Eastern Woodlands and walk to the Oklahoma territory during the winter.
		The Cherokee alphabet helped the Cherokee to write down their history and stories.
	www.d131.kane.k12.il.us /giftedht/marcos/cherokeeindians.html (583 words)

	cherokee (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Cherokee, who called themselves Ani-Yun Wiya, or principal people, migrated to the southeast from the Great Lakes Region.
		By 1650 the Cherokee had a population estimated at 22,500.
		During the American Revolution the Cherokee supported the British and made several attacks on forts and settlements.
	library.thinkquest.org /J0110322/cherokee.htm (132 words)

	Sequoyah
		Born in the 1770s in the Cherokee village of Tuskegee on the Tennessee River, Sequoyah was a mixed blood whose mother, Wureth, belonged to the Paint Clan.
		Within several months of Sequoyah’s unveiling of his invention, a substantial number of people in the Cherokee Nation reportedly were able to read and write in their own language.
		In 1827, the Cherokee council appropriated funding for the establishment of a national newspaper.
	www.powersource.com /gallery/people/sequoyah.html (668 words)

	Cherokee Museum - Native American Cherokee Indian Museum - NC Smoky Mountain Attractions
		Authentically presenting and preserving thousands of years of Cherokee history and culture are the objectives of The Museum of the Cherokee Indian.
		On the Museum's entrance grounds is a twenty-foot, hand-carved statue of Sequoyah, the inventor of the Cherokee alphabet.
		One of the first presentations informs guests about how the Cherokee came to this region, how much territory they once claimed and how, through various treaties, lost much of their original lands.
	www.rodsguide.com /cherokee_museum.aspx (441 words)

	Sequoyah and the Cherokee Alphabet
		The warrior Sequoyah was born of this union in 1776.
		Probably born handicapped, and thus the name Sequoyah (Sikwo-yi is Cherokee for "pig's foot"), Sequoyah fled Tennessee as a youth because of the encroachment of whites.
		He moved to Willstown, Alabama, and enlisted in the Cherokee Regiment, fighting in the Battle of Horseshoe Bend, which effectively ended the war against the Creek Redsticks.
	aihc1998.tripod.com /sequoyah.html (573 words)

	Melissa's Myriad: Cherokee Page
		The early Cherokee lived in permanent villages in the southern Allegheny and Great Smoky Mountains, and in the surrounding areas of Virginia, North and South Carolina, Georgia, Tennessee and Alabama.
		Cherokee were divided into seven clans with members in every village.
		During the early 1800's the Cherokee were one of the most progressive, and prosperous, tribes in the United States.
	www.geocities.com /Athens/8020/cherokee.html (546 words)

	Sequoyah
		He moved to Willstown, Alabama, where he and other Cherokees enlisted on the side of the United States under General Andrew Jackson to fight the British troops and the Creek Indians in the ware of 1812.
		Because of his knowledge of the alphabet, Seqouyah became a delegate from Arkansas to appeal the federal government and defend the lands and people from the encroaching whites.
		After the Cherokees had settled in their new homes and had once again built their government and had begun to prosper, Sequoyah left for Texas and Mexico to help the Cherokee there.
	mypeoplepc.com /members/cherlyn/onefeather/id6.html (739 words)

	Cherokee Nation - CyberlawWiki (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Museum of the Cherokee Indian recently received a grant from the NEH/NSF to digitize a wealth of historical documents in the Cherokee alphabet (syllabary).
		Breyer's lecture covered Cherokee history, beginning with the tribe's support of the British during the Revolutionary War and including its subsequent treaties with the United States in which the federal government promised to protect Cherokee land and guarantee its boundaries and the legal and military moves against the tribe by the state of Georgia.
		Growing out of the arrest of a group of missionaries working with the Cherokees, the second case resulted in a unanimous ruling that not only nullified the Georgia law used to imprison the missionaries but also recognized the Cherokee nation as a separate community that exists outside the reach of state law.
	hcs.harvard.edu /~cyberlaw/wiki/index.php/Cherokee_Nation (1161 words)

	A Cherokee alphabet, a Muslim slave and a new national culture. . - Keeping Current - A is for American: Letters and ...
		A Cherokee alphabet, a Muslim slave and a new national culture.
		He was impressed with an elder member of the tribe named Sequoyah, who had created an alphabet for the Cherokees' spoken language.
		Cherokees were "lawful and literate" people who ran schools and owned mills in the Southeast, she notes.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0JAS/is_5_31/ai_86626695 (479 words)

	Picture History - Cherokee Alphabet
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		This alphabet was compiled by the Native American leader known as Sequoyah.
		He took some letters from an English spelling book and by inversion, modification, and invention adopted the symbols to Cherokee sounds.
	www.picturehistory.com /find/p/11360/mcms.html (96 words)

	Cherokee Fact Page (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Most of the Cherokee farms and villages are near flowing creeks or springs with fresh water.
		Cherokee farms were almost identical to White settler's farms.
		The Texas Cherokee were forced to move west by their social environment.
	www.texasindians.com /cherof.htm (386 words)

	The Cherokee Alphabet
		This was the core of the Tsalagi or Cherokee alphabet.
		In 1821, Sequoyah demonstrated his alphabet before Tsalagi leaders who were amazed and impressed by the accomplishment.
		In 1827, the Cherokee Phoenix - Tsa La Gi lehisanunhi - was established.
	www.georgiatribeofeasterncherokee.com /alphabet.htm (815 words)

	Letters of the Cherokee Alphabet (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Cherokee's can understand it, but it is very hard for us to to understand, read and write.
		To pronounce in Cherokee language, you would pronounce the first pronounce the letter at the beginning.
		if you were going to write to someone who doesn't understand the Cherokee language, then you might want to explain to them what it is, or how to say it.
	warrensburg.k12.mo.us /la/cherokeealph/aimee.html (74 words)

	Bibliography on Cherokee Language
		Included are Cherokee words with pronunciation guides and images on the left of animals and traditional objects named in the story illustrated on the right-hand pages.
		Background is given in the preface and an appendix with the Cherokee syllabary.
		Then they begin to develop the system that becomes the Cherokee syllabary, later reducing their symbols to 86 letters for syllables of the Cherokee language.
	www.ferrum.edu /applit/bibs/cherokeelang.htm (1403 words)

	Cherokee Syllabary (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The story he tells of the origins of the Cherokee's ability to write their own language and Sequoyah's role in bringing universal literacy to his people differs greatly from what is taught in the history books.
		One assertion made by Traveler Bird, which is supported by other evidence, is that the original form of the syllabary was modified by white missionaries to allow the easier creation of typeset.
		Typset Cherokee Syllabary as modified by the Rev. Samuel A. Worcester
	www2.privatei.com /~bartjean/cherok.htm (189 words)

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