Native Americans in North Carolina The Cherokee Indians By: Tiquesha Wright & Silas Piggott

Native Americans in Native Americans in North CarolinaNorth Carolina

The Cherokee IndiansThe Cherokee IndiansBy: Tiquesha WrightBy: Tiquesha Wright

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Silas PiggottSilas Piggott

The Foods They AteThe Foods They Ate

• The woman harvestedThe woman harvested

• Crops of corn Crops of corn

• BeansBeans

• squashsquash

• sunflowers sunflowers

• recipes included cornbread, recipes included cornbread, soups, and stews cooked on soups, and stews cooked on stone hearths. stone hearths.

• The men huntedThe men hunted• Deer (ahawi)Deer (ahawi)• Wild turkeysWild turkeys• Fish in the river (atsadi)Fish in the river (atsadi)

Pictures of Their FoodsPictures of Their Foods

• Corn Corn Harvest FoodsHarvest Foods

• BeansBeans

Cherokee PeopleCherokee People

HistoryHistory

The History of the The History of the CherokeeCherokee IndiansIndians

• The Cherokee Indians were farming people.

• The Cherokee tribe spoke 23 dialects of Tsalagi.

• They lived in Georgia, S.C, Virgina, Kentucky, and Tennessee.

Columbian ExchangeColumbian Exchange

• New food and fiber crops were introduced to Eurasia and Africa, improving diets and fomenting trade there.

• The Columbian Exchange people started bringing drugs, coffee, sugar, and tobacco use to many millions of people.

Drugs that the Drugs that the Cherokee People DidCherokee People Did

• Cocaine Cocaine

Weed Weed

• MarijuanaMarijuana

Coffee, Sugar & Tobacco

• Coffee beans

• Sugar Tobacco

ShelterShelter

• The Cherokee Indians lived in log houses with mud and grass to seal the walls.

• They lived in settled villages, mostly by the rivers.

Maps of the Cherokee Indians

The map shows the Marches of the Army Under Col. Andrew Williams

in 1776 against the Cherokee Nation of Indians.

This is a new & accurate map of the province of the North and South

Carolina, Georgia, Tennessee, and Kentucky.