Cherokee Tribe Research Paper

“Indigenous peoples” is defined in Anthropology as “the original inhabitants of particular territories; often descendants of tribes people who live on as culturally distinct colonized people. Cherokees are amongst the indigenous peoples who where settled in is what now the southeastern united states. Almost two hundred plus villages scattered throughout what are now the states of Alabama, Georgia, Kentucky, North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia, and West Virginia. The original territories where broken down into Three regions the Lower, Middle, and Overhill Towns, Cherokees also known as cave people came from near the Blue Ridge mountains a part of the Appalachian Mountains. Many of the early Cherokee peoples lived along the Tennessee River, They settled in in agricultural societies. As of 2015 almost half if not more of the Cherokee Indians live in and reside in Oklahoma, the other half are scattered throughout North Carolina, Florida, California, Arkansas and Texas. Today the Cherokee Indians …show more content…
The Cherokee nation as of 2011 has roughly three hundred thousand registered. Oklahoma has the largest population of the groups and as of 2006 it is at approximately a hundred eighty thousand. When the Cherokees encountered the Europeans it destroyed many of their population with the smallpox disease in 1738 due to the lack of immunity killing almost half of their tribe. In 1835 a removal act that was passed would latter devastate more of the Cherokee population, in 1838 president Jackson ordered the U.S Army to remove these people from there homeland and many died in prisons while being held. When the march west began of the estimated twenty thousand marchers four thousand died in turn ended with the march being called the Trail Of Tears. Including the Cherokee nation being in the American civil war another estimated twenty five percent was lost from the