How Did The Cherokee's Influence On American Culture

When the earliest explorers came to America, wherever they settled they always influenced the culture of most native people. Cherokees like any other natives had their own culture and lived in an organized lifestyle. Early before the whites came, the Cherokees used to have a culture well organized that governed their aspect of life. Also, in spite of the white man’s influence, Cherokees had a form of education, language, economy, political systems and a lived in a particular geographical locality. The widespread impact of the white man prompted the Cherokees to change and integrate their lives to that of the white man. They did it by only adopting those elements that complimented their previous way of life. The Cherokees changed the following …show more content…
The education provided was used as a means to change the people's way of thinking and change their ways of life. Previously it was intended to bring a shift of the people from being hunters and gathers to being farmers. The government later introduced policies that offered conditional land surrender in exchange for an education. Regardless of the Cherokee not embracing the new regime their education system was improved, and it expanded rapidly. To showcase the new regime, they started to publish newspapers and books in the native language. Cherokee nation established institutes of higher education and some elementary schools. Due to its literacy expansion, it gained a remarkable education system it was envied by many forcing even the whites around the area to take their children in Cherokee schools. To deal with the new form of education of the native loyalists, Cherokee, especially those from the British traders and Cherokee women refused to take their children to the existing schools such as to the mission …show more content…
The missionaries built schools so that they can induce change to the younger generation. As soon as they came into the daily encounter with the missionaries, the Cherokees slowly started to adopt some aspects of Christianity from the missionaries. After a while, the Missionaries succeeded in transforming the younger generations. Those educated regarded the old traditions as old-fashioned ways. In a belief that this new religion would help them to become more civilized and would make them superior to their elders the following generation adopted it. In 1800 almost all the Cherokees had accepted the Christians’ strong wish to build a school. Having their tradition to follow, Cherokees for many years stayed uninterested in being associated with Christianity ( Perdue & Green,2005).
Language
The Cherokee people, early before the white man invasion, had an immense language that had a command of their lives. Their language made it easier to accept traditions and be unified at all times. It is also at this point where the Cherokees syllabary were invented by Sequoyah. This syllabary enabled them to read and write their language with ease. It is through this syllabary that Sequoyah was able to transform the Cherokee from a native oral culture into a literary culture that can read and write.
This introduction made it possible for the writing of a Constitution and publishing of newspapers. Cherokee