Sequoyah

of Tears. In North Carolina, the Eastern Band of Cherokee Nation thrived and were able to keep their traditions and culture alive. Prior to the Trail of Tears, the Cherokee people were very advanced compared to other tribes. In the early 1800’s, Sequoyah, created a syllabary alphabet for the Cherokee language. This lead to a Cherokee constitution being drafted on July 26, 1827. The alphabet and constitution are still in use today. (Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians) Unlike other tribes, the…

In 1831, when Charity and Henry had their first son, Henry and his father built a room onto the small cabin. A year and a half later, they had another son, whom they named Charles. The one extra room had sufficed, but now that Charity was expecting her third child, they were making ready to build another room to allow the family room to grow. Nancy and Eli were very proud grandparents- Charity often felt that her babies were getting all the love and attention they would have given their own…

A Talented Writer Susan Beth Pfeffer, a talented writer who has worked her hardest to be what she has become, a writer that makes readers happy to be reading her books. Born on February 2nd, 1948 at New York City from a middle-class family and raised in Woodmere, NY has one older brother. Her family originally lived in Queens before moving to a city called Woodmere in Long Island Southeastern from New York. Pfeffer’s father, Leo, a lawyer and her mom Freda Plotkin, a secretary.…

tribes. Missionary educators’ jobs were to civilize Native Americans to the Christianity belief. With the help from the ABCFM, missionaries were sent to Native Americans tribes to better educate them on Christianity. Cherokee alphabet was created by Sequoyah; it was use in first Native American newspaper “Cherokee Phoenix”, that was printed in both Cherokee and English. The Indian Removal Act forced thousands of Cherokee Indians off their land (Trail of Tears) into Indian territory. Once…

Ethnography Report – Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma The tribe I’ll be discussing throughout my ethnography report are the Cherokee Indians. There are three sub-tribes to the Cherokee’s which are the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma, Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians and United Keetoowah Band of Cherokees. Although they all originate from the same tribe/settlement, I’m going to be discussing the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma. Today, this tribe of Cherokee’s live within 14 counties of Northeastern Oklahoma.…

The river otter is part of the family Mustelidae, which is the weasel family. They have an elongated body that is widest at the hips with short and stocky legs. Another characteristic of this family is having a muscular neck that is in thickness equal to or greater than that of its head. River otters have a tail that is approximately one-third of their total body length with the end being tapered. They have a small flat head that with small anterior eyes, broad muzzle, long thick whiskers,…

Most people are aware of the devastating effects The Trail of Tears had on the Cherokee people and some people may question why this horrible event had to take place and what kind of President was Andrew Jackson to not only let but to fight tooth and nail for this policy. Though much has been written about the injustices that the Native Americans endured during the Trail of Tears very little attention has been given to why the people of that time would allow this forced removal to take place.…

A significant and catastrophic event in history was the Indian Removal Act of 1830, initiated and enacted by Andrew Jackson. Standing in the way of white settlers and their path to greater prosperity were the sizable number of Native Americans. The so-called Five Civilized Tribes, which included the Cherokees, Choctaws, Creeks, Chickasaws, and Seminoles occupied the land, especially in the South, which threatened the expansion of the land-hungry Americans. President Andrew Jackson promised to…

Mesoamerica, and probably China. Other cultures adapted to writing by copying. Other sites of writing was Egypt and Easter Island. The Greeks adapted an alphabet adding vowel sounds. The Etruscans modified the Greek alphabet later used by the Romans. Sequoyah, a Cherokee Indian, created the Cherokee writing system using eighty five symbols. Writing was used to stratified societies by an elite force to maintain records and manage accounts. Hunter/gatherers did not ever developed writing.…

M1 EQ: What is deculturalization? How does it function historically and in the present? When a student learns about America’s history, they learn about how America came to be and the struggles our country faced. I learned about some struggles but throughout this module, my eyes were opened to the unsettling way America came to be. When the settlers came to America, they were faced with a level of uncertainty but felt that it was their duty to bring civilization to the Western world (Spring,…