Five Civilized Tribes

Apache, Arapaho, Cahuilla, Cherokee, Cheyenne, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Comanche, Dakota, Gwich’in, Hopi, Iroquois, Kiowa, Kickapoo, Ktunaxa, Lakota, Lenape, Lumbee, Makah, Menominee, Mitchigamea, Mohawk, Mohegan, Navajo, Odawa, Ojibwe, Omaha, Paiute, Pawnee, Pennacook, Pima, Potawatomi, Sakonnet, Shawnee, Shoshone, Sioux, Spokane, Tohono, Tolowa, Yapui etc. These are just some amongst many of Native American tribes. But I am going to talk about just five tribes. These five tribes are known as Five “Civilized” Tribes. To be more precise, I am talking about five Native American nations: Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Creek, and Seminole. But why are they called „Civilized“ tribes? Mainly because of the fact that these tribes adopted attributes of the colonists’ culture. The tribes adopted features like Christianity, literacy, market participation etc. Interesting fact is that the use of the term "civilized" has historically been employed to differentiate the Five Tribes from other tribes that, by contrast, were referred to during the same period as "wild".
The Five Civilized Tribes lived in the states of Mississippi, Alabama, Tennessee, Georgia, Florida, North Carolina, and South Carolina. Most were descendants of what is now called the Mississippian culture, an agrarian culture that grew crops of corn and beans, with hereditary religious and political elites.
The Cherokee lived in Georgia, North Carolina and South Carolina. They spoke an Iroquoian language. In the 19th century, historians and ethnographers recorded their oral tradition that told of the tribe having migrated south in ancient times from the Great Lakes region, where other Iroquoian-speaking peoples were.An interesting fact is that The Cherokee were one of the first, if not the first, major non-European ethnic group to become U.S. citizens.
The Chickasaw are Native American people of the United States who originally resided along the Tennessee River and other parts of Tennessee, West of Huntsville,