Gerardo Mateos TA: Vineeta Chand Lin 1-Sec A06 17 May 2004 Cherokee: An Endangered Language In the United States‚ an emphasize in learning the dominant language‚ English for example‚ can inevitably put other languages within the country in extinction. In reality‚ there are many other spoken languages in the United Sates‚ like those spoken by Native Americans‚ that are becoming endangered because of the immensity of more used languages. One may ask‚ what is an endangered language? According
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The Cherokee were horticulturalists supplementing this with foraging. Cherokee were matrilineal‚ with strict divisions of labor as women working on the gardens and taking care of the children while the men did the hunting and gathering. The plants they planted mostly were corn and beans. The Cherokee were mostly egalitarian and disliked controversy. They believed everything had a spiritual connection and had power‚ when the men went gathering and hunting the men had to perform rituals to appease
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The Cherokee culture has changed dramatically from their pre-European contact to present day. Over that time‚ they overcame many challenges and tragedies but resulted in a strong and prosperous community and had made them one of the most well-known and admired Native American tribes of today. Prior to European contact The Cherokee nation was a vast‚ covering most of the south-eastern region of what is now known as the United States from West Virginia‚ down the coast to North Carolina and South
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The Cherokee nation is one of the many North American native cultures directly affected by the European white settlers. Even in ancient times‚ they were a very civilized and progressive people. Their culture was mainly agrarian‚ but focused around ceremonies‚ music‚ art‚ and games. Prior to the arrival of the Europeans‚ “the Cherokee history was passed down orally from generation to generation” (The Cherokee Nation). They adapted to the white settlers by embracing their “formal education‚ developing
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the Land is Important to the Cherokee Nation Abstract Most of us have learnt about the Trail of Tears as an event in American history‚ but not many of us have ever explored why the removal of the Indians to the West was more than an issue of mere land ownership. Here‚ the meaning and importance of land to the original Cherokee Nation of the Southeastern United States is investigated. American land was seen as a way for white settlers to profit‚ but the Cherokee held the land within their hearts
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the struggles of the early Cherokee people that were torn between the ways of their ancestors and the new régimes that some of their people want to follow. The Cherokee people were confused with how to adapt to their surroundings and to claim their own rights that the current government was denying to them. In the Trail of Tears‚ Ehle uses many different people and the historic accounts of their actions to tell the story of tragic and unfair deals made with the Cherokee people by the United States
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Henry Stuart‚ author of “Report from Cherokee Country (1776)”‚ was the chief deputy superintendent of the Cherokee following the French and Indian War. After some side-research‚ I could not find any reports on exactly the function of a chief deputy superintendent is in Native American culture‚ however; I did find that a person who is in a deputy position‚ acts as a chief executive within a tribe. Throughout the passage‚ Henry Stuart tells the story of a council meeting between the Native American
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Georgia when gold was discovered‚ the Cherokee were forcibly removed from their land. The Cherokee sued in the Supreme Court for the right to remain on their land‚ and the ruling was in their favor. But unfortunately‚ President Andrew Jackson ignored this ruling. He sent federal troops to remove the Cherokee. With the harsh winter conditions in 1838 the troops succeeded in removing the Cherokee form Georgia‚ and forced them to march to Oklahoma. The Cherokee and Seminole were Indian nations and
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INED 411 Book Review Trail of Tears The authors’ name of the book called Trail of Tears: The Rise and Fall of the Cherokee Nation is John Ehle. Trail of Tears was published in the United States by Anchor Books‚ a division of random house‚ New York and in Canada. This book was published in September 22‚ 1989. This book has 424 pages. John Ehle is more than qualified to write on this subject. He has wrote over seventeen books‚ his first book was published in 1957 so he has over 30 years
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Perhaps the Cherokee nature of adapting western culture for their own benefit can be traced back to Cherokee Mothers and their decisions to enroll their children into Missionary schools set up by Americans. These mothers sought to best equip their children‚ and their community for the increasingly western world‚ and by educating the next generation in English‚ they sought to raise powerful individuals capable of straddling both worlds while strengthening the Cherokees traditions and way of life (Smith
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