Sandra Hayes Student #74959 Professor Dale Johnson BBA 300 Intercultural Communications December 13‚ 2011 The MOWA Band of Choctaw Indians The Choctaw Indians of Alabama are a band of Indians that managed to remain behind in the outer regions of north Mobile and south Washington counties after their tribal lands were given up to the United States in 1830. Beginning in 1830‚ the most significant period of their removal from their homelands‚ the majority of the Choctaw tribe was forced along the
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abstract shapes to faces stamped onto the outside of the pottery‚ which was something that the Cherokee did not adopt (Williams et all. 1998). The Cherokee Indians stuck to the various curvature and angled designs stamped on the outside of their vessel (Fariello 2013). It is thought that the Swift Creek were using ceramics as a source for rituals to give reverence to their God or to nature‚ in which in Cherokee culture‚ they used pottery to store water‚ grains‚ and preserve heirloom seeds for the upcoming
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sights within the country. Cherokee Indians have a similar belief to what happens after death – to Christianity beliefs. Cherokee Indians also believe that you rise up into a heavenly place‚ but God also gives you a choice of where you would like to go. This written report will compare comparing the three above named religions‚ and proving and all religions have similarities and something in common. One of the things Christianity‚ Aboriginal beliefs and Cherokee Indian beliefs have in common is
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http://www.poarchcreekindians.org/westminster/tribal_history.html The Poarch Band of Creek Indians are descendants of a segment of the original Creek Nation‚ which once covered almost all of Alabama and Georgia. Unlike many southeastern Indian tribes‚ the Poarch Creeks were not removed from their tribal lands‚ and have lived together for over 150 years. In the late 1700’s‚ the Creek Confederacy consisted of Alabama land north of current day Stockton‚ with the heart of the Creek Nation centralized
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A Day in the Life of a Cherokee Indian Tribal Community The Cherokee Indians are a tribal community located in the southeast region of America mostly in North and South Caroline‚ Kentucky‚ Virginia‚ Georgia and Tennessee‚ they normally live near rivers but in different areas‚ each family had two houses in different villages‚ one for summer and one for winter. Their summer homes were larger shaped as rectangles and were made out of sticks with a conical shape roof made from bark‚ their winter homes
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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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group of educated new men‚ that could preserve the Cherokee Nation‚ understand the U. S. laws and outsmart negotiators that were after Cherokee land. His biggest hope for the future of the Cherokee was his son‚ John Ridge. John Ridge was a weak boy that lived with a disease that made it hard for him to walk. But Major Ridge was optimistic about the future with his son. 3. (a.) The pressures that John Ross saw threatening the Cherokee Nation was‚ the slowly diminishing alliance with the U.
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Cherokee Removal Chapter 2: Georgia was one of the most important in the policy of indian removal and its relation to the Cherokees No state wanted them out more‚ sent most resolutions‚ had hard delegation‚ most press about indian removal Begins in 1802‚ state and fed gov. negotiated arrangement where Georgia gives up its colonial charter claims to Alabama and Mississippi. In compensation‚ Georgia gets $1.25 million‚ congressional agreement to assume responsibility for the legal and financial
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September 8‚ 2012 Cherokee Removal The Cherokee Removal could be said to have begun when England lost the Revolutionary War to the United States. That’s when the people of the United States felt that they could control “uncivilized” people and their land. Of course the Cherokee to those people were “uncivilized” so that meant that they could take over what rightfully belonged to the Cherokee. However‚ President George Washington and Henry Knox wanted to experiment with the Cherokee in hopes of having
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Sam Davis Chambers Cherokee Removal essay 11/19/13 Georgia’s campaign for Indian removal begins in the early 19th century. The state of Georgia and the federal government made an agreement that made Georgia surrender its colonial land claims in the present day Alabama-Mississippi border region. Part of the deal insured that the United States government would acquire all the lands held by Indians within the new boundaries of the state as “rapidly as it could be done peaceably and on reasonable
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