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Cherokee history is the written and oral lore, traditions, and historical record maintained by the living Cherokee people and their ancestors. In the 21st century, leaders of the Cherokee people define themselves as those persons enrolled in one of the three federally recognized Cherokee tribes: The Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians , The ...
Year Date Event c. 1775–1783: During the American Revolutionary War, the Cherokee supported British forces against rebelling American colonists.: c. 1777: The Cherokee signed the Treaty of DeWitts’ Corner with South Carolina and Georgia, and the Treaty of Fort Henry with Virginia and North Carolina, ceding lands in both cases.
The Blackfoot First Nations were told of a medicine stone by the Snake First Nations, who inhabited the Montana area at the time. Years later, a Blackfoot tribe gathered a group of men and headed off to find the stone. When they found it, they were laughed at by their leader, who said it was a child's story and rolled the stone down the hill. [1]
The Blackfoot people name themselves "Real People" [5] in comparison to anyone that does not possess the ability to communicate with the spirit world like the members of the Blackfoot tribe. Ceremonies include the Sun Dance, called Medicine Lodge by the Blackfoot in English, [6] in which sacrifices would be made to Sun. According to the legend ...
Illustrations of members of the Five Civilized Tribes painted between 1775 and 1850 (clockwise from top left): Sequoyah, Pushmataha, Selocta, Piominko, and Osceola The term Five Civilized Tribes was applied by the United States government in the early federal period of the history of the United States to the five major Native American nations in the Southeast: the Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw ...
Award-winning Cherokee artist Kindra Swafford is inspired by nature, animals and her Cherokee heritage. "The symbols used in the weave patterns and everything, it gives me an outlet and a ...
The Blackfoot Confederacy, Niitsitapi, or Siksikaitsitapi [1] (ᖹᐟᒧᐧᒣᑯ, meaning "the people" or "Blackfoot-speaking real people" [a]), is a historic collective name for linguistically related groups that make up the Blackfoot or Blackfeet people: the Siksika ("Blackfoot"), the Kainai or Blood ("Many Chiefs"), and two sections of the Peigan or Piikani ("Splotchy Robe") – the ...
The epidemic continued to spread into the Great Plains, killing many thousands between 1837 and 1840. In the end, it is estimated that two-thirds of the Blackfoot population died, along with half of the Assiniboine and Arikara, a third of the Crow, and a quarter of the Pawnee. A trader at Fort Union reported "such a stench in the fort that it ...