The Cherokee: Past and PresentProudly Presented by:

Kelsi BarnetteSasha Boyd

Andrew SmithWilliam ScottHeidy Labra

Erik Rodriguez

Clothing

Traditional

* Clothing, leggings, and shoes made from animal skins, like deer hide

Modern Clothing made from

cottons, denims and other manufactured

materials

Entertainment

Traditional

* Used to play Stickball • traditional game of

stickball is called lacrosse today

• play video games and do much of the same things we do today

Hoop game

Ceremony Past Used to the story of how they

came to be who they were

Had six main festivals a year

Would look in a crystal to say if they would live

Present Time for sacred beliefs

Social gathering event

The circle represents unity

Clothing is called regalias

Religion

Past Did not view the Earth as it's

mother.

The word Cherokee means principle people or people of god.

Cherokee people only adored the one great spirit

Present All practice Christianity, but

still have traditional ceremonies.

A traditional ritual for the Cherokee Indians is the going down to the water ritual.

Go to church as any other person would.

Pottery and Baskets

Past Pottery made from black clay

-crushed shells, mica, and plants for color

Baskets made from river cane, white oak, honey suckle, & hickory bark -dyes were only black walnut and blood root

Present Pottery still made from black

clay-different types of glaze and paints for color

Baskets still made from same materials as in the past but...dyes include butternut, yellow root, and sedge for brighter colors

Housing

Past

winter and summer

houses Houses as hard as

log cabins lived in villages near

rivers or lakes

Present

• live in houses much like us today

• Live throughout the United States

• Some choose to live on reservations

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Resources Used

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