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The document provides information about three Native American tribes - the Cherokee, Shawnee, and Chickasaw Indians. It describes aspects of their cultures and ways of life, including their villages, gender roles, religious beliefs, and the challenges they faced due to European colonization and United States expansion, such as conflicts, loss of territory, and forced relocation along the Trail of Tears. Students are directed to learn about the similarities and differences between these three tribes by reviewing slides containing details about their homes, livelihoods, and histories.

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EDUC 6710 Virtual Fieldtrip - Kristy Newson - Pot

The document provides information about three Native American tribes - the Cherokee, Shawnee, and Chickasaw Indians. It describes aspects of their cultures and ways of life, including their villages, gender roles, religious beliefs, and the challenges they faced due to European colonization and United States expansion, such as conflicts, loss of territory, and forced relocation along the Trail of Tears. Students are directed to learn about the similarities and differences between these three tribes by reviewing slides containing details about their homes, livelihoods, and histories.

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The Cherokee, Shawnee and

Chickasaw Indians

4th Grade Social Studies


Ms. Newson
Standards
4.1.01 Understand the diversity of human
cultures.
a. Describe cultures of Native American tribes.
• 4.1.spi.4 examine how Native American culture changed
as a result of contact with European cultures. (i.e.
decreased population, spread of disease, increased
conflict, loss of territory, increase of trade.)
• 4.1.spi.5. identify various racial and ethnic groups in
Tennessee at the founding of statehood (i.e. Cherokee,
Creek, Shawnee, English, Scottish, French, American
born pioneers).
Objective
Students will identify similarities and
differences among the Cherokee,
Chickasaw, and Shawnee Indians.
Directions
Click the button to move forward from slide to
slide in order.
Click the button to move to the previous slide.
Selecting an Indian tribe along the bottom of the
screen will move you to a specific section of the
tour.
Vocabulary words are highlighted for you. Selecting
them will guide you to the glossary.

Cherokee Shawnee Chickasaw


The Cherokee Indians
• A typical Cherokee village would be home to
around 30 to 50 families.

• The women were responsible for the house,


farming, and the family. The men were
responsible for hunting and war.

• The Cherokee were a religious people who


believed in spirits. They performed ceremonies
in order to ask the spirits to help them.

• In 1835 some of the Cherokee signed a treaty


with the United States giving the US all of the
Cherokee land in return for land in Oklahoma
plus $5 million. Most of the Cherokee did not
want to do this, but they had no choice. In 1838
the US army forced the Cherokee nation to
move from their homes in the Southeast all the
way to the state of Oklahoma. Over 4,000
Cherokee people died on the march to
Oklahoma. Today this forced march is called the
"The Trail of Tears".

Cherokee
The Shawnee Indians
• Because of their nomadic nature, their homes were
never permanent structures. They lived in temporary
dome-shaped homes called wigwams which were
constructed of tree bark and sap, brush, cattails and
sometimes hide.

• Although they did not always get along, the Cherokee


Indians to the south were very important to the
Shawnee. The Shawnee adopted a lot of music and
dance from them and regularly traded with them.

• In the early 1800s, disease and war brought the


Shawnee population of over 10,000 tribe members to a
mere 3,500.

• The Shawnee women were farmers. They grew squash,


beans and several varieties of corn on the land around
their homes. Women spent a lot of time doing arts and
crafts. They are known for their beautiful woodcarvings,
pottery and beadwork.

• The Shawnee men were responsible for going to war


when necessary, mainly as a means of protecting their
family.

Shawnee
The Chickasaw Indians
• The Chickasaw were both farmers and hunters. They
farmed the three main crops grown by many Native
Americans including corn, beans, and squash. They also
hunted game like deer and fished in the lakes and rivers.

• When the United States passed the Indian Removal Act of


1830, the Chickasaw were forced to relocate to Indian
Territory in Oklahoma. Other Indian nations from the
southeast were also required to relocate including the
Cherokee, Creek, Seminole, and Choctaw. The path they
traveled has become known as the Trail of Tears.

• The Chickasaw Indians originally lived in the Southeast in


areas of Mississippi, Alabama, Tennessee, and Kentucky.
In 1832 they migrated to Oklahoma after being forced to
sell their land to the United States government.

• The original Chickasaw Indians lived in small villages.


Their homes were one room wattle and daub homes made
with a wood frame covered with a plaster of mud and
straw.
Glossary
Allies - to join (yourself) with another person, group, etc., in order to
get or give support
Migrate – to move from one country or place to live or work in another
Nomadic - roaming about from place to place aimlessly, frequently, or
without a fixed pattern of movement
Reservation - an area of land in the U.S. that is kept separate as a
place for Native Americans to live
Territory - an area of land that belongs to or is controlled by a
government
Treaty - an official agreement that is made between two or more
countries or groups

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