The Cherokee
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The Cherokee people built
shelters. This
house was called an asi. They would build houses or
shelters for the
winter and for summer. In the winter, they built small
round houses that
looked like an upside down basket. They used this house,
because it was
low to the ground and it would keep all the heat inside.
They made their
houses wattle and daub. Wattle is a combination of twigs,
branches, and
stalks which are woven together. Daub is a sticky
substance, which can
include mud and clay. On the houses, they would cover
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In the summer, the men
would build a
longhouse. This house was used, because it allowed cool air
to pass in
on those hot days. They get the wood from the trees. They
would gather
up wood, and just like bricks, use mud or clay to fasten
the logs
together, to make them firm. Sometimes the Cherokee would
build
a fence around their home to keep away enemies. They were
made of wood
from the trees. |
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However many were in the
clan would be
separated by house. They had approximately two hundred
large villages. Each
village had thirty to sixty homes in it. In the center of a
village was
a seven- sided council house. Here they would hold meetings
and
ceremonies. Shelter was something that kept the Cherokees
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The Cherokee had many tools
and weapons to
use in their daily lives. They used weapons for hunting.
Tools were used
in many different ways. They also had utensils for eating
and mixing. |
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The weapons they used were
knives,
blowguns, spears, traps, hatchets, and bows and arrows.
Blowguns are
used for hunting small animals. A blowgun was a long tube,
where you
would blow and a dart would shoot out. Spears and traps
were also used
for hunting. Spears are long poles with a sharp point made
of an
arrowhead. Traps were in the shape of a box, made of wood.
They would
attach bait to a string. When the creature comes, and grabs
the bait, it
triggers a trap door that shuts on them. These people made
different
sized boxes, depending on the size of the animal they
wished to capture. |
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The people also made
utensils. Tomahawks
were useful for chopping down trees or cutting wood. They
would make
pottery with clay, for holding water. They made baskets by
weaving
grasses together. These were used for gathering nuts and
fruits. Nets
were used for catching fish. They made dugout canoes for
transportation.
To push themselves along the river, they cut very large
poles to push on
the bottom of the river. Cherokees made spoons and bowls
from wood. They
would use a mortar and pestle to grind corn. They used
stone for knives.
Cooking pots were made of clay and all the patterns were
made from wood.
All of these tools and weapons are useful to the daily life
to the daily
life of the Cherokee people. |
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| The above article was written by Kailani
California. |
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