736+Cherokee,+The+Southeast

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In the time period of Native American's Cherokee men carved ferocious masks of wood. This artifact is a booger mask and the Cherokee used these booger masks to show how their enemies looked like. They painted them, and used to make fun of the their enemies. When the Native Americans made these booger masks they would do dances that would show how the enemies would be rude.

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 * [[image:http://www.aaanativearts.com/cherokee/ancient-cherokee-village.jpg width="482" height="199" align="center" caption="Ancient Cherokee Village"]]

This is a Cherokee summer house. They lived in different houses for winter and summer. The summer houses are usually in a shape of a rectangle or a square.They were covered with bark, wood, earth, or clay.The Cherokee lived in wattle and daub homes. In the Winter they lived in smaller, doped shaped houses which was lower in the ground to be warm. The roofs were made of thatch or bark. This is the Cherokee alphabet. The Cherokee were the first people to come up with an alphabet because they were looking at the Europeans customs and how they talked.

__Why is the study of Native American history important?__ The study of Native American history is important because it will tell us more about our world and who are the others that live in it. The study is so important because this will tell us about how the Native Americans lived and what they had to face with all of this racism and stereo types that were made by the Europeans and now. Also, it will show us what kind of cultures and traditions the Native Americans had. In addition, it possibly could show us how we could improve our lifestyle now. That is why the study of Native American history is important. __ How and why did Native Americans form their first governments and communities; how are they alike? __ The Native Americans are split into tribes with different beliefs and lifestyles. For example, many of the Iroquois lived in longhouses while the Yana tribe lived in tee-pees. The Native Americans formed their governments and communities because they did not want to be a separate group of people trying to survive on their own. They knew that they would be stronger united and more powerful. __How did and/or how could Native Americans and Europeans get along?__ Clashes between the the Native Americans and the Europeans were unavoidable. The two groups were very different. The Native Americans didn't give their sacred (connected with god(s) ) land away to the Europeans. This is why they did not like each other and did not get along very well. If the two tribes split the land they would have been more peaceful and the Native Americans would have taught the Europeans some planting skills and the Europeans would probably want to do the same!!!!!!!!!!!!!