723+Cherokee,+The+Southeast

= Cherokee The Southeast : = = Nick Guo = = Kelsey Liu = = Yu Han Huang = = Zeeshan Khan = = Michael Dolgin = = Melissa Gonzalez = = = **Question #1:** The __#|study__ of the Native American tribe Cherokee is important because many of the objects we have today came from the Cherokee such as the cradle board, what they used to carry babies. The Cherokee also settled in America which is part of our USA history that we learn to be able to have more knowledge about this, helping us in the future. It is also important to study the Native American tribe Cherokee because many of the ways they lived back then, are the same ways we live today, such as growing crops and hunting animals for food. The Cherokee were also religious, they believed in spirits. Ceremonies were held in order to ask the spirits to help them. Some of these ceremonies took place before leaving for battle, going on a hunt, or healing sick people. It is important to know where the ways we live today came from and how it all started. It answers a lot of our questions by studying the Cherokee and we learn how the way we live came to be.

**Question #2:** ===** The Cherokee government was created with the Principal Chief as head of the Cherokee Nation in 1784. The Cherokee formed their governments because they wanted to organize their environment. The Cherokee governed themselves in a democratic way. The tribes each had a priest, war chief, and a peace chief. However, despite this there was no written laws that stated that anybody had to anything. Today the Cherokee government consists of the chief executive which is called the principle chief. There is a legislative branch called the tribal council. The judicial branch is called the tribunal. **===

=Question #3: = The Cherokee got along with the Europeans showing friendship, teaching each other things, and trading with each other. For example, they taught them how to hunt, fish, farm, and etc. They also taught them how to use guns and artillery. The Cherokee and the Europeans had trade routes where they would __#|travel__ in carts. The first contact was in 1540 by Hernando De Soto which he referred the tribe as the "Chalaque". Then he started looking for gold but the first village they encountered had almost no people because they were aware of the Spaniards conduct toward neighboring villages and they left.