Cherokee

8 08, 2017

Cherokee food – What did Cherokee people eat?

By |2019-09-14T06:38:15-07:00August 8th, 2017|Native American|15 Comments

Cherokee food: Corn on the cob The Three Sisters People who lived in the Cherokee nation were mostly farmers. They ate mainly corn and beans and squash (the "Three Sisters") that they grew in their fields. More about the Three [...]

8 08, 2017

Early Cherokee clothing – Native American history

By |2019-04-11T06:27:40-07:00August 8th, 2017|Clothing, Native American|5 Comments

Cherokee hairstyles Early Cherokee clothing: Tsiyu Gansini, Cherokee chief (late 1700s AD) - Cherokee hairstyles Like most people, Cherokee people used their clothing and hairstyles to show that they were [...]

8 08, 2017

Cherokee art and Cherokee pottery

By |2018-04-07T17:05:24-07:00August 8th, 2017|Art, Native American|Comments Off on Cherokee art and Cherokee pottery

Swannanona pottery (ca. 1000 BC) Even before Cherokee people first came to the southeast, the Woodland people who were living there were making baskets and pottery. Their earliest pottery looks a lot like baskets and probably came [...]

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