How Did The Cherokee Influence On American Culture

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When the earliest explorers came to America, wherever they settled, they always influenced the culture of most native people. Cherokees like any other natives had their own culture and lived in an organized lifestyle. Early before the whites came, the Cherokees used to have a culture well organized that governed their aspect of life. Also, despite the white man’s influence, Cherokees had a form of education, language, economy, political systems and a lived in a geographical locality. The widespread impact of the white man prompted the Cherokees to change and integrate their lives to that of the white man. They did it by only adopting those elements that complimented their previous way of life. The Cherokees changed the following aspects of …show more content…

The education provided was used as a means to change the people's way of thinking and change their ways of life. Previously it was intended to bring a shift of the people from being hunters and gathers to being farmers. The government later introduced policies that offered conditional land surrender in exchange for an education. Regardless of the Cherokee not embracing the new regime their education system was improved, and it expanded rapidly. To showcase the new regime, they started to publish newspapers and books in the native language. A Cherokee nation established institutes of higher education and some elementary schools. Due to its literacy expansion, it gained a remarkable education system, it was envied by many forcing even the whites around the area to take their children in Cherokee schools. To deal with the new form of education of the native loyalists, Cherokee, especially those from the British traders and Cherokee women refused to take their children to the existing schools such as to the mission …show more content…

Their language made it easier to accept traditions and be unified at all times. It is also at this point where the Cherokees syllabary was invented by Sequoyah. This syllabary enabled them to read and write their language with ease. It is through this syllabary that Sequoyah was able to transform the Cherokee from a native oral culture into a literary culture that can read and write. This introduction made it possible for the writing of a Constitution and publishing of newspapers. Cherokee Phoenix, a newspaper was then published in Cherokee Native

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