The daily life of the Cheyenne was vigorous and intense, but they seemed to pull through and live their lives in happiness. They were nomadic, and they had structure in their social life, and had a major conflict with the United States.
The Cheyenne, like other nomadic natives, came from Siberia, then traveled across the narrow Bering Strait that originally joined Asia and Alaska. Shai-ela is the Sioux word for Cheyenne, meaning “people who speak a strange language.” The Cheyenne first made their home in the land now called Minnesota, which provided them with every basic need. Then in the late 1600s, they traveled across the Mississippi River and onto the Great Plains, where both Northern and Southern Cheyenne are living today.
The Cheyenne used to live in earth houses with wooden frames covered in sod, but they then switched to tipis, a portable home that assembly and disassembly were no troubles at all. Tipis, made of wooden poles and buffalo hide, could easily be carried by a horse. The tipi was an excellent home for the nomadic Cheyenne. During the hot summers, the bottom of the tipi was rolled up so the air could flow through, but not as much sunlight. In the winter, the Cheyenne added an earth layer to the tipi for insolation. When the Cheyenne wanted to wander somewhere else, they packed all of their items, put the bulky items in the travois, and moved. A travois is a frame structure used on horses to carry things across vast land.
When babies are born, they get their ears pierced, sometimes more than once, in a special ceremony celebrating its birth. The child stays with the mother, so the mother places the baby in a cradleboard that could easily be carried throughout the camp while they worked. At an early age, the chil...
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... tribes. He told his men to take the scalps of the Cheyenne and wear them to get the Indian tribes to flee.
First the Cheyenne came from Siberia, then they traveled across the land bridge to get to America. Next they wander across the east side of the Mississippi River until the late 1600s. The Cheyenne then moved to the Great Plains and settled in what is now called Montana.
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The earliest known records of the Cheyenne Indians are from the mid 1600s. They were a nomadic peoples whom lived completely off the land. Originally, the Cheyennes lived in larger masses, residing in homes they called wigwams. Eventually, as they became a nomadic peoples, they converted to the usage of a teepee as a home. A Cheyenne teepee was primarily made of buffalo-hide and could be easily moved form place to place, following along behind the buffalo herds. The hunting of buffalo was no easy feat, as the Cheyennes hunted on foot, with bow and arrow. However, the Cheyennes thrived on buffalo; their meat provided food, there hides provided warmth, and the bones allowed for bows, cooking utensils and toys. Also, the sinew made bowstring and sewing equipment.
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The Cherokee lived in the present day United States of America hundreds of years before its occupation by the Europeans. History proclaims that members of this community migrated from the Great Lakes and settled in the Southern Appalachians. When the Europeans started settling down in America, the Cherokee decided to co-exist peacefully with her foreign neighbors. The Cherokee lands consisted of Alabama, parts of Virginia, Kentucky, North and South Carolina and Georgia.... ... middle of paper ...
Archeologists say that the Cherokee Indians migrated south from the Great Lakes region around the 15th century. The Cherokee tribe was one of the largest Native American tribes eventually settling and occupying the southeast portion of what was to become the United States. The Cherokee tribe was highly religious and spiritual. They considered warfare to be a polluting act and warriors were required to go thru a purification by a priest before reentering the Cherokee village. Yet in 1830, the Cherokee Indians were forcibly removed from their homeland by the very government the Cherokee Indians had supported during the Revolutionary War. This journey was later called the Trail of Tears.
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