Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
Turn the pages of this book to learn about Cherokee Indians. Find out how they lived, hunted, and farmed in the past. Learn what it was like as a child growing up in a Cherokee family. See how Cherokee people are working to keep their language alive today. In this book you will also discover why each Cherokee family had two houses, learn about the Trail of Tears, and find out about "the three sisters."
Synopsis
These book focus on Native American culture by examining geographic and cultural groupings as well as the major nations and tribes within each area.
Table of Contents
A Smokey sunrise -- Cherokee beginnings -- Forest life -- Cherokee towns -- Growing up Cherokee -- Medicine men and chiefs -- Fighting for themselves -- Living with the American frontier -- Writing laws and language -- The Trail of Tears -- A new home, new problems -- Losing land, keeping old ways -- Today -- Cherokee, always.