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Page 1: Indians as Settlers Challenging student assumptions

Indians as Settlers

Challenging student assumptions

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What is an Indian?- Horses- Hunter-gatherers- Nomadic- Male

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Who are the Cherokee?- North Carolina- Trail o f Tears- Andrew Jackson- downtrodden

- Educated- bicultural and bilingual- Three migrations

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Cherokee as acculturated

• Church membership• Constitution• Cherokee Phoenix• William Wirt• Intermarriage• Seminaries and colleges

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Three waves of settlement

• OLD SETTLERS- 1792-1810• TREATY PARTY – 1820S• EMIGRANT/PATRIOT PARTY - 1838

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OLD SETTLERS

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TREATY PARTY

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EMIGRANT PARTY

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BOILING IT DOWN TO BLOOD

• FULL VERSUS HALF-BLOOD• TRADITIONAL VERSUS PROGRESSIVE• OLD SETTLERS – TRADITIONAL BUT NOT ALL

FULL• TREATY PARTY – HALF-BLOOD AND

PROGRESSIVE• PATRIOT PARTY – HALF-BLOOD LEADERS BUT

FULL BLOOD FOLLOWERS, PROGRESSIVE

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OLD SETTLERS V. EXODUSTERS

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GERMAN SETTLERS

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EMIGRANT PARTY V. MORMONS

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CONFLICTS WITH PLAINS INDIANS

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CREATION OF INSTITUTIONS

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Are the Cherokee settlers?

TYPE ONE SETTLERS• Farming• Families• Balanced sex distribution• Many children• Few over 45• High birth rate• Permanent• Peaceful• colonizing

CHEROKEE SETTLERS• Restarted farms• Came as families• Yes for sex distribution• Moved children• Many over 45• Zero birth rate in first years• Yes• No, political warfare• ?????