indians as settlers challenging student assumptions
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Indians as Settlers
Challenging student assumptions
What is an Indian?- Horses- Hunter-gatherers- Nomadic- Male
Who are the Cherokee?- North Carolina- Trail o f Tears- Andrew Jackson- downtrodden
- Educated- bicultural and bilingual- Three migrations
Cherokee as acculturated
• Church membership• Constitution• Cherokee Phoenix• William Wirt• Intermarriage• Seminaries and colleges
Three waves of settlement
• OLD SETTLERS- 1792-1810• TREATY PARTY – 1820S• EMIGRANT/PATRIOT PARTY - 1838
OLD SETTLERS
TREATY PARTY
EMIGRANT PARTY
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
OLD SETTLERS V. EXODUSTERS
GERMAN SETTLERS
EMIGRANT PARTY V. MORMONS
CONFLICTS WITH PLAINS INDIANS
CREATION OF INSTITUTIONS
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• ?????