A TEST: Are you a Cherokee or a Cherokeet?

Answer the questions below, then go to the Answers for evaluation & information.

1. How many teepees did a Cherokee woman own?

2. Who was "Long Man" in Cherokee literature?

3. At what age was a Cherokee male considered to be a man?

4. What was the first ambition of a Cherokee man?

5. What was the most-used ritual of a Cherokee?

6. When a Cherokee baby was born, how was it detrmined to what clan it belonged?

a. By the position of the moon or other planets.

b. By the time of the year, the season.

c. Because of some happening or event of the time.

7. When the first white traders and intruders entered the Cherokee country, why didn't the chiefs simply have them expelled?

8. How often did the tribal council meet?

9. After the Cherokees joined in the war to defeat the trouble-making Upper Creek factions, who was the white leader of that army who thereafter became very famous?

10. Who was the President of the United States of America who actively set out to ruin the Cherokees and remove the remainder of them west?

11. The "treaty" of 1835 by which the Cherokees were moved west was signed by various well-known Cherokee men. Why was that "treaty" illegal?

12. Who was the famous white journalist and poet who came to the Cherokee Nation in the mid-1830's (just before the Trail of Tears) and recorded Cherokee history notes, social customs, etc., which are now in the Newberry Library in Chicago?

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