The Cherokees: A Proud People

The Cherokee: A Proud People The Cherokee Indians are of the Iroquoian linguistic family. Their economy, like that of most of the other southeastern tribes, was based on intensive agriculture, mainly of corn, beans, and squash while the typical hunted animals were deer, bear, and wild turkey. Corn was so important to them they had a ceremony when the corn began to get ripe in hopes that the corn would continue to grow well. The …

…there were 42,992 Cherokee living in Tahlequah in 1982. The U.S. Census has shown 293,074 Cherokee are living in more than 30 states in the United States. The Cherokee people are a proud people with roots in American history, which go all the way back to where America had a history. Despite losing many of its people to the Trail of Tears and to sickness and abuse, their people have survived and prospered with their capital in Tahlequah.