My blog is going to focus on the Cherokee, a tribe originally from the southeastern present-day U.S., but were forced to move to Oklahoma in the 1800’s along the trail of tears.
The Cherokee people are a group of people whose lives revolve around balance. Their religion revolves around balance, and they feel it is their duty to keep that balance. Such ways for them to keep this balance is by performing ceremonies and rituals throughout the year to please the spirits, so that the spirits can help keep things in balance.
The Cherokee seem to be one of the few tribes that were able to survive once Europeans began to colonize on their land. They kind of accepted the fact that the settlers were there to stay, and nothing would make them leave. The Cherokee people would adapt to their new lives, and even went through a process called civilizing, which was pretty much them giving permissions for the non-natives to come in and teach them their ways, and have them move on from the Cherokee traditions and way of life.
Eventually though, the settlers still got their way and got the land the Cherokees lived on. However the Cherokee would not die out, as they would go on a journey to Oklahoma that was later named the trail of tears.
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