FIRST CONTACTS 28000 BCE 1821 CE
NATIVE AMERICAN HISTORY ORIGINS OF EARLY PEOPLE IN THE AMERICAS
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Coastal Plain
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Piedmont
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Mountain
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Tidewater
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Southern Appalachian Mountains are the ancestral home of the Cherokee people, whose forebears have lived here for more than 11, 000 years.
Detailed explanation-2: -Originally located in the southeastern United States in parts of Alabama, Georgia, Tennessee, and North Carolina, the Cherokee Nation was forced to relocate to Indian Territory (present-day Oklahoma) in 1838 after gold was discovered in our homelands.
Detailed explanation-3: -Today the majority of Cherokees practice some denomination of Christianity, with Baptist and Methodist the most common. However, a significant number of Cherokees still observe and practice older traditions, meeting at stomp grounds in local communities to hold stomp dances and other ceremonies.
Detailed explanation-4: -Yonah (Mountain) – Cherokee word “yo-nuh” meaning bear. This is the name given by the white settlers to the mountain in White County, but the Cherokees called it “Gada-lulu, ” an untranslatable name.