| In 1500s staked out land three times as large as the State of Virginia from the Ohio River to Georgia and from the Tennessee Valley, across the Great Smoky Mountains to the Pledmont of the Carolinas | Established a constitution, had a government with two houses - senate and house of representatives, and an elected chief |
| Cherokee Nation Industries manufacture: electronic components - cables, wiring systems, circuit boards for defense and aerospace giants such as Boeing, General Dynamics, Martin Marietta | Make baskets from strips of oak or honeysuckle vines and carve figures in wood and stone |
| Ranches with hers of angus cattle | Grown blueberries, peaches and soybeans near Tahlequah, capital of the Cherokee Nation |
| Grew corn, watermelons, peanuts, cottom | Make buffalo grass dolls with ribbon skirts |
| Land is located at the gateway to the Great Smoky Mountain National Park | Green bottomlands with cattle, and hills with oak, hickory, ash and elm forests |
| Sources of revenue: fee for grazing and ranching on tribal lands, a tax of 50 cents on every carton of cigarettes sold at "smoke shops" and gaming | Land surrounded by mountains with deer, wildlife and trout streams |
| Tribal council invested money in a mirror factory and a fish hatchery | In early times, Cherokee learned white man's way of adapting and changing the land and technology |
| Indian Removal Act banished Chherokee and other tribes to land beyond the Mississippi River. | Live on 56,000 acre reservation in North Carolina |
| Survive in large part on tourism | Located in Oklahoma Ozark Plateau |
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