Two Nations, One People - The Cherokee

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Green bottomlands with cattle, and hills with oak, hickory, ash and elm forests

Ranches with hers of angus cattle

Make buffalo grass dolls with ribbon skirts

Cherokee Nation Industries manufacture: electronic components - cables, wiring systems, circuit boards for defense and aerospace giants such as Boeing, General Dynamics, Martin Marietta

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

Grow blueberries, peaches and soybeans near Tahlequah, capital of the Cherokee Nation

Land is located at the gateway to the Great Smoky Mountain National Park

Land surrounded by mountains with deer, wildlife and trout streams

Survive in large part on tourism

Tribal council invested money in a mirror factory and fish hatchery

Make baskets from strips of ask or honeysuckle vines and carve figures in wood and stone

In 1500s staked out land three times as large as the State of Virginia from the Ohio River to Georgia and from the Tenessee Valley, across the Great Smoky Mountains to the Piedmont of the Carolinas

Indian Removal Act banished Cherokee and other tribes to land beyond the Mississippi river.

In early times,, Cherokee learned white man's way of adapting and chhanging the land and technology

Grew corn, watermelons, peanuts, cotton

Established a consititution, had a government with two houses - senate and house of representatives, and an elected chief