Cherokees and Creeks
A view into their history
Cherokees
• The Cherokees’ houses were made of rivercane
and plaster.
• Chiefs were men and landowners were women.
• War chiefs were men, but the peace chief could
be a woman.
Sequoyah
• Sequoyah created the
Cherokee syllabary,
which enabled the
Cherokees to read,
write, record their
laws, and publish
newspapers in their
own language.
Cherokees
• During the 1800’s the US
government created an
Indian Territory in
Oklahoma.
• In 1839, US troops
expelled the Cherokee
from their ancestral
homeland in the
Southeast to this Indian
Territory.
• This was known as the
Trail of Tears.
Creeks
• The Creek Indians often
fought with the Cherokee
Indians.
• The Creeks formed the
Creek Confederacy as a
defense.
• They lived in an area
near the Ocmulgee
Creek.
Creek Indians
• The Creeks homes
were also built of
rivercane and plaster.
• When the Creek
population reached
about 400-600 people
they would split and
half would move to a
nearby site.
Creek Removal
• Creeks avoided the American revolution, but
their lives changed afterwards.
• Georgia viewed the Creeks as impediments to
the expansion of slavery.
• In the Treaties of New York(1790), Fort
Wilkinson(1802), and Washington(1805) the
Creeks ceded their lands east of the Ocmulgee
River.
Creek Removal
• The Treaty of Indian Springs of 1825, is
when Georgia agents bribed Creek leader
William McIntosh to sign away all Creek
territory in Georgia.
• The Creeks were furious with the Creek
leader and put McIntosh to death for his
treachery.
Research
• Using the websites listed we will now
research more about the Cherokee and
Creek Indians on the internet.
• Then we will create a graphic organizer on
Inspiration listing the details that we
learned about them.
• Finally we will create a Venn diagram
using Inspiration that compares and
contrast these Native American cultures.