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Copper Indian Artifacts
Whitney Key, " Copper Indian Artifacts," digital photograph, 2008,_ Whitney Key Collection_, Acworth, GA
This picture was taken in a museum at the Etowah Indians Mounds in Cartersville, Ga. This picture consists of Indian artifacts that are copper axes with wooden handles and copper covered axes. Throughout my gallery of pictures I chose to use this picture because of the detail of the tools. Their were many other artifacts at the museum including pottery, beads, and mask that the Indians would use in gatherings and Indians festivals.
The Cherokee Indian men made tools and weapons and the women harvested crops and did the farming. The men did all the hunting which required them to make all types of tools like axes, bow & arrows, stone knifes, etc. With these tools they hunted for food to provide for their families. They hunted larger animals with bow & arrows and with the smaller animals they used blowguns.
The larger animals they hunted were deer, buffalo, bears, etc. and the smaller animals consisted of all types of fish. Not just for hunting, but the indian men used the stone knives to skin the animals for clothing to keep warm and trade. They would use the skin for everything like in their homes and gatherings as well. The women made pottery and with the pottery tools they collected crops. A tool to the Indians was like technology to the American people today. They used the tools they made to survive everyday life.
The early Cherokees hunted and farmed all throughout North Georgia and other areas including the smoky mountains in TN. and the borderline of Alabama, until the white settlers invaded their land. Their lives were based around survival and when the settlers started to take over their whole outlook and how they were brought up changed. They than began to gain other beliefs, economic and political structures of the settlers. It went as far as some Cherokee Indians owning slaves and becoming Slave owners. Dodson states that " cutting through myths and setting aside romanticized notions, Dr Celia Nayor explores the bonds of culture and sometimes blood that linked Blacks to their Cherokee slave masters."
By gaining more structures, tools began to not be such a big impact in their lives and the use of them was not as important. Today you can find different artifacts from the early Cherokee's such as arrowheads, pottery, axes, and rocks. There are many of museums throughout the world based on the Indians that provide architect from the early Indians, the use of the tools and how they survived.
James H. O'Donnell, "Ther Cherokee Nation in the Civil War," American Indian Culture & Research Journal, (2007), 151-153
Angela P. Dodson, Diverse: Issues in Higher Education: (Gaileo: African Cherokees in Indian Territory), 16.
Copper Indian Artifacts
Whitney Key, " Copper Indian Artifacts," digital photograph, 2008,_ Whitney Key Collection_, Acworth, GA
This picture was taken in a museum at the Etowah Indians Mounds in Cartersville, Ga. This picture consists of Indian artifacts that are copper axes with wooden handles and copper covered axes. Throughout my gallery of pictures I chose to use this picture because of the detail of the tools. Their were many other artifacts at the museum including pottery, beads, and mask that the Indians would use in gatherings and Indians festivals.
The Cherokee Indian men made tools and weapons and the women harvested crops and did the farming. The men did all the hunting which required them to make all types of tools like axes, bow & arrows, stone knifes, etc. With these tools they hunted for food to provide for their families. They hunted larger animals with bow & arrows and with the smaller animals they used blowguns.
The larger animals they hunted were deer, buffalo, bears, etc. and the smaller animals consisted of all types of fish. Not just for hunting, but the indian men used the stone knives to skin the animals for clothing to keep warm and trade. They would use the skin for everything like in their homes and gatherings as well. The women made pottery and with the pottery tools they collected crops. A tool to the Indians was like technology to the American people today. They used the tools they made to survive everyday life.
The early Cherokees hunted and farmed all throughout North Georgia and other areas including the smoky mountains in TN. and the borderline of Alabama, until the white settlers invaded their land. Their lives were based around survival and when the settlers started to take over their whole outlook and how they were brought up changed. They than began to gain other beliefs, economic and political structures of the settlers. It went as far as some Cherokee Indians owning slaves and becoming Slave owners. Dodson states that " cutting through myths and setting aside romanticized notions, Dr Celia Nayor explores the bonds of culture and sometimes blood that linked Blacks to their Cherokee slave masters."
By gaining more structures, tools began to not be such a big impact in their lives and the use of them was not as important. Today you can find different artifacts from the early Cherokee's such as arrowheads, pottery, axes, and rocks. There are many of museums throughout the world based on the Indians that provide architect from the early Indians, the use of the tools and how they survived.
James H. O'Donnell, "Ther Cherokee Nation in the Civil War," American Indian Culture & Research Journal, (2007), 151-153
Angela P. Dodson, Diverse: Issues in Higher Education: (Gaileo: African Cherokees in Indian Territory), 16.