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Carnivores, fire, flood and storms took their annual toll, but neither these nor Indian hunting appeared to reduce the number of buffalo appreciably on the Great Plains. The huge herds seemed indestructible before the coming of the white man.

101-Buffalo Encampment

“And when the last red man shall have perished, and the memory of my tribe shall have become a myth among the white man, these shores will swarm with the invisible dead of my tribe, and when your children's’ children think themselves alone...they will not be alone. In all the earth there is no place dedicated to solitude” Chief Seattle

102-Cedar Lake Encampment

The dwellings are round, representing the universal circle of the nations continuity. Constructed as the ancestors did before them, with regard to the four directions, rising sun, landmarks, tribal migrations, relationships, clans and Bands.

103-Cedar Ridge Lodges

The Civil War battle for Missouri was fought not in that state but in Arkansas, at Pea Ridge, where American Indians fought side by side with their white brothers in arms. Despite fanciful tales of arrow pierced Federals, first hand reports clearly indicate that the Cherokees of Albert pike’s command were armed the same as the other soldiers of the South, with common rifles and ordinary shot-guns. The Cherokees joined the fight in their own fashion and fought like other frontiersmen. Dismounted, and taking advantage of cover they negotiated a complex flanking maneuver to capture the guns of the Missouri Flying Artillery. Their tactics and attire was quite similar to that of the soldiers from Arkansas and Texas. The one distinguishing feature of the Cherokees was in their cohesive & undisciplined exuberance in battle.

104-Cherokee Braves

May 6, 1828 President Van Buren signed a land patent from the United States Of America, granting the Cherokee Nation, lands west of the Mississippi, to have and hold forever, as long as the grass grows and the waters flow.

105-Cherokee Lands, To Have And Hold Forever

The seal designed to embrace the early government structure, and the eternal endurance of the Cherokees, was adopted by Act of the Cherokee National Council, and approved in 1871.

106-Cherokee Nation

By riverboat, wagon and horseback - but mainly on foot - Andrew Jackson forced the exile of the Cherokee across the Mississippi. Over four thousand men, women, and children died on that fateful journey. The silent graves stretching from the foothills of the Smoky mountains to their new territory in the West, mark what has come to be known to the Cherokee as the Trail Of Tears.

107-Cherokee Tears

“And when the last red man shall have perished, and the memory of my tribe shall have become a myth among the white man, these shores will swarm with the invisible dead of my tribe, and when your children’s children think themselves alone...they will not be alone. In all the earth there is no place dedicated to solitude”. Chief Seattle

108-Farewell Song

I shall not be there. I shall rise and pass. Bury my heart at Wounded Knee.

109-Feather - Final Journey

Like the beautiful, lone bird which lived in ancient times in the Arabian desert for 500 to 600 years and then set itself on fire, rising renewed from the ashes to start antoher long life; the Cherokee Nation arose from the ashes of the TRAIL OF TEARS, to rebuild a great nation in Oklahoma.

110-Feather - Flight Of The Phoenix

The phenomenal birth of something so rare, the birth of a white buffalo calf, has great spiritual meaning in some Native American cultures. To those who believe, the birth of the white calf is a prophecy come true.

111-Feather-Little Sacred One

Cherokee Gun Control is being able to hit your target (20 Dollar Bill - Andrew Jackson).

112-Cherokee Gun Control

With the influx of settlers into lands of the Cherokees, a series of treaties from 1684 to 1839 were broken, the land taken and the people removed from their beloved homeland.

113-Good Words, Broken Promises

The First Americans were promised a “State of their own”, by our founding fathers. In the 1890’s the federal government was pressured to make Indian Territory a state open to white settlement. The 5 Civilized Tribes united, hiring lawyers, representatives and aggressively pursued the federal government for the State of Sequoyah, where the lands would remain together as our “promised Indian State”. This effort failed with the “Grand Rush For The Indian Territory”.

114-Grand Rush For Indian Territory

There was a time when our forefathers owned this great island. The Great Spirit had made it for use of the indians.

115-Great Island

We did not think of the great open plains, the beautiful rolling hills and winding streams with tangled growth as "Wild". Earth was bountiful and we were surrounded with the blessings of the "Great Mystery".

116-Great Mystery

There is not a lake or mountain that had not connected with it some story of delight or wonder, and nearly every beast and bird is the subject of some storyteller...night after night for weeks I have sat and eagerly listened. The days following, the characters would haunt me at every step, and every moving leaf would seem to be a voice of a kindred spirit.

117-Kindred Spirits

The Great God of nature has given each their lands. He has given you an advantage, your animals are domestic, while our are wild.

118-Land Of Our Fathers

By riverboat, wagon and horseback - but mainly on foot - Andrew Jackson forced the exile of the Cherokee across the Mississippi. Over four thousand men, women, and children died on that fateful journey. The silent graves stretching from the foothills of the Smoky mountains to their new territory in the West, mark what has come to be known to the Cherokee as the Trail Of Tears.

119-Who's Your Grandma?

The white man never full understood what the buffalo meant to the Indian: it related to every aspect of his life, his culture and even his religion.

120-Legal Tender

The great Indian uprisings of the West cme because of the wanton slaughter of the buffalo by the white man. Millions were killed, often merely for the tongues, which were considered great delicacies, or for the robes. The white man never fully understood what the buffalo meant to the Indian - to every aspect of his life, his culture, and even his religion.

121-Lifting Shadows Off A Dream

Monarch Of The Plains, was a totem or clan-symbol animal. He was believed to be the instructor of the medicine person, teaching them where and how to find healing plants and herbs. Held in great awe and reverence the white buffalo provided the tribes with material for many of their mythical stories.

122-Monarch Of The Plains

“We had hoped that the white men would not be willing to travel beyond the mountains. Finally the whole country, which the Cherokees and their fathers have so long occupied; will be demanded, and the remnant of the Real people, once so great and formidable, will be compelled to seek refuge in some distant wilderness”. Dragging Canoe, Cherokee

123-Life, Liberty And The Pursuit of Happiness

This is what was spoken by my great—grandfather at the house he made for us…. And these are the words that were given him by the Master of Life: “At some time there shall come among you a stranger, speaking a language you do not understand. He will try to buy the land from you, but do not sell it; keep it for an inheritance to your children.” Assenewub, Red Lake Ojibwe

124-Sacred Land

Thunder was a spiritual entity for many tribes, and frequently only less powerful than the Creator.

125-Season Of The Thunder Spirits

No tribe has the right to sell, even to each other, much less to strangers. Sell a country! Why not sell the air, the great sea, as well as the earth! Didn’t the Great Spirit make them all for the use of his children? Tecumseh, Shawnee

126-Sell This Land

When we were created we were given our ground to live on and from this time these were our rights. This is all true. We were put here by the Creator. I was not brought from a foreign country and did not come here. I was put here by the Creator. Chief Weninock, Yakima 1915

127-Spring Snow

While many students of the horse culture of the Indians believe that the horses which stocked the Plains had been left behind by Coronado, others contend that all his five hundred and fifty-eight horses, two of the mares , were accounted for in his muster roll. These latter authorities believe that horses came from stock-raising settlements in the Southwest. Many of them spread northward through the normal channels of trade, although Indians acquired many by raids on ranches and settlements.

128-Thunder Valley

We have lived upon this land from days beyond history's records, far past any living memory, deep into the time of legend.

129-Through Indian Eyes

A member of one of the military societies of Indians has rode ahead of the others, dismounted and anchored himself to the ground and will never turn his face from the enemy and urge the others into battle. He will die on the spot unless his companions release him.

130-Twilight Warrior

When delegates of the newly independent American Colonies met in Philadelphia in 1787 to write a constitution, they took inspiration from many sources, including the Native Americans. Benjamin Franklin observed that the Cherokees and Iroquois had a fine working example of representative democracy, with an unwritten constitution that spell out checks and balances, rules of procedure, limits of power and a stress on individual liberty. Much of the Constitution came to reflect the Native Americans ideas, but did not include them until the 20th Century, resulting in the loss of lives and the removal of many tribes from their homeland.

131-We The People (V)

With the millions of buffalo that roamed the plains; all were not sure footed & gracefull. Carnivores, fire, flood and storm took their annual toll, but neither these nor Indian hunting appeared to reduce the number of buffalo appreciably on the Great plains. The huge herds seemed indestructible before the coming of the white man.

132-When The Rains Come

With the white settlers came a strong wind of change blowing across the land, forever changing the Native Americans way of life.

133-Winds Of Change

We know that the white man does not understand our ways. One portion of the land is the same to him as the next, for he is a stranger who comes in the night and takes from the land whatever he needs. The earth is not his brother, but his enemy-and when he has conquered it, he moves on. He leaves his fathers’ graves, and his children’s birthright is forgotten. Chief Seattle

134-Winter Encampment

Long ago, at the time of the great famine, there was a Cherokee Clan called, Ani’ - Tsa’ - guhi. The Clan said, “Here we must work hard and have not always enough to eat. In the woods there is always plenty without work. We will go and live in the woods, so the other Clans will have enough to eat. Thereafter they were called, Yanu, (Bears). In times of hunger the Cherokees are allowed to hunt them. They can go into the wilderness and call them with the Bear Song, and they will come.

135-On The Great Divide

Grandfather, Great Spirit, once more behold me on earth and lean to hear my feeble voice. You lived first, and you are older than all nee, older than all prayer. All things belong to you—the two—legged, the four—legged, the wings of the air, and all green things that live. You have set the powers of the four quarters of the earth to cross each other. You have made me cross the good road, and the road of difficulties, and where they cross, the place is holy. Day in , day out, forevermore, you are the life of things.

136-Sacred Hills

The Gray Ghost, a Gray Wolf of North America, once the most widely distributed land mammal in the Northern Hemisphere, today it numbers fewer than two thousand in the contiguous United States. With our care, this wild hunter will survive as a symbol of true North American wilderness.

137-Gray Ghost

Long before the dawn of history, the ancient ones came and went, leaving no trace of their hunts except the images chipped in stone.

138-Where The Ancient Ones Hunted

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