Cherokee People Interactive Lesson

Visible Culture:

Turtle shell rattles (text)

Games (text)
Baskets (text)

Food (text)

Tsalagi-language(text)

Clothing (picture)

Multiple Choice

What is Tsalagi?

• Cherokee Food

• A Cherokee Dance

• Cherokee Language

Multiple Choice

True or False?

Turtle shell rattles, stone marbles, traditional food, and Tsalagi (Cherokee language) are examples of visible culture.

• True

• False

VISIBLE CULTURE

INVISIBLE
CULTURE

DIET: Corn, beans,
squash, deer, turkey

Working together like
family

7 Clans-Bird,Paint,
Deer, Wolf, Blue,
Long Hair, and
Wild Potato

Sharing food with
the community

7 sided buildings

lives peacefully with
nature

gadugi- working
together for the
good of the town

Categorize

Options (6)

Diet: Deer, Turkey, Corn, Beans

7 Clans

7 sided buildings

Working together like a family

Sharing food with the community

Lives peacefully with nature

Organize these options into the right categories

Visible Culture

Invisible Culture

VISIBLE CULTURE

INVISIBLE
CULTURE

Necklaces
Hair styles
(photograph)

Voting for
leaders
(text)

Multiple Choice

True or False?

In this section of the text it tells us all about Cherokee jewelry and hairstyles. The pictures show us how Cherokee people vote for their leaders.

• True

• False

VISIBLE
CULTURE

INVISIBLE
CULTURE

Bright

colors and
patterns in

clothing

(picture and

caption)

Democracy

(text)

Flag

(picture
and text)

Family
Loyalty

(text)

Categorize

Options (4)

Bright colors and patterns on clothing

Cherokee Nation Flag

Democracy

Family Loyalty

Organize these options into the right categories

Visible Culture

Invisible Culture

VISIBLE
CULTURE

INVISIBLE
CULTURE

Jewelry
(picture)

Women as

Leaders

(text)

Clothes
(picture)

Tribes
working
together

(text)

Multiple Choice

True or False?

In Cherokee culture women are leaders.

• True

• False

Multiple Choice

True or False?

Part of the visible culture of the Cherokee people is how tribes work together.

• True

• False

VISIBLE
CULTURE

INVISIBLE
CULTURE

Cherokee
language and
alphabet

Cherokee teachers
teaching Cherokee
language and
culture

Multiple Choice

True or False?

The Cherokee have their own alphabet and language.

• True

• False

Multiple Choice

True or False?

Cherokee children today still learn the Cherokee language.

• True

• False

VISIBLE
CULTURE

INVISIBLE
CULTURE

Corn,
hickory
nuts, wild
foods, bow
and arrow,
stick ball
(picture
and text)

Food from
nature,
remember
history by
eating food
the
ancestors
did
(text)

Multiple Choice

Cherokee families remember their history by eating food their _____ did. Like hickory nut soup, wild mushrooms , and bean bread.

• friends

• ancestors

• siblings

Multiple Select

Click all the traditional Cherokee sports still played today.

• stickball

• baseball

• cornstalk shooting

• football

VISIBLE
CULTURE

INVISIBLE
CULTURE

Feather headdress,
moccasins, stomp
dance
(picture and text)

Dancing as prayer,
attending church,
seven sided shapes
on clothing
represents the 7
tribes of the
Cherokee (text)

Multiple Choice

Traditional Cherokee leather shoes are called _____.

• slippers

• boots

• moccasins

Multiple Choice

Is this visible or invisible culture?

• invisible

• visible

Poll

Do you think it would be fun to wear traditional Cherokee ceremony clothes?

• Yes, they look so cool!

• No, not my thing!

• Maybe, not sure though!

VISIBLE
CULTURE

INVISIBLE
CULTURE

Baskets,
purses,
pots,
medicinal
plants
(picture,
text, and
captions)

Rememberin
g history and
traditions
through
artwork,
nature can
heal them
(text)

Multiple Choice

This traditional handwoven basket is called a _____.

• The Cherokee Backpack

• The Cherokee Basket

• The Cherokee Purse

Multiple Select

What does the word ARTISAN mean?

• skilled worker

• inspired by ancestors

• skill with their own hands

• someone that events something new