Cherokee clothing

The uprooting of Native American tribes is one of the most shameful periods in US history. But this dark era is being recalled with new light in Tennessee. Sara Nelson reports.

I was asked to make a Cherokee Tear Dress. All Colours of stripes and frills can be changed.

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While we were in the Cherokee village in Cherokee North Carolina, we met this man who was wearing traditional Cherokee clothes and moccasins. We asked him about them and he said they were just his clothes. When the government tried to send all Cherokees to Oklahoma on the Trail of Tears, one band hid out in the mountains in western North Carolina and refused to be driven out of their land. Eventually they were granted their own reservation which now exists in Cherokee, North Carolina.

Isabella reporting, I've often written here on the blog about the 18thc clothing of the British women of colonial Virginia as worn today...

Cherokee Indian Archive images | Cherokee traditional ' Tear' Dress. Description from pinterest.com. I searched for this on bing.com/images

What Did Cherokee People Wear?

D607_499 15/10/2011 : Cherokee, NC, Museum of the Cherokee Indian: feather cloak

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Natives Americans tribes believed that they originated from a woman and many of their legends and creation stories depict a “mother earth.” ...