Farming - Oconaluftee Visitor Center & Museum - near Cherokee, NC
Posted by: YoSam.
N 35° 30.791 W 083° 18.374
17S E 290856 N 3932401
The lead-in to your visit behind this place to the Farm Museum...
Waymark Code: WM105G3
Location: North Carolina, United States
Date Posted: 03/02/2019
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County of center: Swain County
Location of center: Newfound Gap Rd (US-441), 2 miles N. of Cherokee
Phone: 828-497-1904
Sign erected by: National Park Service
Date erected: 2011
Sign Text:
FARMING
The Cherokee cultivated corn, beans, and squash together (the three sisters). They protected their crops with birdhouses made of gourds. The birds would eat harmful insects. Cherokee also grew potatoes and fruits, collected wild berries and nuts, and gathered wild herbs for medicines.
Women had a respected role in traditional Cherokee society. Men were responsible for hunting and women were in charge of farming. Cherokee were born into one of seven clans, the clan of their mother. They would be members of that clan their entire lives. Clans today continue to trace their lines through mothers.
" ... I will eat and drink with my white brothers, and will expect friendship and good usage from them. It is but a little spot of ground that you ask, and I am willing that your people should live upon it."
- Cherokee Chief Attahullakulla,
writing to John Stuart, British agent