Farming - Oconaluftee Visitor Center & Museum - near Cherokee, NC - Signs of History on Waymarking.com

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.

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" ... 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

Group that erected the marker: National Park Service URL of a web site with more information about the history mentioned on the sign: [Web Link] Address of where the marker is located. Approximate if necessary: 1194 Newfound Gap Hwy., Cherokee, NC 28719-8249

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