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The Cherokee played a variety of games, including the Cherokee stickball or anetsa. A game with many rituals and ceremonies, it was an important part of the Cherokee culture and was often played by large crowds from opposing towns and clans. The objective was to score by throwing a small ball through a goal at the end of a large playing field. The first team to score 12 times was the winner.
Wolftown Ball Team - Cherokee, North Carolina 1888
The Cherokee played a variety of games, including the Cherokee stickball or anetsa. A game with many rituals and ceremonies, it was an important part of the Cherokee culture and was often played by large crowds from opposing towns and clans. The objective was to score by throwing a small ball through a goal at the end of a large playing field. The first team to score 12 times was the winner.
Ball Field
The Cherokee played a variety of games, including the Cherokee stickball or anetsa. A game with many rituals and ceremonies, it was an important part of the Cherokee culture and was often played by large crowds from opposing towns and clans. The objective was to score by throwing a small ball through a goal at the end of a large playing field. The first team to score 12 times was the winner.
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Anetsa
The Cherokee played a variety of games, including the Cherokee stickball or anetsa. A game with many rituals and ceremonies, it was an important part of the Cherokee culture and was often played by large crowds from opposing towns and clans. The objective was to score by throwing a small ball through a goal at the end of a large playing field. The first team to score 12 times was the winner.
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Tools
Flint, bone, clay and other materials from the forest and rivers provided resources for everyday tools such as knives, scrapers, pottery, hammers, needles and stone axes.
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Points
Many "point" type artifacts referred to as "arrowheads" are actually spear points and pieces of hide scrapers, knives and other tools.
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Daniel McCoy's Store
At least four stores were constructed at New Echota. McCoy's store operated all year while the others usually operated during council meetings. McCoy was a prominent Cherokee who served as a justice on the Cherokee Supreme Court. His New Echota store was built of hewn logs and featured a plank floor, counters, and shelves.
Boat Travel
Traveling on keelboats puled by steamboats, the first three detachments of Cherokees totaling about 2,800 persons left in early June, 1838 from Ross's Landing. They traveled via the Tennessee, Ohio, Mississippi and Arkansas Rivers. Terrible conditions on the boats caused much illness leading to many deaths.
Reverend Stephen Foreman
Cherokee Ministers Stephen Foreman and Jessie Bushyhead led detachments on the Trail of Tears. Both of their detachments were delayed in southern Illinois because of ice on the Mississippi River. Both Foreman's and Bushyhead's wives would have children born while on the Trail of Tears, two of the seventy-five births recorded along the trail.
Reverend Jesse Bushyhead
Cherokee Ministers Stephen Foreman and Jessie Bushyhead led detachments on the Trail of Tears. Both of their detachments were delayed in southern Illinois because of ice on the Mississippi River. Both Foreman's and Bushyhead's wives would have children born while on the Trail of Tears, two of the seventy-five births recorded along the trail.
Elizur Butler
Elizur Butler, Protestant missionary and medical doctor, was arrested with Samuel Wocester in the early 1830s for violating Georgia's new laws. He would continue to work with the Cherokee for years after the removal west.
"All of the suffering and all the difficulties of the Cherokee people were charged to the accounts of Ridge and Boudinot." - Aug. 2, 1838
"From the first of June I have felt I have been in the midst of death." - Jan. 1839