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1275
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The Museum of the Alphabet in Waxhaw provides an interesting look into the world of written language.
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8156
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The Cherokee sport of stickball was based on the legend of a game played between animals and birds. The object of the game was to be the first team to score twelve points by putting the leather ball through the opponent's goal. Stickball was usually played between opposing tribes and occasionally served to settle disputes in place of war. Players had few rules to limit their means to win as blows to the head and chest were legal, for example and death was not uncommon. While stickball is still a part of Cherokee culture today, it has been transformed into a less violent activity.
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8840
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Cherokee legend says animals created human disease when they grew tired of men hunting them. The medicine man observed the effects of plants on animals when diagnosing treatment for sick tribesmen. In 1971, the Food and Drug Administration concluded a study on 2,000 Cherokee medicines and found 39% to be effective.
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8845
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Born in 1760, George Gist preferred his Cherokee name, Sequoyah. Borrowing English letters, Sequoyah created an eighty-six sound syllabary of the Cherokee language. He presented his syllabary to the Cherokee council in 1819, and the council moved to establish schools. After a time, Sequoyah moved west and migrated to Mexico, after which his whereabouts were not known.
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Natural William Bartram began keeping notebooks on the natural history of the Blue Ridge and Smoky Mountains in 1775. Because of strained relations with North Carolina Indian tribes, he did his work alone and without the help of a guide. Eventually he reached the Cherokee Middle Towns near present-day Franklin in Macon County, where he was welcomed. It is from this point that his journal details descriptions of the Cherokee. His journals, first published in 1791, describe the earliest days of North Carolina and also provide an ethnology of the Indians.
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